Should you have to take a work call on your lunch break? When you’re off the clock, you’re off the clock. Every job is different, but you’re allowed to have boundaries around whether or not you want to push yourself for your job. Things are rarely as urgent as everyone else wants them to be, …
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Receptionist Lies to HR About Coworker Being Condescending to Her, HR Refuses To Help
What do you do when you can’t go to HR for help? Sometimes you find out that you’re in a workplace that doesn’t respect you, and you just have to live with that. Or you have to extricate yourself out of there as quickly as possible. But this isn’t always possible on the timeline that …
Seguir leyendo Receptionist Lies to HR About Coworker Being Condescending to Her, HR Refuses To Help
Coworker asks to borrow $6000 from colleague, stops speaking to him when he declines: ‘We’re not even friends’
Is it wrong to refuse to lend money to a coworker? Lending money to somebody is a pretty big deal. It’s something that ideally you would only do in dire circumstances, or unless you’re completely comfortable with never seeing that money again. That’s a good rule of thumb for lending money. If it would ruin …
Seguir leyendo Coworker asks to borrow $6000 from colleague, stops speaking to him when he declines: ‘We’re not even friends’
Boss fires top-performing employee because their customer reviews weren’t 90%
Can you measure an employee’s work based on one metric alone? An employee is more than just a number. An employee is a person that you work with. If you can’t see them with the full breadth of humanity that they deserve, then you shouldn’t be employing them. Sure you have to keep track of …
Seguir leyendo Boss fires top-performing employee because their customer reviews weren’t 90%
Company gives out expired Costco muffins to thank workers for working in a humid, short-staffed warehouse
Sometimes the wrong gift is worse than no gift at all. They say it’s the thought that counts when it comes to gifting, but what if there is no thought at all? Gifts are interesting things. They’re part of our culture, and we have a whole etiquette around them. As you get older, you generally …
Seguir leyendo Company gives out expired Costco muffins to thank workers for working in a humid, short-staffed warehouse
Employee Making $100K/Year Is Offered a 200% Salary Increase To Go Fully In-Person, Considers Turning It Down
We all have different priorities. Money isn’t always the most important factor in choosing a job. There are a lot of other factors that go into whether or not you might want to work somewhere. The content of the job itself is awfully important. You would hate to be stuck at a job doing something …
Seguir leyendo Employee Making $100K/Year Is Offered a 200% Salary Increase To Go Fully In-Person, Considers Turning It Down
Employee completes 8 rounds of interviews, travels 6 hours and works 1 shift, is ghosted with no pay
What would you do if you underwent 8 interviews with no pay? That is a crazily high number of interviews just to get ghosted anyway. We all know it’s a tough market out there and getting a job is not easy. Any job. But there is a certain amount of grace we should give each …
Seguir leyendo Employee completes 8 rounds of interviews, travels 6 hours and works 1 shift, is ghosted with no pay
Employee sends in their thoughtful resignation letter, manager responds with a «thumbs up» emoji
What would you do if your manager replied to your resignation with a «thumbs up?» Emojis are wonderful things. What did we do before we had them? How did we express emotion over text or lighten the mood? I’m a huge fan of peppering in emojis where I see fit. The right one takes a …
Seguir leyendo Employee sends in their thoughtful resignation letter, manager responds with a «thumbs up» emoji
26-Year-Old Secures Part-time Retail Job After Getting Made Redundant in Tech Role—But Parents Claim It’s Not a Real Job
How much should parental approval matter when it comes to career choice? Almost everybody wants their parents to be proud of them on some level, and the most tried-and-true method of doing that is by achieving the milestones of success that are pre-approved by society. Getting a good education, a good job, finding a nice …
Seguir leyendo 26-Year-Old Secures Part-time Retail Job After Getting Made Redundant in Tech Role—But Parents Claim It’s Not a Real Job
80-year-old restaurant owner threatens to withhold wages if employees forget to clock out: ‘Nice of Hank to provide written evidence of his law breaking’
Can your boss withhold your pay if you do something they don’t like? Everyone who has ever had a job where they are supposed to clock out has, at some point, forgotten to clock out. It’s just one of those true things that we all do. I don’t know what it is about it, but …
Seguir leyendo 80-year-old restaurant owner threatens to withhold wages if employees forget to clock out: ‘Nice of Hank to provide written evidence of his law breaking’