Privacy at work is an interesting concept. Obviously, you’re entitled to a certain amount of it no matter what. You don’t sign away all your rights when you sign up for a new job. But you also have to learn the new rules around privacy concerning your job. If you work for someone else, they …
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HR employee confides in boss about salary dissatisfaction, finds out she documented their conversations: ‘The stuff she wrote? Some of it isn’t even what I said’
A lesson that almost all employees have to learn at some point is that the majority of the time, your boss doesn’t want to be your friend. Even if they are the type to cozy up to their coworkers and organize endless teambuilding activities, the quarterly targets and company interests are almost always going to …
Seguir leyendo HR employee confides in boss about salary dissatisfaction, finds out she documented their conversations: ‘The stuff she wrote? Some of it isn’t even what I said’
Girlfriend in her 20s tells boyfriend it’s ‘lazy’ to want to retire at age 60: ‘What are you gonna do for the last 20 years of your life?’
Everyone has different visions of how they’d like their future to go. We all have different dreams and fantasies about what we’d like to do when we get older. I picture myself as an eccentrically-dressed old woman who has stopped caring about which patterns match and if that dress is too sheer to wear in …
Seguir leyendo Girlfriend in her 20s tells boyfriend it’s ‘lazy’ to want to retire at age 60: ‘What are you gonna do for the last 20 years of your life?’
Off-duty conflict resolution specialist on vacation is amazed by flight attendant’s de-escalation skills with frustrated passengers: ‘Ma’am… You [are] a masterclass in kindness!’
It’s that time of the year—vacation time! Where are you going to go to this year? A road trip to aunt Sabrina’s lake house in the state over? Or a flight to somewhere new and exciting! If you have the means, you should definitely fly somewhere fun. Sure, there are many horror stories of people …
Seguir leyendo Off-duty conflict resolution specialist on vacation is amazed by flight attendant’s de-escalation skills with frustrated passengers: ‘Ma’am… You [are] a masterclass in kindness!’
‘Unless you’re getting paid OT, don’t work 12 hour days’: Company fires employee, forces coworker to take on 2x their work for no pay increase
Nobody likes to be undervalued, especially at work. Odds are, you bring a lot to the table when it comes to your job. You put in your all every day and sometimes even go above and beyond the call of duty. You realize your skills and you’re good at implementing them, and you have satisfaction …
Seguir leyendo ‘Unless you’re getting paid OT, don’t work 12 hour days’: Company fires employee, forces coworker to take on 2x their work for no pay increase
HR retaliates at employee’s boyfriend under the guise of them breaking the rules, girlfriend suggests she’s jealous: ‘It’s pretty evident she no longer likes me’
Romantic relationships and the workplace tend to work best if it’s on television and your names are Jim and Pam. For everyone else, it’s usually a rocky road. There is so much that can go wrong if you date somebody that you work with. It might seem like a good idea in the beginning, but …
Seguir leyendo HR retaliates at employee’s boyfriend under the guise of them breaking the rules, girlfriend suggests she’s jealous: ‘It’s pretty evident she no longer likes me’
‘Lady I work 3 jobs, I serve dozens of customers…’: 20+ Baristas share times random strangers demanded they were ‘regulars’ and how they dealt with them
We all our the main characters in our own journey—this also goes for people working service industry jobs. I know for some people coughKARENScough, they think baristas, servers, hotel staff, etc. are all just born to be NPCs in their entitled little world where the sun revolves around them, but that’s just not how it …
Seguir leyendo ‘Lady I work 3 jobs, I serve dozens of customers…’: 20+ Baristas share times random strangers demanded they were ‘regulars’ and how they dealt with them
Retail worker pretends to not speak English to avoid bad-mannered customer: ‘So I looked her […] in the eye and said, «No hablo inglés»‘
Everyone who has ever worked in a retail environment has tried to avoid a customer. Maybe it’s someone who you knew was going to be a problem, so you snuck off to the supply closet for a second. Some days, you just can’t be bothered to deal with unkind people. This is the terror of …
Seguir leyendo Retail worker pretends to not speak English to avoid bad-mannered customer: ‘So I looked her […] in the eye and said, «No hablo inglés»‘
Entitled shopper demands Instacart driver carry 22 packs of water up 17 flights of stairs for $8 tip, harangues him when he refuses: ‘Do you think it’s legal?’
We live in a time when you can get anything delivered to you at any time. It’s an amazing feat of engineering. But, crucially, we don’t often ask how that stuff gets to us. We don’t tend to question the behind-the-scenes labor it takes to provide the level of convenience we’re so used to. Sure, …
Seguir leyendo Entitled shopper demands Instacart driver carry 22 packs of water up 17 flights of stairs for $8 tip, harangues him when he refuses: ‘Do you think it’s legal?’
Employee is written up for not answering a work text while on vacation: ‘They actually gave him a formal write up for delayed communication’
When you’re on vacation, you’re on vacation. It’s kind of the whole point. Unless you’re a doctor and you’re on the beach relaxing and someone yells, «Is anyone here a doctor?» you’re off the hook for doing whatever it is that you do. You’re off the clock. More than that, you’re off the grid if …
Seguir leyendo Employee is written up for not answering a work text while on vacation: ‘They actually gave him a formal write up for delayed communication’