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Woman Gets Her Nails Done On Every Payday Instead Of Working, Regrets It After Coworker’s Revenge
Most of us want to look good, which might require some effort, be it doing face yoga every morning or running a comb through your hair at least once in a while.
For this redditor’s co-worker, it was getting her nails or hair done every payday, which would make her late to work whenever said day came. Being the manager of the store, the OP eventually had enough of such time management and found her co-worker something to do with those acrylic nails of hers.
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This redditor’s co-worker would always be late to work on payday, as that’s when she would have her nails or hair done
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Getting your nails done can have a positive effect on your emotional well-being
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Be it long acrylic nails or a quick manicure with a colorless top coat, getting your nails done is often followed by a mood boost. As a matter of fact, research suggests that nail care—especially performed by salon manicurists rather than the person themselves—tends to positively affect an individual on three aspects: positive emotions, relaxation, and vitalization.
“Our research suggests that engaging in salon nail care, coupled with light self-disclosure, can provide a positive boost to one’s psychological state,” the author of the study and an associate professor at Saitama Gakuen University, Atsushi Kawakubo, told PsyPost. “This practice offers a tangible way for individuals to promote their mental well-being, emphasizing the importance of self-care and the potential benefits of sharing personal thoughts in a comfortable setting.”
The positive effect, plus having visually pleasing nails, encourages quite a few people to book an appointment, whether on payday or not. Statista revealed that tens of millions of people in the US alone do it quite regularly, with the majority of those who get their nails done doing it four times a year.
Whether it’s four times a year or every payday, nail care appointments—like any other beauty procedure—require time; surveys found that women spend roughly ten days a year taking care of their hair alone. And while that’s a sacrifice many people, both female and male, are willing to make, it arguably shouldn’t be done at the expense of one’s place of employment.
Co-workers being late is one the things people dislike the most at work
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No matter the reason for being late, failing to start work on time is one of the most aggravating things employees do. A survey carried out by Jobs.ie found that nearly half of employed individuals feel resentful of a co-worker who is consistently late for work. It also revealed that the most common reasons for showing up late are not beauty-related, as traffic, oversleeping, and the weather respectively are cited as the main ones.
You might wonder how many people have to deal with the poor time management skills of their colleagues. Well, YouGov were interested in learning that, too, and their surveys found that roughly half of employed individuals did. While as much as 48% of workers in the US were never late, the majority of the rest were late less than once a month; some, though, admitted to failing to start on time as often as once or a few times a week.
YouGov also found traffic, oversleeping, and bad weather to be the main causes for being late, but according to them, there was one more—workers not being penalized for checking in after a certain time. That’s what nearly a third of surveyed workers cited as a legitimate reason for being late, which is something the OP’s co-worker would likely agree with, considering that she didn’t face any consequences for her lack of punctuality, as the redditor revealed in the comments.
The OP provided more details in the comments
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Laura Annsmith 9 months ago
I can't stand co workers who are always late, I work in a lab, we had one girl who came in almost every day about 15/20 minutes late, always put us behind, and she always had Starbucks, she always made the comment that if she was late, she might as well get coffee, our boss finally told her that if she comes in late again, she was going to be fired. She always seemed to make it in on time after that, and with coffee. What you allow will continue.
Laura Annsmith 9 months ago
I can't stand co workers who are always late, I work in a lab, we had one girl who came in almost every day about 15/20 minutes late, always put us behind, and she always had Starbucks, she always made the comment that if she was late, she might as well get coffee, our boss finally told her that if she comes in late again, she was going to be fired. She always seemed to make it in on time after that, and with coffee. What you allow will continue.
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