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Imagine this thread is only seen by the top level execs of your company. What do they need to know? Professional answers only.

I’m looking for data for my own contributions on making our work culture a better place. I’d also like to know, if an electronic survey was offered once a month and only seen by higher ups or analysts, would you take it? Would you take it if you knew it would somehow hold your managers and supervisors accountable for their actions? Anything from training to all out investigations. It’s my belief that if there was more transparency and communication from actual employees we could begin to mend this deep and complex employment crisis. To add to this, if your company is doing it right, what are they doing that keeps you loyal, determined and resilient?

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I didn’t want it to be true. I wanted to be an exception.

People really do leave because of bad management. My manager is a spineless jellyfish. He's not even in the building half the time. And now he's letting other managers move us around. And we're going through layoffs. I'm just bulking up my resumé. I don't want to be here anymore.

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A small win against the big box stores

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Deducted 15 minutes pay for being 1 minute late

Can I be deducted 15 minutes of pay for being a single minute late if it is in my company handbook but not my contract? I live in UK thank you

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war of attrition

My boss likes to play stupid. I could write a much longer post about EVERY instance of this, but I'll stick with right now. We got a bunch of snow and ice over night. I'm parked on the street, pointed upward on a hill. My street was plowed, but very poorly, and no road salt was put down. I tried to get off my street, and my car literally will not move… At best I can do a lot of sliding and wiggling even a penguin would be envious of. I text my boss this, saying I'm stuck and my car just isn't going to cut through the ice on a hill. Took the liberty of sending her a video too! She says: “I'll push your appointments back 15 minutes, no worries!” Okay… I'll keep trying then, I'd like to get paid today. So I keep trying. Another 15 minutes…

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Boss used to be cool. Now he is being moved to another team… Now he is being a total tryant all of a sudden. What gives?

​ I used to love my boss. Never messed with me, helped me, gave me good reviews… but i just got word last week that he is being moved to another customer team and that i will be getting a new manager. Since then, he has been giving me a shit load of work. The easy going calls, turned into cold emails asking me to do more work, this or that…. This morning, he ask me to do another task on top of what i already have. So i told him my schedule, my workload, etc.. and he just put a deadline and was like “well, this needs to be done by next week”…. I replied with “will do”, but im gunna tell you right now, its not gunna get done…. What gives, and why did he become such a tyrant a$$hat all of a sudden? EDIT: There are only…

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Google tells employees to share desks as it looks to cut costs | Google has a market cap of $1.18 trillion

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If a person with depression is too disabled to work, they aren’t coddled

​ ​ I suffer from severe depression that I inherited from my mom's side of the family. The weird thing about me is that none of the medication I tried worked well on me. As a result, I can't hold down a job. Some people think I'm coddled, but they don't realize how debilitating depression is. I have no energy or motivation to be productive and that is a symptom of the illness. My uncle was just like me. He had schizophrenia and depression and he never held stable employment. I don't think he had a single job that lasted even a year. My mom took care of him until he passed. Now she's taking care of me. Not everybody considers depression to be a disability but I consider it to be.

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Gave a five and a half weeks notice to my job and they were mad I didn’t give “more notice.”

That’s it. Work in ABA as a behavior tech and my hours suck. Plus I realize I kinda hate working directly with kids kids. A lot. Found a job working in a hospital with more stable hours and better benefits as a medical assistant. Gave my current employers literally as much notice as possible so I can help train my replacement and one of the case managers and HR are big mad I didn’t give “more notice.” They are trying to withhold my PTO payout as a result of the inconvenience. I’ve had such as struggle with working the last year that I’m just over it. Letting it happen. Idgaf anymore. This was my 5th job in 12 months because I couldn’t find one in my preferred field. Ah well. I probably won’t like the next one much but at least I’ll have stable hours and won’t have to go…

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Sadly, as an employee, we obviously deal with so much bs. Anyone else sort of tired of always seeing the comments of “look for a new job”? What places out there are actually known for being good with minimal issues? Must be less than one percent