Amen, brother! Can we have a big "AMEN"!?!

I had a manager who pulled this on me when I had pneumonia. I dragged myself in to work (getting even worse as a result) to find that he had given himself the week off... AFTER I called in sick.

And if there's only one holdout, it tells you who

LOL...and then they act surprised when you say, "Okay." and leave!

you gotta kno when to hold em, kno when to fold em.

monday, it´s called monday :D

I 100% agree with this. One of my complaints when my kindergartner was sent home with a bunch of HW was, "This is not the work ethic I want to teach him." Everyone looked at me confused. I said, "Look, he's already been at school from 8-3. That's a full time job. Now they want him to come home and work. I do not do that. And if my boss needs me to do that I charge A LOT of money. That's the work ethic I want him to have." I've never been a proponent of homework. Especially not in kindergarten unless it's 10 minutes of reading.

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Would't that be an absolute dream?

Bravo!

That's true in many contexts, not just creative industries. Sometimes the code is: 'unwilling to put in effort' or 'not a team player' and the all time favourite 'unwilling to go the extra mile'

Exploitation makes the Capitalist World go round!

What if my spending habits are frivolous, like rent and food? Will the extra income fix those?

Gen-X Brit here, I never used AOL but I did have a large collection of AOL CDs that I got from computer magazines, they made good drink coasters.

Can tell you one thing, those company exercises don’t take to any kind of levity or anarchy very well.

While Outlook does search every email, the results never include the email you are actually looking for.

Be the top of the pyramid scheme is the secret.

Burnout isn't a diagnosis. It's the socially acceptable name for stress induced depression. I think that's something people should be aware off.

This. At the library I used to work at, we had a loading dock out back and a bench. Employees only and only the occasional smoker used it. It was my hideaway for lunch and breaks.

"I have a crippling addiction to eating occasionally."

Having to adult really sucks after you think school really sucks. Welcome to the suck.

So this is just being an adult? Well f**k this.

I've seen this before, but it's still funny.

Going on stupid little walks for you stupid physical and mental health?

I find cover letters to be a bit cringy.

Is that not our goal in life? To make other people rich?

Adulthood *is* the crisis.

The best part is how we can make ourselves into victims over things we did to ourselves, but rationalize the times we are, in fact, victims of others.

"Oh right! The severely crippling social issues I helped you form!"

About 20 years ago I worked at a place that was open 24/7. I worked any and every shift they needed. I worked doubles, I'd work weeks on end with no scheduled days off, they'd call me in the middle of the night when I did have a day off and I'd go in, etc. When I got a new job I had to work both jobs for 2 weeks (40+ hrs at each job plus 1.5 hrs drive time every day with no days off) because the new job needed me to start right away. I had submitted my two weeks notice in writing to my old job but they went ahead and put me on the schedule after my final date. I took the schedule to my manager and asked him why he thought he could do that. He told me they were going to be busy and needed me to work. I was so exhausted by this point I didn't even bother trying to be nice. I just flat out told him no. He was definitely not expecting that.

Exactly!

I was actually called in to a meeting and told I was an instigator and troublemaker when I compiled a list of complaints about a member of staff that was being extremely inappropriate within the workplace. When I pointed out that they see I clearly wasn't the only person complaining about this guy and you can see other names I was told, well in the past staff would have discreetly spoken to the office individually before ever thinking about creating a paper trail. So in other words I gave people confidence that I would use my voice to try and get things sorted- and that's a bad thing?

When the power went out at work it was like a vacation day.

Whose bright idea was it to schedule a mandatory meeting on MANAGING BURNOUT, during an employee's lunch time? Did they mean to say, "How to manage to get burned out," (by taking away the little "free" time a person has during the work day?

Carrots have excellent time management. They grow steadily.

Reading. Getting to read before going to bed.

I am struggling with number 5, though . . . . .

The dimension sounds nice, anyone want to go with me?

This one hits a bit hard, lol

Third grade was rough for me. But I'd like to think I was the reason that teacher was fired after one year at my school.

Work in Europe. Good luck getting anything out of the French office in August.

My favourite response is, "No thank you."

Not knowing what adulthood had waiting for me.

So no one told you lofe was gonna be this way

Apart from fraud, of course.

Who has time for all that stuff in the morning?

Management.."be glad you have a job." How did my auto-fill know what I wanted to say? That should be a sign.

Why can't I do both?

Me too

Hourly workers would have turned into dust.