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Coworker takes colleague's ergonomic office chair claiming she needs it more: 'I would never go and take someone else's office chair'

If you look back all the time, you’ll miss what lies ahead Grief is a complicated thing. If you have ever gone through an important loss, like the one the woman who wrote this story went through, you will understand me.

Woman leaves her corporate job to deal with grief and now regrets her decision: ‘[Boyfriend] said that everyone goes through grief yet still shows up for work’

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Moody Monday Cats Who Are One Work Email Away From Calling It Quits

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Company offers employee double their salary to move into their hotel for 6 months, employee hesitates to accept: ‘They don’t want to give me a management title’

18 text pictures, 3 cat pictures | thumbnail includes two pictures of a kitten in an office, and ‘Clark is guilty of disrupting the work environment with excessive smolness!’

'He gets to be our office cat for a while': Coworker rescues kitten from the road next to his office, and his colleagues adopt him as their unofficial mascot while he waits to go live with his rescuer's son

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Sounds like a dream manager to me I don’t know whether the original poster was complaining or what. I don’t see any flaws in his methods; personally, I wish all jobs were like this.

‘Despite what previous management has said, this is not a family. This is a professional company with clear goals that need to be met’: New manager completely changes the company’s rules

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Employee complies with manager's bad instruction, then manager comes back to consult with employee about what to do when his instructions don't work out

Giuliana Tiscioni

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Manager aproves employee's PTO, insists that he be on line anyway, and gives the employee the cold shoulder when he sets the boundary: 'That's how it works here'

Giuliana Tiscioni

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'Is it normal for people to take a screenshot of your direct Teams message, and send it in an email to other people in the company?': Boss sends out screenshot of direct message with employee, employee wonders if it's a breach of privacy

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Small business employee struggles with new AI-obsessed manager, considers quitting when job gets too confusing: ‘He does not want to spend the money on compliant software, so I’m at a loss’

Melissa Knudson

Don’t we communicate frontally anymore? What happened to "Hi, there is something I’ve been wanting to tell you"? Honestly, though. I get that confronting someone about their perfume can be challenging, but involving HR definitely makes it MUCH worse.

Employee keeps getting reported to HR over strong fragrance and doesn’t know where it’s coming from: ‘Since then, I’ve washed all my clothes, washed my hair, and made sure to wear no scent at all’

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What goes around comes around in a different font I have a friend who always says even the smallest things require payback. Yes, he’s petty like that; he needs to get even, and I lowkey think he has a point.

Soon-to-leave employee starts intentionally rage-baiting coworkers: ‘And I encourage anyone reading to stand up for themselves and not let insecure people take their problems out on you’

People still think that working from home means you are not working I know we sometimes work in our pajamas; I know it seems like we’re chilling on the computer, but we are most definitely working. “Just on the computer” transforms cognitively demanding labor into something resembling leisure. It’s not.

Remote employee can’t stop his family from interrupting him during work hours: ‘I have tried the obvious stuff: closed door, calendar blocks, Slack status, headset, and a sign. It helps for a day or two, and then everything drifts back to how it was’

Sometimes you have to accept defeat We can’t pull off a perfect Uno reverse every day; sometimes it goes badly. It’s better to accept defeat than to play dumb. As a society, we have forgotten that it’s noble to admit your own mistakes.

Lazy coworker routinely sleeps 5 hours of her 12-hour shift, new manager photographs her: ‘She sees the phone still in his hands, and puts two and two together. She says, "Did you just take a picture of me while I was unconscious?"’

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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

Giuliana Tiscioni

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Student job bans workers from doing homework during downtime after employee missed a work order, students protest: 'I’m struggling to understand'