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'You must be kidding!': Boss Emails Entire Company Employee’s Salary Details, Including Expected ‘Raise’

'You must be kidding!': Boss Emails Entire Company Employee’s Salary Details, Including Expected ‘Raise’

For reasons that are still unknown, salary has proven to be one of the most private and sensitive bits of information in the business world for years, if not decades. What would you do, then, if your pay increase was unintentionally disclosed to the entire company? Would you be happy to brag about your raise, or would you attempt to keep it to yourself given how hard you worked to get here? The story below is an account of a frustrated employee. When the original poster (OP) first started worki…
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'20 to 30 pointless emails daily': Pushy micromanager insists on being included in all client communications, gets schooled with malicious compliance

Control freakery gets you nowhere
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Duplicitous recruiter changes salary from $4-5K to $3K per month before final interview round: 'This is [for] a Senior Engineer position'

They're cheapskates
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Scammer steals credit card information to rent car, emails card owner and asks why he canceled the rental: 'Sorry to use the details hee hee'

"Hee hee"
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'Not even 12 hours notice': Professor uncancels 8 AM class at 10 PM the night before

So annoying
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Worker claims a $150K per year low-effort job isn't desirable: 'It's like premium unemployment'

Spoiler alert: it is
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'I'd like to rescind my application': Offensive recruiter loses prospective employee over insulting email

Email etiquette is real
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20 Funny Email Memes Worth Pressing Send On

It's all about communication
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Entitled Employee Freaks Out After Having to Attend a Single Pointless Early Meeting

Get a grip
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Company Asks Employees To Donate Their PTO So Their Coworker Can Spend Time With His Dying Wife

So heartless
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Legendary Worker Accidentally Ignores Work Emails For Four Years Without Getting Fired

The French have got it all figured out
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Savvy Employees Speak on the Importance of Work Email

Need that paper trail
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The Cringiest Parenting Texts of the Week (September 19, 2023)

So controlling
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People Discuss The Best Ways to Call Out of Work

There are some jobs you can't help but call out from sometimes. Sure, sometimes you're actually sick, but you know as well as I do that you're not always telling the gospel truth when calling in with a story about a mystery illness. In college, I was addicted to calling off from my security guard job. Granted, I had a genuinely unsustainable schedule of classes, extracurriculars, and work that made showing up to my 7 AM shift every Monday difficult. Not only that, but I had to work 8 hours that…
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A story about a Boss Accidentally CCing his Employee on Email Discussing Her Imminent Termination

Boss Accidentally CCs Employee on Email Regarding Her Imminent Termination

Everyone gets some sick satisfaction from overhearing someone talking smack about you, especially someone you've been suspicious about from the jump. When someone talks about you behind their back, they have all the power. However, when you overhear the sh*t talking, you get some of the power back and are at least able to defend yourself against their claims about you. This Uno Reverse Card puts the sh*t-talker in an awkward position because you were never really supposed to know what they felt…
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Workers Discuss Email Etiquette After Company Rejects Half of Employee's Vacation Time Request

It is hard to believe how many people can't craft a proper email . I didn't wholly learn the art and science of professional emailing until I was a junior in college, and who knows where I would be if I didn't take particular classes that taught me that. I'll give you some general tips if you're an amateur emailer. Don't be overly wordy. You won't sound cold if you cut right to the chase, trust me. Don't thank someone in advance for something they haven't agreed to do. Use a simple sign-off at…
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