Call Center Managers Reserves Break Room for Higher-Ups Only, Forcing Employees to Eat Lunch on a Bench in Front of the Bathrooms

Can’t they afford their employees a shred of dignity? Every full-time employee should be entitled to a lunch break. It’s not right to expect workers to chow down their lunches in less than 5 minutes so they can get back to work as quickly as possible. I’m known for eating my food as quickly as …
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‘Who ate my sandwich?’: Fresh lunch break memes for employees wanting to escape work for an hour

Do we all look forward to lunch hour from the moment we get to the office? Lunch break can potentially be the best part of our day. We have to get up early, commute, get to the office, and start dealing with endless tasks and demanding people. Not very fun, and quite tiring. After the …
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Desperate mom asks strangers on the internet to babysit her 6-year-old son for free because she needs a break from him: ‘He gets out of camp at 2:30 and I’m dread it.’

This is a disaster waiting to happen. If you’ve never been a parent, you don’t know how easily you can get sick of your kids. Of course, you love your kids and want to spend time with them, but if you’re spending 24 hours a day, 7 days a week with them, you will want …
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‘I’m bewildered at what he’s done’: Man breaks cousin’s miter saw after borrowing it, then offers to buy him a new one, cousin agrees, but only if he doesn’t use it again

If you borrowed something and you somehow broke it, what are you supposed to do next? I always feel a great sense of responsibility when I ask to borrow something from a family member or a close friend. They are trusting me with an item they spent their hard-earned money on, and they expect it …
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Dad tells mom that he felt sick to his stomach when she turned away from their 4-month old baby for 5 minutes to check her phone: ‘Caring for my mental health by taking breaks is sickening?’

Why can’t he let his wife have a five-minute break from engaging with their baby? There’s no way of knowing how crazy it is to have a baby until you actually have one. Everyone talks about how stressful it is to feed them, hold them constantly, and wake up every 2-3 hours at night to …
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Micromanaging boss cancels his 2-week vacation, devastates employee who was excited to get a break from him: ‘He seems relieved he isn’t going on vacation.’

Why couldn’t he let his employees have a couple of weeks of peace? Nobody likes a micromanager. I don’t know if it’s worse to have a micromanager or a manager who doesn’t manage at all, but at least you can do whatever you want when your managers don’t care about what you’re doing. Micromanagers won’t …
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American employee mimics the European workday by working 1.5 hours less than his company expects: ‘I will make sure that 90 minutes is filled with non-work related activities.’

He’s taking back 1.5 of his 24 hours. We all wish we had more hours in the day to do the things we actually want to do. So many of your waking hours consist of doing things for your boss, and that is nowhere near as fun as doing things for yourself. If you would …
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Manager accuses retail employee of «stealing» for taking a full 30-minute lunch break instead of only taking 20 minutes: ‘I told her if it’s unpaid, that time is mine.’

Are those ten minutes really so valuable to the company? Some companies are extremely strict about their employees taking their breaks, especially when those employees are under 18. I remember when I was a minor working 8-hour shifts; my company did not mess around about me taking my mandatory 30-minute breaks between the four-hour shifts. …
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‘You’re just a sad sandwich’: Office worker talks to her lunch every day, gets embarrassed when coworker points it out

Whether we realize it or not, we all have our personality quirks that are a part of what makes us exactly who we are. For some, it’s more obvious than others, and try as we might to practice professionalism in the workplace, they are usually apparent there as well. As anyone who has seen enough …
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35 Memes for Teachers Counting Down the Lesson Plans Until Summer Break

Summer break as a kid felt like a magical, three-month-long fever dream. No alarm clocks, endless popsicles, sprinkler parks, and watching The Price Is Right at your grandma’s house while your parents were at work. And while kids are still living their best lives once June hits, let’s not forget the teachers who have been …
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