One of the five love languages is gift-giving. It’s a nice way to show someone you care without having to say anything, and it’s usually the thought behind the gift that touches you more than the gift itself. You appreciate that they thought of you, picked something out, and presented it to you without you …
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Boss admits to wage theft when explaining time clocks, costs employee hundreds of dollars: ‘It serves no other purpose except to scam workers’
The time clock can be a funny thing. We have more precise ways to keep track of our working hours than ever, but that doesn’t necessarily mean we get compensated for them. The system of rounding your hours up and down can be so confusing that it takes you right back to learning decimals in …
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‘So, you don’t plan to retire?’: 15+ Perfect comebacks to the classic line ‘Nobody wants to work anymore’
There’s an art to the perfect comeback. Sadly, that moment usually comes way after we have the chance to say it to someone’s face. There’s a classic Seinfeld episode that explores this, where George goes to great lengths to execute the perfect retort. It’s a phenomenon that the French call «L’esprit de l’escalier» or «staircase …
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‘I’m a surgeon, I don’t have time for you’: Teachers Share Stories About Parents Who Need a Lesson in Parenting
Teachers deserve better pay, more respect than they’re given, and honestly, a gold medal per kid that’s learning in their class. One teacher took to r/teachers and shared a story that bothered them, asking fellow educators to share examples of parents being ‘too busy’ or ‘too successful’ to pay attention to their kids. The teacher …
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‘4 hours at the end of the day is miserable’: Unpopular opinions about working 9-5
The 9-5 pace is one of the cruel realities for the contemporary worker. Though in some ways it has become less relevant than ever (with the advent of remote work and other technological advances offering more flexibility), it remains the core around which most folks revolve. And it seems arbitrary in some ways. It’s just …
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Micromanager bans salaried employee from using the break room because it ‘confuses’ hourly workers, suggests he take breaks in his car: ‘She wants a private break room’
As any employee will tell you, breaks are everything. They are our momentary respites from the workaday pace. Even if it’s just a few minutes to get up, stretch your legs, or best yet, get a cup of coffee, it’s completely worth it. Taking breaks is also good for your brain and how it manages productivity. The Pomodoro Technique (favored by college …
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‘Teaching 7 classes a semester on 3 different campuses and making less than $30k/year’: Workers share experiences in the workplace that radicalized them
Everyone has a moment when they realize jobs can be cruel and unusual. I doubt that any of us had a great time at our first jobs, and I’m no exception to that rule. On my first day of selling my labor, I asked if I could leave when the shift was scheduled to end, …
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Bored government worker complains they were given a $20k salary increase to do ‘literally nothing,’ while some claim it’s a dream job: ‘Use the facilities, use the benefits’
All the rage this spring… high paying low effort dumb email jobs. Those who have them are the envy of their friends. Everyone’s selling their soul to try to get one. But for real, sometimes the highest-paying jobs are the ones that require the least amount of effort. It’s one of the dirty little secrets of the corporate …
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Hardworking employee is berated in group chat for small error, makes boss regret it: ‘Staff work hard enough to get nasty texts over a petty thing’
Famous physicist and general smart guy Albert Einstein has a famous (probably untrue) anecdote wherein he wrote up a chalkboard full of correct computations in front of his students while they sat silently. He then intentionally wrote 9×10=91, and suddenly his students erupted in a chorus of correction. Einstein then pointed out how nobody said anything about all the …
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‘You must be kidding!’: Boss Emails Entire Company Employee’s Salary Details, Including Expected ‘Raise’
For reasons that are still unknown, salary has proven to be one of the most private and sensitive bits of information in the business world for years, if not decades. What would you do, then, if your pay increase was unintentionally disclosed to the entire company? Would you be happy to brag about your raise, or …
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