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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’

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’

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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'

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New employee is forced to spend $53 on a surprise birthday party for a mean coworker, when she asks the others to pitch in, no one does: “I hate that this was pushed into me”

Giuliana Tiscioni

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Startup boss demotes new employee in front of their coworkers with no warning: 'I haven't even been here for 2 months, but this is all getting to be a bit too much'

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Couple refuses business partner’s demand to give his wife equal shares and ownership after she originally mocked the business, offering a buyout instead: ‘We could have forced him out’

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Leadership forces all employees back to the office, only to have them Zoom each other from their desks: ‘I should have stayed in my sweatpants at home’

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Worker lands job at employer’s main competitor after being fired when CEO’s decision to use his personal notebook as an official work manual backfires because new unskilled workers can’t follow the handwritten notes

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Company demands employee fix coworker’s mistakes after he does a bad job, but refuses to pay for the extra work, employee responds: ‘I don't have to take on his workload for free’

Giuliana Tiscioni

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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 blocks employee from all workplace channels after receiving their resignation letter and notice, employee stops coming to work: ‘Too bad I'm a coward’