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“Helpful” advices if you cant stand your job

I translated (mostly google translate) an article by Roland Paulsen from a swedish newspaper. Roland Paulsen is a well known work critic in sweden. Source: https://www.dn.se/kultur-noje/roland-paulsen-valkomna-tillbaka-till-jobbet-har-far-ni-nagra-goda-rad/ Article: Welcome back to work – here you get some good advices Now that the holidays are over for most people, we can traditionally look forward to how science advises us to cope with the transition to paid work. The intent is very commendable. For many, working life seems like an absurdity after a few weeks in freedom, and at a time when mental health problems are the most common cause of sick leave, we should be vigilant about all types of depression. Here at DN, Johan Mellnäs, work environment expert, advises readers to start soft. “Many people start working on a Monday out of sheer habit,” he says. “But there is nothing that says you have to do it. If, for example, you…

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Does “we’re going to keep your resume on record and get in touch with you about future opportunities” mean anything?

Or is it just a formality to politely say no?

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Even MIT is gaslighting us

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I always get to work early but the dinosaur of a computer they gave me that I clock in on takes 20+ mins to load

For the record, I love my job. But I’m annoyed. I get here early on purpose so I can leave early for the commitments I have after work, and I need to stick to my contracted 8 hours. I guess I’m taking a shorter lunch break again. It has now been 25 fucking minutes of “updates” and “clean up” and “just a moment”. I feel like I’m prissy for complaining.

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Man fired after 6 years for automating his job and playing video games.

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I left and I feel the manager regrets it

So if anyone here remembers me talking about my wack manager at an ice cream store(can check my profile for them) but in summary, manager was a Karen, gave me a useless write up, and never even mentioned making me a cake when my birthday came, even though she promised one when I was hired. Anyways. So on Saturday, the day I decided to quit, the manager was super nice to me. She smiled the whole time, was complimenting me and saying I’m such a great worker(she never once said anything nice about me or my work in the last 8 months) so I was shocked. But anyways right before I left my shift I left my resignation letter and didn’t come back. I was very confused on why she was so nice, but after I went to target and I saw one of the girls who was a supervisor…

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3 year ANTIWORK anniversary nest month – Amazing!

So in the middle of June I will be going on 3 years of voluntarily not having any sort of steady employment. Its gone by fast. I've enjoyed the last 3 years of my life like I did when I was 15 years old. I go to sleep when I want, wake when I want, and do things on my schedule. Its fucking amazing how much life a job sucks from you. I worked in Mental Health for over a decade. It always amazed me that most therapists knew the keys to a happy life, but most didn't have the ability to put them in action themselves. We would tell clients things, with 100% intentions to help, then not follow our own advice. Its drilled into all of us at a young age and we are no different, despite realizing the destruction certain flawed thought processes have. I was relatively…

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Sad Sangers

If any members of staff would like to help themselves to some leftover stale sandwiches that nobody wanted from yesterday's management meeting we have left them drying to a crisp overnight for you in the fridge on the ground floor……… just add a spritz of water to awaken the flavour then ? https://ibb.co/YyMmfW0

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My new boss pissed me off.

I work in a restaurant named after a state that has bread that people like. Anyway, we have this new boss who just told me that a coworker (someone who knows a lot of job codes and can do everything ) is overpaid. Which pisses me off because there's not a single person working here who is overpaid. We're all extremely underpaid, which is also why we're understaffed AF. By paying us minimum wage, you are saying that you give the minimum amount of fucks about us. So that will get minimum effort from me. Fuck corporations and their bullshit. I wanna be able to retire at some point. And this pos has the audacity to say that someone making 1 dollar over the absolute minimum you could legally be paid is too much? Fuck off Bob.

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HR disclosed someone’s wage to another employee after threatening to revoke raises for walking about wages

I work at a vet clinic who recently hired a new administrator/HR manager who i will call T. Since he was hired, he has implemented a new compensation package with a tier system for all of our workers, Tier 1 of the tech position being the lowest and Tier 3 being the highest. With these changes, most of us got a pretty significant raise. After giving us our raises, T said not to talk about them or he might have to revoke our raise. This was two months ago. Fast forward to yesterday, and i hear that one of our Tier 2 technicians (who I will call B) went to T complaining that she wasn’t a Tier 3 despite her years of experience. The tier system was never outlined in the handbook, so there was a lot of confusion as to why each employee was put into their specific tier.…