Gross Worker Shows Up Stinky to Work Everyday, Refuses to Bathe Even After He’s Been Confronted About His Poor Hygiene 3 Times

At this point, the company needs to tell him that he will be fired if he doesn’t start showing up to work clean.  I do not know how people can go days without showering. Unless you are a newborn baby or in a life-threatening situation where there is no running water, there is no excuse …
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Manager schedules 17-year-old worker for 3-9 PM shifts Monday through Friday, despite her getting out of school at 2:30 PM: ‘I work 10:30 AM-7:00 PM on weekends.’

She’s way too overscheduled for a high school kid. If there’s one group that is easy to take advantage of in the workplace, it’s teenagers. Sure, there might be pesky child labor laws keeping bosses from treating them like late-19th-century factory workers, but the ethos of that era still often rings true.  I remember the first …
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Entitled mom hands Disney World worker her baby and takes off immediately, forcing worker to spend an hour looking for the child’s family: ‘You can’t just drop your baby off’

Disney World is the perfect place for families to have the happiest family vacations in the world. The kids can enjoy the rides, the music, and meeting all their favorite characters, while their parents can enjoy watching their kids having the time of their lives, with the added value of nice food and general good …
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Employee of 3 years gets promoted after an amazing performance review, only gets a 1.75% raise: ‘I’m a father of 3 trying to make ends meet’

He deserves a lot more than a raise of 1.75% Many managers wish they could give their top-performing employees a bigger raise, but that’s simply not in the budget in this economy. It’s a harsh reality right now that we are probably in a recession, but the government just isn’t willing to call a spade …
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‘I’m fully booked for the next 3 weeks’: Massage therapist cancels a booking with his fiancée’s boss to drive his sick partner to the doctor because the boss’s petty doctor’s note mandates

Instant karma strikes an arrogant boss after his dumb new work policy goes into effect, proving that employees don’t need a micromanager on top of them for the rest of flu season.  It’s that time of year again, and people are getting ill. Whether it’s the change in the seasons, that faulty heater duct unit …
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How Gen Z are Rewriting the Corporate Jargon Lexicon

With bright eyes and bushy tails, fresh college grads leap into the workforce, hoping to land a cushy corporate job to line their pockets, pay off their student loans, and beef-up their future resume. Entry-level, cheaply-dressed, and full of ambition, these new additions to the workforce don’t realize they’re entering foreign lands and will soon …
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Porcelain Safehouse: How ‘bathroom camping’ became Gen Z’s mental health break in the workplace

You’ve only just walked into the office and your boss is already on your back about next month’s deadlines. The chattering voices of your coworkers waft over the cubicles, and the tinnitus in your ears rings over your manager’s muffled nagging. Your aching mind wonders how, after six months, you’re still juggling three specialized office …
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‘This and your HR manager’: 26 Best Memes Roasting That Cheating CEO at the Coldplay Concert

HR is supposed to protect employees’ rights in the workplace. Often, with the company guidelines in hand and waving around the latest Code of Conduct in the faces of the employees, the work of an HR manager usually goes unrecognized. Employees will hem and haw about their duties with the HR office, but the CEO …
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30-year-old employee gets paid $27K a month to sit around and do nothing for 7 hours a day, asks how to deal with the boredom: ‘A good paycheck doesn’t cancel out mental burnout’

Where are all these jobs where you sit at a desk all day and do nothing? I’ve known so many people who have full-time jobs where they barely do anything, and are able to get away with it for years at a time. It’s normal for a company to have busy seasons where employees have …
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30-year-old employee has quit 9 jobs in 11 years, starts to hate himself for it: ‘I think it goes deeper than laziness’

We’re told we shouldn’t tie our self-worth to our ability to work, but that’s easier said than done. When you meet a stranger, one of the first things they ask is, «What do you do?» which is a fantastic question to answer when you work for a meme website, but it’s more challenging when you’re …
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