Is a cake worth crying over? Marriage is all about communication and compromise. It can be difficult to go through something alone, but sometimes it’s even more difficult to go through something together. You don’t get to control what other people do, and you don’t get to try. The only thing you can do is …
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Boss fires employee after finding out they’re interviewing at other places and pays severance, doesn’t realize they’re already taking a new job
Have you ever been let go from a job at the exact right time? Leaving a job can be a stressful thing, but it doesn’t have to be. Sometimes the stars just align, and everything is handed to you on a silver platter. That’s what happened to this employee, who found themselves in an interesting situation. When …
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Bosses accidentally include employee on email thread about her: ‘They keep referring to me as “the girl”’
Sometimes a goof-up lets you know what your employers really think of you. There is so much fake kindness in the professional world. You have to run around smiling at each other just to keep things on an even keel. At certain jobs, professionalism just means fakeness. You don’t get to say your real opinions …
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Workplace replaces lunch break with mandatory ‘lunch and learn’ where employees present on their work
What would you do if your workplace took away your lunch time? Having breaks is incredibly important. It’s an essential part of being in the workplace. You can’t just work and work all day with no break. Your mind would quickly grow tired of it, and you would get worse at your job as the …
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The unnecessary workplace rules that nobody actually follows: ‘She hides in the bathroom, so she can be on her phone’
What are the rules that you just can’t be bothered to follow? There are so many rules in our world that it’s worth breaking at least one of them just to see what happens. Not every rule is justifiable, and some rules have a way of making things seem a little weirder and a little …
Seguir leyendo The unnecessary workplace rules that nobody actually follows: ‘She hides in the bathroom, so she can be on her phone’
20-year-old yells at 64-year-old assembly line coworker for disrespecting her on the job: ‘She told my team lead that I was “intentionally causing her to panic»‘
What do you do when you work with someone you don’t gel with? When you work with someone, you might have to compromise on things. You can’t agree on everything, and nor should you. But you have to set aside your differences in order to make things happen, and this isn’t always easy. Collaboration requires …
Seguir leyendo 20-year-old yells at 64-year-old assembly line coworker for disrespecting her on the job: ‘She told my team lead that I was “intentionally causing her to panic»‘
‘A 31-minute lunch means you leave office at 7:00pm’: Workplace demands 1 hour of unpaid work for every minute exceeding 30-minute lunch break
Sometimes your workplace reveals its true intentions without you realizing it. When you’re starting out at a new place, you might not know what to expect. You might think you’re in for one thing, but really you’re in for another. It’s not until you’re there, boots on the ground, that you really know what is …
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Employee refuses to take a call during their 1-hour unpaid lunch break, coworker ices them out
Should you have to take a work call on your lunch break? When you’re off the clock, you’re off the clock. Every job is different, but you’re allowed to have boundaries around whether or not you want to push yourself for your job. Things are rarely as urgent as everyone else wants them to be, …
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Woman complains when friends talk about ‘passenger princess’ trend, wonders if she’s the only one who finds it off-putting
What do you want out of a relationship? Everyone is allowed to want something different out of a partnership. We don’t all look for the same things, because if we did, things would get a little boring. We all have different wants and needs and things we’d like to accomplish. We all come from different …
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Receptionist Lies to HR About Coworker Being Condescending to Her, HR Refuses To Help
What do you do when you can’t go to HR for help? Sometimes you find out that you’re in a workplace that doesn’t respect you, and you just have to live with that. Or you have to extricate yourself out of there as quickly as possible. But this isn’t always possible on the timeline that …
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