Entitled house guest spends the night at friend’s home office, fails to leave the room until fed-up host sends their toddler to wake them up at 3:30 pm: ‘Thinking of charging rent’

When we were kids, having sleepovers used to be the best thing, something you were always excited about and looking forward to. Who didn’t jump on the opportunity to stay up late with their best friends, eating junk food, and gossiping about other people in school? Even the next mornings were always fun, having breakfast …
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‘You’re home all day’: Entitled single mom assumes the work-from-home graphic designer next door can babysit for free, gets called out after dropping off two children under 7-years-old without warning

Work from home employees rarely get the credit they deserve, but this WFH graphic designer was not only taken advantage of by their entitled neighbor, but this single mom had the gall to belittle their entire career. In one fell swoop, this mom disrespected a neighbor’s entire work ethic, while simultaneously putting herself on a …
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25+ Remote Work Memes for Logging on in Your Pajamas

Working from home used to be reserved for the Carrie Bradshaws of the world. The freelancers, the novelists, the homeschoolers, the stay-at-home parents. Now so many of us work from home that it’s actually deeply affecting the economy. Wonder what happened in the last 5 years that made that possible? Not worth investigating. All that …
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‘Hot mic!’: 20+ Most hilarious moments WFH employees forgot to mute themselves during a company call

With modern technology comes modern problems. We’re all just learning on the job and that’s the truth. Zoom wasn’t really a thing until everyone was forced to work from home. And working from home was hardly even a thing before then too! We did not know what we were getting into, but we’re dealing with …
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Remote employee berates coworker for asking CEO why they can work from home and she can’t, refuses to apologize despite making her cry: ‘I would never do what she did and now she won’t do it again.’

There’s a social code among coworkers. Nobody wants to be the person who rats out every mistake a coworker makes to a higher-up. Sometimes, small mistakes can be corrected at the lower level, and no CEO, CFO, or Editor in Chief cares to know about it. We learn this lesson very early on in life. …
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Job tells remote employee he can’t move to Minnesota from Florida without getting fired, only allows him to move to Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, or North Carolina: ‘I already live somewhere not approved, as does my entire team’

Working from home has changed so many people’s lives. I know people who travel the world and are able to finance that not by being an underpaid au pair but by working for an American company remotely. There’s a whole community on Reddit dedicated to the overemployed: people who have two or three remote jobs …
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5-year-old daughter appears on dad’s work screen for 2 seconds during 8:30 PM meeting, HR reprimands him: ‘I don’t think I can work here anymore’

Remote work is something we’re all still figuring out. We remain in the beginning phases of what will become a long history of folks working from home, or wherever they happen to be. So it follows that not everyone has the same definition of working from home. Some employers hope that you have a room …
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Employee accidentally injures finger while working from home, company claims it’s a work-related accident and bans working from home for all employees: ‘My colleagues are annoyed with me’

Getting injured on the job should always be taken seriously. There’s a reason why nearly every workplace in America has OSHA standards posted on their wall…workers need to know that they have rights if they get hurt while at work. That’s usually more applicable if you’re working on a construction site or in a kitchen …
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Demanding mother asks 25-year-old sister to abandon work meeting to pick up her child from school, lashes out when she refuses: ‘She said that she wasn’t free labour’

Just because you’re working from home, doesn’t mean you’re around for whatever, especially taking care of a child that isn’t yours. The shift toward working from home has opened up flexibility for workers (AKA you can do your laundry during the work day), but it’s also easily exploited by family members who don’t quite get …
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‘They really drive me nuts’: Entitled Sibling Throws Pool Party at Brother’s House and Invites Entire Family Except Him, Brother Hears Party While Working from Home

Work is already dreadful… most of the time. There are a million and one other things we’d rather do than work. And the worst days to work are the ones when the weather is super nice outside. You may stare in envy out of your window at all of the other seemingly unemployed people who …
Seguir leyendo ‘They really drive me nuts’: Entitled Sibling Throws Pool Party at Brother’s House and Invites Entire Family Except Him, Brother Hears Party While Working from Home