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Brands replace content creators with AI, when numbers tank they try to get creators back with lower pay: 'They are back in my DMs offering 40% less than what they paid me before'

Everything offline is cool right now This is so true. I mean, I got my job online, but that’s beside the point. Most of the jobs I got in my entire life were found outside the internet. And it’s not because the internet didn’t exist

Employee shows proof of why you should stop applying for jobs online: ‘Luck? Maybe idk but it worked for me. I think this approach is worth a try’

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Supervisor demands analyst complete report unpaid on a Saturday, analyst logs in just to CC the VP of the company in his reply—supervisor gets reprimanded, analyst gets 3 hours pay: 'After that, no one ever tried calling me outside of working hours'

Work remotely but do it from the office? Remote jobs have their lights and shadows. Some days you don’t even get out of your pajamas, and you end up feeling like a giant slug. Some days you stop so many times

Boss Demands RTO Then Hosts a Google Meet With Everyone Sitting Right Next To Each Other: ‘We spent forty-five minutes talking to each other through microphones while making awkward peripheral eye contact across our plastic desk dividers’

Where did the habit of having reasonable aspirations go? Some of us only want jobs that pay a normal amount of money and let us check out and go chill at our homes without worrying about anything work-related for the rest of the day. Some of us want to be clerks, cas

Employers Don’t Seem To Hire Normal People With Normal Aspirations Anymore: ‘In a market this crowded, going "above and beyond" has literally become the norm’

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Manager marks 1 minute late as a 'no call no show,' consistently asks for 30 minutes of unpaid labor

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'I hit her with a Gen-Z stare': Boss walks up to employee who's juggling multiple projects and says they're 'not doing enough'

Judging by what this employee said, I don’t see any reason why he thinks he is being monitored, but I see reasons to think he is overreacting. Frequent or recurring 1-on-1s are totally normal, and might be a part of ‘office culture ’.

Employee is alarmed due to coworker arranging a recurrent 1 on 1 meeting with him: ‘I feel uncomfortable like I'm being monitored because I did something wrong. Is this normal or is this weird?’

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Boss hints that coworker is about to be fired, coworker is racked with guilt wondering if they should say something: 'She just bought a new home'

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Boss chews out employee for not inviting their coworkers to their birthday brunch: 'Haha are you joking'

The classical ‘Petty employee turned CEO’ story that never occurs At some point in our careers, we’ve all had that one coworker

Employee asks for tips on how to deal with a coworker who constantly reports everyone else’s slip-ups: ‘They turn every little thing into a investigation, escalations and somehow remember every mistake you’ve made’

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Man arrives to a job interview 7 minutes early but leaves after he’s made to wait almost half an hour to be interviewed: ‘When it got to around 27 minutes, I decided my time was more important than that’

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Manager realizes his best employee has completely changed his attitude after RTO: ‘He has now become a strict 9-5 employee who does nothing that isn’t his written task from me’

The ability to receive feedback doesn’t come easily to everybody. Some people have learned the skill very early on, for example, in school or in any activity involving teamwork and a certain degree of hierarchy. Still, e

Employee asks for tips on how to correctly receive feedback so he doesn’t lose his next job: ‘I’m a hard worker, but aside from that, I seriously struggle with interpersonal relationships in the workplace’

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AI-generated ideas all sound the same; it doesn’t matter if they come from the free version of the LLM’s or if they come from the most perfectly designed model to date, or whether you’ve prompted it to exhaustion. They sound bland and style-less, especially if you are looking for them to

Employee considers leaving his job due to overly confident coworker’s attitude: ‘AI gives you generic answers based on patterns, and this guy takes those answers, shares them with us like they’re some groundbreaking strategy’

Having a 9-5 can drain you if you don’t know how to handle it; you can spend your entire life stuck inside that loop, so it’s mandatory to search for alternatives to make your life enjoyable again. Some jobs are too tiring, and the only alternative is to change, but other jobs are ok, and what needs changing is our routine or our attitude for the rest of the day.

Employee asks for tips to overcome the bad feeling from a soul-sucking 9-5 job: ‘I end up rotting away in bed, doom scrolling on TikTok and Instagram reels because I finally feel let go from the chains of an 8-hour office day.’