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Do we have to rebrand our lives now? Boundaries between work and personal life have become diffuse, to say the least.

‘Everyone is acting like this is cute and wholesome. I don’t want to do it’: Company asks employees to submit a video of their home-office setup for publicity

The thing is, we’re right in the middle of a profound change, so I don't think we can expect everything to be settled and working soon. We still have many things to adjust and change. At first, companies wer

‘If this building blew up in flames it would still be a far second to the least hectic day at my old job’: Ex-marketing employee resigns and gets a ‘simple office job’ to get away from stress

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Boss continually contacts employee after work hours with non-emergency asks: 'I'm muting her number going forward'

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'It all started when...': Pour a dash of these laughs into your morning meme coffee for extra energy

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At this point, we should create a LinkedIn dictionary I’ve been saying this for the longest time: I think employers might have good intentions when titling their job offers like this, such as trying to make potential workers feel more important, but the problem is, nobody understands what they’re applying for anymore,

‘A job title should tell people what your job is. If it needs an entire paragraph to translate it into plain English, then it has failed as a title’: Employee reflects on LinkedIn’s cryptic titles for completely normal jobs

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Is it delusional to want work conditions to change in this day and age? If we received a reward for hard work, most of us would most certainly make the effort, but in most cases, that’s definitely not the case.

‘They effectively have negative incentive to work. They’ll only be punished for work’: Reflections on why Gen Z has gone the minimum effort route

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Massage client gets upset after therapist follows her exact orders, accuses her of a lack of customer service, therapist smiles: ‘The session is paid for already’

We all know it: screens are making our attention spans shorter and making us dumber in general. Given the chance, our brains prefer putting in less effort into almost anything. And that’s the main issue: We’re now being given the chance, so it will be incredibly hard to resist, as we are ‘biologically wired’ to prefer saving energy resources.

‘She genuinely does not think for herself anymore, and she has a young daughter who is being raised on ChatGPT’s advice’: Elementary school teacher realizes that principal relies entirely on ChatGPT for education

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HR publishes leaderboard to show how much PTO each employee donated to coworker and shame those who didn't: ‘People who donated 0 had their number highlighted in red’

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Man pranks AI recruiter by spouting nonsense in a job interview: 'Every pharmacist is a hallway'

The employee left his office at 5:00 on the dot, much to his boss's chagrin.

Boss harasses employee for leaving work at 5 PM exactly, claims he's leaving earlier than 5 PM according to her watch: 'It's just breaking my spirit.'

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We have to do something about this; I can’t take it anymore I miss when people had ideas, even bad ideas. I miss when organizing a schedule or a plan was more about thinking and planning, and less about prompting and then not even reading what came out. The ideas AI generates are always bland;

‘Are you talking to me or am I talking to a machine?’: Employee Sends All His Work Messages Using AI, Sparking Hatred Among Coworkers

Are we really that excited to return to the office? Every week, a new scary RTO Reddit story emerges from the internet’s trenches. We’ve finally gotten used to our work-from-home routines, only for them to come and take them away from us.

Employee Doesn’t Know How To Respond to an Overly Excited Email Announcing RTO: ‘I have a whole system at home: two monitors, good headphones, my coffee setup, my dog asleep under my desk. None of that is coming with me’

Is this a process HR initiated or some obscure managerial tactic? Something about this story is fishy. The timing is just off. Everything was going well, and he was receiving very good feedback until he asked for a raise, and suddenly a lot of ‘anonymous negative reviews’ started coming up out of the blue. In an ideal world, the employee could contact HR, and they would protect him or at

Well-reviewed employee is suddenly put on a PIP after asking for a raise: ‘If stepping back wasn't possible, why offer it? And if they simply want me gone, why not fire me?’

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Boss forbids supervisor from eating lunch with his employees because he thinks that socializing with subordinates will compromise work performance: 'I truly have a sick, sociopathic boss.'

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Company refuses to reimburse employee for business travel expenses, claiming they didn't follow policy, leading employee to spend double on the next trip: ‘They paid up’