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'Once your tank is dry it's dry:' Tired workers discuss whether having a life outside of a 9-5 is possible

Can you have it all?

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'A block of wood instead of a bonus': The worst and funniest corporate gifts workers have been given in lieu of money

Couple of pennies and a ball of lint, kid

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Boss admits to wage theft when explaining time clocks, costs employee hundreds of dollars: 'It serves no other purpose except to scam workers'

He probably didn't mean to say that

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'So, you don't plan to retire?': 15+ Perfect comebacks to the classic line 'Nobody wants to work anymore'

Oh yeah? Well... um...

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‘I’m a surgeon, I don't have time for you': Teachers Share Stories About Parents Who Need a Lesson in Parenting

Teachers deserve better pay, more respect than they're given, and honestly, a gold medal per kid that's learning in their class. One teacher took to r/teachers and shared a story that bothered them, asking fellow educators to share examples of parents being ‘too busy’ or ‘too successful’ to pay attention to their kids. The teacher shared that their IEP meeting with a student and his mom was unusual. The mom, a lawyer, seemed oddly distant from both her son and the teacher. Despite multiple emai…

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'4 hours at the end of the day is miserable': Unpopular opinions about working 9-5

What a way to make a living

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Micromanager bans salaried employee from using the break room because it 'confuses' hourly workers, suggests he take breaks in his car: 'She wants a private break room'

As any employee will tell you, breaks are everything

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'Teaching 7 classes a semester on 3 different campuses and making less than $30k/year': Workers share experiences in the workplace that radicalized them

I could never

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Bored government worker complains they were given a $20k salary increase to do 'literally nothing,' while some claim it's a dream job: 'Use the facilities, use the benefits'

Dream job or nightmare job?

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Hardworking employee is berated in group chat for small error, makes boss regret it: 'Staff work hard enough to get nasty texts over a petty thing'

Don't take it to the group text!

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'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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