Almost 99 percent of the time, customer service representatives handle difficult clients. In one contact with a customer service representative, a customer can release weeks’ worth of stress and anxiety. The story below is an account of a hotel front desk clerk. The Karen of the century checks into the hotel, marking the official start …
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New Boss Forces Employees to «Sign Out» Before Going to the Restroom
One of my least favorite things about high school was asking to go to the bathroom. I didn’t have a problem with the principle of asking for permission, but every teacher had a different policy for it. During the first week of school, I had to make a restroom cheat sheet because I had eight …
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Workers Share The Fastest Ways They’ve Seen Someone Get Fired
I have a humble brag I’d like to share with y’all: I have never been fired (knock on wood). I don’t think I have never been fired because I’m particularly special, but most of my work history is made up of service jobs that are desperate for anyone with even a smudge of social skills. …
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Company Forces Remote Worker to go Back to the Office Despite Their Success With Working From Home, Causes Employee of 27 Years to Quit
It’s wild how much the introduction of remote work into most office jobs changed the world. These days, you’d be hard-pressed to find a company in NYC that doesn’t implement some work-from-home element, with most jobs having a hybrid model. The 3-day in-person workweek is ubiquitous. I was still in college in 2020 and 2021 …
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Nosy Boss Bombards Employee’s Wife With Texts Demanding She Explains Why He Called Out For a Family Emergency
Emergency contacts exist for a reason. If your employee is having a medical emergency at work, you need to tell their family or close friends if they had to go to the hospital. While this system is useful in the contexts it’s supposed to be used, it is extremely easy to abuse for absurd reasons. …
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‘I did exactly as I was told’: Employee told «not to think,» does their best
Some employers value different traits than you might expect. Usually, when interviewing for a job, you’d make sure to emphasize how you go above and beyond, think critically, and problem-solve—yet, some employers are looking for someone who does exactly what they’re told and doesn’t ask questions. For most of us, this wouldn’t work for us, …
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‘She demanded I hire her’: Manager’s old company calls to begging him to hire his useless ex-coworker to get her off their hands
Imagine having a coworker so terrible that when you get a new management role and poach the members of your old team, your old HR manager actually gets mad at you for not poaching the awful one. That’s a scenario that boggles the mind so completely it’s hard to imagine this scenario actually playing out …
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‘I want to know where you are at all times’: Worker complies to boss’s micromanaging request that they report their location at all times
Micromanagement is a boogeyman of the workplace—always lurking. You’re always apprehensive that it’s going to be there when you walk into a new place and worried that it might suddenly appear out of the blue and ruin something that you once loved. It’s also exceedingly frustrating and hugely demotivating One of the most psychologically deconstructing …
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‘Cut my salary in half? Kiss your business goodbye’: Boss gives hardworking employee’s salary to new worker, employees band together to tank the company
«Red flags start appearing from the very first minute I arrive,» this employee wrote in one jaw-dropping workplace story. This is a long story, but it’s totally worth the read. U/technicalviking wrote about the time they got suckered into taking on a massive job, only to be really overworked and barely appreciated. As they wrote, …
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Rude Karens Harass Waitress For Wearing Shorts in 100-Degree Heat
Older adults always have something to say about what young people are wearing. When I was 15, I went on a school trip alone with my yearbook teacher and a small group of parents and kids. This was during an era when overalls were coming back into fashion, and I wore my favorite pair of …
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