Female colleagues making photocopies of their boobs.
A boss who on your first day tells you “I don’t allow people on my team to go to lunch together”.
Have you had a job where that happened?
Yes. He was a sociopath. He felt his employees would conspire against him if they were allowed to socialize without his supervision. It was my first day on the new job and every alarm bell went off in my head. It took me a year and a half to find something new and get out of there.
That is insane, right out of the authoritarian handbook.
We are family
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Getting harassed by a person and boss said to me: “hey don’t take it seriously”
Thanks asshole. You could’ve stepped in and tried to at least de-escalate or something. Instead you watched me get yelled at by an unreasonable person just because you considered them a customer.
Weekly beheadings of lowest performers.
I was about to write down some stuff before I realized that every job I’ve had has been riddled with red flags and I don’t think I actually know what a “nice” workplace is like.
I just apply to whatever I can get within my field and accepted that work is work. Don’t know if I can ever find a place that I’d enjoy going to. I’ve had workplaces that I tolerate enough to stay the full day and work to get paid.
But I’m always happy for people who can say they found a job they actually enjoy! Maybe I’ll accidentally bump into one of those some day.
I can recommend public service if you can swing it.
You mean to work for public services? I am currently doing that and sadly might have ended up in one of the not-so-nice ones.
There are a lot of people here who have been here since forever and feel the need to exercise their authority everyday to the “new person” and see everything the new person does well as a threat to their own position.
But yeah it for sure is more relaxing than in private companies. Took a big paycut to work here because I thought it’s better to feel less strained after work.
I’ve heard in general that public services are better as employers though!
