‘What is a [bad] habit that people in their 20s think is harmless?’: People +40 discuss things young adults need to start doing to avoid setting themselves up for failure

María Cetra

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Legal assistant refuses to apologize for pushing back when a coworker demands she drop a client mid-call and then skipping an unpaid Saturday event

Etai Eshet

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Front desk employee uses her abilities to separate the rooms far away for a family that reserved 2 just because they were mean: ‘We booked these rooms expecting them to be next to each other!!!’

María Cetra

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Instead of firing employee, manager demands that they resign and offers a good reference in exchange, employee claims: ‘I don't know if I can trust her’

Bar Mor Hazut

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Maliciously talkative coworker finally gets payback for her actions: ‘Lunch break she's pacing round the building on her phone, talking, or sitting in her car, talking. But yesterday. yesterday she finally got what she deserved’

Olivia Arocena

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Parents are leaving their children up to their aunt to care for a few days, she asked for all their information, which made them realize how little they had organized that part of their life: ‘Felt like a kid on an adult's body.’

María Cetra

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Manager ignores employee's written requests, then blames everyone else for work mistakes, leading employee to confront him in front of client: ‘I stopped letting vague instructions become my responsibility’

Bar Mor Hazut

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Ex-MOH who used to complain about expensive wedding trips and parties gets engaged and changes her personality completely: ‘Now she is getting married and is asking for crazy amounts of time and money’

Olivia Arocena

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Wisconsin renter loses power after new landlord forgets to set up the duplex's utility account, then claims he thought it was the tenant's responsibility: 'I have a lot of units, I forgot'

Cata Holmes

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Supervisor discovers friend secretly hired a freelancer to do her job and gave them access to confidential company data, reports her after she refuses to come clean: 'Our friend group is calling me a traitor.'

Inés Soubrie

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Employee gets laid off due to extreme body odor: ‘I genuinely felt bad for him. He had only just started the job and hadn’t really had the chance to show what he could contribute. You could tell he felt embarrassed and ashamed’

Olivia Arocena

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A company decided to pass on a new rule: no more meetings before noon, though some were skeptical, it worked out: ‘Turns out a lot of "quick syncs" existed because they were easy to schedule, not because they were needed.’

María Cetra

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'Quitting and not regretting it': Coffee shop manager takes employee off schedule after claiming they're not “excited to work”, employee resigns immediately

Bar Mor Hazut

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Woman asks vegetarian partner to consider "Flexitarisnism" while traveling, partner gets mad, wonders if asking was a mistake: 'I very much view the world through food.'

Inés Soubrie

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Employee handles his resignation notice to his boss, but he said he needed a week to "let him know his thoughts." After a while, they ended up meeting, and the boss said: '[he] decided he was still upset and disappointed, but he had my replacement ready '

María Cetra

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New legal assistant realizes experienced coworker has been quietly setting them up to fail for months, all while looking like the most helpful person in the office: 'Nothing she does is overt enough to report'

Cata Holmes

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