I work for a bunch of women. There’s never a good day. Especially when they all gang up on you or you can hear them talking about you and others in cubicles. The women are never at fault. You ask for direction and follow it, but get yelled at when following the incorrect advise. It’s [...]

my boss has a control issue.  he wants to review everything that the team does.  this slows us down to a crawl.  if he wants to do everything, he should just fire us and do everything himself.

this is a story of a company that i worked for that shut its doors.  i had worked for the company since its inception and was a key employee.  well, one day, i got a call from a friend that worked in the management company of the building.  my friend told me that they had [...]

I have worked for my company for 6 years, even going through a change of hands. I have seen people come and go, and policies change. I know what it takes to run each department on a day to day basis. Since the latest ‘take-over’, I have seen significant money wasted on hiring management, meanwhile [...]

So, I was getting ready to go on vacation and had a deadline approaching.  Because of this, I was trying to help get a coworker up to speed on some things that I was handling.  We needed to decide whether to buy one of several different video encoders for a project that we were on. [...]

I’m working at one of hottest companies around, and coworkers, including boss are all awesome. The thing is, I’m working on a project for over a year now that I hate from the depths of my soul. The bigger problem is, I’m the only one capable of finishing it. Sometimes, I won’t work for whole [...]

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So there was an all hands meeting yesterday. Well, almost all hands. Me and some of the newer folks were not invited. A buddy of mine pulled me into the meeting. Now I know why I wasn’t invited. They went through the new org chart and the folks that weren’t invited were not on the [...]

I work for a consulting company and the firm that I’m consulting to has approved unlimited overtime. Problem is I’m pretty much done after about 30 hours. The consulting company wants me to put in 45+ hours a week. It just doesn’t make any sense to me. I’m on schedule. I don’t get any more [...]

My nurse manager’s fingernails are nasty! The are ragged, chewed up and dirty. What makes it worse is that she doesn’t wear gloves when she is taking care of patients. This is gross! Doesn’t she know she is supposed to be setting an example?