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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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‘Um, no. You decided to be petty, so I’ll be gone in 2 days’: Boss backtracks and begs employee to work through his two weeks’ notice after telling him to leave in 2 days

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Job cancels PTO that employee of 15 years scheduled in order to go on his honeymoon: 'Should I quit?'

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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?’

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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?'

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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’

Sometimes being honest works against us I can’t believe this employee wrote an entire post without realizing he is the one who’s in the wrong. I can’t believe that being morally correct isn’t always the best. Being honest is absolutely a virtue, but one has to have enough malice to understand whether it works in our favour in a specific scenario.

Man tracks how much time his job actually takes, and it’s far less than expected: ‘I thought maybe this would finally start a conversation about shorter weeks or at least letting us work from home those days’

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Job deducts $37 per month from an employee's paycheck for meals, even though the employee brings his lunch every day: 'I'm still at the point where $37 a month actually matters.'

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Which came first, the chicken or the egg? This story’s depiction of management reasoning is way beyond my comprehension. I get that you’re mad because you got a 1-star review

Woman reports that her coworker showed up 30 minutes late, and management blames her for the fallout: ‘They figured the whole thing was my fault for disclosing that my coworker was late and was the person responsible for the 1 star review’

I’ve seen variations of this play out time and time again. Whether it’s upper management asking their employees to track how many hours their work actually takes, with the secret intention of making them prove

Employee realizes that management values teams that look stressed over ones that deliver: ‘I spent two years building a healthy operational system, only to learn that executives reward visible panic over competence’

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Boss demands employee show up 1 hour earlier unpaid, sends an AI-generated message to motivate them: 'You have the potential to do great things'

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We all understand that a benefit can be a little exaggerated in a job offer, but a straight-up lie is a little bit more complicated I guess this bold statement the company

Employee only realized what unlimited PTO really meant once he was already working for the company: ‘They said unlimited and “true” unlimited, that most people take around 6 weeks off a year’

I’ve talked about corporate jargon before, but this takes it to a completely different level What makes remarks like this so disrespectful is that you know they hold a much deeper, personal meaning, but they are expressed in such a dry, professional, and seemingly assertive way that you are forced to smile while, at the same time, you’re being openly insulted. Executive presence is nothing more than a value judgment based on the way you present yours

Managers review employee, saying he lacks “executive presence”, for things he did during three prior meetings: ‘I wrote all three down with what actually happened in each, using my notes and my calendar’