Living, working—merely existing in a negative environment is enough to cause you a miserable existence. Over time, the repeated accusations and insulations of wrongdoing eat away at you, eroding what optimism and willpower you have remaining to make positive changes for yourself. The problem with this is that it includes sapping the energy you might have to leave the toxic situation yourself, creating a vicious cyclical feedback loop that drains you of your life force. Though it might not seem…

Moving up the chain in any workplace comes with a certain amount of sacrifice, as you get more responsibility, your ability to simply log off and not worry about the fate and trajectory of your work slowly decreases. Sure, you might get less productive work done every day due to all the oversight and meetings, but the responsibility rests a heavy weight on your shoulders all the same. Of course, you get paid more, too, and that has its own benefits. But, there reaches a point where more and mor…

"You don't interrupt your enemy when they're making a mistake."

When you're planning the biggest event of your life, what is possibly a once-in-a-lifetime event, it's important to make sure you actually get to the planning part of it and not just leave essential parts to chance… this, coming from someone who is notoriously poor at planning beyond the end of the week. If you want to go on a trip that is going to require you to take time off work, you should probably make sure you request the time off work first so that you're not stuck with an already booked…

Whatever happened to boundaries? In this day and age, it's so easy to respond to an email or message from your boss outside of work hours. Sometimes, there is an emergency and you have to engage. Hopefully, you're getting paid for those all-hands-on-deck moments. However, if your boss is the kind of person who needs to know where you are at all times, that's a different story. Here, we have an employee who is always timely and almost never late, yet their boss seems to be paranoid about their t…

Imagine starting a new job and thinking everything is finally going to be OK work-wise until you discover a scathing resignation email from before your time. This employee at a call center stumbled upon an epic company-wide email sent from a former employee. This guy managed to call out salary discrepancies, poor management style, a backstabbing coworker, and underpaid, under-appreciated employees in one message for everyone to witness. The best part is that despite the fact that this new hire…

This horrible boss is well overdue for his comeuppance. After he pressured his employee to cut his paternity leave to a mere two weeks, he almost did not pay him for that time off. When he finally did pay the employee, he told the new parent to keep this information to himself so as to not convince other employees to "have children.' Talk about selfish and outdated! However, the conflict between this Redditor and his boss only begins there. After learning that he qualified for more paternity le…

It's often said that we accuse others of the thing we're most guilty of, our own guilt subconsciously directing our thoughts in that direction. For instance, your boss who is constantly hounding you about your hours and accusing you of having not worked them is probably not working their full hours themself, either slacking off at their desk or making excuses for leaving early that they wouldn't accept from anyone else, amounting to hours of time over the course of a month. This, of course, tak…

Keeping a friendly rapport with your supervisors and fellow employees is crucial if you want to progress in the company. Having said that, is this truly a place you want to be if a manager is continuously criticizing you? The story below is an account of a frustrated employee. The original poster (OP) worked on a video production shoot. At first, everything was well as he enjoyed working the set and made a good impression. But things turned sour when a few weeks passed and he was still unpaid.…

After putting in countless hours of extra work on a big project, this employee thought a promotion would be his ticket to finally being compensated for all th e extra effort. His managers gave him plenty of praise, so when the senior-level role opened up, he threw his hat in the ring. But what should have been a reward for his hard work quickly turned into a nightmare. After multiple rounds of interviews and weeks of waiting, he landed the promotion—only to find out there wouldn’t be a raise to…

Being a team player means supporting your coworkers when it's appropriate. It does not mean doing their job for them. Here, we have a fully remote Karen coworker who had the audacity to ask an employee, who had to work in-person every day, to print multiple PDFs and scan them as one document for her. Now, the purpose of this was to combine these PDF documents into one, a task the employee pointed out could be via Adobe. He even wrote out clear instructions for how to do this from home, but the…

Imagine working from home but having your boss look at you the entire time. It kind of beats the purpose of remote work, doesn't it? Those days offer employees some freedom to fulfill their responsibilities at their own pace and under their own preferred conditions. Having your manager on Zoom monitoring your progress during your entire work day is no different than having them breathe down your neck in the office. This employee worked for a startup and helped build it from the ground up. Thing…

If the horrible bosses of the world cannot respect their employees' vacation policies, then they should not be entitled to any vacation either. Here, we have a seasoned HVAC technician who had been with the company since its early days and who always spent a considerable amount of his already limited PTO on the week after Labor Day. This was a time where he and his wife could send their kids off to school and plan for the fall. Unfortunately, when the company was sold to a larger monopoly, many…

No one likes to be told what to do, especially after working hours. In theory, it's simple to remember that after your employee has clocked out, they are in no way entitled to follow your direction as a manager. However, every so often, we come across a story where someone takes that mentality a bit too far. In this instance , we have an employee who was strictly told when he was first onboarded to never take on extra responsibilities after he clocks out. That's a nice, mutually beneficial work…

"Craziest part about it is he’s going to be gone for a week despite complaining about availability issues."

With the continued rise of video-centric social media platforms in conjunction with the ever-increasing presence of video recording devices, it seems that any etiquette there might have been surrounding not recording videos of strangers or acquaintances and posting them online is virtually nonexistent. The desire for views, clicks, and fake internet points has increasingly encouraged bystanders to whip out their phones and start recording whenever something “interesting” occurs. Turning unhelpf…