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‘Why are people this miserable and pathetic?’: Entitled customer yells at a customer service agent for something he couldn’t possibly have influence over

Force majeure This is the typical discordance that emerges when we think about a problem by looking at the bigger picture rather than its every detail. We’d like to think that upper management takes every part of the company into consideration when they make big decisions like laying people off, but sometimes they don’t, and they

Upper management fires 4 employees from the same team without letting their manager know beforehand: ‘Had I been asked I could have pointed leadership to the actual underperformer on my team’

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It’s time to RTO It’s hard to think it’s all for the best when you just signed the lease on an apartment 45 minutes away from the office you now have to return to. Some things we can’t predict, and

Company announces RTO immediately after employee signs a lease on an apartment 45 minutes away from the office: ‘My manager knew I was moving, I told him directly, he said nothing. HR knew, I updated my address in the system’

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Employee identifies $10k pay gap between him and coworker with the same role, boss dangles it in front of him as a bonus

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Potential hire gets rejected from camp counseling job, only to be contacted by boss a week before camp starts, asking about their first shift: ‘I didn't think I got the job’

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Fantasy job search. This employee should’ve gotten a job in acting; the way he pulled a performance and everybody believed it. I’ve exaggerated things on my curriculum when I was young, not to the extent of lying, but there were some exaggerations here and there, and I still didn’t get hired!

Employee lies on his resume and gets hired at a high-paying IT company, and now struggles with his day-to-day and fears yearly evaluation: 'My buddy basically taught me everything I know and helped me learn as I go'

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Boss tells employee who works 65-70 hours/week to take on community service instead when she asks for a raise

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Grandparent refuses to babysit grandchildren during summer break without getting paid, parents claim: ‘You need to step up as a grandparent’

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‘9 to 5, what a way to make a living’: 28 Memes for all the job-hunting people looking for their first work experience

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‘I genuinely feel like I’m watching a real-life Mean Girls spinoff play out in real time’: Employee notices his colleagues are constantly aggressively gossiping about everyone else, and they are also doing it to each other

Was it fate or pure luck? The way the OP narrates the story is a bit messy, but to me, it’s profoundly revealing. It confesses a desire to be rescued from his position without necessarily having t

Underperforming employee covers another position when the worker goes on leave and turns out to be much better at it; another employee wonders if he was also hired for the wrong job: 'There's no analytics-person-goes-on-leave accident coming to rescue me'

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Job applicant attends Zoom interview, realizes interviewers are sharing a screen with messages about them: 'The worst interview of my life so far'

27 cat memes | thumbnail includes one meme and one picture of text including 'I hope this email finds you before I do'

Delightfully Distracting Cat Memes to Look at Instead of Answering Another Work Email

I’ve read this kind of story many times from different angles, but something seems to happen around the quiet workers, or the quiet team members in general. I think it gets especially difficult in places like work because there are many employees, and managers often can’t keep track of everyone. The ones who get noticed are the ones who make themselves noticeable

Manager realizes he is losing a very valuable employee only after she leaves and asks for recommendations to identify “quiet performers” before they walk out: ‘Is it just asking better questions, or is there something structural that actually works?’

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Manager accidentally CC’s employee on an email saying he doesn’t deserve a raise because he’s not a “flight risk,” employee starts silently quitting: ‘[My] trust was actually being quietly exploited, not reciprocated.’

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Workplace Mandates Attendance at All-Day ‘Town Hall’ on 100 Degree Day in Building With No AC