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Two coworkers, one of whom keeps telling the other, in no uncertain terms, that she stinks. LIterally.

Coworker accuses employee of smelling bad, despite her doctor telling her that she doesn't have a smell: 'I take great pains to NOT smell.'

At this point, we should create a LinkedIn dictionary I’ve been saying this for the longest time: I think employers might have good intentions when titling their job offers like this, such as trying to make potential workers feel more important, but the problem is, nobody understands what they’re applying for anymore,

‘A job title should tell people what your job is. If it needs an entire paragraph to translate it into plain English, then it has failed as a title’: Employee reflects on LinkedIn’s cryptic titles for completely normal jobs

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Employee quits job after finding out their direct report was making more than them: ‘I brought it up to management and was brushed off’

Is it delusional to want work conditions to change in this day and age? If we received a reward for hard work, most of us would most certainly make the effort, but in most cases, that’s definitely not the case.

‘They effectively have negative incentive to work. They’ll only be punished for work’: Reflections on why Gen Z has gone the minimum effort route

We all know it: screens are making our attention spans shorter and making us dumber in general. Given the chance, our brains prefer putting in less effort into almost anything. And that’s the main issue: We’re now being given the chance, so it will be incredibly hard to resist, as we are ‘biologically wired’ to prefer saving energy resources.

‘She genuinely does not think for herself anymore, and she has a young daughter who is being raised on ChatGPT’s advice’: Elementary school teacher realizes that principal relies entirely on ChatGPT for education

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Customer service rep decides to quit after being publicly scolded by boss for being 10 minutes late to a weekly meeting because they stayed on a call to resolve an upset customer’s issue, takes a full-time second job instead

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46-year-old boss begs and threatens 30-year-old woman not to resign, says he trusts her more than his wife and offers a raise, then returns to his usual behavior

We have to do something about this; I can’t take it anymore I miss when people had ideas, even bad ideas. I miss when organizing a schedule or a plan was more about thinking and planning, and less about prompting and then not even reading what came out. The ideas AI generates are always bland;

‘Are you talking to me or am I talking to a machine?’: Employee Sends All His Work Messages Using AI, Sparking Hatred Among Coworkers

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Boss offers employee their job back after firing them, employee refuses when they discover the pay is lower: ‘I was making [more] when I started five years ago’

Are we really that excited to return to the office? Every week, a new scary RTO Reddit story emerges from the internet’s trenches. We’ve finally gotten used to our work-from-home routines, only for them to come and take them away from us.

Employee Doesn’t Know How To Respond to an Overly Excited Email Announcing RTO: ‘I have a whole system at home: two monitors, good headphones, my coffee setup, my dog asleep under my desk. None of that is coming with me’

Is this a process HR initiated or some obscure managerial tactic? Something about this story is fishy. The timing is just off. Everything was going well, and he was receiving very good feedback until he asked for a raise, and suddenly a lot of ‘anonymous negative reviews’ started coming up out of the blue. In an ideal world, the employee could contact HR, and they would protect him or at

Well-reviewed employee is suddenly put on a PIP after asking for a raise: ‘If stepping back wasn't possible, why offer it? And if they simply want me gone, why not fire me?’

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Two-person office forced to use a fancy phone system with hold music, so workers play the owner’s son-in-law’s terrible CD as muzak, and the requirement gets dropped as soon as a VP hears it

New issues arising with the AI revolution. I get it; it’s a terrible position to be in. Sometimes we reveal things accidentally that compromise other people’s work.

Employee accidentally exposes coworkers who were using AI to respond to emails and confidently providing wrong answers: ‘There's definitely a "well look who's the favorite now" vibe from a couple people’

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Employee gets blamed for boss's poor performance after boss disappears for 6 weeks, employee collects evidence to show HR: ‘I had not heard one complaint’

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Company announces RTO, requires four in-office days, eliminates assigned desks, and tells workers to find whatever seat they can while executives keep empty private offices

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’