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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‘He hires 10-20 unpaid interns and gets them to do all the work’: Manager refuses to give a recommendation letter for unpaid intern, claims it’s against policy
In the words of Bo Burnham, «Who needs a coffee? ‘Cause I’m doing a run, I’m writing down the orders now for everyone. The coffee is free, just like me. I’m an unpaid intern.» These are the familiar blues of anyone who has even worked in exchange for «school credit.» I put school credit in …
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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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The Best Relatable Work Memes This Week (July 21, 2025)
If you have a 40-hour work week, you are spending approximately 2000 hours a year dedicated to your job and 100,000 hours of your life if you have a 50 year career. Those are some big numbers, and it is enough to have even the biggest workaholic pondering if this is the best you can …
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Employee hits 10-year anniversary at engineering job, boss rewards him with either a pizza kit or angel figurines worth $60: ‘You actually get gifts?!’
Everyone likes to feel appreciated, and it doesn’t take much. Nobody wants to feel like they’re silently toiling away for an unspecified goal, forever. That’s what the whole Sisyphus myth is about. Nobody wants to be the guy pushing the boulder up the hill just for it to roll back down and for him to …
Seguir leyendo Employee hits 10-year anniversary at engineering job, boss rewards him with either a pizza kit or angel figurines worth $60: ‘You actually get gifts?!’
Boss requires housekeepers to wear skin-tight pants and non-breathable shirt as part of work uniform, workers claim it’s a health hazard: ‘He refuses to listen to us because he thinks they look great’
Most of us don’t really enjoy wearing uniforms. I, for one, wore a uniform for many years and hated almost every minute of it, for a few reasons. One, they’re almost never something you would pick out for yourself. They’re always weirdly formal or dated, and are never flattering on most body types, especially yours, …
Seguir leyendo Boss requires housekeepers to wear skin-tight pants and non-breathable shirt as part of work uniform, workers claim it’s a health hazard: ‘He refuses to listen to us because he thinks they look great’
Interviewee incessantly monologues at hiring manager, he cuts him off and tell him to ‘shut up and listen’: ‘You walked into this room with a 99 percent chance of getting the job’
We all need a little honest feedback every now and again. Most of us get very little of it in our day-to-day. We’re all used to being so polite to each other all the time that it can start to lack substance. I’m not necessarily complaining about this. I don’t mind having my feelings spared. …
Seguir leyendo Interviewee incessantly monologues at hiring manager, he cuts him off and tell him to ‘shut up and listen’: ‘You walked into this room with a 99 percent chance of getting the job’
Interviewee incessantly monologues at hiring manager, he cuts him off and tells him to ‘shut up and listen’: ‘You walked into this room with a 99 percent chance of getting the job’
We all need a little honest feedback every now and again. Most of us get very little of it in our day-to-day. We’re all used to being so polite to each other all the time that it can start to lack substance. I’m not necessarily complaining about this. I don’t mind having my feelings spared. …
Seguir leyendo Interviewee incessantly monologues at hiring manager, he cuts him off and tells him to ‘shut up and listen’: ‘You walked into this room with a 99 percent chance of getting the job’
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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‘It’s not normal’: Boss looks through employee’s emails while he was on vacation, marks them unread to cover his tracks
Privacy at work is an interesting concept. Obviously, you’re entitled to a certain amount of it no matter what. You don’t sign away all your rights when you sign up for a new job. But you also have to learn the new rules around privacy concerning your job. If you work for someone else, they …
Seguir leyendo ‘It’s not normal’: Boss looks through employee’s emails while he was on vacation, marks them unread to cover his tracks