Why couldn’t he let his employees have a couple of weeks of peace? Nobody likes a micromanager. I don’t know if it’s worse to have a micromanager or a manager who doesn’t manage at all, but at least you can do whatever you want when your managers don’t care about what you’re doing. Micromanagers won’t …
Seguir leyendo Micromanaging boss cancels his 2-week vacation, devastates employee who was excited to get a break from him: ‘He seems relieved he isn’t going on vacation.’
Categoría:toxic-workplace
Employee considers resigning after $72k salary offer because they paid the previous employee $86k: ‘I am extremely disappointed and feel insulted by the raise’
Is a certain amount of money that qualifies as an insult? It’s not easy to stay at a job that you think is disrespecting you. You want to be able to keep your job in an environment where it’s not easy to find one. But there is only so much you can put up with. …
Seguir leyendo Employee considers resigning after $72k salary offer because they paid the previous employee $86k: ‘I am extremely disappointed and feel insulted by the raise’
Manager insists employee log all ‘non-billable’ time, so employee tracks every bathroom break, slack message, and email
Sometimes you have to maliciously comply to show what’s really going on. When a company lays out a policy, they might not immediately know the consequences of that policy. They’re only thinking about the bottom line, not the human toll. But the human toll is real. Sometimes workers end up feeling the brunt of the …
Seguir leyendo Manager insists employee log all ‘non-billable’ time, so employee tracks every bathroom break, slack message, and email
‘A huge whopping file 2.5 inches thick of my personal ChatGPT account, Gemini Account, and conversations with co-workers’: Boss reveals they’ve been recording employee’s full personal history, uses it against them
Should you assume that everything you do at work is being recorded? The worker in this story, who shared on the antiwork subreddit, didn’t know the extent of it. They assumed that they were being monitored to some degree. We all have to assume this when we’re at work. It’s sort of a natural thing …
Seguir leyendo ‘A huge whopping file 2.5 inches thick of my personal ChatGPT account, Gemini Account, and conversations with co-workers’: Boss reveals they’ve been recording employee’s full personal history, uses it against them
Boss calls out employee for clocking out at 4:56 PM when they clocked in at 8:53: ‘It’s just a regular desk job’
Should your clocking-in and clocking-out times be watched with scrutiny? Your workplace probably has expectations for you, and that’s okay. They pay your bills, after all. So you probably have to do what they say, even if you don’t like it. But that doesn’t mean that you have to be disrespected in the process. No …
Seguir leyendo Boss calls out employee for clocking out at 4:56 PM when they clocked in at 8:53: ‘It’s just a regular desk job’
Manager bans chairs during shifts, employee take ‘fatigue breaks’ to maliciously comply
What would you do if your workplace took away your chairs? If you’ve ever worked retail or in the service industry, you know how exhausting it is to work on your feet all day. You know just how tired you get after a day of working non-stop on your feet. You wish you could just …
Seguir leyendo Manager bans chairs during shifts, employee take ‘fatigue breaks’ to maliciously comply
‘One person regularly takes 50-minute lunch, another person leaves 30 minutes early’: Employee is punished for doing his job efficiently while coworkers cheat the system
Nobody likes to be the only one doing their job. It helps to be part of a team. It’s why we work collaboratively. Things tend to be better when we put more heads together than when we’re off on our own. It’s one of the challenges of the workplace, though, because humans tend to have …
Seguir leyendo ‘One person regularly takes 50-minute lunch, another person leaves 30 minutes early’: Employee is punished for doing his job efficiently while coworkers cheat the system
Employer demands $2,700 back from 18-year-old employee after their payroll error: ‘I’m just so irritated’
Should you be held accountable for someone else’s mistakes? Mistakes happen, and they happen often. Humans make mistakes, computers make mistakes, and we all have to keep on living. This is one of the hardest things about life and about jobs. A mistake was at the center of this story from the antiwork subreddit that …
Seguir leyendo Employer demands $2,700 back from 18-year-old employee after their payroll error: ‘I’m just so irritated’
Employee walks out on job after boss continually threw things, yelled at her employees: ‘She screamed so hard she would turn entirely red’
Would you walk out of a job where you were getting yelled at? For most of us, that is a pretty clear situation. No job is worth your dignity. If you’re walking into work and being disrespected, there is no reason to continue going. That’s exactly what the person in this story did, and they …
Seguir leyendo Employee walks out on job after boss continually threw things, yelled at her employees: ‘She screamed so hard she would turn entirely red’
Boss making half a million dollars salary complains about flight costs, refuses to fly economy
Can you complain about flight prices if you’re not willing to fly economy? Ever heard of being out of touch? The boss in this story, whose wealth clouded her vision of what’s reasonable, and her employee had a lot to say about it over on the r/antiwork subreddit. Sometimes you’re rich for so long that …
Seguir leyendo Boss making half a million dollars salary complains about flight costs, refuses to fly economy