Nobody likes a micromanager. Having a supervisor breathing down your neck is bound to affect productivity, yet corporate seems to insist on having a watchdog monitor each and every cubicle. They may be a necessary evil, managers, but at a certain point, shouldn’t the workforce feel encouraged by their presence instead of stifled? While managers …
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25 Former Employees Share Shocking Industry Secrets: ‘Job requirements are more of a wish-list situation’
When you work in an industry for a while, you’re likely to learn some insider knowledge that the rest of the workforce probably doesn’t know about. Whether you work in the service industry, sales, marketing, or anything else, there’s a lot of little interesting tidbits of info that’s fun to share with your friends. Like, …
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‘I haven’t agreed to any of this’: Employee Asks Coworker for a Favor Regarding Overtime, Coworker Refuses after He Finds Out Boss Was Told It’s a Done Deal
This story is about the kind of coworker nobody would wish on anyone. The kind who do whatever they want, as long as it serves them — even, or especially when it comes at another employee’s expense. One person who we’ll call OP worked in a team at a store. Basically, they could only leave …
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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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Geriatric Millennial praises Gen Z for having the ‘right attitude’ towards working retail: »I could care less’… That is truly the correct attitude to have’
The only way to survive retail is to be like a duck and let the insults roll off your back like water. At least, that’s what I always told myself when a ruthless Karen was breathing down my neck while I was checking back stock for an impossible item. Just let it roll off. The …
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24 Hilarious Construction Worker Memes to Brighten Up Your 4am Weekend Wake-up Call (April 20, 2024)
Construction is like a never-ending game of Jenga, except that instead of a small wooden tower, you’re building massive skyscrapers and bridges that people will use for years. You start with a solid foundation, stack one block on top of another, and hope that the whole thing doesn’t come crashing down. And just like in …
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‘Boomer dad got Boomered’: Progressive CEO buys employees laptops so they can work from home, gets endless complaints from a technologically challenged older woman
Young people all want to work from home now. We’re more focused, our workload is more manageable, and we don’t have a micromanager breathing down our neck every time we need to use the restroom. Personally, I love working from home and relish the chance to type on my laptop from the comfort of my …
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23 Entrepreneur Memes for Small Business Owners Always on the Clock
Being your own boss is no joke. Whether you own a small buisness, work as a contractor, or create content, you are pretty much on the clock all the time. You can set boundaries for yourself, sure, but ultimately, the success of your business is on you. And that’s a lot of pressure. But…it’s also …
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20+ Funny Memes to Help the Sales Reps Survive the Next Cold Call
If you’ve ever worked in sales, you know the struggle is real. You’re constantly making calls, trying to sell a product or service that seemingly no one wants. You’re basically trying to sell snow shovels in the middle of a heatwave. But salespeople are a special breed. They have to be tenacious, persistent, and have …
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24 Hilarious Construction Worker Memes to Brighten Up Your 4am Weekend Wake-up Call
Ah, the noble worker born with a hammer in one hand and coffee in the other, never quite getting the idea of anything that even slightly could represent a concept of «sleeping in.» Dread not, the weary warrior of the workweek! We give you not ten, not twenty, but 24-knee-slapping, tool-dropping, scaffold-climbing construction worker memes …
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