Should you have to pay for parking at your office? Working means sacrifice. It’s a sacrifice of your time and energy, in exchange for money at its most basic level. When you start at a new job, there are lots of sacrifices you have to make in order to remain in good standing. Should your …
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Categoría:toxic-workplace
Content creator gets fired and replaced by an AI; company numbers start to go wrong, so they offer to rehire her, expecting to pay her less: ‘So they failed, learned nothing and came back expecting a discount’
Everything was normal until they offered to pay her less This story’s continuity was completely normal at first. A company fires an employee (or all of them), replaces them with a bot, and then everything starts going wrong, and they come back looking to rehire the employee they initially let go. Believe it or not, …
Seguir leyendo Content creator gets fired and replaced by an AI; company numbers start to go wrong, so they offer to rehire her, expecting to pay her less: ‘So they failed, learned nothing and came back expecting a discount’
Workplace charges employees $8 every time they forget their security badge: ‘I would never turn it back in’
Should you pay that much to work your own job? It’s the little things in life that have a way of getting you down. Sometimes it’s not the huge, life-altering stuff that has a way of getting in your head and slowly eroding your sanity, it’s the small things that add up over time. You …
Seguir leyendo Workplace charges employees $8 every time they forget their security badge: ‘I would never turn it back in’
Boss threatens to fire new employee for refusing to use their personal phone for work: ‘HR is on the phone for you’
Would you use your personal phone for business? Sometimes your job asks you to do things that you’re not comfortable with. There are often sacrifices you have to make in order to keep your position and to maintain your good standing in the office. But you don’t have to completely go against everything you believe …
Seguir leyendo Boss threatens to fire new employee for refusing to use their personal phone for work: ‘HR is on the phone for you’
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 …
Seguir leyendo 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
Boss ambushes employee with a PIP, employee retaliates by resigning the next day
Have you ever been put on a performance improvement plan? Performance improvement plans are the bane of the corporate employee’s existence. You dread the idea of being put on one, and you dread having to put someone on one. It’s never the sign of something great. There are probably going to be some hard feelings, …
Seguir leyendo Boss ambushes employee with a PIP, employee retaliates by resigning the next day
Employee is laid off with 7 months severance days before they were going to quit: ‘You hit the jackpot’
This worker won the employment lottery… but did they pay a price for it? Some employees dream of the days they get to walk out of their jobs. They count down the minutes and the days until they can walk out of those doors and onto a new life. Maybe you’re worried about quitting your …
Seguir leyendo Employee is laid off with 7 months severance days before they were going to quit: ‘You hit the jackpot’
Employee accidentally joins boss’s private HR call about them: ‘Am I going to get fired?’
Have you ever overheard something you wish you hadn’t? Sometimes you stick your nose so far into something that things go wrong. Eavesdropping is an excellent activity. I do it all the time. It’s so interesting to overhear things that are happening in other people’s lives. Whenever I’m on the subway, and somebody is texting …
Seguir leyendo Employee accidentally joins boss’s private HR call about them: ‘Am I going to get fired?’
23-year-old employee is continually excluded from work events: ‘They all just ignored you’
It’s never a good feeling to be excluded from something. Being excluded is a horrible feeling. It can make you feel like a middle schooler again, when everybody is choosing teams for basketball and gym class, and you get chosen last. Even if you have a good sense of self and a good sense of …
Seguir leyendo 23-year-old employee is continually excluded from work events: ‘They all just ignored you’
Employee loses new job after 4 days when they complain about their PTO policy: ‘They were unwilling to meet me halfway’
What happens when you start a new job and nothing goes to plan? It can be a risk to start a new job. You never quite know what it’s going to entail until you get there. You are taking a risk on what kind of environment you’re going to step into, and you can get …
Seguir leyendo Employee loses new job after 4 days when they complain about their PTO policy: ‘They were unwilling to meet me halfway’