I was freshly 16 when I got my first paid job. Devoid of professional contacts and with the bare minimum of qualifications, I had no choice but to brave one of the scariest places on the internet: the part time listings on Indeed. This infamous place bills itself as ‘The #1 job site worldwide’, and …
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Boss Threatens to Fire Employee for Posting Hourly Wage, Employee Immediately Quits
Trying to obtain the bare minimum required to live is a near-impossible task when you’re below the line of poverty. Unfortunately, there are way, way too many jobs that are happy and more than willing to pay you next to nothing. As is the case with many of these sorts of positions, these jobs are …
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‘Noped out after two hours’: 20 stories where folks quit their jobs as soon as possible
Talk about getting out while you still can! We all are well aware of that old adage «when you know, you know,» yes? Well, these folks all knew that it was time for them to leave their workplace environment, and in many of these cases, they had just started. This list of stories was compiled …
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‘Why should we hire you?’: Relatable Interview Memes for Resume Peddlers Wondering If Unemployment is Really All That Bad
When you’re reaching the second and third interview in the hiring process, you start to question all of the unpaid labor you’ve already dumped into this prospective employment. Not only have you slaved over your resume, you applied directly on some website portal that asked you all the same questions that you already provided information …
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Unemployed Husband Uses Deranged Logic to Justify Keeping Lights & Faucets on All Day
Depending on the people, all sorts of subtle power dynamics can start to emerge in a new marriage and manifest in strange ways. These dynamics can become especially ugly and problematic if one person in the relationship is a sociopathic control freak. An older r/AmItheAsshole thread recently went viral on Twitter because of its sheer …
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Dude Fired For ‘Time Theft’ After Taking Two Smoke Breaks Per 12-Hour Shift
I could not handle having a job where you sit around and do nothing all day. I know many workers dream of having one of these «fake jobs» that only requires you to do a couple of hours of actual work per day, but they aren’t all they’re cracked up to be. Unfortunately, one of …
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Cruel Manager Fires Tech Employee in an Incredibly Uncouth Manner
I do not envy anyone who has to fire others. Letting somebody down easy is a skill I simply don’t have. Every time I’ve broken up with someone, I have done it clunkily and a bit insensitively, which is really not ideal for delivering bad news. You need to tell the other person what’s happening …
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Dude Gets Fired For ‘Time Theft’ After Taking Two Smoke Breaks Per 12-Hour Shift
I could not handle having a job where you sit around and do nothing all day. I know many workers dream of having one of these «fake jobs» that only requires you to do a couple of hours of actual work per day, but they aren’t all they’re cracked up to be. Unfortunately, one of …
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Dude Gets Sent Home For Showing Up to His New Job Two Minutes Late
There is an art and science to being late to things. As somebody who is chronically early to nearly everything I do, even I know that to be true. When I did theatre as a child, we were taught that to be early is to be on time, to be on time is to be …
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Funny Meme Fantasizes About the Carefree Life of the Unemployed Friend
For anybody who has bills to pay, joblessness can be a stressful experience. Much as we trash talk the rat race, at least it (mostly) keeps us out of arrears. Aside from that, though, there isn’t exactly that much to recommend it. Keeping up with demanding managers and packed schedules isn’t exactly the pinnacle of …
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