Would you go on vacation with your coworker? Everyone has a different relationship with their coworker. Maybe you happen to be besties with the people you work with. If this is the case, it likely happened outside of work. You spent time together outside of the time you were being paid, and that brought you …
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Company rescinds job offer after a 3-month interview process when employee asks who their manager would be
Is it a crime to ask too many questions? The job interview process is famously not an easy thing to go through. Any job that’s worth having is going to make it at least a little bit difficult to work there. The process might be long and drawn out, as you’re both getting to know …
Seguir leyendo Company rescinds job offer after a 3-month interview process when employee asks who their manager would be
Boss constantly contacts employee for extra work after hours despite employee having grad school classes from 6pm-10pm: ‘I am expected to work 24/7’
What do you do when your workplace doesn’t respect your boundaries? It can be tough to draw boundaries in your work life, but it’s an essential skill. If you don’t do it early and often, you might end up in a situation where you’re being taken advantage of. They get used to a certain level …
Seguir leyendo Boss constantly contacts employee for extra work after hours despite employee having grad school classes from 6pm-10pm: ‘I am expected to work 24/7’
Company Ignores Applicant for 4 Weeks After Interview, Chews Him Out When He Takes Another Offer in the Meantime
You can’t ghost someone and then get mad when they move on. This is just as true in business relationships as it is in personal ones. The job interview process can be long and frustrating, and there often isn’t room to ask for what you want. So many people apply to the same jobs that …
Seguir leyendo Company Ignores Applicant for 4 Weeks After Interview, Chews Him Out When He Takes Another Offer in the Meantime
Company forces remote employees to return to the office 5 days/week, charges them $80 for parking: ‘Employees don’t get any kind of discount’
Should you have to pay for parking at your office? Working means sacrifice. It’s a sacrifice of your time and energy, in exchange for money at its most basic level. When you start at a new job, there are lots of sacrifices you have to make in order to remain in good standing. Should your …
Seguir leyendo Company forces remote employees to return to the office 5 days/week, charges them $80 for parking: ‘Employees don’t get any kind of discount’
‘Does anyone else feel weird about being too efficient at their job?’: Employee finishes day’s work in 3 hours, wonders what they should do for the rest of the 5
What happens when you’re too efficient at your job? There is a fine line between being efficient and being too efficient. You want to be good at your job, but if you’re too good at your job, then you might be left with more work and the same amount of pay. When you’re just starting …
Seguir leyendo ‘Does anyone else feel weird about being too efficient at their job?’: Employee finishes day’s work in 3 hours, wonders what they should do for the rest of the 5
Content creator gets fired and replaced by an AI; company numbers start to go wrong, so they offer to rehire her, expecting to pay her less: ‘So they failed, learned nothing and came back expecting a discount’
Everything was normal until they offered to pay her less This story’s continuity was completely normal at first. A company fires an employee (or all of them), replaces them with a bot, and then everything starts going wrong, and they come back looking to rehire the employee they initially let go. Believe it or not, …
Seguir leyendo Content creator gets fired and replaced by an AI; company numbers start to go wrong, so they offer to rehire her, expecting to pay her less: ‘So they failed, learned nothing and came back expecting a discount’
Employee shows up 9.5 hours early to his shift after mind-altering power nap: ’Yeah… I’m going back home. Clearly I’ve done enough for today’
The employee who redefined showing up early I have read this story a couple of times, and I still can’t decide whether this is a great way to start your day or a terrible one. He posted it on the /tifu subreddit, and I mean, he did, but it kinda worked in his favour? Think …
Seguir leyendo Employee shows up 9.5 hours early to his shift after mind-altering power nap: ’Yeah… I’m going back home. Clearly I’ve done enough for today’
Workplace charges employees $8 every time they forget their security badge: ‘I would never turn it back in’
Should you pay that much to work your own job? It’s the little things in life that have a way of getting you down. Sometimes it’s not the huge, life-altering stuff that has a way of getting in your head and slowly eroding your sanity, it’s the small things that add up over time. You …
Seguir leyendo Workplace charges employees $8 every time they forget their security badge: ‘I would never turn it back in’
Boss threatens to fire new employee for refusing to use their personal phone for work: ‘HR is on the phone for you’
Would you use your personal phone for business? Sometimes your job asks you to do things that you’re not comfortable with. There are often sacrifices you have to make in order to keep your position and to maintain your good standing in the office. But you don’t have to completely go against everything you believe …
Seguir leyendo Boss threatens to fire new employee for refusing to use their personal phone for work: ‘HR is on the phone for you’