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When dealing with a toxic boss, some might tell you to bite your tongue when you try to complain about them to HR, or even other coworkers. If you’re thinking that your boss is not doing their job correctly, in addition to simply treating the employees under them like garbage, you might be doing other […]
Those of us who had the misfortune of working a minimum wage job in retail or at a restaurant know how much those places of work try to take advantage of their employees. Usually, it comes in the form of attempting to get employees to work more for less money, which 90% of the time […]
More disturbing details have emerged after a 19-year-old Walmart employee was found dead in the store’s walk-in bakery oven over the weekend. In roughly 90 seconds of emergency call recordings released by the Daily Mail on Tuesday, a dispatcher tells peers about a request to respond to a female “locked in an oven in the […]
An investigation is underway in Canada after a 19-year-old Walmart employee was found dead inside a store’s walk-in bakery oven Saturday night. Police were called to a Walmart location in Halifax, Nova Scotia, over the weekend, where they discovered the body of a woman “located in a large walk-in oven belonging to the store’s bakery […]
After reading through many work horror stories over the internet, we have come to the conclusion that you should never fully trust your employer—especially if they’re paying you minimum wage for a very demanding job. Or if they’re a “mom and pop” operation with no HR. If you get into any uncomfortable situation, even if […]
Getty Images The portrait of a former DUP lord mayor was on display at Belfast City Hall A Sinn Féin employee has resigned after admitting involvement in an incident where damage was caused to a portrait in Belfast City Hall. A painting of former lord mayor and Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) peer Lord Wallace Browne […]
A double-edged sword cuts both ways, and you could probably get a paper cut from a double-sided print job, too. Cutting costs might seem like a good idea, but really, you’re probably just going to slice right through other important things like customer satisfaction and, by extension, your company’s profit. After all, as the old […]
It’s not just bad bosses who can exhibit toxic traits in the workplace. Here’s what to do when the problem is someone you manage. We often talk about how difficult it can be when you have a toxic manager. Here at Fast Company, we’ve shared plenty of advice on how to handle a micromanager, or […]
Let this story serve as yet another relevant reminder that paternity leave deserves to be taken seriously by employers. You would think that in this day and age, this would be common knowledge, but you would be surprised. Here, we have an employee who initially only asked for one week of paid time off to […]
You don’t know a good thing until it’s gone: a phrase that is applicable to so many areas of life. And it fits quite neatly in the sense of employers who are asking far too much of their best workers with little recognition or fair compensation. This media designer slowly found themselves, over time, burdened […]