Shouldn’t he accept the grade that he has? When I was younger, I could not particularly relate to the kids who had to get straight As no matter what. Maybe that was because I was an A- or B+ student, but I was always annoyed when people acted like getting the grade that you earned …
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Factory employee endures demanding manager for 2 years, writes exposé email to company and walks out 2 weeks before new job: ‘ She has a spreadsheet of all of the mistakes employees have made’
Bad bosses are one of the biggest reasons that people leave their jobs. The logic is obvious: if the person who is technically in charge of you for a significant amount of hours a week does not seem to care about your well-being, you are very likely to be miserable. Even if most workplaces do …
Seguir leyendo Factory employee endures demanding manager for 2 years, writes exposé email to company and walks out 2 weeks before new job: ‘ She has a spreadsheet of all of the mistakes employees have made’
23-year-old brings his mom to a job interview, lets her answer questions for him: ‘I’d ask him how he dealt with a tight deadline, and she’d jump in about how organized he is at home.’
How could he be so foolish? Job interviews are a tough nut to crack. As the interviewee, it feels like the interviewer has all the power, and you have to read their cues and predict what they want to have a shot at the job. You feel like you have to answer every single question, …
Seguir leyendo 23-year-old brings his mom to a job interview, lets her answer questions for him: ‘I’d ask him how he dealt with a tight deadline, and she’d jump in about how organized he is at home.’
Lazy employee demands coworker cancel customer policy, faces clapback in response: ‘I’ve had enough’
Few things are more annoying in a workplace than a coworker who expects you to pick up their slack. The best we can hope for when it comes to any communal workplace is that the people we work with understand the importance of working as a team. We are all going to have days when …
Seguir leyendo Lazy employee demands coworker cancel customer policy, faces clapback in response: ‘I’ve had enough’
‘Hope these memes find you well’: 21 Email memes sending the greatest news and getting things done
Emails. Loved and hated by all office workers everywhere in the world. Sometimes they deliver great news, and sometimes not so great news. Either way, we can’t deny we have an emotional relationship with our inboxes. Some days, we avoid opening it at all costs, and other days, we refresh our inbox a hundred times …
Seguir leyendo ‘Hope these memes find you well’: 21 Email memes sending the greatest news and getting things done
Boss scolds 29-year-old employee for being too direct in emails: ‘The emails were literally things like: “Hi, can you send the updated file when you get a chance?”’
The workplace has gotten so casual that normal communication is perceived as a slight against your incredibly sensitive coworkers. Have you ever been told it’s better to err on the side of sounding too professional in workplace communication? I’ve been told that, especially when you’re in your first couple of months working at a new …
Seguir leyendo Boss scolds 29-year-old employee for being too direct in emails: ‘The emails were literally things like: “Hi, can you send the updated file when you get a chance?”’
Professor tells college class that critical thinking is not important: ‘They grade assignments with AI, they respond to emails with AI, the teacher’s assistant is AI.’
Anyone who thinks that critical thinking is not important should not be a college professor. What is the point of attending college? A great deal of the population thinks that college should be akin to trade school, where you train for a specific job and only that job. You get a Nursing degree to become …
Seguir leyendo Professor tells college class that critical thinking is not important: ‘They grade assignments with AI, they respond to emails with AI, the teacher’s assistant is AI.’
Job applicant gets rejected for role, faces criticism for being try-hard in HR interview feedback: ‘Our team values authenticity’
Job seeking is exposure therapy for rejection sensitivity. Some studies suggest that it takes more than 200 applications for the average applicant to land a job, and there are plenty of people out there who have likely sent out even more copies of their resume than that. For those who cannot rely on a friend …
Seguir leyendo Job applicant gets rejected for role, faces criticism for being try-hard in HR interview feedback: ‘Our team values authenticity’
Employee trains her replacement for 3 months, replacement constantly asks her questions 6 months into the job: ‘My old boss has also told me multiple times that he wishes I was still there.’
She needs to ignore her emails and let her sink or swim. It shouldn’t take you months and months to get the basic hang of your job. It takes around a year to fully figure out your role in the company, and it’s okay if you’re not literally an expert on all of the happenings …
Seguir leyendo Employee trains her replacement for 3 months, replacement constantly asks her questions 6 months into the job: ‘My old boss has also told me multiple times that he wishes I was still there.’
16-year-old informs his teachers that he is not required to do any of the schoolwork they assign him: ‘You can still give me the work if you choose, but it won’t get done.’
If he’s not required to do work, then she’s not required to pass him. We all went to school with one of those kids who did not do his schoolwork and tried to find a moral justification that made him sound smarter than everyone else. He’s refusing to do his homework because school is run …
Seguir leyendo 16-year-old informs his teachers that he is not required to do any of the schoolwork they assign him: ‘You can still give me the work if you choose, but it won’t get done.’