Being in an office the whole day may be your closest experience to The Office series. I always loved the series The Office because of the characters and the premise. Everyone felt like a version of someone you would meet at an office job, but at the same time they are crazy and caricaturistic enough, …
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After hiring freeze, understaffed company posts listing for ‘Chief Happiness Officer’: ‘I predict a whole bunch of mandatory fun’
What kind of a job is a «Chief Happiness Officer» There are all sorts of jobs one can have in this life. Jobs that you could have never imagined existed, let alone paid a salary. The person in this story, who shared this to the antiwork subreddit, found out that their company was hiring for …
Seguir leyendo After hiring freeze, understaffed company posts listing for ‘Chief Happiness Officer’: ‘I predict a whole bunch of mandatory fun’
Local McDonald’s bolts changing tables shut in the bathroom: ‘They said it was a corporate decision’
Small inconveniences have a way of adding up. It’s the little things in life that end up mattering much more than the big things. It’s the stuff that happens over the course of your day that determines your mood, how you feel about the world, and how you show up for others. If a tiny …
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Corporate employee quiet quits for 3 months, is continually rewarded on a ‘job well done’: ‘Somehow, I’m still employed and I have no idea why’
Have you ever heard of quiet quitting? Quiet quitting is when you just stop doing your job, but you don’t tell anyone about it. You’re still employed, for all intents and purposes, and you see how long it takes for anyone to notice. Maybe you complete a task here and there just to throw off …
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Manager puts employee on a performance improvement plan after they write a date in the wrong format: ‘They’re just looking for an excuse to fire you’
If you get put on a performance improvement plan, you hope that you have some idea about where it’s coming from. Maybe you know your heart hasn’t been in it recently, and you’ve been making avoidable mistakes. Or maybe it comes out of the blue, and you’re left scrambling, wondering what you did wrong.
Employee builds app to track how many times coworker says ‘circling back’ in meetings: ‘Recently [he said it] 23 times in a 56 minute sync’
Corporate jargon is everywhere… we will be circling back for all eternity. You all know that type of language. It’s somewhere in between professional and friendly, and it has a way of sounding really hollow. We’re putting a pin in it, we’re synergizing, we’re looping you in, and we’re doing it all cross-functionally. It’s a …
Seguir leyendo Employee builds app to track how many times coworker says ‘circling back’ in meetings: ‘Recently [he said it] 23 times in a 56 minute sync’
Corporate employee refuses to attend a Saturday meeting because it conflicts with his part-time job, supervisor issues a warning: ‘This is not okay. No excuse.’
He’s not the only one who can’t make it. If your company pays employees hourly, it’s a lot harder to get away with not paying overtime. If they have to clock X hours and their work requires them to work more than X hours, it’s obviously unethical not to pay them for that time. In …
Seguir leyendo Corporate employee refuses to attend a Saturday meeting because it conflicts with his part-time job, supervisor issues a warning: ‘This is not okay. No excuse.’
Employee overhears millionaire bosses dreaming about becoming vegetable vendors, giving up their lifestyles: ‘I think the “Corporate Dream” is a scam’
Is the grass always greener on the other side? Even if you’re a millionaire? It might be hard to think of someone in your life who is totally satisfied. Most of us are always yearning for something more, no matter how much we have. If you don’t have a job, you probably want one. If …
Seguir leyendo Employee overhears millionaire bosses dreaming about becoming vegetable vendors, giving up their lifestyles: ‘I think the “Corporate Dream” is a scam’
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.’
Corporate Influencers are Trying to Romanticize the 9-to-5, and It’s Not Working
Social media is full of aspirational content: Extensive beauty routines, constant travel, and suites of pricey products flood our feeds. But what about all of us with regular, unglamorous jobs? Turns out there are influencers for that too. So-called «9-to-5 influencers» like Davis Clarke and Connor Hubbard. They do their best to show that the …
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