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Got bored at work

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Guess i don’t have a mediocre career coz i definitely don’t know what work life balance is

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Billionaire simps!

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Is this extra or am I being overly critical?

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FastCompany: Have you been quietly promoted? Here’s what to watch out for

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it’s britney bitch

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Am I not getting hired because I am in night school?

I have applied to about 250 jobs in the last two months and have little (and if you don't include emails, “no”) contact with any employers about job openings. Most, if not all I am actually overqualified for. I'm afraid this is happening because I am part-time working at, and attending grad school at night. The school is prestigious and for that reason, I put it front and center on my resume, but could this actually be negatively impacting my chances?

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Am I crazy? Or is this gaslighting

I’m a writer at a major financial firm. My boss has requested to read my emails before we send them to internal members of the team in order to maintain and nourish good relationships. There are no past examples I can recall of us botching internal communications. I asked if I could provide feedback during a team meeting with the other writer being affected by this change. He said yes but only next week in our 1 on 1 meeting. After that, he mentioned in the team meeting that reviewing emails before sending them was a non-negotiable. We had a conversation about this incident in our 1 on 1 meeting the week after, and it was explained to me that I should be more mindful about the business case of having my emails screened. He said that he doesn’t want to read my emails either and that I needed to…

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It’s in the handbook but we don’t practice it

So my companies employee handbook states that they supply uniforms and spells out how many you get if you work full time vs part time as well as details of what that uniform would look like. However, we make our employees purchase their own and haven’t changed the handbook. I brought it to the attention of the higher ups but they are just telling me “we don’t do this anymore”. I feel like this leaves the company open to a pretty big class action lawsuit. Am I wrong?

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Texas workers file thousands of wage theft claims but recouping money proves difficult