If you had to swoop in for 20 minutes to do something critical at work, would you? Even if you weren’t being compensated for it? This can be a tough decision to make in the moment, and your answer says a lot about your relationship to your job.
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Boss consistently clocks out at 11am to golf, leaving employee to run the office alone
What would you do if you were completely unsupervised at your job? Maybe you would relish the alone time, or maybe you would wonder what you were doing there in the first place. It can be nice to take the pressure off of being watched all the time, but when your boss holds themselves to …
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Boss prevents social media manager from running any promotions, spending any money, complains they get no sales
What if your boss prevents you from doing your job? When you’re new at a job, you’re probably going to take a while to learn the ropes. You have to get accustomed to the environment in which you work, and the kind of work that your superiors expect from you. Maybe you got an idea …
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‘HR loves my resume… Then I received an email’: Company rejects application because they worked at their sister company
The hiring manager was all but ready to hire this applicant, then something trivial changed everything. The hiring process can be extremely frustrating. You put so much into an application only for it to be promptly ignored. There are so many people looking for a job, and not enough worthwhile jobs to go around. So …
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Boss berates stellar employee for leaving at 4:55, says ‘optics matter’: ‘I’ve never missed a deadline’
Should it matter if you leave work 5 minutes early? When you have a salaried job, it might mean that your working hours are somewhat flexible. They don’t own you hourly, but they probably have expectations of when you’re going to be working and available, especially if you work in an office. This is a …
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‘She lied to me multiple times’: Employee lies about ‘family emergency’ when needing coverage, coworker refuses to cover them
Is it right to lie about your reasons for needing a shift covered? It’s never a good idea to lie about what’s going on in your life, even at work. It doesn’t engender trust, and trust is a hard thing to lose. It happens, though. Sometimes you just need to call out of work, and …
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Employer demands 24/7 access to employee’s location for $16/hr job: ‘There is no legitimate reason for them to know where I am’
Everyone is entitled to privacy, but that’s easier said than done. The person who shared their story on the antiwork subreddit learned that the hard way. It seems like these days, everyone wants access to your location. Your apps do, your friends do, but should your workplace be able to do that? Sure, they probably …
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Dance studio boss demands 24/7 availability from her staff, forces employee to constantly cover last-minute shifts
If your boss is asking for on-call availability, they need to pay you for it. This is a pretty simple idea, but it doesn’t always have simple consequences. The employee in this story, shared on the antiwork subreddit, found out. Some jobs have unpredictable hours, and that’s just the nature of it. You can’t totally …
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Mom gets annoyed when husband with same job refuses to try flexible working to take kids to swimming lessons at 3 PM: ‘No one else can take you’
Parenting is rarely a job with a 50/50 balance. Those who co-parent with a partner or ex often find that there are times when the workload falls more on them, and that can be for any number of reasons. Maybe the other parent is sick, has some kind of social engagement, or needs to do …
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Boss pushes for ‘virtual office’ that pings management when you’re idle: ‘How do I push back without sounding shady?’
Should you expect to be constantly monitored at work? Surveillance is a huge part of our world these days. Our lives have been taken over by technology, and there is not a lot we can do about it, except choose how we engage with it. But we don’t really get to choose how we engage …
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