FAIL Blog - Page 36 - Work Life and Social Dilemmas - Employment, Life, Work, Culture - Cheezburger

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Employer Cuts Overachieving Employee’s Pay in Half When They Switch Them From Flat Rate to Hourly Pay— I Work Fast and Efficient and Can Get Most Jobs Finished in Half to 3/4 of the Allotted Time

Upper management apparently lives in the clouds, like they don’t understand normal earthly rules or needs; they don’t care about our silly little goals or our silly little surpassed objectives. They need us to be present at every single pitch about granola bars or new policies over restrooms. The work doesn’t matter anymore; it’s

Director tells manager he’s “failing at culture’ because he gave his team a day off after completing an important project: ‘Apparently, giving my team a break is a "red flag" for accountability’

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‘[She said] I was lazy and acting tired’: Massage therapist enforces a no-overtime policy with an entitled client, she responds with a texting tantrum and gets herself blocked

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Supermarket Manager Calls 20-Year-Old Employee Demanding He Show Up for His Shift, Except He Never Worked There Having Declined an Earlier Job Offer There After a Chaotic Interview—I Don’t Think I Want That Minimum Wage Paycheck

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‘The interview will not be happening’: Manager refuses to interview job candidate after she arrives an hour early for interview and demands to be seen immediately, she throws a tantrum in response

Giuliana Tiscioni

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Entitled neighbor demands control over the neighborhood’s parking and social life, leading residents to take legal action

Giuliana Tiscioni

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26-year-old employee was told by a boss that he has to have a doctor's note to miss work when he's sick, so he started to get 4 days' rest instead: 'They can give me the 1 or 2 days I ask for, or they can give me the week the doc gives me.'

Breaking up in your twenties is one thing; in your thirties, another; in your forties, another, but at 68? That’s wild, and I’m totally here for it; it’s never too late to change your life and try new stuff. I suppose marriage at that age is also about helping each other with tasks that were much easier when you’re young but

68-year-old man wonders how to properly break up his 35-year-long marriage: ‘I don’t want to hurt her but I don’t think I can stay. This is going to be life altering for both of us’

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Could it be that they were using their age to take advantage of this young woman? Or was she just petty and should’ve given them her seat? I think both things can be true at once, lol. What I don’t understand is why this moral issue stayed with her forever; they were just some annoying elderly couple. I know I woul

Woman yells at two elderly passengers over a train seat: ‘They both started yelling, and I yelled back. I also told them it wasn't right for two people to gang up on one young woman travelling alone’

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‘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

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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

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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!!!’

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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’

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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’

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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.’

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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’