What happens when you’re too efficient at your job? There is a fine line between being efficient and being too efficient. You want to be good at your job, but if you’re too good at your job, then you might be left with more work and the same amount of pay. When you’re just starting …
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‘Well, then you can pay my student loans’: Job-offer dispute turns into family fight after 25-year-old’s mother and aunt keep pressuring her to reject much-needed work, until she snaps
A frustrated comment about student loans came after repeated family pressure over a job offer, and the whole situation has turned into a tense fight about safety, money, and control This family’s selective focus on fear while the actual problem is financial reality is impressive as it is annoying. The job offer this young lady …
Seguir leyendo ‘Well, then you can pay my student loans’: Job-offer dispute turns into family fight after 25-year-old’s mother and aunt keep pressuring her to reject much-needed work, until she snaps
‘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
Widowed mom plans to marry her boss 4 years after losing her husband, her 15-year-old son explodes weeks before the wedding and gives her an ultimatum: cancel it or lose him
A 15-year-old who lost his father at 11 watches his mom get engaged to her boss, and one missed concert ticket later, the whole thing detonates. That chain of events alone should tell you this was never really about the concert
Start-up boss tells employee to ‘de-couple income from work’ when their checks start arriving late
We’re not Gwyneth Paltrow. We’re not going to «consciously uncouple» from our paychecks. One of the key factors that keeps most people showing up to work is money. Maybe they care about what they do. Maybe they have a passion for it. Maybe, just maybe, they would show up if there was no money on …
Seguir leyendo Start-up boss tells employee to ‘de-couple income from work’ when their checks start arriving late
Hotel worker ignored for months by entitled coworker, refuses to switch shifts for her and shuts down her sudden attempt to act like they’re still friends
Having a job means having to deal with people with totally different ideas of basic decency, but some of these people just treat the workplace like a group project where everyone except them is supposed to keep showing up
IT worker is blamed for coworker showing up late, says it’s their fault for leaving on time: ‘They’ve basically gotten used to arriving late, and the person ending the shift is stuck covering past their scheduled time’
What if you were punished for someone else’s tardiness? Some people just run late. It’s who they are. You likely have a friend or family member who is simply tardy, and there is not much you can do about it. Whenever you tell them to show up, they will be there an hour later and …
Seguir leyendo IT worker is blamed for coworker showing up late, says it’s their fault for leaving on time: ‘They’ve basically gotten used to arriving late, and the person ending the shift is stuck covering past their scheduled time’
Woman refuses to quit her job when boyfriend secretly spends $15,000 on a camper van, quits to travel full‑time, and expects her to follow: ‘We can survive living in a van for a few years with our savings but what about the future??’
When couples have different ideas about how life should look, it’s never easy or simple. But when one side, in this case, 31-year-old Ethan’s side, spends $15,000 on a van so they can escape ‘normal life’ without even asking the other side. Well, that’s pretty straightforward if you ask me. We all have different views, …
Seguir leyendo Woman refuses to quit her job when boyfriend secretly spends $15,000 on a camper van, quits to travel full‑time, and expects her to follow: ‘We can survive living in a van for a few years with our savings but what about the future??’
Prospective employee rejects job for requiring 1 week trial period with no pay: ‘A one week trial that requires office attendance and full employee level work is not a trial but unpaid labor’
Would you show up to a week of work without pay? What if that was what it took to get the job? Getting a new job is famously not easy. You have to put yourself out there again and again just to get rejected. You have to know how to pitch yourself, and constantly do …
Seguir leyendo Prospective employee rejects job for requiring 1 week trial period with no pay: ‘A one week trial that requires office attendance and full employee level work is not a trial but unpaid labor’
Fired employee pays Etsy witch 25 dollars to cast a spell on her boss, then hears the boss got demoted after her behavior finally caught up with her: ‘Etsy magic isn’t something to take lightly. It might end up working’
Closure is a funny, sometimes overrated thing. But it gets way funnier when a burned-out ex-employee finds closure in the strangest corner of the internet by spending twenty-five dollars on an Etsy witch. After years under a department head who ruled through fear and humiliation, the office had become a slow-motion breakdown factory. The boss …
Seguir leyendo Fired employee pays Etsy witch 25 dollars to cast a spell on her boss, then hears the boss got demoted after her behavior finally caught up with her: ‘Etsy magic isn’t something to take lightly. It might end up working’