Are men and women expected to act differently in the office? We all might have ways in which double standards play out in our lives. Maybe people assume things about you just because of the way you look. This can be incredibly frustrating, since you have so much more to offer than just surface-level qualities. …
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‘A huge whopping file 2.5 inches thick of my personal ChatGPT account, Gemini Account, and conversations with co-workers’: Boss reveals they’ve been recording employee’s full personal history, uses it against them
Should you assume that everything you do at work is being recorded? The worker in this story, who shared on the antiwork subreddit, didn’t know the extent of it. They assumed that they were being monitored to some degree. We all have to assume this when we’re at work. It’s sort of a natural thing …
Seguir leyendo ‘A huge whopping file 2.5 inches thick of my personal ChatGPT account, Gemini Account, and conversations with co-workers’: Boss reveals they’ve been recording employee’s full personal history, uses it against them
Insurance company asks applicant to complete 15 hours of unpaid training before giving them an official offer
Should you have to complete hours of training for free? Training is work. Any time you have to clock in hours for a job, you should be compensated for it. Even if you haven’t accepted the job yet. It’s wrong to ask someone to do their job without pay, and that includes training. The employee …
Seguir leyendo Insurance company asks applicant to complete 15 hours of unpaid training before giving them an official offer
Boss calls out employee for clocking out at 4:56 PM when they clocked in at 8:53: ‘It’s just a regular desk job’
Should your clocking-in and clocking-out times be watched with scrutiny? Your workplace probably has expectations for you, and that’s okay. They pay your bills, after all. So you probably have to do what they say, even if you don’t like it. But that doesn’t mean that you have to be disrespected in the process. No …
Seguir leyendo Boss calls out employee for clocking out at 4:56 PM when they clocked in at 8:53: ‘It’s just a regular desk job’
Manager bans chairs during shifts, employee take ‘fatigue breaks’ to maliciously comply
What would you do if your workplace took away your chairs? If you’ve ever worked retail or in the service industry, you know how exhausting it is to work on your feet all day. You know just how tired you get after a day of working non-stop on your feet. You wish you could just …
Seguir leyendo Manager bans chairs during shifts, employee take ‘fatigue breaks’ to maliciously comply
Company throws away massive amounts of food for clients, refuses to feed its own staff: ‘They cut down the food budget by $700’
Food waste can be incredibly upsetting. The worker in this story, who shared their tale on the antiwork subreddit, had a lot to say about it within their own workplace. If you’ve ever worked in food service, you know just how much can get wasted. Due to food safety regulations, sometimes you have to toss …
Seguir leyendo Company throws away massive amounts of food for clients, refuses to feed its own staff: ‘They cut down the food budget by $700’
‘One person regularly takes 50-minute lunch, another person leaves 30 minutes early’: Employee is punished for doing his job efficiently while coworkers cheat the system
Nobody likes to be the only one doing their job. It helps to be part of a team. It’s why we work collaboratively. Things tend to be better when we put more heads together than when we’re off on our own. It’s one of the challenges of the workplace, though, because humans tend to have …
Seguir leyendo ‘One person regularly takes 50-minute lunch, another person leaves 30 minutes early’: Employee is punished for doing his job efficiently while coworkers cheat the system
Job shifts employee’s daily schedule from 7:30-4:30 to 12-8 with no notice, leaves them no choice but to comply
A shift in your schedule can make a huge difference in your life. It’s the little things that can add up to small things over the course of a life. It’s the rhythms of your daily life that can render the most important. Like when this worker was confronted with a schedule change that they …
Seguir leyendo Job shifts employee’s daily schedule from 7:30-4:30 to 12-8 with no notice, leaves them no choice but to comply
Employee walks out on job after boss continually threw things, yelled at her employees: ‘She screamed so hard she would turn entirely red’
Would you walk out of a job where you were getting yelled at? For most of us, that is a pretty clear situation. No job is worth your dignity. If you’re walking into work and being disrespected, there is no reason to continue going. That’s exactly what the person in this story did, and they …
Seguir leyendo Employee walks out on job after boss continually threw things, yelled at her employees: ‘She screamed so hard she would turn entirely red’
Boss making half a million dollars salary complains about flight costs, refuses to fly economy
Can you complain about flight prices if you’re not willing to fly economy? Ever heard of being out of touch? The boss in this story, whose wealth clouded her vision of what’s reasonable, and her employee had a lot to say about it over on the r/antiwork subreddit. Sometimes you’re rich for so long that …
Seguir leyendo Boss making half a million dollars salary complains about flight costs, refuses to fly economy