Can your boss withhold your pay if you do something they don’t like? Everyone who has ever had a job where they are supposed to clock out has, at some point, forgotten to clock out. It’s just one of those true things that we all do. I don’t know what it is about it, but …
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Employee makes a blunder on an Excel file, coworkers ice him out and talk behind his back: ‘I hate corporate culture, it’s full of vultures’
If you make a mistake at work, should you be given grace? Everyone makes mistakes. Everyone has those days, as Hannah Montana once told us. But when those mistakes happen, it can teach us a lot about the people we work with. Usually, coworkers and higher-ups will have some sort of sense of proportionality when …
Seguir leyendo Employee makes a blunder on an Excel file, coworkers ice him out and talk behind his back: ‘I hate corporate culture, it’s full of vultures’
‘She said she wasn’t blowing up people’s texts at midnight because it’s illegal’: Manager calls out their employee for texting work group chat around 12am
Is it right to text a work group chat when it’s late? It’s usually not a great idea to talk work after hours. It’s best to leave your employees to their free time. Work already takes up so much of your life as is, and you don’t need it to take up more. So if …
Seguir leyendo ‘She said she wasn’t blowing up people’s texts at midnight because it’s illegal’: Manager calls out their employee for texting work group chat around 12am
Employee identifies $10k pay gap between him and coworker with the same role, boss dangles it in front of him as a bonus
Is it right for an employer to dangle something in front of you as bait? Humans are simple people. We need to be rewarded for what we do. We need little tips and tricks to keep us in the game. We need to be incentivized to do the things we do, or else we might …
Seguir leyendo Employee identifies $10k pay gap between him and coworker with the same role, boss dangles it in front of him as a bonus
Workplace Mandates Attendance at All-Day ‘Town Hall’ on 100 Degree Day in Building With No AC
Would you attend an all-day work event in a scorching hot building? What is really «mandatory» in life? Benjamin Franklin would argue that there are really only two things that you can’t avoid, and you know what they are. A work event in a hot building is not one of them. Even though it isn’t …
Seguir leyendo Workplace Mandates Attendance at All-Day ‘Town Hall’ on 100 Degree Day in Building With No AC
‘It’s so easy to pad my “work” with stuff from my other unofficial supervisor’: Employee stumbles into remote work job with two supervisors, finds the perfect way to work less
Have you ever found yourself in the perfect employment situation? The perfect job is an elusive thing. Every job requires some amount of sacrifice. Either it’s interesting work but not that much pay, or it’s soul-sucking but stable. These are the two kinds of gigs you often find yourself in, unless you’re exceedingly lucky. But …
Seguir leyendo ‘It’s so easy to pad my “work” with stuff from my other unofficial supervisor’: Employee stumbles into remote work job with two supervisors, finds the perfect way to work less
Prospective boss contacts employee’s current boss without permission: ‘Am I right to be upset?’
What would you do if your job search was outed to your current employer? When you’re looking for a job, or you have a job, you have to be pretty careful. You don’t want to spill the beans about the fact that you want to leave, because it just makes things awkward for everyone. But …
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‘I’m so tired of extroversion being the ideal and introversion being so misunderstood’: Boss forces introverted employee to spend their lunch break at communal table instead of reading quietly
Does the workplace reward introverts or extraverts? We all have different preferences and different ways of expressing ourselves in the workplace. Some folks are social butterflies, hopping around to different workstations and making sure everyone is having a good time. Others prefer to keep to themselves and work independently. Both are valid dispositions, and should …
Seguir leyendo ‘I’m so tired of extroversion being the ideal and introversion being so misunderstood’: Boss forces introverted employee to spend their lunch break at communal table instead of reading quietly
Boss drops ‘no beach policy’ during job interview: ‘They don’t like people wandering off on breaks’
This job-seeker found out their potential employer had some pretty strange policies. Sometimes you don’t realize who the people you work for are until it’s too late. But the person in this story, who shared their story on the antiwork subreddit, learned something about their company pretty early. The job market is tough, and any …
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Boss consistently clocks out at 11am to golf, leaving employee to run the office alone
What would you do if you were completely unsupervised at your job? Maybe you would relish the alone time, or maybe you would wonder what you were doing there in the first place. It can be nice to take the pressure off of being watched all the time, but when your boss holds themselves to …
Seguir leyendo Boss consistently clocks out at 11am to golf, leaving employee to run the office alone