Workplace unicorns

Let this story serve as yet another reminder to never give your employer the benefit of the doubt if they are not going to reciprocate. Here, we have an employee who worked for over three years as a traveling supervisor and had seen the once-gracious company bought out by a larger corporation, after which the treatment of employees gradually worsened over time. When the Redditor decided to finally put in his two weeks' notice, his boss forced him to pay for his own travel to get home. Now, many…

Not your cake

One would hope that most managers who work with student workers would be sympathetic to how challenging it can be to balance education with employment. Let’s face the facts: if it weren’t necessary, most folks wouldn’t take on all that responsibility. And yet, there are still far too many employers in this day and age who become far too concerned with their own insular experience that they are then unable to step outside of themselves and understand how hard things may be for their student work…

HULK SMASH

Time to give those Sunday scaries a run for their money (or at least try our best).

Most employees have had to deal with someone ever so slightly senior at the company thinking they are in charge of them. For those of you who have seen “Bridget Jones’s Diary,” yes, we are talking about the Perpentuas of the world. Here, we have an office Karen who assumed her coworker was her assistant and who frequently took credit for her coworker’s projects. This ultimately did not bother the coworker as she was confident in her work and knew that the real folks in charge were well aware of…

No misunderstandings here...

Lawsuit otw

There are a number of reasons why HR might reprimand you for something… but this seems a bit far-fetched. Here, we have an employee who, like any other twenty-something employee in the 2020s, has a personal social media account where they post photos with friends and the occasional relatable memes. This past weekend, the employee shared a relatively benign photo of their friend group grabbing drinks on a Saturday night. There was nothing inappropriate documented that could come back to bite the…

Karma comes back around

Let's make one thing clear – the "dream job" does not exist. Nothing can ever amount to what you dream of, and nothing is perfect. There is always a catch or something that you will have to settle for, and honestly? That is perfectly okay. When you look for a job, some recommend creating a pros and cons list for every role you think of accepting, so you can navigate between the good and the bad of all your options. If it is not already obvious, you should not take a job with more cons than pros…

This is definitely not the tone you want to set before firing a bunch of people on your team! This boss had the audacity to send a team-wide message to boost everyone's morale by including the overused colloquial statement, “just remember that in da clurrb, we all fam.” Yes, it was written that exact way, and no, this message did not get the intended reaction from its audience. Instead, this toxic boss's employees responded with confusion, frustration, and eye-rolls about how outdated and despe…

Everyone remembers their first real job, the place that kickstarted their career and made them who they are today. And since everyone remembers that experience, no matter how much time passed, it shouldn't be hard to be nice to those who are just starting out. If every boss would recall their first week at their job, they would remember how stressful it is to prove themselves, and they would remember how important it is to have the right guidance, to have someone who can train you and help you…

There's something universally awkward about office parties—whether it's the forced mingling, the questionable food choices, or that one coworker who takes "open bar" a little too literally. Most of us just try to blend into the crowd, avoid making eye contact with our managers, and hope the night ends without too many cringe-worthy moments. But for one unfortunate team, a party to celebrate an employee's resignation was nothing more than a "social experiment."

It seems like the higher you climb in the corporate world, the less work you actually do. Otherwise, how can you explain that every CEO in the world seems to do absolutely nothing in their own company? They come to the office twice a week at best, wander around for an hour, have a meeting or two with the people who actually have work, and then go home. What is even more annoying, is that those types of bosses have no appreciation for the people beneath them, who work extremely hard to keep the…