Good for him for sticking up for his teenage employees! Recently, a Facebook post from the owner of Coldstuff Ice Cream in Blackstone, Massachusetts, went viral. He wanted to tell the public, once and for all, to stop being needlessly cruel to his teenage employees. As a former teenage restaurant employee, I really appreciate what …
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California woman refuses to move to Texas with her on-again off-again husband who she has been with for 19 years: ‘He agreed to stay in California!’
Is he trying to get her to break up with him again? If so, he’s doing a pretty good job. Before you get married, you should have a long, hard discussion about where you would and wouldn’t be able to live. Some people think they love their partner so much that they could live anywhere …
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Chef tries to cut partner out of joint catering business, gets annoyed when she protests: ‘I have been paid little to nothing’
Love and business are not always a good mix. An important part of picking a partner is for the two of you to be on the same page financially, but doing that to the extent that you share income streams is not necessarily a cheat code. For a start, if the venture fails, then you …
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27 Small Business Memes for People Who Answered 47 Emails Today and Also Fixed the Printer
There’s no department for this. There’s just you, 47 emails, and a printer that picked the wrong day. Small business owners don’t clock out. They just move from one kind of problem to a slightly different kind of problem until it’s too late to start anything new, and then check their emails one more time …
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16-year-old calls her single mom greedy because she bought an iPad for her small business instead of buying her a new phone: ‘It seems like she has money, but always doesn’t have it for me.’
How could she possibly know the details of her mother’s financial situation? When you’re young, it’s easy to be incredibly juvenile about money. If you have it, you spend it! If you have the money to spend on it, you can certainly afford it! Young spoiled kids have little to no sense of how much …
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Boss calls employee’s wife at 5:50 AM over a broken machine, employee demands he apologize to his wife: ‘This was unacceptable behavior.’
Why would he call her instead of calling him again later? One of the worst bugs in modern society is the expectation that we be in constant communication with one another. I don’t know about y’all, but I don’t want to date someone who wants me to text them for 12 hours a day, constantly …
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Small business owner replaces art teams with AI animators: ‘Clients preferred the cost savings of AI animators to the human-made animations.’
Clients’ preferences for cheap, low-quality AI animation are a sad reality that’s sweeping the animation industry. Have you ever taken time out of your day to watch strange AI-animated videos on TikTok? I must admit that I have a strange proclivity towards Italian Brain Rot videos, where characters like Trallalero Trallalla (a shark wearing Nike …
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Boss lays off employee 2 weeks before Christmas, asks her to do unpaid work for him 2 months later ‘as a friend’: ‘The only other employee, his wife, left him and the business.’
He’s delusional if he thinks that a valuable employee he laid off two weeks before Christmas is going to come crawling back to him just because he is desperate. This employee and the boss’s ex-wife made the right decisions for their careers and their well-being.
Caravan park owner loses twice after local community board refuses to shut down free campsite and outsmarts them: ‘Our community relies on tourists to keep afloat, our town’s economy would suffer if they had it their way’
Some towns survive on charm, others on stubbornness. This one seems to run on both. It’s small, a little quiet, and held together by a simple truth: tourists with caravans bring money The catch is that most of those tourists aren’t parking at the fancy $80‑a‑night caravan park. They’re pitching up at the free bush …
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Retail manager earns only 50 cents more than the employees they manage, despite having 15+ more responsibilities and sales being up 27%: ‘Is this exploitative?’
Less than a dollar more is nasty work. There’s a reason most workplaces discourage discussing salaries with colleagues. When you find out how much more or less your fellow employees are making, it might inspire you to ask for more money. It might also send you into a spiral, making you wonder, «Why is this …
Seguir leyendo Retail manager earns only 50 cents more than the employees they manage, despite having 15+ more responsibilities and sales being up 27%: ‘Is this exploitative?’