Company lays off senior employee 2 weeks before Christmas, asks her to redo part of an old project 6 months later: ‘They barely gave me any severance. I was unemployed for 6 months.’

There’s something so definitive about firing or breaking up with somebody. If you do it, you must be 100% okay with never receiving anything from them ever again. You will never get another hour of work from an employee you fire. You may never see your ex again after breaking up with them, let alone …
Seguir leyendo Company lays off senior employee 2 weeks before Christmas, asks her to redo part of an old project 6 months later: ‘They barely gave me any severance. I was unemployed for 6 months.’

‘This event has reached legend status’: Supermarket employee sick of low pay and long hours epically quits and leaves hilarious ‘gift’ behind for management and customers to discover

When working as a disgruntled employee, you can get away with a lot. That is because you dgaf anymore. So what do you have to lose? Sure, you’ll probably lose out on getting unemployment money, but if you are disgruntled, then it’s probably safe to say that the place you work out would’ve threw their …
Seguir leyendo ‘This event has reached legend status’: Supermarket employee sick of low pay and long hours epically quits and leaves hilarious ‘gift’ behind for management and customers to discover

‘No tip for thieves… Weasel stole my commission’: Shady employee sneakily steals part of his coworkers pay, karma gets him at his next job

When you are a horrible co-worker who is actively doing something that makes the life and job of your fellow employees a living heII, then you better buckle up, baby. Karma is coming for you. You might go one, two, maybe even 10 years after that job thinking you’re in the clear. But then BAM …
Seguir leyendo ‘No tip for thieves… Weasel stole my commission’: Shady employee sneakily steals part of his coworkers pay, karma gets him at his next job

Pharamcy’s micromanager writes up employee for pants that aren’t ‘black enough,’ so employee goes to Hot Topic to change: ‘[I became] a goth girl in my mid-forties’

If you are a goth or have ever had a goth phase, then you know the plight of never having the right black clothing. It is either not dark enough, the undertones aren’t matching up, or it fades in the wash. It’s a constant cycle of buying black pants, them fading, and you having to …
Seguir leyendo Pharamcy’s micromanager writes up employee for pants that aren’t ‘black enough,’ so employee goes to Hot Topic to change: ‘[I became] a goth girl in my mid-forties’

Employee requests a raise, boss rejects raise and says he should quit now so they can replace him as quickly as possible: ‘It would be most efficient to fill your current role now instead of playing a guessing game’

Asking for a raise is scary. As an employee, you’re used to doing things all day, every day, that serves your employer. While your job might be fulfilling, it doesn’t exist for the function of making you better. Again, a job very well might do that, but that’s not its primary function. It can feel …
Seguir leyendo Employee requests a raise, boss rejects raise and says he should quit now so they can replace him as quickly as possible: ‘It would be most efficient to fill your current role now instead of playing a guessing game’

Company fires employee after they failed to provide mother’s death certificate 4 days after her passing: ‘I had to leave work Sunday night because my mom passed during my shift’

Companies can do things that are so evil that it’s difficult to even see it from the suit’s perspective. Sure, sometimes people are laid off despite being good workers, but usually, it’s because the company can’t afford to pay them. That’s not a nice explanation, but at least it isn’t outright cruel. A worker recently …
Seguir leyendo Company fires employee after they failed to provide mother’s death certificate 4 days after her passing: ‘I had to leave work Sunday night because my mom passed during my shift’

‘Isn’t it obvious?’: Toxic boss mysteriously stalks ex-employee on LinkedIn after abruptly firing them 3 months in

Getting fired from a job can kind of feel like getting broken up with. Someone has told you that they don’t want you around anymore, for whatever reason they’ve come up with. It’s a blow to the ego, it forces you to re-organize your life, and it takes a while to recover from. Especially if it’s out of the blue. You reach out to your friends for support, take some …
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Funniest Middle Finger Memes to Send Your Work Bestie to Meme-aphorically Give Your Boss the Bird

You can’t actually give your manager the bird, but you can do it through secret code (aka memes).

Company begs employee to tell them his work laptop’s password 6 months after he was fired: ‘Even I can do a hard factory reset’

Not every company in the world is the best at Information Technology. Some of them don’t even have an IT department, and it really shows. When there are computer problems, and nobody is there to fix them, it becomes exceedingly clear how much of the white-collar workforce is lowkey technologically illiterate. I am definitely guilty …
Seguir leyendo Company begs employee to tell them his work laptop’s password 6 months after he was fired: ‘Even I can do a hard factory reset’

‘They told her she is not capable of doing the job’: Judgmental parents fire au pair for taking depression and anxiety medication

Being an au pair sounds like an incredibly stressful job. You have to leave the country that you know and love to live with a random family and care for their children full-time. It sounds like being a foreign exchange student without being treated like a cool, fun novelty amongst your peers in this country.  …
Seguir leyendo ‘They told her she is not capable of doing the job’: Judgmental parents fire au pair for taking depression and anxiety medication