Ding, ding… Alarm bells go off in my head anytime I hear the phrase, ‘Though there are set hours, most employees stay extra so to show they’re committed to this job’. Another big red flag is when the interviewer seems disinterested or unprepared. If they haven’t looked over my resume, or if they’re asking basic …
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Mother Refuses to Accept Her Daughter Moving Out of Town, Tries to Make Her Apply to Jobs Closer to Home
Left alone with an empty nest can feel… well, empty. Watching your kids grow up and become adults with their own lives can be hard. Look, I get that being left alone sucks, especially when your entire identity is being a parent. But you have got to let them GO. Let them move out, let …
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Worker Gives His Three Week Notice, Company Asks For Four Weeks And Quickly Fires Him
There is something extremely awkward about the two weeks after you tell your boss you’re leaving the company for good. Usually, there’s a lot to do…telling your coworkers how to complete the tasks only you know how to do, finishing up projects as best you can, and saying goodbye take up loads of your people …
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New Job Red Flags Redditors Avoid Like the Plague
Starting a new job can be a whole ball of emotions: excitement, stress, and anxiety that they’ll figure out you lied on your resume about being the president of your high school’s debate team. Sorry, Vice President just doesn’t sound as good! It’s also the time when you’re figuring out the workplace ecosystem and how …
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Power-Tripping Boss Threatens to Tell Employee’s New Boss to Revoke His Job Offer
There is an art and science to quitting a job. You can’t just do it without any tact and expect things to go smoothly. You’ve got to make strategic choices based on how important you are to the company. If you’re one of hundreds of employees doing very menial tasks, putting in your two weeks …
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‘This Is Your New Job’: Boss Demands Employee Babysit Her Child During Work Shifts for Free
Management tends to have some pretty bold, audacious requests, or should we say rather ‘demands’. In this case, OP was working as a receptionist at a chiropractic clinic. Her boss went on personal leave for a few months, saying she had family issues that she needed to take care of. After said issues were taken …
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‘Nobody knew what to do’: Dude gets fired for harassment, uses job as a reference anyways
If you were ever to get dismissed from a role for a serious infraction, it would be common sense never to use that role as a reference—yet, doing so speaks to the delusional fantasy world you must live in that got you into trouble in the first place. Whilst working as a retail manager, there …
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Humorous Thread Contemplates The Awkwardness Of Settling Into A New Job
The only thing harder than getting a job is getting comfortable in a new position when you finally start. Different responsibilities, office politics and breaktime small talk can be intimidating when all you really want to do is make sure they like you enough to keep you on for another month. This can lead to …
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