‘Her kids are not my responsibility’: Coworker invites herself to Broadway show, then complains she can’t afford it
Here’s a cautionary tale about letting coworkers into your personal life. This woman wrote to r/AmItheA**hole with a question about her role in a feud with her coworker: “AITA for telling my coworker her bad decisions and her kids are not my responsibility?” As u/BroadwayThrowaway1 writes, the whole disagreement started because she was going to…
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‘The whole atmosphere in the room changed’: Assistant stuns their oblivious, wealthy coworkers with reality check
This assistant isn’t afraid to rock the boat. Every office place is different, and when you first begin working there, you start to learn the etiquette of the place. Some offices are very open and chatty, while others have unspoken rules that no one talks to higher ups. In some office spaces, people are expected…
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‘So you know how to make people cry?’: Dude flirts with a group of therapists at a bar, mocks their profession, leaves in tears
Will this encounter actually convince a human male to go into therapy? Time will tell… Here’s some advice for any dudes trying to flirt with a group of single women at a bar. Don’t mock their profession, especially if said profession involves an acute awareness of human psychology. Because you’re bound to end up…
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‘Someone changed my schedule without my knowledge’: Shift worker gets accused of a no-call, no-show on their day off
Yes, the schedule. The cornerstone, the Monolith, of shiftwork… Obey the schedule—lest you find yourself at odds with some angry shift manager who quotes its existence at you like scripture. Managers love a good schedule, and they also like complaining about that schedule and blaming the schedule for all of their problems—even when they’re the…
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‘The company saved £5k on fees, but got one day of work instead of five’: Penny-pinching company gets taught a lesson when their traveling salesman is forced to fly coach
Bureaucratic bean-counting threatens every employee’s work-life balance, for none more than the traveling salesmen of the world. To be totally frank, there’s always a disconnect between the bean-counters of a company and the footmen because financial decisions are made in an office whereas the salespeople are out there in the trenches. You’d think that the…
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‘It feels invasive’: Manager requests remote access to employee’s personal computer during meeting, employee refuses
Welcome to another toxic workplace in which a manager thinks he has way more power than he does! In this case, we have a new horrible boss who doesn’t understand how to gain access to his team’s project. Rather than admit he needs help to gain said access, he has been forcing various team members…
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