Manager bans employee from using the bathroom whenever another coworker is on lunch break, even when there are plenty of other workers available to cover the floor: ‘They told me I had to wait’

Apparently, your bladder has to wait until everyone finishes their sandwich… Every workplace has its own rules when it comes to lunch hours and breaks. Some of them are flexible and don’t really set a schedule for employees, while others require specific times when people leave and then get back to work. ‘Whatever floats your …
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Manager writes up kitchen worker for changing out of uniform after the AC breaks and the kitchen hits 97ºF: ‘We follow the uniform policy’

How far should a dress code go when the workplace itself feels like an oven? Working in a kitchen comes with a lot of struggles and discomfort. It can be a rewarding job from time to time, especially if you like cooking, but it is hard to keep up with the temperatures. That’s why it’s …
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26 Work Memes To Remember Why You Love the Weekend

What makes you better than an AI replacement? You have an unmatchable sense of humor. Life is simple. You get a job, you do the job, the job is more difficult than you anticipated, you want to quit the job, you remember you have bills to pay, you go back to your desk and continue …
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Manager forgot to schedule employee for 2 weeks, tries to write them up for his own mistake, but the employee refuses to sign: ‘What was I supposed to improve?’

Sometimes the best response to a bad write-up is refusing to sign it. What can you do when it’s your truth vs. someone else’s? Nothing, really, especially if the other person is your boss.  It’s complicated when your boss makes a mistake, and instead of acknowledging and accepting that he did wrong, he tries to …
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Dad wins 15,000 tickets at an arcade, arcade refuses to give him 4000 of the tickets he won: ‘The arcade is one of my favorite places to go with my son.’

Should he just let it go, or fight the arcade on this?  When I was a kid, nothing was more thrilling than racking up a bunch of tickets at the local arcade and trading them in for a toy I never really played with. I remember getting a pair of fake handcuffs from the local …
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‘Q2 Blooper Real’: 20 Examples of How to Sprinkle Whimsy at Work by Naming Meetings Like YouTube Videos

How can you make your daily routine at work a bit more enjoyable? We all have different ways to get through the day at work. No one can work like a robot for 8 hours a day without giving themselves a mental break, so we must come up with perks that help us break the …
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‘Let’s circle back never’: 23 Hilarious Boss Memes for Coping With Another Day at The Office

Send this to your work chat for the next time a meeting could have been an email… If there’s something on the internet that I found to be extremely funny are boss and manager memes. Since I’ve never been a manager, I really don’t know what’s inside their heads or how they actually perceive work …
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Young employee wonders if it’s unethical to not inform new job they’re going back to school in 2-3 months: ‘They’d drop you in a heartbeat’

Have you ever left a job earlier than your bosses were expecting?  You’re allowed to leave a job whenever you’d like to, no matter the reason. You’re not bound or obligated to be there; you decide to be there. This is true at any point in your tenure of work. You can quit on the …
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Company mandates unpaid game nights for employees after work hours, senior employee leaves anyway: ‘I have a wife and two young kids at home’

Who doesn’t love to be forced to spend even more time at work without even getting paid for it? Companies love to go on and on about how important it is to create opportunities for team building and social interaction, but they would never go as far as creating these opportunities during work hours. Nope. …
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Employee refuses to refer sister for a job, sister puts employee’s name on her application anyway, only for HR to reject her for lying: ‘I blacklisted her’

Referring someone you know for a job at your workplace is great… until it’s someone you don’t actually want to refer. It makes sense that many workplaces would rely on their current employees when they search for new hires. If a company is hiring people they trust and have seen success from, that will develop …
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