Is it right to text a work group chat when it’s late? It’s usually not a great idea to talk work after hours. It’s best to leave your employees to their free time. Work already takes up so much of your life as is, and you don’t need it to take up more. So if …
Seguir leyendo ‘She said she wasn’t blowing up people’s texts at midnight because it’s illegal’: Manager calls out their employee for texting work group chat around 12am
Categoría:toxic-workplace
Employee identifies $10k pay gap between him and coworker with the same role, boss dangles it in front of him as a bonus
Is it right for an employer to dangle something in front of you as bait? Humans are simple people. We need to be rewarded for what we do. We need little tips and tricks to keep us in the game. We need to be incentivized to do the things we do, or else we might …
Seguir leyendo Employee identifies $10k pay gap between him and coworker with the same role, boss dangles it in front of him as a bonus
Boss tells employee who works 65-70 hours/week to take on community service instead when she asks for a raise
Asking for a raise is not an easy thing to do. You would hate if it wasn’t treated like a serious request. If you have it in you to ask for a raise, it was probably for a reason. You aren’t just asking for the sake of asking, you’re asking because you feel like you …
Seguir leyendo Boss tells employee who works 65-70 hours/week to take on community service instead when she asks for a raise
Workplace Mandates Attendance at All-Day ‘Town Hall’ on 100 Degree Day in Building With No AC
Would you attend an all-day work event in a scorching hot building? What is really «mandatory» in life? Benjamin Franklin would argue that there are really only two things that you can’t avoid, and you know what they are. A work event in a hot building is not one of them. Even though it isn’t …
Seguir leyendo Workplace Mandates Attendance at All-Day ‘Town Hall’ on 100 Degree Day in Building With No AC
Management reprimands new employee for not going to coworker’s after-hours birthday party: ‘If it’s mandatory, it needs to be paid’
Do you go to non-mandatory work events? Sometimes you have to do things that you don’t necessarily want to do. This is one of the tenets of adulthood. When it comes to work, you have to make sacrifices in order to keep yourself afloat. But we can draw boundaries around what we are willing and …
Seguir leyendo Management reprimands new employee for not going to coworker’s after-hours birthday party: ‘If it’s mandatory, it needs to be paid’
Prospective boss contacts employee’s current boss without permission: ‘Am I right to be upset?’
What would you do if your job search was outed to your current employer? When you’re looking for a job, or you have a job, you have to be pretty careful. You don’t want to spill the beans about the fact that you want to leave, because it just makes things awkward for everyone. But …
Seguir leyendo Prospective boss contacts employee’s current boss without permission: ‘Am I right to be upset?’
‘I’m so tired of extroversion being the ideal and introversion being so misunderstood’: Boss forces introverted employee to spend their lunch break at communal table instead of reading quietly
Does the workplace reward introverts or extraverts? We all have different preferences and different ways of expressing ourselves in the workplace. Some folks are social butterflies, hopping around to different workstations and making sure everyone is having a good time. Others prefer to keep to themselves and work independently. Both are valid dispositions, and should …
Seguir leyendo ‘I’m so tired of extroversion being the ideal and introversion being so misunderstood’: Boss forces introverted employee to spend their lunch break at communal table instead of reading quietly
Boss drops ‘no beach policy’ during job interview: ‘They don’t like people wandering off on breaks’
This job-seeker found out their potential employer had some pretty strange policies. Sometimes you don’t realize who the people you work for are until it’s too late. But the person in this story, who shared their story on the antiwork subreddit, learned something about their company pretty early. The job market is tough, and any …
Seguir leyendo Boss drops ‘no beach policy’ during job interview: ‘They don’t like people wandering off on breaks’
Boss consistently clocks out at 11am to golf, leaving employee to run the office alone
What would you do if you were completely unsupervised at your job? Maybe you would relish the alone time, or maybe you would wonder what you were doing there in the first place. It can be nice to take the pressure off of being watched all the time, but when your boss holds themselves to …
Seguir leyendo Boss consistently clocks out at 11am to golf, leaving employee to run the office alone
The most wildly disrespectful things employers have done to employees: ‘He spent 30 minutes stating he would call an ambulance’
There are times when having a job feels like some kind of humiliation ritual. It is the definition of being stuck between a rock and a hard place: you need to work if you want to be able to afford to live, but working has become the kind of chore that just seems unnecessarily painful, …
Seguir leyendo The most wildly disrespectful things employers have done to employees: ‘He spent 30 minutes stating he would call an ambulance’