Walmart Makes Employees Pay The Company To Wear Shorts During Summer

When I met people who were banned from wearing shorts in school, I could not believe it. Then I remembered not everybody grew up in the South. Growing up in Texas, you would die of heat exhaustion if you wore jeans on the first day of school. The weather is in the 90s during at …
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‘There’s levels to poverty’: Twitter User Gets Roasted for Claiming That People Making $250k are ‘Poor’

When it comes to money, there is one thing that most of us can agree on: we feel like we need more of it. From those who are barely scraping by to the billionaires keen to make their next profit, we all have our eyes on the dollar-shaped prize. It goes without saying that this …
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‘I didn’t have enough to do’: Former Server Prompts Debate For Expressing Confusion at Fellow Employees Who ‘Milk the Clock’

Work isn’t a place that many of us want to spend more time at than we have to, but that’s not the case for everybody. For every individual who is despairing at the sheer amount of unpaid overtime they do, there is a person who will hang around in the workplace even when they’re meant …
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Unreasonable Manager Pressures Employee To Eat Lunch With Their Coworkers

Remember the days when finding the right place to eat lunch in the cafeteria was the most high-stake decision you could make? When you’re in school, it really is critical to find a group and stick with them during your 45 minutes of freedom. If you don’t have a group you can tolerate eating with …
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Boba Shop Employees Forced to Stand All Shift After Customer’s Complaints About Their Chair

Annoying thing number 109345 that customers do: they constantly pry into affairs that are none of their business. Working a job that has you on your feet all day is punishing, especially when you are standing still for long periods of time. Nonetheless, some people just cannot stand the idea of somebody providing them a …
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Workers Discuss Email Etiquette After Company Rejects Half of Employee’s Vacation Time Request

It is hard to believe how many people can’t craft a proper email. I didn’t wholly learn the art and science of professional emailing until I was a junior in college, and who knows where I would be if I didn’t take particular classes that taught me that. I’ll give you some general tips if …
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The Best Relatable Work Memes This Week (May 30, 2023)

If you’re a person that doesn’t want to have to work a job in the way society demands of us, that’s understandable. Things could be worse, but they should also be a hell of a lot better in many cases. However, just because you feel stressed out and disconnected from it all doesn’t mean you …
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Genius HR Karen Calls Coworker ‘Dumb Blonde’ in Front of Her Boss

I have never been discriminated against on the ground of being blonde. A blessed bottle of bleach touched my scalp for the first time when I was twenty, and I’ve been addicted ever since. Being blonde has gotten me nothing but compliments and a couple of wild assumptions that it’s natural, which is absurd considering …
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Boomer Accuses Younger Job Hunter of Laziness, Gets Yelled At In Public

Anyone who has applied for a job in the past couple of years knows it’s a very tricky process. So much goes into job hunting, and it’s not as simple as being the most qualified person for a position. Job interviews sometimes feel like they’re taking place in an alternate reality; how you articulate yourself …
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Boss Accuses Employee of ‘Quiet Quitting’ Because He Works a Mere 40 Hours a Week

«Quiet quitting» is one of those phrases that wiggled into our vernacular seemingly overnight. By some accounts, quiet quitting is when employees slack off at their jobs while quietly waiting to get fired. Workers don’t quiet quit because they’re lazy. They do it to fight burnout when they have to immediately go from one job …
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