It's generally expected that you'll do whatever you possibly can to keep your superiors happy—whether it's your boss, teacher, or parents. But should we really be going out of our way to do something for someone who couldn't care less about showing the same respect in return? Normally, when your boss passed you criticism in the workplace, you might become anxious and worried about this. But should you really be? If you're already performing the expectations of your role, why waste the energy? T…

You can definitely be friends with your boss , but when he starts asking for free labor, that's where this employee had to draw the line. This woman writes about her former boss as if he's a great guy, but he sounds like a major pain! U/ShirtSeparate3578 wrote to r/AmItheA**hole about an ongoing issue she's having with her former boss. As she tells it, she was at this job for a decade before leaving — she had to depart since her boss denied her a raise . But she stayed in contact with her boss,…

Negotiating a raise is always a tough conversation. For employees who have a cheapo boss and have been taken advantage of their entire career, it's dang near impossible to get what you deserve when it comes to salary improvement.

It's as if HR has become a parody of itself!

This coworker just might be an infuriating genius!

Working from home has changed the way that businesses operate, but micromanagers everywhere are rolling in their graves over the fact that they can no longer survey their employees like they used to. Micromanaging bosses are absolutely livid that their crew can work from the comfort of their home, proving that they are 10x more productive without middle management watching their every step.

All this over a screw?

This IT worker was tired of being insulted for no reason at all.

Some executives are all about sales, insisting that profits will increase exponentially if they sign on more and more clients. They offer the greased-up salespeople absurd bonuses for signing new clients, at whatever the cost, without bothering to make sure that those contracts are actually going to be serviceable at those rates—or profitable in the long term. And, let me tell you, you don't know pain until you've worked at the servicing end of a company that has made this mistake, impossibly t…

One has to wonder if the boss was willing to take the same pay cut!

When are we going to get the 4 day work week situation dialed in? What will it take to wipe Mondays off the work-week map? It seems like ever since you graduated, you can help but count down the minutes until Friday at 5pm only to waste away 1/3 of your weekend on Sunday afternoons when you're stressing out about starting to work again. It's a vicious cycle. Maybe if you had 3 days to do your weekend chores (party, drink, socialize, vacuum, groceries) you'd be more rejuvenated every week. But n…

Finance is probably one of the least “metal” things out there. In fact, finance workers are probably a direct antithesis of rock and roll singers.

It's never been harder to lie to your employer, thanks to the power of modern tech. But this employee found that out way too late, because they clearly didn't think through the consequences of lying about a car accident . As some folks in the comments reflected, if you needed to be late to work or lie to your boss in the past, it wasn't that difficult. This person, though, didn't count on being fact-checked by a website that tells you where a photo can be found online. When the employee's photo…

There's nothing worse than being uncomfortable at work; that's why you'll never catch me in a suit and tie. That and the fact that copywriting isn't really the right field for dressing to the nines. So I'll rephrase: That's one of the reasons why you'll never catch me in a suit and tie. Imagine being told that you can't do something because “the policy” or SOP only to come to find that it's not actually a written rule at all. The hilarious thing that happens here is how quickly something gets c…

The work culture might be changing these days in a more positive direction, at least in work edict. However, it still has a very long way to go and even when you just think back to the early ‘00s, we were still dealing with some pretty serious injustices in the workplace. For example, how women employees were treated. Harassment aside, they also just weren’t taken seriously. It was extremely unfair and usually ended up with many females quitting or just never getting the justice they deserved.…

Many people during their college years take a job to cover their expenses while they study for their eventual full-time career. For example, you don't need a 4 year degree to wait tables or deliver pizza, so you pick up this kind of service industry job while you continue your education in something that does require multiple years of education like a doctor or lawyer. Yes, that's right, even future lawyers work in service industry while they're in school (except for like rich nepo-babies..). A…