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I just put in my 4 week notice and asked if I could use my 1 week of vacation in that period and my boss said I could only use 3 days of my vacation

My employer has know about me interviewing with another company for about a month now and I finally got the offer yesterday and accepted it and then I turned in my 4 week notice today thinking that would give them enough time to find a replacement and train them but I guess not. So infuriating smh.

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Employer Spyware

What are the legal ramifications of an employer installing spyware on employee devices? Does the employee have any right to know?

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Written Up for Having Dinner with Someone

I went to dinner with the guy who founded our company (he's no longer involved). He has a new company now, and I reached out to see how we could do some business together and both make more money. I told my boss about it afterward, and he wrote me up. Edit to say: prior to the dinner, my boss asked me to deal with him because he didn't have the time or energy to do so himself.

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how do you deal with being “silently” disrespected?

over the past couple of months I've been, what I might call, “silently disrespected” in the remote workplace. people not showing up to meetings I run. not answering my emails. going behind my back to negotiate items without my input, but nothing super direct. I work fully remote and even though these things don't happen in person, it still hurts and I'm not entirely sure how to better my situation.

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Job offers for students are bs

Fortunately I'm not in need of a job, but i want some income to help myself with my expenses instead of relying on previous savings and my parents. But all I find as “part time” jobs are call center jobs that demand at least 30 hours per week! That's 6 hours/day when I already have classes from 7 am to 3 pm Wich means if I start working immediately at 3pm that's finishing my day around 8 pm. It also pisses me off that these companies are foreign, from France, USA and Canada offering extremely low wages to students in Mexico that find no other employment options. The only pro they have is you basically work at any time you want. I know several students working for these companies, they do complain about shitty payment, pressure, etc. I thought it might not be as bad as they say, after all,…

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I’m minutes away from quitting in the middle of a shift.

TLDR: Guy calls me racist for following safety protocall. + Coward of a manager = Being done. I work at an arcade. A family came up to the laser tag area with their ticket. I noticed the little girl was too short and told him that for safety reasons I can't let her play. (If the 6ft dad came too quick around a corner and decked his under 4ft daughter it would be an issue yk) He's upset, like cursing at me infront of his kids upset, and I offer to get a manager to give him a refund. At this point the game that was going on had ended and the people came out. A kid came out and the man says something along the lines of “they're the same height why can't she play!?” I say I measured him and he's tall enough. Guy keeps yelling. FATHER OF…

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My old employer got hit with his own superficial karma boomerang

A decade ago I worked at this café alongside some friends. One day a friend got fired over the boss' claim that she had thrown out a perfectly fine carton of milk (lol). I filled in like a madman and worked overtime for the following month because I was saving up, even though I was halfway out of that shithole of a workplace. So, one day, he called me and wanted me to fill in on a sick colleague, but I had plans so I refused. He got angry that I wouldn't help him in this pickle, so I told him he was a two-faced piece of shit (candy for the costumers, mouth-offs for the young employees, non-stop), and by the way, I quit. Now, a decade later, I was waiting for a date outside his new place, that I didn't know of. It was a sunny afternoon and he…

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Why are agencies companies still alive? They take half you’re wage ! And still make you fill like shit.cause you want a day off?

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Cleaning chimneys for God

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Annual merit raise = no incentive to work harder then what’s needed to get the raise.

I'm comfortable with the position I have at work and don't want to climb that ladder any further, but I wouldn't mind working harder to get more money within my position. However my employer won't do raises outside of our annual merit raise, so essentially this is telling me to do just enough to get the annual raise but nothing more, because it won't be rewarded anyway.