Change in technology comes with new challenges. Technology can make our lives so much easier. Think about what life was like before Google Maps. You would have to have a physical map that you would have to carry with you, make sure it was up-to-date, unfold it when you needed it, and figure out where …
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Manager forbids use of ‘use it or lose it’ PTO, employee finds loophole to take vacation time: ‘Two hours every morning next week, two hours every afternoon the week after, a random Friday 3 to 5 to watch a plumber’
Sometimes it pays to read the fine print. It is amazing what rules and technicalities can be buried in a contract or handbook that most people never thoroughly read, and often the best time to do so is when somebody who should know better is going against that for their own benefit. In particular, the …
Seguir leyendo Manager forbids use of ‘use it or lose it’ PTO, employee finds loophole to take vacation time: ‘Two hours every morning next week, two hours every afternoon the week after, a random Friday 3 to 5 to watch a plumber’
‘I’ve landed 5 interviews in the past 6 weeks’: Job applicant cold calls company HR departments, claims he was asked to schedule an interview without applying
It is no secret that the job market of 2025 is not one that is easy to succeed in. Overwhelmed hiring managers, fake job listings, and AI galore only serve to make the ordeal of selling oneself to a prospective employer even more difficult, in the sense that applicants have even less of a chance …
Seguir leyendo ‘I’ve landed 5 interviews in the past 6 weeks’: Job applicant cold calls company HR departments, claims he was asked to schedule an interview without applying
‘Maybe if you actually checked your own emails once in a while’: Boss insults employee in front of team, employee accidentally lets the truth slip
Sometimes you have to be careful with the truth. We hear so often about how important it is to be honest and truthful, but that’s only part of the story. By the time you’re an adult, you’ve probably found out that it’s sometimes better to shield the truth from some people in certain moments. That …
Seguir leyendo ‘Maybe if you actually checked your own emails once in a while’: Boss insults employee in front of team, employee accidentally lets the truth slip
Woman hosts entitled friend for a week-long visit, only to get a formal complaint at the end of the visit about the quality of the stay: ‘She gave me a long list of issues’
If a friend is kind enough to let you stay at their place for an entire week, takes time off work to show you around the city, and even plans fun activities for you to do together, the only response they should receive from you is pure gratitude for everything they’ve done. Unlike the friend …
Seguir leyendo Woman hosts entitled friend for a week-long visit, only to get a formal complaint at the end of the visit about the quality of the stay: ‘She gave me a long list of issues’
The Best Relatable Work Memes This Week (November 3, 2025)
If we really think about it, the average workplace is not a particularly natural place to be. Most human beings were not designed to spend eight hours a day staying focused on the borderline pointless drudgery that makes up many of the average white collar jobs. Maybe if AI took some of them over, it …
Seguir leyendo The Best Relatable Work Memes This Week (November 3, 2025)
Boss’s wife tries to drop off her 6-year-old at employee’s house because she works from home: ‘She literally showed up at my apartment building with the kid. I didn’t buzz her in.’
Working from home is just as valid as working in person… You just happen to be at home. You still have all of your responsibilities and tasks, you just do them from a desk in your house instead of doing them at a desk in your office. That certainly doesn’t mean you have time for …
Seguir leyendo Boss’s wife tries to drop off her 6-year-old at employee’s house because she works from home: ‘She literally showed up at my apartment building with the kid. I didn’t buzz her in.’
Employee quits after coworker gives her an ‘aggressive look’ during birthday celebrations: ‘The final straw after months of negative energy’
Some workplaces feel like living proof that high school never ends. It would be nice to think that when a group of adults get together to work towards a specific and financially remunerated purpose, they would be mature about it. However, it is frequently proven that this could not be further from the truth. Those …
Seguir leyendo Employee quits after coworker gives her an ‘aggressive look’ during birthday celebrations: ‘The final straw after months of negative energy’
Wife with in-person job cooks every meal for husband who works from home, he tries to take one of her lunches and she snaps at him: ‘He’s annoyed about being «scolded» like a child but is demonstrably a massive child’
She was taking on way more labor than her husband while working a full-time job. He still lashed out at her. It’s totally up to you and your partner how you split the labor. There is no cut-and-dry way to do it that will make everyone happy. And it doesn’t have to make anyone happy …
Seguir leyendo Wife with in-person job cooks every meal for husband who works from home, he tries to take one of her lunches and she snaps at him: ‘He’s annoyed about being «scolded» like a child but is demonstrably a massive child’
Boss plans unpaid weekend team building activity, denounces employee as uncommitted when they want to spend the day with their child instead: ‘Saturday is my one full day with my kid’
The birth rate is declining in most places in the world for a number of reasons, and many would argue that one of these is because although most people need to work full-time to even consider starting a family, having kids and having a job just doesn’t seem to mix. Committing to whatever deposits that …
Seguir leyendo Boss plans unpaid weekend team building activity, denounces employee as uncommitted when they want to spend the day with their child instead: ‘Saturday is my one full day with my kid’