‘Add another zero’: Manager offers ex-employee $50 to work a shift, claims to be desperate for staff

One of my best friends has a mantra in her office: «You don’t work at the hospital.» It’s easy to get swept up in the hubbub of your job and feel like it is the most essential thing in the world, but for most of us, that’s not true. Ensuring that Craig, his wife, and …
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Customer Refuses to Tip Waiter After Demanding Menu Be Tailored to His Preferences

In my younger years, I worked as a waitress to support myself. My eight-hour shift at the restaurant would be followed by a job working in retail till the early hours of the morning. To be honest, though, I wasn’t very good at being a waitress, and I didn’t particularly love my work there either. …
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Woman Gets ‘Fired’ After an Altercation With a Karen; Didn’t Work There in the First Place

We’ve all had that hazy post-shift feeling, where your brain is ablaze with work fuzzies and you’re body is waiting for that post-work shower to feel fully functional. This is especially true and especially potent for nightshift employees. One woman, a casino worker, recently suffered from a debilitating case of the after-shift haze when she …
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30 Memes That Are Way Too Real for Employees Who Always Work the Closing Shift

Everyone’s first closing shift is a traumatizing experience. At least for me, a morning person who likes to front-load all the work of the day, a closing shift is my worst nightmare. Not only do you need to do 95% of your work in the last 30 minutes of your shift, but the time you …
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‘You can’t be here; I fired you’: Employee gets reinstated after being fired for refusing to buy boss new drink, upper management reinstates employee despite boss’s orders

Upper management usually doesn’t intervene between bosses and their employees, unless the issue is considered unsolvable. In this case, it wasn’t exactly that the case was ‘unsolvable’, but rather that this particular boss simply didn’t have the authority to fire any employee. Not to mention that there weren’t even proper grounds for this employee to …
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Employee Refuses To Extend Shift At Last Minute, Told To Leave Early By Petty Manager

Whatever the job, one of the biggest factors in determining how much you enjoy it is the people you work with. This is especially true of your superiors — dealing with a bitchy colleague may be annoying, but having a manager who wants to see you suffer can make or break your ability to be …
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Employee Refuses To Extend Shift At Last Minute, Gets Told To Leave Early By Petty Manager

Whatever the job, one of the biggest factors in determining how much you enjoy it is the people you work with. This is especially true of your superiors — dealing with a bitchy colleague may be annoying, but having a manager who wants to see you suffer can make or break your ability to be …
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