Having a dress code or a uniform can be tricky business. I had a uniform for most of my grade school career, and hated every minute of it. As someone who self-expresses through clothing, I raged against all the plaid and the navy. There was no way for me to get creative, as we weren’t …
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The Weird, Unknown Jobs That Actually Pay Really Well
Everybody’s got a gig these days. Whether you’re a full-time working stiff or a freewheeling freelancer, you’ve found a niche and you’re filling it. Some niches are niche-er than others, though. Some jobs are obvious and straightforward. We know we need teachers, servers, doctors, and Memebase editors, but what about the jobs that are a …
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Movie Theater Makes Teen Work Exorbitant Hours For Thanksgiving Weekend, Her Parents Make Her Quit
If there’s one group that is easy to take advantage of in the workplace, it’s teenagers. Sure, there might be some pesky child labor laws keeping bosses from treating them like late 19th-century factory workers, but the ethos of that era often still rings true. I remember the first day of my first job. I …
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Real-Life Seafarers Share Their Haunting Tales From the Ocean
Ah, the sea. Nothing like the salty spray grazing your face, waves churning and rolling, inviting you to parts unknown. There is something endemic in humans that draws us oceanward. Maybe it’s an ancient instinct to find resources, maybe it’s the promise of adventure, or maybe it’s the pull of mystery. That’s the thing about …
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‘I’m the only female in the group’: Boss makes only female engineer organize office lunches, employee stands her ground
As upsetting as this initially sounded, thankfully, this employee ended up standing up for herself. We know that gender bias exists in the workplace. This is obviously not new information and not the first time this conversation has made its way onto the internet. However, clearly there are some folks who still have yet to …
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‘I smiled and waited for Joe to clock in’: Demanding customer insists a male employee help her, cue malicious compliance by department manager
One manager didn’t bother telling a demanding customer she was wrong… she found out eventually all by herself. Customer service workers deserve to make at least $15 million per year, and if I was President, I would make it happen. These jobs are some of the lowest paid, and all the while you have to …
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Top ‘I Don’t Work Here Lady’ Stories of the Week (July 2, 2023)
You know what they say about when you assume… These folks certainly know how it feels to be treated like a customer service employee when in reality, they were just another customer. They shared their stories to Reddit’s r/IDontWorkHereLady subreddit, and we’ve included a list of the top stories below. When this kind …
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‘[She] ends up deleting our only copy’: Micromanager reassigned after randomly wiping IT department’s tech devices
Oh to be a fly on the wall when this IT director had to face her bosses… This excellent story of malicious compliance was shared by u/Barcs2k12. They write that when they were working in the IT department of a state agency, they encountered a Karen boss who was so sure she was smarter than …
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‘Just got passed up for a promotion’: IT employee denied promotion by CEO because HR says he’s part-time
We’ve all had the experience of being overlooked by an employer, but this guy had it rough. He had been working at his company for over a decade and had been clocking in over 40 hours a week, and yet somehow, he has been plagued with the status of being a part-time employee despite everyone …
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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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