'You have no power over me': Retail employee dupes a 'time-thief' manager operating according to a watch set 10 minutes ahead
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by Jesse Kessenheimer
12h ago
Time may be a construct, but it's the same for everybody. We're all bound by the 60 minutes every hour and the 24 hours in a day–and when you're paid by the hour and working on a strict schedule, time becomes law. For the retail employee in our next story, time became more than just a means to collect their paycheck, it became a great way to get payback on a salty micromanager. Gold standards for being on time is showing up within a 10-minute window of your shift. Since life is unpredictable, being 10 minutes late or early is widely accepted by most managers, but when your manager isn't opera ..read more
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'Mid-conversation they filmed a TikTok': 30+ Influencers who act totally different behind the scenes
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by RemyMill
15h ago
Oh man, some of these influencers are acting weird. Luckily for us, their friends are ready to tell the internet all about their odd habits, bad communication skills, and tendencies to film every little thing.  The more that social media leeches into real life, the more it feels like The Truman Show, as people have recently been discussing on socials. Though there are a lot of people who run social media pages out of passion, a lot of other folks are just trying to make a quick buck. It's so strange to watch someone you went to high school with brag about her accomplishments, when you kn ..read more
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'The restaurant thought I had dined and dashed': Customer takes too long in the bathroom, server calls the cops thinking he dined and dashed
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by BenWeiss
16h ago
Talk about a humiliating dining experience! This patron had an unfortunate emergency that required a relatively long trip to the bathroom. The trip took so long, in fact, that his server began to think he dined and dashed because he took his things with him. It turns out the customer elected to grab his things because he didn't want his stuff to be "out in the open" while he was gone for what he instinctively could tell would be more than just a minute. Well, the server decided the matter was serious and called the police. So when the customer finally wrapped up his business and returned from ..read more
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'His truck was literally bent': Boorish customer gets led down a rocky road after expecting free labor from his mechanic
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by Jesse Kessenheimer
17h ago
This customer made a wrong turn down 'Entitled Alley' and found out pretty quickly that his truck couldn't handle the terrain. Overinflated by unchecked arrogance, the guy in our next story got more than what he asked for at the auto shop. When denied free service by a reputable mechanic, the guy tapped into his Neanderthal cortex and decided to use intimidation to try and get his freebie tune-up. Unbeknownst to him, the witty mechanic was playing on a home-court advantage, using 4-wheel-drive to get 4x the revenge. After the mechanic denied free labor to this miscreant customer, he clocked o ..read more
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CEO revokes new employees' job contract, costs himself millions: 'He had a "bad feeling" about me'
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by RemyMill
19h ago
This CEO just made a huge mistake. Better still, he has no idea what he's done, or how colossal his mistake has become.  When you finally get a job with a nice salary, it can transform your life overnight. You can pay off your debts, stop worrying about making rent, and have a little extra to treat yourself with. It makes it feel like all those years of working unpaid internships or minimum-wage jobs have finally paid off.  This worker found a startup company that was willing to double their current salary. After a few months of sending out resumes and chatting with recruiters, it s ..read more
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IT worker charges 16 hours to 2 hour job when management instates new painstaking time-logging system: '[The] client refused to pay'
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by Brad Dickson
20h ago
If you've ever worked a job that relies on timesheets, you know how this goes… Management (usually of the upper variety) wants to keep better track of how and where staff are spending their time, suspicious that their "lazy" workers are spending most of their time slacking off. They pressure staff to charge out more hours to jobs, trying to keep them from posting "unproductive" uncharged hours. Suddenly, clients are getting charged more hours and, therefore, paying more for services that have been charged consistently at a lower rate for years. All the while, management is adding more paperwo ..read more
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20+ Heartwarming Posts for Fed Up Employees Who Are Ready to Say ‘Bye’ to Their Boss
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by Eleonora Bader
21h ago
Why don't more employees take some well-deserved time off? First of all, the workload. It's hard to feel 'okay' with taking time off when your workload feels crushing. Bosses like to pile it up instead of hiring someone else. Why pay 2 salaries when you can pay 1? Not that they enjoy paying you for overtime… of course, they try to cram your projects and responsibilities into 8 or 9 hours. They don't want to pay you more. Second, work culture. Maybe they don't feel comfortable asking for time off because there are some unwritten rules that workers are expected to follow. Perhaps their boss wil ..read more
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'You will respect me': 47-year-old Nurse Karen throws tantrum at younger coworker, embarrasses herself in front of a patient
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by BenWeiss
23h ago
Having a Karen coworker feels like going into battle every single day of the work week. You have to walk into your place of work ready and prepared to be lectured, condescended to, and poorly treated. If the Karen in question is your equal, don't worry: she'll still talk down to you no matter what. Having a Karen for a coworker is largely about picking and choosing when to defend yourself and when to be the bigger person and let her nonsense go in one ear and out the other. Generally, you want to opt for the latter option, but every so often, your Karen coworker makes it impossible not to mee ..read more
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'Enjoy the car now': Farmer brings rental car back covered in mud after driving it around the countryside following rental company's unfair demands he pay 1 day extra
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by Eleonora Bader
1d ago
One farmer was fed up with a car rental company after being charged $91 extra for no good reason. But wait, let's start from the beginning. The farmer's car was being repaired after being involved in a small crash, which forced him to rent a car for $91 a day. To the company's credit, they had some pretty great policies, such as 'no cleaning fee' no matter how dirty the car got, and unlimited miles, which was useful, as the farmer lived in the countryside. Finally, his car was almost fixed, so he called the rental company on Sunday, asking about return details. They told him that he could ret ..read more
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Worker denied 2 days of leave because of strict policy, follows same policy and gets a month off instead: 'It was a great month'
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by Brad Dickson
1d ago
Strict adherence to policy is a double-edged sword; if you demand unquestioning obedience to the rules when it benefits you, then you need to hold that same zealous ideal when things aren't stacked to go your way. Unfortunately, we humans seem to really struggle with this and love nothing more than changing rules, or our interpretation of them, to suit us best—sometimes without realizing we're doing so. After all, we're all the heroes of our own stories, and we have the uncanny ability to hold a narrative that justifies any action we might take when, to others, it's gallingly apparent that we ..read more
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