Have you ever worked in a toxic workplace? Sometimes we can’t help where we end up. You do your best to avoid the drama, but you can’t help where you land. Sometimes you just end up in a workplace that doesn’t respect you. That’s what happened to this employee, in a story they shared on …
Seguir leyendo ‘I left at 1 pm after lunch’: Employee cuts out of work early to spite toxic dysfunctional boss, dares them to retaliate
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Employee accidentally receives coworker’s $6k bonus, wonders whether they should report it or not: ‘It stings but this money was never yours’
Have you ever accidentally received something you were supposed to? Sometimes you end up in a situation that you wish you hadn’t, and there is nothing you can do about it. You’ve found yourself in a pickle, and there’s not a lot you can do to get out of it. The person in this story, …
Seguir leyendo Employee accidentally receives coworker’s $6k bonus, wonders whether they should report it or not: ‘It stings but this money was never yours’
Manager insists employee log all ‘non-billable’ time, so employee tracks every bathroom break, slack message, and email
Sometimes you have to maliciously comply to show what’s really going on. When a company lays out a policy, they might not immediately know the consequences of that policy. They’re only thinking about the bottom line, not the human toll. But the human toll is real. Sometimes workers end up feeling the brunt of the …
Seguir leyendo Manager insists employee log all ‘non-billable’ time, so employee tracks every bathroom break, slack message, and email
Insurance company asks applicant to complete 15 hours of unpaid training before giving them an official offer
Should you have to complete hours of training for free? Training is work. Any time you have to clock in hours for a job, you should be compensated for it. Even if you haven’t accepted the job yet. It’s wrong to ask someone to do their job without pay, and that includes training. The employee …
Seguir leyendo Insurance company asks applicant to complete 15 hours of unpaid training before giving them an official offer
Company throws away massive amounts of food for clients, refuses to feed its own staff: ‘They cut down the food budget by $700’
Food waste can be incredibly upsetting. The worker in this story, who shared their tale on the antiwork subreddit, had a lot to say about it within their own workplace. If you’ve ever worked in food service, you know just how much can get wasted. Due to food safety regulations, sometimes you have to toss …
Seguir leyendo Company throws away massive amounts of food for clients, refuses to feed its own staff: ‘They cut down the food budget by $700’
‘One person regularly takes 50-minute lunch, another person leaves 30 minutes early’: Employee is punished for doing his job efficiently while coworkers cheat the system
Nobody likes to be the only one doing their job. It helps to be part of a team. It’s why we work collaboratively. Things tend to be better when we put more heads together than when we’re off on our own. It’s one of the challenges of the workplace, though, because humans tend to have …
Seguir leyendo ‘One person regularly takes 50-minute lunch, another person leaves 30 minutes early’: Employee is punished for doing his job efficiently while coworkers cheat the system
Employer demands $2,700 back from 18-year-old employee after their payroll error: ‘I’m just so irritated’
Should you be held accountable for someone else’s mistakes? Mistakes happen, and they happen often. Humans make mistakes, computers make mistakes, and we all have to keep on living. This is one of the hardest things about life and about jobs. A mistake was at the center of this story from the antiwork subreddit that …
Seguir leyendo Employer demands $2,700 back from 18-year-old employee after their payroll error: ‘I’m just so irritated’
Job shifts employee’s daily schedule from 7:30-4:30 to 12-8 with no notice, leaves them no choice but to comply
A shift in your schedule can make a huge difference in your life. It’s the little things that can add up to small things over the course of a life. It’s the rhythms of your daily life that can render the most important. Like when this worker was confronted with a schedule change that they …
Seguir leyendo Job shifts employee’s daily schedule from 7:30-4:30 to 12-8 with no notice, leaves them no choice but to comply
Employee walks out on job after boss continually threw things, yelled at her employees: ‘She screamed so hard she would turn entirely red’
Would you walk out of a job where you were getting yelled at? For most of us, that is a pretty clear situation. No job is worth your dignity. If you’re walking into work and being disrespected, there is no reason to continue going. That’s exactly what the person in this story did, and they …
Seguir leyendo Employee walks out on job after boss continually threw things, yelled at her employees: ‘She screamed so hard she would turn entirely red’
Boss leaves every day at 2pm because of her ‘kids,’ despite not allowing colleagues to do the same
As a rule, you should give the same grace to others that you give to yourself. It’s kind of the golden rule. Treat others how you’d like to be treated. If you can understand yourself and your needs, you can extend those out to others and understand where they’re coming from. It’s not a difficult …
Seguir leyendo Boss leaves every day at 2pm because of her ‘kids,’ despite not allowing colleagues to do the same