Employees Report Boss’ Email as Scam After Being Forced to Watch 2-Hour Seminar on Phishing Scams

The only thing worse than getting your massive pile of work interrupted by one of those company-wide hours-long mandatory seminars is having to do the seminar twice. After completing one such seminar about how to spot an email phishing scam, one employee received an email from their «IT director» that included a link, which they …
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Pissed-Off Professor’s Rant To Students Wins Respect Of The Internet

Higher education can be a drag. The extortionate fees that you have to pay for the pleasure of being a student may be bad, but dealing with students en masse as a teacher can be even worse. Exasperated with long term times and overloaded with work, it’s a wonder how many educators manage not to …
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Employees Gripe About Their Co-worker’s Annoying Email Habits

Sending an email was one of the first things we were able to do on the world wide web, and its overall function doesn’t seem to have changed much over the years. So why is it that so many of the people we work with seem incapable of doing it correctly?  If you’ve ever worked …
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Austin Tenant Shares Horror At Being Congratulated For $2.5K Rent Increase

When you’re somebody who rents the place where you live, it’s easy to feel like you’re being played. Every month, we spend one third or even more of our income for the privilege of having a roof over our heads, and half the time said roof isn’t all that great anyway. On top of that, …
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Amusing Job Rejection Highlights Everything Wrong With Common Hiring Practices

Every single part of looking for a new job sucks, big time. Writing cover letters and enduring painfully awkward interviews (sometimes five of them) is awful. But what is possibly the worst part about the ordeal is all the rejection. Whether it is your dream role or just something easy and flexible to pay the …
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Job Applicant Does Dramatic Reading of Patronizing Rejection Email

For anyone without friends in high places (i.e. most of us), job applications are a necessary evil if we want to find some kind of employment. However, the process of doing them is rarely an enjoyable one. There’s nothing like constantly reorganizing a list your so-called employable skills to fit the miniscule differences of 30 …
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Job Applicant Tries to Send Resume to Employer, Sends Dog Pic Instead

Ah, the job searching process. From those agonizing hours trying to perfect what kind of «personal interests» you have other than being slumped behind a screen to the thankless task of sending a hundred different applications out into the ether, there’s always a dull moment when you’re trying to find work.  While they might not …
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Pissed-Off Professor’s Rant To Students Wins Admiration Of The Internet

Higher education can be a drag. The extortionate fees that you have to pay for the pleasure of being a student may be bad, but dealing with students en masse as a teacher can be even worse. Exasperated with long term times and overloaded with work, it’s a wonder how many educators manage not to …
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Austin Tenant Shares Horror At Being Congratulated For Nearly $2.5K Rent Increase

When you’re somebody who rents the place where you live, it’s easy to feel like you’re being played. Every month, we spend one third or even more of our income for the privilege of having a roof over our heads, and half the time said roof isn’t all that great anyway. On top of that, …
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Company Catches Heat For Cold Reaction To Employee’s Death

You don’t have to have that much experience of the working world to realize that many businesses have a lackluster attitude to employee wellbeing. It’s often blatantly obvious when profit is put before people, but it’s not always as outrageous as this internal email from an unnamed company, which has drawn a lot of negative …
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