30-year-old employee gets paid $27K a month to sit around and do nothing for 7 hours a day, asks how to deal with the boredom: ‘A good paycheck doesn’t cancel out mental burnout’

Where are all these jobs where you sit at a desk all day and do nothing? I’ve known so many people who have full-time jobs where they barely do anything, and are able to get away with it for years at a time. It’s normal for a company to have busy seasons where employees have …
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Why Doomscrolling is a Necessary “Evil,” Providing the Backbone for Informed Adults Navigating an Increasingly Murky World of Excess Information

Remember when the news was delivered straight to your door?  Your daily informational pamphlet came couriered to your front porch, carried dutifully in the bicycle basket of the boy who lives down the street. Dad read the newspaper at breakfast, Mom flipped through a magazine with coffee circles on the cover, and your siblings fought …
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25+ IT Memes for Computer Geniuses Helping Their Parents Copy and Paste

If you’re under a certain age, odds are a family member has called upon you to assist in a matter of technical support. And usually, you’re pretty good at solving it. You know that Chrome slows down when there are too many tabs open. You know how to rename a folder on your desktop. And …
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20 Funny Email Memes Worth Pressing Send On

In these heady days of DMs and instant messaging, we have to appreciate how the humble email has put up a fight. If you’re anything like me, your personal inbox is probably full of Black Friday deals, spam, and the occasional Important Thing that you keep putting off replying to, and you know what? All …
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Shady IT Department Forces Applicants To Quit Their Current Jobs, Immediately Eliminates The Job They Applied For

Applying for a new job while you’re still employed is a tricky process. It’s difficult to know what order you should do things in, especially when a prospective new job wants you to begin as soon as humanly possible. You can risk putting in your two-week notice before you get an offer letter, but that’s …
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Incompetent HR Department Refuses to Give Most Essential Employee an 8% Raise, Risks Future of the Company in the Process

When deciding whether to give an employee a raise, sometimes it’s not so obvious. If an employee is doing a fine job but not an outstanding job, it’s easy to put off giving them a raise until their performance improves. However, there are some employees that are so important, that go so above and beyond …
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‘Cut my salary in half? Kiss your business goodbye’: Boss gives hardworking employee’s salary to new worker, employees band together to tank the company

«Red flags start appearing from the very first minute I arrive,» this employee wrote in one jaw-dropping workplace story.  This is a long story, but it’s totally worth the read. U/technicalviking wrote about the time they got suckered into taking on a massive job, only to be really overworked and barely appreciated. As they wrote, …
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‘[She] ends up deleting our only copy’: Micromanager reassigned after randomly wiping IT department’s tech devices

Oh to be a fly on the wall when this IT director had to face her bosses… This excellent story of malicious compliance was shared by u/Barcs2k12. They write that when they were working in the IT department of a state agency, they encountered a Karen boss who was so sure she was smarter than …
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Boss Tells Worker To Quit Because He Spends Too Much Time On Hobbies; Employee Listens And Pursues His Hobby

It’s usually not easy to pursue your hobbies as a career. Most hobbies are hobbies for a reason, and that reason is that they’re more fun to do than your job. Often, people work years and years to ever financially get into a position where they can leave their day job in pursuit of their …
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Rude Boss Tells Worker To Quit Because He Spends Too Much Time On Hobbies; Employee Listens And Pursues His Hobby

It’s usually not easy to pursue your hobbies as a career. Most hobbies are hobbies for a reason, and that reason is that they’re more fun to do than your job. Often, people work years and years to ever financially get into a position where they can leave their day job in pursuit of their …
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