What nobody tells you about working from home, and what our customer support professional just found out, is that when you work from home, some relatives figure you have loads of free time and no actual responsibilities. Customer support is not just clicking boxes and sipping coffee all day. The schedule is packed, your boss …
Seguir leyendo Remote worker refuses to babysit during work hours after her sister belittles her “online job” and takes her flexibility for granted: ‘She started acting like I am free by default because «you are at home anyway»’
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Wife returns from maternity leave after husband is promoted to feared plant boss, tanking her social life as his strict policies at work start spilling into their marriage: ‘Even people I know stopped inviting me for lunch’
Work-life balance usually means answering one email on the couch. In this case, it means being married to the guy who makes the whole plant stop laughing on sight. Same building, same company, one shared home, two completely different universes. At work, he is the top exec with a personal assistant, a reputation for being …
Seguir leyendo Wife returns from maternity leave after husband is promoted to feared plant boss, tanking her social life as his strict policies at work start spilling into their marriage: ‘Even people I know stopped inviting me for lunch’
‘Someone’s gotta keep the lights on’: Man pays full $2,800 rent and covers every expense, working 70-hour workweeks in cybersecurity, while girlfriend contributes $200 monthly and complains about him never being around
This hardworking cybersecurity guy can’t catch a break. Work gobbles up every hour, bills stack up, and fun gets canceled more often than a sketchy software update. He pays for everything, rent, groceries, all the treats, while his girlfriend runs retail shifts and brings home a little rent money each month. Lately she’s decided she’s …
Seguir leyendo ‘Someone’s gotta keep the lights on’: Man pays full $2,800 rent and covers every expense, working 70-hour workweeks in cybersecurity, while girlfriend contributes $200 monthly and complains about him never being around
‘I tap the guy on the shoulder and ask, “What’s the problem?!”’: Entitled gym patron tries to kick out lead trainer’s daughter who came to get her mom after work, only to get shut down once the trainer steps in and sets him straight
A fitness trainer’s young daughter walks in at the end of her mom’s shift to tell her it’s time to go. Before she can reach the office, a regular gym member swoops in to play hero of the dumbest kind. He blocks the girl’s path and starts parroting the age restriction policy like it’s national …
Seguir leyendo ‘I tap the guy on the shoulder and ask, “What’s the problem?!”’: Entitled gym patron tries to kick out lead trainer’s daughter who came to get her mom after work, only to get shut down once the trainer steps in and sets him straight
Candidate takes a week to consider job offer, recruiter has a biting response: ‘Please do not assume you still have an offer from us’
Deciding to accept a job offer is one of the biggest decisions you have to make in this life. Your job takes up so much of your life that’s not eating or sleeping that we better be sure we have the right one. Sure, you can always leave a job, but that’s a whole process. …
Seguir leyendo Candidate takes a week to consider job offer, recruiter has a biting response: ‘Please do not assume you still have an offer from us’
‘You’re manifesting my business’s failure’: Dispiteous boss accuses employee of «manifesting failure» of her business
Get your Tarot cards out and crystals ready cause we’re out here trying to manifest the failure of every terrible boss we’ve ever had. Like, can you imagine getting called into a meeting with HR just because your «vibes» were off? Like, heck, Erin, so what if I was in the water closet building a …
Seguir leyendo ‘You’re manifesting my business’s failure’: Dispiteous boss accuses employee of «manifesting failure» of her business