Should you be allowed to do homework while you work? Any job that allows this is above most in terms of leeway. Most jobs frown upon any use of company time for personal needs, outside of the very basic ones. It follows that if you have free time in your workday, there is probably more …
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‘I don’t get paid enough for this’: Relatable Memes for Customer Service Workers Who Know the Customer Is Almost Never Right
Raise your hands, all customer service workers who wish they could go and hide in the depths of a cave! Well, not a cave; all the bats and the darkness are not great. But surely they would like to stay inside their houses and never have to go to work again. Seriously, dealing with so …
Seguir leyendo ‘I don’t get paid enough for this’: Relatable Memes for Customer Service Workers Who Know the Customer Is Almost Never Right
HR continually reports employee’s perfume even after they stopped wearing it: ‘I’ve washed my clothes, washed my hair and made sure to wear no scent’
Should you be punished for wearing a scent to work? We all have different feelings about smells and what we tolerate and what we don’t. Some people love a strong smell. They drench themselves in cologne before leaving the house, and that’s the way they like it. Others can’t stand even a scented lotion. Some …
Seguir leyendo HR continually reports employee’s perfume even after they stopped wearing it: ‘I’ve washed my clothes, washed my hair and made sure to wear no scent’
Coworker does the job of 4-5 people, colleagues worry she’s making them look bad: ‘I’m genuinely concerned. she’s going to burn herself out’
What does going above and beyond at your job really do? We’re always told to give all of our effort whenever we can. And this is generally a good rule of thumb to follow whenever you can. But what does this get you in the end? It might not get you as far as you’re …
Seguir leyendo Coworker does the job of 4-5 people, colleagues worry she’s making them look bad: ‘I’m genuinely concerned. she’s going to burn herself out’
‘If you clock in at 8:01 instead of 8:00, they deduct 15 minutes’: Company rounds every minute in their favor, effectively stealing hours of time from their employees
It can be difficult to speak out against wage theft, but that shouldn’t stop you from doing it. When your company is doing you dirty, you should call it out. There is no reason to put up with something just because you feel like you should. Sometimes companies are banking on the fact that you …
Seguir leyendo ‘If you clock in at 8:01 instead of 8:00, they deduct 15 minutes’: Company rounds every minute in their favor, effectively stealing hours of time from their employees
‘Can you bring iced coffee to a job interview?’: Job interview etiquette question sparks discourse among Gen Z, Millennials, and more
Should you bring iced coffee into a job interview? It’s not an easy job market, and you have to do everything possible as a candidate to stand out. There are likely way more people applying for the job than there is room for new hires, so you have to do all you can to make …
Seguir leyendo ‘Can you bring iced coffee to a job interview?’: Job interview etiquette question sparks discourse among Gen Z, Millennials, and more
‘Why am I expected to go above and beyond at $20/hour?’: Pharmacy manager punishes hourly workers with no PTO for not contributing to profit
Should you go above and beyond at your hourly job? Everyone wants to feel like they’re doing a good job. Part of what makes us happy and fulfilled as people is feeling like we’re doing the right thing and that we’re good at it. But unfortunately, this is too often difficult to do in a …
Seguir leyendo ‘Why am I expected to go above and beyond at $20/hour?’: Pharmacy manager punishes hourly workers with no PTO for not contributing to profit
Manager continually schedules meetings at 4:45 pm on Fridays, employee wonders if it’s a power move: ‘It took 45 minutes’
Friday energy is real. Nobody wants to be bothered on a Friday afternoon at work. It’s just part of the human experience. We have our eyes on the weekend, and we don’t want anything to get in the way of that. Everyone who works a monday through Friday job knows that you’re mentally checked out …
Seguir leyendo Manager continually schedules meetings at 4:45 pm on Fridays, employee wonders if it’s a power move: ‘It took 45 minutes’
Boss pressures employee to sell candy to fundraise for the office: ‘They told me I wasn’t being a team player’
When you are pressured to do things outside of your job description, this can be a tough decision to make. You have your job, and then you have all the things around it. You have your immediate tasks, and then the stuff that people ask you to do that you feel pressured to do. This …
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Office work-life memes so we can laugh through the stress of daily life
Sitting all day in an office can be hard… and funny! Nobody likes spending more than 9 hours a day in an office full of people that you wouldn’t even say hello to if it weren’t because they are your coworkers. You feel stressed all day because of all the work and tasks that you …
Seguir leyendo Office work-life memes so we can laugh through the stress of daily life