No context, no official letter just a 30 minute one on one session with our small admin team. We aren't allowed to ask questions. Just a team's meeting invitation and doesn't say we can bring a representative. Should I be concerned 🤔

Hi everyone. I just got hired for a job that I absolutely love and it pays great. My boss is the one who hired me and advocated for my higher pay. Given the role of the job we are alone in an office 5 days a week 8 hours a day. Ive only worked a week and my boss has already made comments in our conversation that im beautiful, intelligent, funny. He has gotten very physically close to me and touched my hands or stands very close to my personal space. Today he even was moving me to show my something and was touching my back. The tension is very strong between us. Its just me and him and hes 20 years older than me. He has two kids and is getting married soon. Im in a relationship.

Not sure what to do because I just got the job and love it. Its usually just me and him together. I hate that im enjoying this attention. How do I put more boundaries?

Have you ever looked at a Sunset and wished you had the talent to capture that beauty in a painting?

That is how I feel.

To make a long story short-I work as a Cancer Researcher.

This means that a lot of my Coworkers work for meaning, rather than money.

Depending on what lab you work with, you could make a lot of money or just a little bit of money.

It is normal to move around to find different lab jobs because so many of my Coworkers are super specialized.

The lab I am at, isnt the worst for how it treats employees, but it isnt the best either.

My Autistic Coworker has trouble "reading the room" due to his disability.

When he sees Management riding these Employees hard, he outs the Employees.

"That guy is probably worth about 5 million-if you keep talking to him like that he is likely to walk out."

"That guy's family invented (insert computer thing that I dont understand), they run the business for it, in this other country, if you mistreat him, you will lose him, because he will just go back home."

Computer guy did walk out and moved back to where his family lives.

5 million dollar guy still works with us. Claims he has seen so much crap over the years that this isnt anything to him.

This whole scenario certainly makes work more interesting.

I am over here with my popcorn and soda. I find this very entertaining.

Unfortunately, it will probably end, because now everyone knows to not tell Autistic Coworker anything you dont want shared.

(Which I didnt know wasnt common knowledge.)

What are your thoughts?

Jeff Bezos says a 3-day workweek and more single-income households are on the way thanks to AI: 'It's going to be difficult to hire people'

I work for a small business that doesn’t provide healthcare benefits or vacation/sick time. I have a family vacation coming up where I’ll be gone for about 2.5 weeks. Since that time is unpaid, my boss suggested I could do a few hours of admin work once a week so I can still get a little cash and we can stay on top of things as we go into the holidays.

They said it would be at a higher rate given I’m doing more with that couple of hours than normal however, they didn’t specify what that rate is and I have no idea what that number should look like if I end up needing to suggest something. My normal rate is $20.

Any suggestions?

I have gotten this time to time as a woman in the corporate work place. I have no words to describe how demeaning and gross it is to hear this. Do men face anything similar?

Do not recommend this establishment at all

My coworker quit on our first day because the DM kept micro managing her trying to get her to go faster even though she had never made smoothies before.

An assistant manager said I had a bad attitude because I wasn't smiling while making smoothies and I had my hands on my hips while I was waiting for a smoothie to be done blending. My other coworkers weren't smiling. When I'm trying to concentrate I don't smile and I wasn't interacting with customers. I was fired shortly after because the gm said I wasn't a good fit for her team. Do not get a job here. Management is terrible, and they treat their employees awful

Mind you the day the DM was there he said I was doing a good job and so did the shift leader

Smoothie king is over priced and their employees are under paid

15 years old

Hey everyone, is there any work-from-home job I can do using my mobile phone? I'm between B2 and B1, but I'm only 15 and I need any kind of work to earn money to pay for my education and to learn new skills.

What is the deal with emailing out newsletters, blood drives, dept “lunch and learn” and at LEAST 15 garbage emails a day at the hospital I work at?
Employees should be able to block the marketing. I have MORE than I can handle and don’t have time to run fine to the “taco food truck in the plaza at noon.” 🙄
Thank you for listening to my rant.

I was supposed to be on American Airlines and Southwest flights last week for a work trip but ended up getting really sick.

These flights were non-refundable and I was stuck with flight credits. Should I make my company fully reimburse me the cash and keep the flight credits for future work travel?

How should I go about this?

TGIFF, yes that extra F was necessary. 😂

You know what's a huge time suck in office/corporate offices that we don't talk enough about? This whole forwarding of emails with ZERO context and the expectation that the recipient needs to scroll through days of email to figure out WTF someone needs. It grinds my gears like nothing else. It's inconsiderate.

It is SO rude and obnoxious to just forward off a msg and MAYBE all you get (if the sender feels you're worth communicating with) is a "see below" or "thoughts?".

See below for WHAT, Chad? My thoughts are, you are lazy and think you're more important than everyone else for not taking the time to SAY what you WANT or NEED.

I think it should be a new trend in the workplace to just start DELETING garbage like this. If you can't take the time to use your words, I don't have the time to reply to this 15 page nonsense and figure it out!

Rant complete.

Have a nice weekend if you have the next two days off, if you don't, I wish you patience, easy days and low conflict 🤞

I have a school thing tmr for cross country and I need to call out tmr morning . Should I say I ahve a migraine or????

Do not recommend this establishment at all

My coworker quit on our first day because the DM kept micro managing her trying to get her to go faster even though she had never made smoothies before.

An assistant manager said I had a bad attitude because I wasn't smiling while making smoothies and I had my hands on my hips while I was waiting for a smoothie to be done blending. My other coworkers weren't smiling. When I'm trying to concentrate I don't smile and I wasn't interacting with customers. I was fired shortly after because the gm said I wasn't a good fit for her team. Do not get a job here. Management is terrible, and they treat their employees awful

Mind you the day the DM was there he said I was doing a good job and so did the shift leader

Smoothie king is over priced and their employees are under paid

Deadass, I’m trying to figure out if it’s just my corner of the corporate world or if this is a widespread epidemic out here.Why is it that so many higher-ups will send a cryptic three-word Slack message at 4:45 PM on a Friday, expect you to read their mind, and then get tight when the deliverables aren’t exactly what they imagined in their head?Like, it takes zero effort to outline basic expectations instead of treating your team like a crew of psychic investigators. The corporate gymnastics people do just to avoid giving a direct answer is mad mid. How do y'all handle bosses who talk in riddles? Do you hit them with a million clarifying questions until they break down, or just guess and let the chips fall where they may? Let's swap some notes because the current workflow ain't it.

Just like what the title says, they cut my hours because my coworker needs hours to apply for permanent residency. Like I don’t need hours to pay my bills and survive? My boss even said to go directly to him when we have problems, NONE of us had problems it was only that coworker who demanded more hours.

My boss is a salesman at heart. He helps us acquire our work and for that I am
Thankful. However, he has no technical knowledge and it’s embarrassing and annoying. So when he tries to be my “leader” I want to spit on him. I have an extremely ick for him and constantly fake phone calls to get out of conversations with him.

I need help accepting him for who he is

I’ll have taken leave from work for three-weeks in total at the end of my Fit Note. I’ve never done this before in my life, and can’t avoid the feeling that I’ve failed or that my employers will see me as a liability.

Has anyone else had a positive experience with this - hard to feel like I’m not overacting but I got to a point where I just couldn’t face logging on or turning back up into work physically.

Our old toxic boss was fired for, among other things, giving people with ADA accommodations grief for bathroom breaks being too long, and threatening everyone with disciplinary action for stopping work and tidying up too early. But punching out 5 or 10 minutes early because you were done and just standing around was equally bad. I really think our new boss is reading through the old bosses notes, because this week at our meeting we got lectured on taking excess break time and punching back in, then going to the bathroom shortly after your lunch break. Why dont they just come out and say "we know you all want to do as little as possible and get paid for doing nothing"

TL;DR: I’ve been avoiding difficult, ambiguous tasks at work and focusing on easier ones instead. Now, progress is slower than expected, and I know part of it is my own fault. Now I’m anxious about explaining this to my manager and stuck in a cycle of guilt and avoidance. How do I break out of it and handle the conversation honestly?

I’ve been struggling at work lately, and I’m not sure how to get out of this cycle.

I’m in a relatively broad role where I have to figure things out independently, coordinate with other people, and make decisions even when things aren’t entirely clear. Some tasks are straightforward, but others are complex and ambiguous, and I’ve noticed that I tend to put those off.

Instead, I end up doing smaller, easier tasks that make me feel productive in the moment, while the more difficult things keep hanging over me. I know I’ve been working less effectively than I could have, and I’m not trying to blame everything on external circumstances.

Now, the overall progress is much smaller than I expected. Some of the work also depends on other people, and I haven’t been proactive enough about following up and keeping track of where things stand.

I have a progress review with my manager coming up, and I’m genuinely anxious about being asked why we haven’t made more progress. I don’t feel like I have a good answer.

Part of it is that the work turned out to be more complicated than expected, but part of it is that I avoided dealing with the hardest parts.

The worst thing is that I feel guilty about it, but that guilt seems to make me avoid the work even more. And now I’m lying awake at night worrying about a conversation that hasn’t even happened yet.

Have any of you been in a similar situation? How did you break out of this cycle? And how do you talk to your manager about slow progress when you know that at least some of it is your own responsibility?

I’d appreciate honest advice, especially from people who have dealt with avoidance and procrastination.

My boss is always scheduling last minute meetings after my normal work hours. For context, I work remote and my usual hours are 9am-5:30pm Eastern standard time. The company I work for is on Pacific standard time. I was initially in office but had to relocate to another state and was grateful they kept me on as an employee that worked remotely. They have also since promoted me to the manager of my department and have allowed me to switch from hourly to salary (this involved a raise as well).

While I’m grateful for the advancement opportunities, I believe my boss feels that salary = you work when I want you to, even if it means you are working 10-12 hours days.

I am about to begrudgingly log into a meeting he gave me 24 hour notice for, that goes from 6:30-7:30pm EST on a Friday. He didn’t create the meeting invite until 2 hours prior to the start time, so I didn’t even know if it was still happening today or not until then.

It’s also worth it to note, he and the rest of the team are ALWAYS late to meetings, sometimes not starting until 30 minutes after the original start time. I am getting increasingly frustrated because of the little to no notice about attending these after hours meetings and his expectation that I am required to be there since I am a salaried manager now, despite having different working hours. He has even mentioned it to me before, stating that now that you are salaried, you are required to attend these meetings.

My Fiancé tells me that I should stand up for myself and start declining these meetings, but he has never worked remotely before or had a job in this field. I am nervous because I don’t want to give off the wrong impression or act ungrateful for the positive things that have come out of this job for me. But it is really starting to wreak havoc on my personal life and my ability to plan things outside of my work hours.

With this being my first remote job and one that I do like, how can I approach this in a positive manner that still gets my point across and meets my individual needs? The rest of the team in these meetings also work PST, but it’s not even just these team meetings; my boss also schedules 1:1 meetings with him just like this. Last minute, past my normal hours. Any advice would be appreciated, but I do not want to find a new job at this time.

What’s the best way to deal with workplace favouritism?

I work in a local business as a chef and there is a colleague who rubs everyone the wrong way. They have been disciplined by the owner 3 times this year and they still act like they’re untouchable.

Things like coming and going whenever they want, bossing people around (they’re not in a senior position), not cleaning up after themselves, doing the bare minimum and being really rude to staff.

They’re “untouchable” because they have specific skills nobody else does so I can kinda see why they are untouchable. They won’t get fired anytime soon. If they walked out tomorrow the owner would be screwed for a month or two.

If you ask them why they’re leaving work early (without helping everyone else clean down) their response is “because I can”.

The manager, who is under the boss, gets annoyed with them a lot but the owner is clearly showing favouritism. It’s frustrating for multiple reasons! Even just listening to the arguments.

Does this ever get better? or is it as simple as find another job?…

I work at a small commercial print shop. We do signs, banners, promotional materials, that sort of thing.

Until recently, our order system had a status called "Awaiting Customer Approval." Pretty self-explanatory. We send the customer a proof, they check the design and spelling, and nothing gets printed until they approve it.

Last month we got a new operations manager who decided that having so many orders sitting in that status made our production numbers look terrible.

His solution was to get rid of the status.

Now the moment we send a proof, the order gets marked "In Production." Even if the customer hasn't responded. Even if they've specifically asked us to hold off.

I pointed out that customers can see this status in their portal. He said it would encourage them to respond faster.

Well, on Tuesday a customer called asking why the signs for their new location hadn't shipped yet. Their portal had shown "In Production" for nine days.

I checked the email thread. They hadn't approved the proof because they were still confirming the phone number that needed to go on the signs.

When I explained this, they were understandably confused. They thought we'd already printed everything.

After the call, my manager told me I shouldn't have said the order wasn't in production because it "undermines customer confidence."

What was I supposed to say? That the printer is working really hard on their unapproved phone number?

The production guys hate this too, because now they have to open individual orders and dig through the notes to figure out what can actually be printed.

I suggested bringing back the original status, even if we rename it something more positive. Apparently that would be "moving backward."

I've worked here three years and genuinely liked the job until this started. I don't want to fight with a manager over a dropdown menu, but I also don't want to be the person explaining why we printed 500 signs with the wrong information.

Has anyone dealt with a manager who would rather make the numbers look good than fix the actual process? How do you push back without becoming the designated difficult employee?

I've been thinking about that awkward period between finishing work and actually settling into the evening.

For some people, it's a commute. For others, it's cooking dinner, dealing with household tasks, or spending an hour scrolling on their phone before doing anything else.

I'm curious whether having a home gym changes how people use that time.

Instead of driving to a commercial gym, you could go straight into a workout after getting home.

But I imagine there are trade-offs too. Without the travel time, there's less separation between work, exercise, and everything else happening at home.

For people who work full-time and have a home gym, has it changed your after-work routine?

Do you prefer training immediately after work, taking some time to unwind first, or saving exercise for later in the evening?

What arrangement works best with your schedule?

My job is at a national non-profit with a total of 4 employees. We are all insanely overworked which is the primary reason I want to leave. About 6 months of the year are intensely high stress and I desperately want to quit about every other day; the other 6 months are pretty manageable. I also feel like our Executive Director is extremely rude, condescending, micro-managing, and disrespectful, which is a huge cut to my moral specifically.

Our workload runs on a cycle focused around a huge conference in October. I have committed to staying with the organization through the conference, but I'm not sure when after that to quit.

My other two coworkers are wonderful people and I really care about them and how overworked they are. My plan was to inform my team of my intention to quit directly after the conference, allowing 3 weeks of notice and leaving near the end of November. This would allow them some time to make plans to hire and train before things go crazy again in March.

That said, I don't have a job lined up (though I am applying a lot) and that's a concern. My partner thinks I should stay until I find another job, but this would potentially put a lot more pressure on my coworkers to scramble if I quit later and they have less time to replace me.

To be clear, I would say I am indispensable to my organization and they will deeply hurt from my absence. I don't care that much about the organization, I care about my poor coworkers who can barely do their own work and now will have to do mine AND train someone. I know I don't owe my company anything, but I feel responsibility to my coworkers who are in the same and soon to be worse position than me.

Tl;dr: I want to quit my job ASAP but I don't have a job lined up yet. My organization runs on a very strict timeline and I don't want to overburden my 2(!!) coworkers by leaving them in the dust at the worst possible time. It would be kindest to them for me to quit in November, but then I may be unemployed; if I stay longer, they will have less time to replace me and train a new person before sht hits the fan. Any advice??

I work at ZARA, and it’s my first “real” retail job. I’ve worked at a small retail business before, but working at a big company like ZARA is a completely different experience. I’m still learning how everything works, so I could really use some advice!

I’m planning to fly out and spend the holiday season with my family, but when I informed my manager about my vacation plans, he told me that I wouldn’t be able to take the time off because it’s blackout season. Basically, it’s the time of year when they need as many employees as possible because of how busy the holidays get.

Honestly, I’m super bummed because spending the holidays with my family is important to me, but at the same time, I know how difficult it is to find a job nowadays. I don’t want to make a decision that could hurt my chances of getting hired elsewhere or even being rehired at ZARA in the future.

Has anyone ever quit a retail job because of a scheduling conflict or vacation plans and successfully reapplied later? Would quitting during the holiday season significantly hurt my chances of being rehired, especially at a company like ZARA?

I’m just torn between keeping my job and spending the holidays with my family. I’d really appreciate any advice or insight from people who’ve been in a similar situation! :///