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‘Leaving was the best thing I did’: Employer of 3 years hires new employee at $30k higher than experienced worker, they quit

It’s no secret that a lot of employers in as many industries allocate more budget to hiring than they do to staff retention. This is a bit silly when you consider that large organizations will go on to spend tens of thousands of dollars on recruiting, onboarding, and training processes—in addition to value lost due […]

Experienced worker gets passed over for promotion after her manager witnesses how she speaks to new hires: ‘I was fuming. I hate it when people type like that on social media’

This management-aspiring worker earned herself the label over her treatment of her fellow workers when her manager observed how she was talking to the new staff in a frustrated and demeaning tone, complete with clapping between every word she was saying as if she was living in some sort of meme. Her manager recounted the […]

Customer service rep gets paid to play video games after management’s misguided instructions leave them without any work: ‘For 5 days, I sat in my spare bedroom/office playing video games, all while logged in’

If you do your job too well, you’re simply going to make everyone else look bad by comparison. Instead of earning yourself the praise you deserve, you actually just wind up putting a target on your back while everyone quietly wishes you’d just disappear and stop making all of their jobs harder by setting the […]

Manager rescinds candidate’s job offer after he demands they start working the next day, which made candidate laugh at his face: ‘I thought it was a joke’

When people usually start looking for a new job, the one thing they have to be mindful of is constantly being available on their phones. You always have to be ready to take calls from hiring managers, and every phone call might start the path that leads to a serious trajectory in your life.  When […]