If you make a mistake at work, should you be given grace? Everyone makes mistakes. Everyone has those days, as Hannah Montana once told us. But when those mistakes happen, it can teach us a lot about the people we work with. Usually, coworkers and higher-ups will have some sort of sense of proportionality when …
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‘She said she wasn’t blowing up people’s texts at midnight because it’s illegal’: Manager calls out their employee for texting work group chat around 12am
Is it right to text a work group chat when it’s late? It’s usually not a great idea to talk work after hours. It’s best to leave your employees to their free time. Work already takes up so much of your life as is, and you don’t need it to take up more. So if …
Seguir leyendo ‘She said she wasn’t blowing up people’s texts at midnight because it’s illegal’: Manager calls out their employee for texting work group chat around 12am
Boss tells employee who works 65-70 hours/week to take on community service instead when she asks for a raise
Asking for a raise is not an easy thing to do. You would hate if it wasn’t treated like a serious request. If you have it in you to ask for a raise, it was probably for a reason. You aren’t just asking for the sake of asking, you’re asking because you feel like you …
Seguir leyendo Boss tells employee who works 65-70 hours/week to take on community service instead when she asks for a raise
Full-time marketing employee with 10 years’ experience works 3 hours a week, refuses to work for longer: ‘I view work as a distraction to my actual life’
There are employees out there who are quiet quitting at levels you might not even think are possible. For one reason or another, almost all of us can accept that some jobs just do not require us to grind as hard as others do. The workload of a nurse working a 12-hour shift in the …
Seguir leyendo Full-time marketing employee with 10 years’ experience works 3 hours a week, refuses to work for longer: ‘I view work as a distraction to my actual life’
Workplace Mandates Attendance at All-Day ‘Town Hall’ on 100 Degree Day in Building With No AC
Would you attend an all-day work event in a scorching hot building? What is really «mandatory» in life? Benjamin Franklin would argue that there are really only two things that you can’t avoid, and you know what they are. A work event in a hot building is not one of them. Even though it isn’t …
Seguir leyendo Workplace Mandates Attendance at All-Day ‘Town Hall’ on 100 Degree Day in Building With No AC
Management reprimands new employee for not going to coworker’s after-hours birthday party: ‘If it’s mandatory, it needs to be paid’
Do you go to non-mandatory work events? Sometimes you have to do things that you don’t necessarily want to do. This is one of the tenets of adulthood. When it comes to work, you have to make sacrifices in order to keep yourself afloat. But we can draw boundaries around what we are willing and …
Seguir leyendo Management reprimands new employee for not going to coworker’s after-hours birthday party: ‘If it’s mandatory, it needs to be paid’
‘It’s so easy to pad my “work” with stuff from my other unofficial supervisor’: Employee stumbles into remote work job with two supervisors, finds the perfect way to work less
Have you ever found yourself in the perfect employment situation? The perfect job is an elusive thing. Every job requires some amount of sacrifice. Either it’s interesting work but not that much pay, or it’s soul-sucking but stable. These are the two kinds of gigs you often find yourself in, unless you’re exceedingly lucky. But …
Seguir leyendo ‘It’s so easy to pad my “work” with stuff from my other unofficial supervisor’: Employee stumbles into remote work job with two supervisors, finds the perfect way to work less
Prospective boss contacts employee’s current boss without permission: ‘Am I right to be upset?’
What would you do if your job search was outed to your current employer? When you’re looking for a job, or you have a job, you have to be pretty careful. You don’t want to spill the beans about the fact that you want to leave, because it just makes things awkward for everyone. But …
Seguir leyendo Prospective boss contacts employee’s current boss without permission: ‘Am I right to be upset?’
‘I’m so tired of extroversion being the ideal and introversion being so misunderstood’: Boss forces introverted employee to spend their lunch break at communal table instead of reading quietly
Does the workplace reward introverts or extraverts? We all have different preferences and different ways of expressing ourselves in the workplace. Some folks are social butterflies, hopping around to different workstations and making sure everyone is having a good time. Others prefer to keep to themselves and work independently. Both are valid dispositions, and should …
Seguir leyendo ‘I’m so tired of extroversion being the ideal and introversion being so misunderstood’: Boss forces introverted employee to spend their lunch break at communal table instead of reading quietly
Boss drops ‘no beach policy’ during job interview: ‘They don’t like people wandering off on breaks’
This job-seeker found out their potential employer had some pretty strange policies. Sometimes you don’t realize who the people you work for are until it’s too late. But the person in this story, who shared their story on the antiwork subreddit, learned something about their company pretty early. The job market is tough, and any …
Seguir leyendo Boss drops ‘no beach policy’ during job interview: ‘They don’t like people wandering off on breaks’