Boss Forces Employees To Deep Clean Office For 8 Hours on a Sunday, Pays in Cash to Avoid Overtime

Every office has a different office culture, and that’s to be expected. Some workplaces have people working constantly, including on the weekends. While that’s not the worst thing in the world, it’s weird to insist on people continually working overtime, especially without the proper overtime pay. It’s even stranger to ask workers to work 8 …
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CEO Yells At Employees For Wanting Bonuses After Pocketing a $6.4 Million Bonus

There’s nothing more condescending than when the person who is exploiting you demands that you show them gratitude. There’s a kind of song-and-dance a lot of workers have to do to get ahead. They’re not allowed to complain when something is unfair. They cannot raise valid concerns in a manner that appears ungrateful or abrasive. …
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Horrible Manager Posts Schedule 40 Minutes Before Employees Scheduled Shifts

It’s been so long since I’ve had a job with a different weekly schedule. I was lucky that even when I did part-time work, the schedule would be the exact same every single week. It makes planning your life outside of work much easier and even lightens the workload for bosses and managers. Still, if …
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Boss Doesn’t Tell Employees New Policy For Requesting Time Off, Writes Worker Up For Doing it Wrong

Asking for time off work can be a little bit intimidating. If you don’t have a job where you get paid time off, bosses will often shame you for asking about taking a little time for yourself. Even if you have PTO, you risk getting laughed out of the room when asking for time off. …
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HR Accuses Dude of ‘Job Abandonment’ Two Years After He Quit The Job

When you quit your job, you hope you never hear from those people ever again. You put your resignation in writing, date it, send it off, and work your final two weeks in awkward silence. Sometimes, quitting your job goes easily. It’s so simple to quit a job in college after the semester is over. …
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Workers Discuss The Possibility of a 4-Day Workweek

The four-day workweek is a very appealing concept to a lot of workers. Everybody always wants a day between Saturday and Sunday. We’re always doing chores and upkeep on Saturday and recovering from the week on Sunday. Maybe we should make that extra day a reality! Most of us spend the majority of our waking …
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Store Manager Demands Part-Time Employees Be Available To Work 16 Hours a Day

Has this ever happened to you? You’re working a part-time job, and your boss wants you to have the availability of a full-time job. Or how about this one: Your boss complains about being understaffed, and when you ask for more hours, you don’t get them.  Working part-time sucks because your boss always wants way …
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Recruiter Revokes Applicants Job Offer After He Asks About Benefits

Negotiating a salary can be scary at first. When you’ve never done it before, it can feel like you’re overstepping a boundary of professionalism before you’ve even begun your new job. «Hello, person I don’t know very well. Can I please have $10,000 more dollars than you want to give me?»  In most positions, negotiation …
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‘Baby Boomers Only’: Business Owner Insults Gen Z Former Employees in Desperate Help Wanted Sign

Trying to find new employees after losing multiple staff members is tricky. You want to hire people quickly, but you don’t want to onboard any rube off the street who just happened to apply. You want the job posting to come off as appealing and not desperate. Whatever you do, you don’t want to say that …
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‘Our ice cream is too expensive’: Dude Gets Fired For Dropping One Scoop of Ice Cream

If you’ve ever worked in food service, you know that spills are a big part of the job. Workers constantly have to sweep and mop up food that has fallen on the floor and keep trucking along like it never happened. The worst is breaking a plate or dropping someone’s hot food right before them. …
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