The corporate world is known for its intense rivalry. Therefore, regardless of how absurd they may seem, following business traditions is necessary if one wants to climb up the corporate ladder. The story below is an account of a confused employee. The original poster (OP) returns from his lunch break to find an email from his boss. According to the email, arriving late is considered disrespectful and will not be accepted. The email also includes time stamps to substantiate the previously state…

This employee's final two weeks on the job may have been an ordeal, but at least it ended on a triumphant note. He was let go from his company and tasked with training his replacement, two well-connected employees who were extremely lazy because they knew their jobs were safe. Unfortunately, the Redditor couldn't simply refuse this final task because he needed a strong recommendation from his employer before moving on, so he did his best to give the new hires the play-by-play when it came to th…

Higher education is interesting in the sense that it can mean wildly different things because—well, people are wildly different themselves. We perceive, retain, and apply information completely differently from one another. No two people are the same. While holding an advanced degree can mean you're intelligent, it doesn't necessarily mean that, and it's usually the people who insist that they're better and smarter than everyone else because of their degree who fall into that “not necessarily”…

Working for a rich boss does not mean you also have to work for his entitled nepo baby son! These construction workers were tasked with working on a site for a fancy hotel owned by a relatively kind, albeit clueless man. We say that he was oblivious because he seemed completely unaware of the fact that when his entitled son occasionally took over for him, he got on a high horse and demanded far more than what the construction workers' job actually was. He made them fetch coffee for him and esse…

Productivity isn't linear, and as long as the expected output in a workplace environment is achieved, shouldn't employees be left alone to complete their tasks and responsibilities according to their own pace and work ethic? Unfortunately, most micromanagers out there would agree to disagree. Rather than provide, at the very least, the illusion of freedom in the workplace, they often choose to enforce how things “need” to be done. Of course, “need” is a very relative term here, and the person d…

Some people who are in the process of hiring seem to think that this albeit temporary position of power gives them the right to treat job candidates like garbage. Thankfully, this particular candidate had enough of that kind of nonsense. Let's start with the fact that they were asked to fill out forms with the same information they had completed in the initial job application, which is quite simply a waste of everyone's time. The job candidate was lucky enough not to be in a desperate situation…

The differences between loyalty to a workplace with older and younger generations always boggle the mind. The fact that many people over the age of 50 have happily committed to the same workplace for decades, sometimes without so much as a raise, is crazy, especially when younger people have such a short attention span they often can't commit to finishing a 2-hour long movie. My mom, for example, has just celebrated her 30th anniversary with the company she works for, and I had 3 different jobs…

New bosses love to bring in new ideas, barreling into situations they know next to nothing about and waving their authority in order to make broad-sweeping changes that they say are for the better. Meanwhile, everyone else glances sideways at each other and braces for the worst. You can probably see where this is going, as it always does with these types of situations: short-sighted cost-cutting hamstringing vital operations that only cost the company more in the long run when everything goes b…

Imagine going through a strenuous interview process after months of searching and finally, you get the offer you have been hoping for… that is, until said offer is cruelly taken away from you. This job candidate had fully put in his two weeks' notice when the offer was suddenly rescinded. So, he did what any frustrated job seeker would do: he wrote a strongly worded Glassdoor review and made sure to give them a piece of his mind. Not soon after that, the recruiter reached out not to apologize f…

Would you ever CC your boss's boss on an email? It's a bold move to make! This person, u/ShamyJane, was just utterly fed up with their boss's unfair behavior. By the time they wrote him and his boss an email, they must've lost all faith in his abilities to lead. It's a plead from the employee to the boss to please do something to change the working environment! It seems like the original poster only did this out of desperation… and a desire to see him get what he deserved for being so impolite…

Every business owner had to deal at least once in their career with clients who disappeared without paying for the service they got. Some cases end with a happy ending, with the owner managing to find the client and get them to pay, but other cases remain unsolved, which means the owner never receives the money they were owed. This leads some business owners to find other ways to get back their money's worth, even if it means unleashing their most petty selves. Much like the owner in this Reddi…

You'll repeatedly encounter people who think they know better than you, even when it comes to the responsibilities of their own job. Most upper managers have this cynical view that their subordinates are just slack-jawed lackeys without a single decent thought. They probably think that whatever job it is their subordinates are doing, anyone could do, completely blind to the fact that this single employee is pulling more weight than anyone else in the organization—including them. Heck, there are…

It turns out that if you tell a contract worker to work fewer hours, they'll… do exactly that. So it's surprising that this client was under the impression that she was getting more for her money after trying to bully this worker. U/rentacle couldn't wait to share her malicious compliance story of “corporate stupidity” with the world.

Serious workers don't play about their vacation time . It's not like most of us just love working ourselves to the bone. To be fair, a lot of people love their jobs, and many will stay at the same company for decades. It's great to get into a rhythm of working until you start to feel those signs of burnout, and then having the luxury of taking a week or two off . Those two weeks can make a huge difference: spending time with family and friends, traveling, or even just relaxing and sleeping in c…

Every person who has ever worked in IT or Tech Support knows that having sharp 'people skills' is just as important as understanding computers and technology. Every day, those employees have to deal with people having technological issues, so they need to know not only how to handle the problem, but also how to handle the people with that problem. That can get incredibly tricky, as people are not at their best when they are having issues, and many simply don't want to learn when their issues ha…

We all know that unlimited PTO is, to put it mildly, not what it sounds like. Unlimited PTO might be better than having a set number of minimal vacation time, but it's like when you order an item online and expect something grandiose, only to receive something nice but still not exactly what was advertised. Sure, it's still better than what you had before, but it's not as good as it looked online. Here, we have an employee whose unlimited PTO request was denied by their boss, who had decided th…