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 …
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Workplace fires receptionist then splits her job between 11 people: ‘So twice a week I now spend two hours answering the door’
Is it «shared ownership» or just cheaping out on a new receptionist? When someone leaves or is laid off, it’s not uncommon for their job to be absorbed into everyone else’s. This is far from fair, but that doesn’t stop it from happening. There is a right way and a wrong way to do this, …
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Toxic startup manager becomes direct report of employee they used to victimize 15 years prior: ‘Karma really is a boomerang’
Sometimes life has a cruel sense of humor. Coincidences are a strange thing. If you’re the type of person who believes in a higher power, then you might take coincidences as a sign of this. And who is to blame you? Sometimes things unfold in such a deeply ironic way that we just have to …
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‘We can work from home’: Home Office memes for all remote workers going to work in their livingrooms and wearing pajamas
Working from home has some pretty good advantages! For starters, when you have the chance to work from home, you get to sleep a little bit more. You don’t have to leave your house at six in the morning to commute for two hours till you get to the office. And that’s another thing: you …
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Company mandates unpaid game nights for employees after work hours, senior employee leaves anyway: ‘I have a wife and two young kids at home’
Who doesn’t love to be forced to spend even more time at work without even getting paid for it? Companies love to go on and on about how important it is to create opportunities for team building and social interaction, but they would never go as far as creating these opportunities during work hours. Nope. …
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‘I don’t want to spend my money celebrating someone who hurt me’: Coworker refuses to bring food to colleague’s wedding celebration since they argue at work
Do you have to spend money on your coworkers if you don’t want to? The answer seems like an easy no, but it’s not always as simple as that. Sometimes social pressure, especially in the workplace, is strong. You don’t want to lose out on professional opportunities just because you’re feuding with someone over something …
Seguir leyendo ‘I don’t want to spend my money celebrating someone who hurt me’: Coworker refuses to bring food to colleague’s wedding celebration since they argue at work
Coworker snoops and opens colleague’s pay stubs, whole office turns against him after finding out his salary
Who is in the wrong here? You shouldn’t expect that anyone is looking through your personal belongings, especially at work. This is a pretty big violation of privacy, no matter who you are. And while it shouldn’t be taboo to talk about salary, we shouldn’t be snooping around in others’ stuff just to find out. …
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Fast food cashier notices $105 missing from the register, fears they will be fired for a crime they did not commit
What do you do when everyone thinks you’re guilty of something you didn’t do? It’s never a good feeling to feel accused. You don’t want to feel like you have to prove your innocence to the people close to you, especially at work. Things go wrong sometimes, and often you need to point a finger …
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Manager refuses to recommend employee for a promotion, gets accused of “holding him back” when he won’t write a reference letter: ‘I wouldn’t write a recommendation I didn’t genuinely believe’
Can you recommend someone you don’t think is ready? Being a manager can be very complicated at times. I’m not a manager, but I think I can understand the position the OP was in and why he reached out to the community in r/AITH. Apparently, he is the supervisor at a small company and the …
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Employee refuses to refer sister for a job, sister puts employee’s name on her application anyway, only for HR to reject her for lying: ‘I blacklisted her’
Referring someone you know for a job at your workplace is great… until it’s someone you don’t actually want to refer. It makes sense that many workplaces would rely on their current employees when they search for new hires. If a company is hiring people they trust and have seen success from, that will develop …
Seguir leyendo Employee refuses to refer sister for a job, sister puts employee’s name on her application anyway, only for HR to reject her for lying: ‘I blacklisted her’