I don't work here, lady!

Everyone has their own style of quitting a dead-end job.

There are the kinds of places where the boss is watching you like a hawk, counting the minutes that you're spending at your desk. Meanwhile, they're going out for a smoke break with their favorite staff, what seems like every five minutes. This is exactly why most places have laws around what breaks an employee is entitled to because even with the laws, too many business owners and managers have their own ideas about when and even how breaks should be taken, whether or not those ideas are align…

I always feel like somebody's watching me

If you've ever seen even one episode of the show Succession, you must have wondered if rich people really do act this way, and if they truly are so detached from the reality of the plain old regular life. To be fair, I am sure some nice billionaires don't allow their money to go up to their heads, but most probably do get numb to other people, and to everyday problems their money easily solves for them. But can we really blame them for it? Well, yes, we surely can. Rich people who completely fo…

"Why office potlucks in the first place? Are not people stressed and stretched to the max?"

The flexibility of working from home is a knife that cuts both ways, especially if you're not careful and diligent with your time. While working from the comfort of your own home and away from pointless and draining conversations in the office, before you know it, you're taking calls in the early morning and late in the evening and working past your scheduled hours more and more often, blurring the line between your working and personal life. To make matters worse, on days when you're sick and…

Let's talk about mandatory, after-hours work events. We all have mixed feelings about them. On one hand, we spend a minimum of 8 hours with the same people at the office, if we're lucky enough, we actually see them as friends, but more often than not, they are simply colleagues. Sure, they might be nice people, but we have no desire to see them after we clock out of the job . Being forced to spend more time with them at another location, is not something many of us appreciate. Once we clock out…

Well, if you're going to complain about it for no reason, why even have access to it??

Something is fishy in this story, and it's not anything to tank lightly… This self-proclaimed fish enthusiast was allowed by their employer to keep a fish tank at their desk, something that brightens up their day, the tank supplied and financed by themself alone. Their coworkers, however, latched on to the idea, proclaiming that it would be more fun to open up the fish tank to everyone and make it a communal office engagement project. Their lack of knowledge and unwillingness to learn about the…

Experience vs. Education

How's that for security?

When management doesn't listen to their employees, karma steps in.

When you are looking for a new job opportunity, everything seems so high stakes, and every small stumble can end up with you losing your one big chance. It mostly feels like you can never make a mistake because hiring managers usually need to sift through hundreds of candidates, so they wouldn't mind letting go of someone even for the smallest of things. However, it is one thing to lose a job prospect because of a mistake you made, it is entirely different to lose it because of a mistake of som…

You can't pick your coworkers, and sometimes, it feels like the universe is playing a cruel trick on you with the folks management decides to hire. Whether you're a new employee facing the harsh reality of your new incompetent coworkers or you're a seasoned vet taking in the absurdity of yet another unfit new hire, you know this struggle a little too well. You might've gotten stuck with the colleague who swoops in at the last second and takes all the credit for your work, or the colleague who t…

Part of every job, no matter what field, is to take part in something companies like to call ‘team building’. It might sound incredibly silly to some people, and it is quite time-consuming, but companies absolutely love to find ways to make the team ‘bond’ and explore skills they would never use on a daily basis. I am a competitive person, and there is something about those team-building exercises that makes me thrive, especially if it involves puzzles and riddles. I enjoy taking charge and lea…