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I work in a retail mall setting and our bathroom has been unusable for the last 6 months. For these past 6 months we have been using a bathroom in the store across from us and haven’t had issues until a corporate visit a few days ago.

The new the implemented policy states “bathroom breaks are now required to be taken on 15 minute breaks. If it is an immediate need you must start your 15 minute break and that time will count as your scheduled break.” With this logic we can only use the bathroom once per shift which doesn’t sound normal to me? I checked OSHAs policies on this and it seems like this is a violation but I am not 100% sure as employers can set regulations within reason but cannot limit bathroom usage entirely. The reason they gave for the new policy is that it is against company policy to leave the location and come back on the clock, but we do that for scheduled breaks anyway? And the bathroom has been broken for 6 months with multiple plumbers coming in and saying they have no clue how to fix it. Just wondering the legality of this because I wanted to speak to my employer about it, but wanted to see if anyone had any input before questioning it.

I understand the importance of being on time for many jobs- however there are many jobs where, in my opinion, it really doesn’t matter if you’re late.

For example- say you work in an environment where the deadline is Friday morning and you have all week to complete the task- why does it matter is you arrive late on a Monday morning and make that time up throughout the rest of the week and make the deadline? Surely the only important thing is the work is done?

I feel like employers need to be way more flexible in this day and age- there are no so many alternative ways to make money, traditional work isn’t that appealing, especially to the younger generation.

The place I work has one microwave for people to use but a few weeks ago my co worker left food in it for 22 mins and walked away for some reason which led to the food burning and causing a ton of smoke. The building's alarm went off, we had to evacuate, and firefighters came. The microwave was left at work, not replaced. My bosses have no plan to replace the microwave. It's still burnt & discolored but everyone has still been using it. It smells bad! The room its in still stinks like smoke. Would you feel safe using the microwave? The issue is I need to bring food to eat for work and this week all I have is rice & beans. We only get 30 minutes for lunch, not enough time to leave and grab something and theres nothing close by. I want to heat up my rice & beans before work, would leaving the container wrapped in a towel in my car on the dash in the California summer heat for 4 hours be safe to eat? My co worker is convinced that I would get food poisoning that way. Thank you in advance.

Sundays blues are too real

Most of us working adults work on weekdays (Monday to Friday) and have our weekends as off days.

I do feel annoyed when it is Sunday evening because I have to start working again the next day.

I hope I am not the only one who feels annoyed.

Do you feel annoyed on Sunday evening at the thought of needing to go to work the next day?

For those who have to work on weekends and have off days on weekdays:

Do you feel annoyed on the evening of your off day at the thought of needing to go to work the next day?

Every time I see my supervisor I want to avoid her due to the fact that she can be rude, toxic and not really that great to be around. She would assume I know this and that when it comes to schedules and the thing I really hate is how when she calls me over, she use her finger to call me over as if I’m a dog. What can I do about it?

Every Friday me and my boyfriend get paid. It was the usual Friday The boss(man) told me our pay was ready and I can pick it up from the office’s drawer. I said okay and he left. After 30 minutes, I went into the office to pickup our pay. I didn’t see anything in the “usual pay drawer”. I thought maybe he still hasn’t written our cheques. Didn’t think much of it. I told my boyfriend to pickup our pay once The boss(man) gets it ready. My boyfriend takes over my shift and he again checks the same drawer. He didn’t find anything except for one of our coworker’s cheque. The coworker(who was working with my boyfriend that night) took his cheque. Me and my boyfriend still thinking that our pay might not have been ready yet, we cash our cheques in the store itself so usually our boss(man) gives us direct cash.

Today was Sunday. We didn’t get to see our boss(man) on Saturday and didn’t really think much of our pay because it has happened before that he(boss man) didn’t have enough cash to give us our pay a day later or so. Me and my boyfriend asked our boss that if he can give us our pay today because some of our bills are due. The boss(man) asked me whether I took our(bf’s and mine) pay on Friday from the drawer. I told him what happened and how I didn’t find anything in the office drawer. He started panicking and saying how he did get our pay ready and it can’t be. He gave us half of the pay today so that we could pay our bills.
Now me and my boyfriend are panicking that the boss(lady) is going to accuse us of stealing. The boss(lady) is the wife. She is not the best. Always fussy about things, always nitpicking “typical not likeable boss”.
Me and my boyfriend including the other coworkers have full access to the office. Me and my boyfriend go constantly in and out of the office to grab our stock, to grab our vault money for change, to grab cheques for the vendor and alot of other things. There are cameras everywhere but in that office( it’s because our bosses like to chill in there when they are in the store, privacy reasons).
I can’t stop this anxiety i am having even though we both are completely honest. My bf asked me, what if they fire us? I told him, we’ll that’s on them. We have worked here for 2 years and nothing has ever happened. We are best at our jobs and proven our trust every single time. If our bosses( especially bosslady) can’t believe us, that’s really not on us. We will figure something else out if we get fired. We both know we are honest.

Most of us working adults work on weekdays (Monday to Friday) and have our weekends as off days.

I do feel annoyed when it is Sunday evening because I have to start working again the next day.

I hope I am not the only one who feels annoyed.

Do you feel annoyed on Sunday evening at the thought of needing to go to work the next day?

For those who have to work on weekends and have off days on weekdays:

Do you feel annoyed on the evening of your off day at the thought of needing to go to work the next day?

I (late 20s) work in a very small office of about 14 people. There are only five women in the company, including me.
Originally there were three women, then two of us joined later. Over time, the other four have become extremely close, and lately I've been struggling with how to navigate it.
They do almost everything together.
They buy food together, eat lunch together every day, bring treats for each other, gather around one desk chatting for 20–30 minutes during work hours, go out together after work, and even meet on weekends. Recently they went out for a girls' outing and I wasn't invited.

Their conversations are usually about their marriages, husbands, relationships, and family life. They're very open with each other and update one another about very personal things going on in their lives.
I honestly suspect they even have a WhatsApp group that I'm not part of, although I don't actually know…
The thing is... that's just not me.
I'm quite career-focused. I enjoy my work, I'm studying for certifications outside work since I’d also love to venture in to entrepreneurship eventually, and when I have free time at the office I'm usually reading or learning something. I don't naturally enjoy discussing my private life at work, and I prefer keeping work and personal life fairly separate.

What also makes it harder is that the culture has become very "girls only."
If someone brings treats, it's "for the girls."
If they're going somewhere, it's "the girls."
They seem to avoid doing things with the male colleagues, and sometimes when they're together they complain about or criticize the men in the office. I've never really liked that dynamic because, to me, work is work. I'd rather have good working relationships with everyone regardless of gender.
There's also one of them whose communication style makes me uncomfortable. She'll make comments about my clothes, ask personal questions about whether I have a boyfriend, or say things that feel quite rude, then immediately laugh and say she's joking. After a while those "jokes" stop feeling like jokes.

Now I sometimes catch myself wondering whether I should start bringing food or buying treats just to fit in, even though I'm on a budget and I don't want acceptance to depend on spending money.
To make matters worse, the kitchen area is directly behind my desk, so they often stand there talking loudly while I'm trying to work. I've reached a point where I usually just put on my AirPods and focus on my work instead of trying to join conversations that don't really interest me.
The strange thing is this:
When they went out without me, I felt left out.
But if I'm completely honest, if they’d invited me, I probably would’ve gone just so I didn't feel excluded, not because I'd genuinely enjoy hours of conversations about relationships and marriages.
So now I'm conflicted., am I isolating myself because I'm naturally more private and career-focused of is this just one of those workplace cliques that you accept and stop trying to break into?
I'd especially love to hear from other women who have a similar experience how they’ve navigated it.

so i’m 16 and been working at chick fil a for the past 9 months(since September) i’m pretty chill with everyone and like not the best at my job but not the worst. ever since summer started and ever since I turned 16(June 21st) i have picked up about 10 shifts and been asked to come in like 3 times and said yes every time. I also went around the store and asked everyone if they wanted anything from this gas station literally like a 2 minute walk from us on my break because I got paid recently and wanted to get people stuff. I only called out once like around when i first started because I was really sick and never dropped any of my shifts. I also have never really been given a warning for like ANYTHING. I’m also like really nice and really chill with my scheduling manager
and he likes me a lot because i’m just a nice person.

So yesterday my scheduling manager comes up to me and gives me employee of the month and I was like kinda happy as one should be. I lowkey didn’t think I deserved it but he said since I been picking up a bunch of shifts and been coming in every time i’m asked that is a reason why i’m getting it. I don’t absolutely suck at my job to but i’m just not AS good as some people who are way older then me and has worked there longer then me.

So I ofc tell my work bestie about it and then go inside and tell some people. This one girl and guy who’s been there for 2 years and never got it started telling me about how people only get employe of the month if they suck at their job. I was like “wtf..”. They were like “yeah one of the managers told me that you only get it if you have to do better at your job” “like it gives you confidence to do better at your job”.. I was like bro WHAT?

I really don’t care about employee of the month no one really does but I was happy with the fact that my manager gave it to me because I thought he just found me a good person. Idk if i should listen to my coworkers but that made my confidence completely go DOWN. If anyone else has had this issue I would love to know what they did. I have really bad anxiety and i’m just really nervous about it and felt like i was gonna cry when I was being told i completely suck at my job basically.

I work with a remote team spread across the US, Europe, and Southeast Asia. With DST changes happening at different times in different regions, I keep showing up to meetings an hour early or late. It's honestly starting to get a bit embarrassing.

I'm between jobs and though I've applied to literally every thing I can, I've had radio silence.

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When I joined the workforce my friends told me having an Indeed profile wasn't worth it, but now I'm wondering.

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Is it worth it to get an Indeed profile? Do I do Linked-In?

How important is working non-stop?

From the time when I was young kid, I remembered that I already started doing part-time jobs in retail, sales etc. and earning like $7, then slowly as I grew up, switching part-time jobs and earning slightly more, like $10+.

I studied in university and after finishing my exams, before I even received my results, I was already confirmed and employed by a firm. I have been working non-stop since, never taken a break, never quitted.

I started investing in stocks since I was in University (with my savings from part-time jobs) and after I started working full-time, I also deposited some lump sums into my brokerage and invested more.

Today, I feel that I'm in a very financially comfortable position, ample amount of savings and investments, and I am able buy a house as a single if I liquidate all my investments. Of course, I don't liquidate now because I want to grow my investment portfolio even larger and eventually have passive income paying off my mortgage in the future.

I realize that working non-stop allows your money to have the "compounding" effect and this creates a gap that gets larger over time compared to people that took a very long time to find a job after graduation, or got laid off or resigned and took a long break.

I fell for the “we are providing lunch there is no need to bring food“ LIES!! The food was gone by the time we arrived. I work in manufacturing so I can’t leave until someone relives me. Me and at least 10 other people were hungry

okay so i’m a 25y girl and about to leave my job in two weeks. i have a male, married boss (around 40y) whom is very nice to me. we are both very professional and only engage for works at work. anyways, i was thinking of a special farewell gift and not some general ones you can always buy for anyone. i thought of an italian vintage cravat since he’s italian and has a good fashion sense. however, i’m scared it could be considered to be too intimate or inappropriate, etc. even though the price of it is still under our company’s bribery policy limit and our office is quite chill (we are a corporation in southeast asia), i still want to be careful.

please let me know your thoughts and any suggestions for other gift ideas if this one is not okay! thank you so much!

So I had planned 2 weeks hometown trip. The 2nd week is my leave and the 1st week is WFH. So the team had review meetings in the 2nd week. I don't go into the meetings, I just help my manager with dashboards and stuff. So shud i be re-planning my leaves based on the reviews?

I got sacked after replying to “don’t u ask me questions” with a “I’m not here to be interrogated”.
Then got sacked, 15 minutes later proceeded to phone me (he’s 35 and I’m 18) and state he’s gonna kick my head in and that I’m a “spastic” and a “dog”.
I’m going to the shop to collect my wage but is there any routes of authority for a cash in hand, no contract job.
The owner brings in stock from his other branches (which is illegal), he doesn’t pay gas (which is illegal), he took down “To-Let” signs from his property because it’s not in the real shops name (which is illegal), I have so many things I can pull him on, but almost no knowledge as to who to go to. Any ideas or thoughts would be helpful

I started a new role in a marketing department where part of my responsibilities includes managing our social media and marketing communications.

For context, there used to be another employee handling social media, but she left. Her responsibilities were transferred to a coworker (I’ll call him “Max”). During the year he was responsible, our social media accounts were basically inactive. Whenever anyone asked why nothing was being posted, he blamed other stakeholders 3rd party agency, saying they were slow with approvals and that the process made it impossible to publish content.

When I joined the team, I discovered that wasn’t really true. I started taking ownership of the social media accounts, and month by month we’ve been consistently publishing content. The stakeholders have actually been very cooperative, approvals come through quickly, and the work has been going smoothly. The quality of the content has also been well received.

Here’s where the problem starts.

Ever since the social media became active again, Max has started acting as if he’s my manager, even though he isn’t. He regularly comes to my office asking for detailed updates about my work, the status of campaigns, and everything I’m working on. Now he has the audacity to call me and asks me to come to his office so he can review my work and give me “his opinion” on work and marketing materials. The problem is that many of his comments aren’t even accurate or helpful because he doesn’t really understand the work.

He also insists that I communicate with him through WhatsApp instead of email, which I don’t like because it leaves less of a formal record.

Another thing that bothers me is that following up with stakeholders for approvals is officially part of my job. However, there’s was an important marketing deliverable, he suddenly insists that he will handle the follow-up instead. My manager doesn’t help the situation. He’s generally not very supportive, has had issues with several team members, and when I raised concerns, my manager simply told me to do whatever Max wanted.

Recently, I found out that marketing deliverable was important enough to require follow-up with the CXO That made me wonder a-lot.

What confuses me is that he showed almost no interest in social media or marketing communications for an entire year. The accounts were practically abandoned under his responsibility. Now that everything is running well, he’s suddenly heavily involved, wants updates on everything, wants to review my work, and wants to control communication and approvals.

I’m trying to understand what’s going on here.

how would you deal with a coworker like this when they have no managerial authority over you, but your actual manager isn’t willing to step in?

I have a new boss who started when I had my baby so I didn’t know much about her. Before I came back people were already telling me how awful she was. I gave her the benefit of the doubt because she was actually quite nice and for a while, I couldn’t figure out why people didn’t like her. Fast forward to like 6 months ago, I finally found out.

She’s the most unhinged person, she purposely has one on ones with employees that rub her the wrong way in person to avoid anything being documented. She says the most wild things to people and continuously gets away with it. She asks for suggestions and opinions and then comes back with why you’re wrong or why it’s a bad idea and proceeds to go with whatever she wanted in the first place. Don’t you dare find any mistakes with her decisions or you’re on her shit list. If you go above her to an executive for a severe health and safety concern that she ignored, she will retaliate and take things from you for “stepping on her toes”. She’ll suddenly watch your every move and put 100% effort into making your life hell. Yet, no one has the balls to say anything… including myself clearly.

I think the problem here is that the job market here is god awful, and no one wants to risk losing their job right now yet every single one of us are looking for a way out. I genuinely like my job and all of my colleagues but I can’t deal with her anymore. She’s the furthest thing from supportive, no one feels heard or appreciated, there is so much burn out around me and it appears there’s no end in sight.

I do have a phone interview on Thursday and I hope I’m out of here soon but in the mean time, is it worth sending an anonymous email to the executives from a fake email that states all facts and no emotion/personal specific incidents? The executives don’t live anywhere near us, it’s impossible they know anything because no one makes formal complaints. I want to urge them to conduct interviews with us to gather information to see that it’s the truth. I want to urge them to reevaluate who they chose to lead us. My old boss sometimes said foul things to people, but we felt supported and she listened to our concerns. I never thought it could get worse or ever thought I’d wish she were back, but here we are.

I definitely know that sending this email may not do anything at all, but at least I can say I tried to warn them when people start leaving in flocks. I have a colleague who is willing to send an anonymous one as well. I did check our policy and there is a dedicated email to submit a formal complaint to, though I don’t believe it would remain anonymous at all.. so I don’t think it would be worth it. I do know exactly which executives to email, I at least know my email would be read and discussed to some degree. Should I send it?

This may sound ridiculous or like a non issue to some of you, but at my place of work we all have a set schedule, and i’ve asked for one specific day I can not work during the week and that is Monday, I tried asking for sunday but he wasn’t able to accommodate that so we both agreed that id only work sunday mornings. it’s the one day my husband and I share a day off, and i’d like to be able to spend time with him that day since we have opposite schedules and barely see each other, i don’t think that’s a big favor to ask, Id like to be able to have a life outside of work. There’s this coworker of mine that only works 2 days a week, and i love her, but the amount of days off she takes is ridiculous, and I’m the one who’s stuck covering her shifts. She works Sundays and Mondays, and this month she’s working one day out of the entire month. and i’m stuck covering her other shifts for the month. My boss tends to just schedule without asking, and he’s scheduled me all day sunday and monday, which i’ve specifically asked him not to do, I’ve worked there for 3 years so i thought i deserved at least that little bit of respect for my schedule. It’s one thing if she takes 2-3 weeks off once every 4,5 months or something reasonable like that but this has been a monthly or bi monthly thing. The most insulting thing is she doesn’t need to work, she’s very well off so she just works for fun, yet she doesn’t show up to work and everyone else is forced to move their schedules and personal lives around to accommodate her. I haven’t had a holiday or a weekend off in 3 years, and she misses work constantly for “birthday parties” and “camping” because she just can’t seem to schedule around those 2 DAYS. My coworkers are constantly complaining that they need to schedule their vacation time they get once a year around her, because she misses so many days. One of them missed their daughter’s graduation because she had already taken that day off for a birthday party. I’m not sure how to ask my boss to start finding other people to cover her shifts because i’m done, maybe if he can’t find someone he should stop allowing her to take 2 weeks off every month. it’s so unfair and insulting to everybody else. I feel bad because i’m taking 3 weeks off in September but i scheduled that time off 5 months in advance and it’s the only time off ive requested this year, other than sick/emergency days. she did recently cover somebody’s maternity leave for 2,3 months so I feel like that’s why he’s allowing this, but this has been an issue before that as well. I feel like i’m being dramatic but i’m tired of missing out on all of the holidays, family events, and spending time with my husband because i’m stuck working every weekend or working for her.

I have been working at Rbc for over 4 years and as far as I can see, unless my peers do secret tasks without my knowledge and there is a whole other line of business that they are working on that I am not privy to, I do the exact same work as them. When I say my peers, I mean those in the level above me. I work as a Junior Xx and they work as a Xx. Now, I have been working like this for an extended period of time maybe the last 2 years or so and I have been asking and pushing for a promotion because I felt like as a Junior employee seemingly working above their mandate and doing the same exact work as the Xx, I would have a strong case for promotion. Not to mention I have always got fully met in my end of year reviews, the last one I even got an exceeded for the line of business/business process that is weighted at 70% of my total mandate.

I kept being told that I was doing good work and I have been making improvements in a lot of areas.
Now I am being told that the Company need to find a business need to promote me from Junior Xx to Xx. Im not asking to be promoted to a Senior level employee above my peers, im not asking to be placed in an unknown role where there is uncertainty as to how I can handle the role. I am literally doing the exact same work everysingle day and the only difference is that the ones with the Xx title are a whole higher pay grade than me and don’t have a Junior title next to theirs. I just want to be acknowledged and recognized for the work I am currently doing. I could not believe that this is Rbc’s policy with regard to its employees.
I essentially have 0 way to move up unless a miracle happens???
How is this fairr????? I am the only person in the “company” where I work that is at this payscale. Why must I continue to do the exact same work for less pay, less vacation, less incentive and less recognition? For what??? What kind of policy is this? If an employee does the same work they should be moved onto the level at which they are doing the work of.