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Fast food employee calls in sick 5 times in their first 4 months, manager calls them out: 'He was trying to guilt trip me for following health codes'

Are the anonymous commentators in the room with us? It’s totally understandable that management doesn’t want to give you the names of the people who roasted you anonymously, but at least they can tell you what they said, right?

Management says employee’s rating has dropped due to “anonymous peer evaluation”: ‘I asked if I could at least see the comments, redacted. She said no, that would "compromise the integrity of the process"’

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HR asks employee to document everything a toxic coworker does just to use it against him, as it was concerning his focus in interpersonal conflicts: ‘Now they're using my own records to paint me as the problem’

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Manager threatens to take away 2 week's pay and bonus if employee doesn't disclose the company they're leaving to work for: 'Does she really have the right to withhold money?'

I’m curious whether people who have successfully managed to reduce stress actually walk among us. It seems that everyone who lives a stress-free life is so because they have stepped out of corporate life entirely

Employee Seeks Advice On How to Return to Corporate: ‘I Worked in Corporate for 6 Years and I Can't Anymore. The Sheer Sight of My Dashboard Rattles My Body With Anxiety’

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Unpopular opinion: AI is going to hit a peak and then fade: ‘It just disappears into the background, like electricity or wifi. Nobody says “wow, AI” anymore, the same way nobody says “wow, computer”’

Being decently petty is the best kind of petty Being petty is fun and sometimes very necessary. I always say this, but the petty card should be played only when necessary to send a contundent message that won’t land any other way, and I think this is the perfect example of that.

Employee gives 2 weeks’ notice; boss tells him he can leave in 2 days, not realizing he still had to deliver important reports: ‘They quickly emailed back and said “on second thought, you can stay for the full 2 weeks and get those reports done!”’

We should cultivate the art of accepting and integrating criticism Some forms of criticism arrive at the perfect moment, with the perfect combination of words, and they finally click; something within us changes.

Woman is rejected from a job, but manager adds an extra line to the basic template that changed everything: ‘He replied in two days with two names. one of them went nowhere. the other one was a hiring manager at a company that had not posted anything yet’

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So the entire office should organise itself around Maureen’s paranoia? According to this story, that’s the case. Some people are so lost in their own delusion that they will attribute any action to some secret agenda. Of course, I don’t think we should all walk on eggshells because of people like this, but in this case, I think it’s fair.

Employee gets called out by coworker who believes he only shows up on her floor to give her dirty looks: ‘Me and my partners in crime decided we are going to press this issue to the point of disruption’

Are written updates an advantage or only a different kind of bias? We have to accept that verbal meetings give more influence to those who feel comfortable raising their voice, speaking, and making themselves noticed. Those meetings primarily benefit the socially dominant. Written updates, on the other hand, are more objective, and if everyone writes them, there is no social bias.

Company finds a way to stop rewarding the loudest voice in the room and start rewarding efficiency: ‘It moved the bias from who is quickest in a room to who can describe what they did, and the second one at least correlates with having done something’

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Company mandates return to office with 2 weeks notice, half the team looks for new jobs: 'I have a 90-minute commute each way. That's 3 hours a day. 12 hours a week'

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Man lands a higher-paying job and quickly realizes he needs way more skills to keep it: ‘Turns out I somehow got myself into a role with much more senior expectations than I realized...What is "higher level" and where does one gain this ability?’

Working from home is a blessing and a curse at the same time You’re on your own; no one is there to police what you’re wearing or whether you’ve taken off your pajamas in the last three weeks. You promised it wouldn’t happen to you,

‘WFH Has Made Some Very Weird Habits Feel Completely Normal’: People Share What Strange Habits They Developed While Working Remote Jobs

Some people need clearer boundaries to understand rejection It’s ok; not all of us understand things so quickly. Some of us need very clear words and actions to get the message. Of course, I’m being sarcastic here;

‘He said, “You feel different today,” and asked me to go for a walk. I said I had work, but he literally shut my laptop and made me come’: Woman wonders how to stop her ‘overly friendly’ coworker’s advances

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New work rule doubles employee's commute time home, refuses to let them leave 15 minutes early to avoid this: 'Are we being unreasonable?'

We should take his story as an example or a to-do list for when we find ourselves trapped in a situation like this- when somebody else takes credit for something we did, especially in the workplace or university, for example.

UPDATE on the employee who took credit for his coworker’s project: ‘Apparently my coworker had presented my involvement as occasional support, not me doing significant parts of the work’