Employee is forced to clock 13 hours shifts with nothing to do, is left more exhausted than a hard day’s work

Sometimes doing nothing is even more exhausting than doing something.  Maybe this has happened to you, where a day with nothing to do ends up draining you more than a day packed with activity. You know what they say: a body at rest tends to stay at rest, and a body in motion tends to …
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Employee is only given 2 hours of tasks per day, boss chews them out for spending the rest of it on their phone: ‘Okay, then give me more stuff to do?’

Everyone knows you’re supposed to look busy at work. It’s one of the unspoken rules of having a job. Sure, you’re actually busy most of the time, but some days, nothing comes across your desk, and you still have to be there. This is when your summers spent doing community theater will come in. You …
Seguir leyendo Employee is only given 2 hours of tasks per day, boss chews them out for spending the rest of it on their phone: ‘Okay, then give me more stuff to do?’

30-year-old employee gets paid $27K a month to sit around and do nothing for 7 hours a day, asks how to deal with the boredom: ‘A good paycheck doesn’t cancel out mental burnout’

Where are all these jobs where you sit at a desk all day and do nothing? I’ve known so many people who have full-time jobs where they barely do anything, and are able to get away with it for years at a time. It’s normal for a company to have busy seasons where employees have …
Seguir leyendo 30-year-old employee gets paid $27K a month to sit around and do nothing for 7 hours a day, asks how to deal with the boredom: ‘A good paycheck doesn’t cancel out mental burnout’