Overworked Junior Employee Quits Without Notice, Leaving Lazy Boss Hung Out to Dry

There comes a point in many low-level employees’ lives when they need to throw in the towel. If you’re inexperienced or don’t have a college degree, it can be easy to put up with a lot of mistreatment for a while because you know that you might not be able to find opportunities elsewhere. Even …
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Worker Gets Cursed Out And Accused of Using $40K Per Year Job as a ‘Stepping Stone’ After Handing in Their Two Week Notice

Family businesses are wild places to work at. When you’re working at a company where no employees have familial ties to each other, it’s much more normalized to leave in search of better opportunities. Sure, your boss might not be happy that you quit, but it’s a standard expectation for some percentage of employees. In …
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32 Middle Class Memes for Witty Workers Feelin’ Fancy

They say the middle class is a thing of the past, but America used to thrive on it. For those of you who don’t know, the middle class smells like freshly cut grass, above-ground pools, and local soccer leagues on Saturdays. The middle class is riddled with jalapeño poppers and Arnold Palmers and dad’s who …
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Impassioned Employees Debate the Benefits of Cubicle Offices

Anyone who’s seen movies ranging from Fight Club to The Incredibles have been fed certain ideas about working an office job in a small, gray cubicle. It’s meant to be boring and soul-destroying, this tight monochrome box a labored metaphor for your imprisoned will to live.  There are still many people out there who couldn’t …
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Man Expresses Annoyance When His Wife Wants to Dine In at a Restaurant Just Minutes Before Close

If you’ve ever worked in the food service industry, you certainly know the pain of customers coming in right minutes before closing. While it’s still technically appropriate and enforced by management, the last thing you want after an eight-and-a-half-hour shift is to stick around an extra hour for a couple of customers. If you’ve never …
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Woman Gets ‘Fired’ After an Altercation With a Karen; Didn’t Work There in the First Place

We’ve all had that hazy post-shift feeling, where your brain is ablaze with work fuzzies and you’re body is waiting for that post-work shower to feel fully functional. This is especially true and especially potent for nightshift employees. One woman, a casino worker, recently suffered from a debilitating case of the after-shift haze when she …
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‘8:24am- Sneezed, got tissue’: Micromanaging boss gets exactly what he asked for when a sassy employee fills out his timekeeping card with over-detailed accuracy

Working when your boss is looking over your shoulder is not only irritating, but makes your productivity way worse. Obviously work speed is going to suffer when you have a nepo-baby clipboard-poker breathing heavily at your back and judging your every move, but for some reason, management never gets that concept. Working from home has …
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‘I pulled 6 doubles that week’: Retail worker told to take all the overtime they want, obliges

You really shouldn’t say something that you don’t mean that could cause an outcome that you don’t want to someone who will happily oblige you. Retailers love to set rules and swear by them as if they had been written in stone since the dawn of time—and definitely not something they made up 15 minutes …
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Movie Theater Worker Vents About Rudely Messy Customers, Sparking Mixed Reactions

If you’ve ever gone to a movie theater, you’ve likely witnessed the massacre of popcorn, fountain sodas, and sticky candy left behind for the workers to clean up. Sometimes it’s so bad, it seems intentional, as if some moviegoers make a huge mess just because they can. But what kind of person acts like a …
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Movie Theater Worker Vents About Messy Customers, Sparking Mixed Reactions

If you’ve ever gone to a movie theater, you’ve likely witnessed the massacre of popcorn, fountain sodas, and sticky candy left behind for the workers to clean up. Sometimes it’s so bad, it seems intentional, as if some moviegoers make a huge mess just because they can. But what kind of person acts like a …
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