I don't know who needs to hear this, but your boss is not your friend. When your boss inquires about your health or wellbeing, it isn't because they care about you as a person. They only care about you as an asset of the company—a tool whose labor generates value for the ones at the top. Case in point, when u/SadLilBb13 texted their boss to let them know that they'd been stranded in blizzard after getting into a car accident, their boss initially asked if they were okay. If it had ended there,…

Back to it

These spreadsheets got me spread thin

The grind never stops

The powers that be

You want a Bugatti?

"I enjoy what I do but I don't do it for free."

Monday blues

As per my last email...

Breaktime

You could say we're all workaholics now since we never leave the workplace

Rise and grind

Malicious compliance at its best

Most jobs have pretty simple schedules. You go in during the morning, leave at night, sleep, and come back the next morning. Nursing is not " most jobs ." When you're a nurse, you could be working the night shift one day and working a day shift the very next day. It really does a number on your circadian rhythm. Once you get a big girl job, you'd think you'd have a more consistent schedule, going in the same time every week and getting used to the consistent yet grueling hours you need to work.…

Keep on grinding

In a civilized workplace, an employer trusts the word of their employee (you know, the one whose labor makes the company its profits?) when the employee calls in sick. It's that simple. In other, more toxic work environments, bosses have the tendency to interrogate their workers whenever they request a crumb of time off. It's almost as if upper management thinks that they can bully their employees out of being sick. When u/LargeThighMeat received an email from their boss requesting their reason…