CEO announces company exceeded revenue goals by 40% and had its most profitable year, refuses to give employees more than a 2% raise: ‘That doesn’t even cover inflation.’

How nice of them to give their employees a 2% salary increase.  There are always some years when companies are struggling financially. It seems like every company has this pie-in-the-sky belief that every financial quarter is going to be more profitable than the last, and every year is going to be increasingly profitable forever and …
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‘I’m fully booked for the next 3 weeks’: Massage therapist cancels a booking with his fiancée’s boss to drive his sick partner to the doctor because the boss’s petty doctor’s note mandates

Instant karma strikes an arrogant boss after his dumb new work policy goes into effect, proving that employees don’t need a micromanager on top of them for the rest of flu season.  It’s that time of year again, and people are getting ill. Whether it’s the change in the seasons, that faulty heater duct unit …
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How Gen Z are Rewriting the Corporate Jargon Lexicon

With bright eyes and bushy tails, fresh college grads leap into the workforce, hoping to land a cushy corporate job to line their pockets, pay off their student loans, and beef-up their future resume. Entry-level, cheaply-dressed, and full of ambition, these new additions to the workforce don’t realize they’re entering foreign lands and will soon …
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Porcelain Safehouse: How ‘bathroom camping’ became Gen Z’s mental health break in the workplace

You’ve only just walked into the office and your boss is already on your back about next month’s deadlines. The chattering voices of your coworkers waft over the cubicles, and the tinnitus in your ears rings over your manager’s muffled nagging. Your aching mind wonders how, after six months, you’re still juggling three specialized office …
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‘This and your HR manager’: 26 Best Memes Roasting That Cheating CEO at the Coldplay Concert

HR is supposed to protect employees’ rights in the workplace. Often, with the company guidelines in hand and waving around the latest Code of Conduct in the faces of the employees, the work of an HR manager usually goes unrecognized. Employees will hem and haw about their duties with the HR office, but the CEO …
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‘I locked a customer in the building overnight’: 20+ employees share the biggest mistakes they made on the job

We all want to be the best at our job, to never make a mistake, and to never feel like we have to be on our toes when we step into the office. We also all know that it is practically impossible to feel that way, because everyone makes mistakes, especially during the 8 hours …
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23 23andMe Memes for People Who Should Have Left Their Ancestry Alone

We humans have an unexplainable urge to uncover the mysteries of our past. So it made total sense that companies stepped right in to shake things up—literally and figuratively. A few years ago, the world was obsessed with ancestry DNA services. Everyone was eager to spit into a tube, send it off, and await the …
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Remote employee berates coworker for asking CEO why they can work from home and she can’t, refuses to apologize despite making her cry: ‘I would never do what she did and now she won’t do it again.’

There’s a social code among coworkers. Nobody wants to be the person who rats out every mistake a coworker makes to a higher-up. Sometimes, small mistakes can be corrected at the lower level, and no CEO, CFO, or Editor in Chief cares to know about it. We learn this lesson very early on in life. …
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‘Keep it, Merry Christmas’: Holiday loner spends Christmas Day gifting cash-back to gas station employees, making strangers smile with random acts of kindness

Almost nothing is open on Christmas day, but if you’re an unlucky employee forced to clock into your ‘essential’ workplace on December 25th, odds are, you’ll be spending the day lamenting your own boredom and cursing the manager who scheduled you. This holiday loner decided to spend their typically lonesome day greeting those unfortunate Christmas …
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The Best Heartthrob Memes of Luigi Mangione by Working Class Millennials and Gen Z on the Internet

What a time we live in! It really feels like NYC is the actual Gotham city from Batman. We have our very own Riddler or is he Batman? What he fights for feels like the Riddler, but him coming from money and using his wealth and education as a way of furthering his manifesto feels …
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