Would you prefer to be stuck in traffic for two hours or take a 30-minute train ride? As much as we like to complain about public transportation, we would be lost without it. Many of us can’t just drive everywhere, and there are cities where you have so much traffic that it’s not even worth …
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Employee accepts a hybrid job expecting one office day a week, then discovers nobody on the team has been in the office for months: ‘I think I accidentally struck gold’
Getting hired by a team that quietly stopped commuting could be the best thing that happened to this employee. There’s nothing better in life than when things turn out to be better than expected. That’s exactly what happened to this employee. According to the story posted in r/remoteworks, he got hired by a company that …
Seguir leyendo Employee accepts a hybrid job expecting one office day a week, then discovers nobody on the team has been in the office for months: ‘I think I accidentally struck gold’
‘It costs me $7,820 a year to come back’: Remote worker adds up the total cost of returning to the office 2 days/week, is baffled by the number
How much would it truly cost for you to return to the office? There is a hidden cost to everything, even commuting to an office, as proved by this remote work Reddit post. The realities of jobs are sometimes far different from the fantasies we are fed when we’re signing up. Things also have a …
Seguir leyendo ‘It costs me $7,820 a year to come back’: Remote worker adds up the total cost of returning to the office 2 days/week, is baffled by the number
Mom gets a job 100 miles away from home, forces ex-husband to pick up their daughters from school on her days: ‘She has asked me to work from home 3-4 days per week.’
Why would she accept a job that’s so far away? Co-parenting 50-50 with your ex can be incredibly difficult. First of all, how are you supposed to split the time? Do the kids live at your house one week, and their other parent’s house the next week? Are they moving back and forth between houses …
Seguir leyendo Mom gets a job 100 miles away from home, forces ex-husband to pick up their daughters from school on her days: ‘She has asked me to work from home 3-4 days per week.’
Company announces return to office 2 days after employee signs a lease on an apartment 45 minutes away from the office: ‘I have been remote for 3 years.’
He’s got bad luck. Your daily commute can greatly impact your feelings about your job. If you don’t like your job, but only have to walk five minutes to get to it, that might make you like it more. If you love your job but have to travel three hours round-trip to get to it, …
Seguir leyendo Company announces return to office 2 days after employee signs a lease on an apartment 45 minutes away from the office: ‘I have been remote for 3 years.’
Job seeker considers skipping phone interview because she doesn’t have enough money to pay her phone bill: ‘I desperately need a job.’
You need money to go to the job interview, and the only way to get money is to have a job. It’s no fun that literally everything in life costs money. The bare necessities like food, shelter, utilities, and transportation usually account for more than half of our money spent every month, if not more. …
Seguir leyendo Job seeker considers skipping phone interview because she doesn’t have enough money to pay her phone bill: ‘I desperately need a job.’
Mom gets 7-month-old daughter banned from daycare after being mean to male daycare worker
He has been an incredibly attentive caregiver, and this mom is discriminating against him just because he is a man.
Employee leaves $52K job after 3 weeks for a $75K job, enrages manager, who tries to offer her $60K to stay
Why would she leave $15K on the table to placate her former manager? There’s a good chance she wouldn’t have even tried to find another job if they had given her $60K from the jump. Leaving a job can be an emotional process for all involved. Your manager might have thought that you were going …
Seguir leyendo Employee leaves $52K job after 3 weeks for a $75K job, enrages manager, who tries to offer her $60K to stay
Boss forces fully remote company to return to the office 5 days a week, while he works from home on Fridays without letting the rest of his team do the same: ‘Leadership roles have different requirements.’
He should hold himself to the same standards he holds everyone else to. It can be really hard to convince employees that they «need» to go into the office when they’ve spent years working from home. If the company is doing well and work is mostly conducted independently or via Zoom, why should employees have …
Seguir leyendo Boss forces fully remote company to return to the office 5 days a week, while he works from home on Fridays without letting the rest of his team do the same: ‘Leadership roles have different requirements.’
Company bans employees from working from home on Fridays because the office felt empty: ‘I’m commuting an hour each way again purely for vibes.’
They made that switch based on feelings instead of facts or figures. Over the past couple of years, more and more companies have been asking their remote employees to return to the office five days a week. In 2020, it felt as if working from home would be the future of white collar employment, but …
Seguir leyendo Company bans employees from working from home on Fridays because the office felt empty: ‘I’m commuting an hour each way again purely for vibes.’