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-Always appear to busy, or else they will think you're slacking rather than being efficient
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a lot of people just bullshit their way through life and somehow get away with it
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most employees are just winging it and have no clue of what they're doing
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Never work somewhere that doesn't have a toilet.
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The vast majority of people are lazy assholes who will literally do only the bare minimum to keep their job.

Employers expect you to dedicate yourself entirely to their company, regardless of your own physical, mental and emotional well-being. Refuse, and you're the problem.
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A lot of people get through screening processes, even when they are clearly not capable of doing the work. These people often leverage others in order to appear competent, on paper.
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DK9292 posted...

Employers expect you to dedicate yourself entirely to their company, regardless of your own physical, mental and emotional well-being. Refuse, and you're the problem.

sounds like you work for a bad company. my job has never expected anything close to that.
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Avoid the men's room at 1 to 230 or so. That's shit apocalypse.
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Giant_Aspirin posted...

DK9292 posted...

Employers expect you to dedicate yourself entirely to their company, regardless of your own physical, mental and emotional well-being. Refuse, and you're the problem.

sounds like you work for a bad company. my job has never expected anything close to that.

Worked. I was made redundant at my first job, then quit my second when they tried the same.
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The less you can talk, the better.

The other shift is always full of assholes.

When it's time to move on, just do it, and do it quietly.
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That my goal in life is to retire extremely early because I hate working
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You will never win a you vs. management argument/complaint
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Wording things a certain way can have a big impact.
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On the job training means "thrown in at the deep end and expected to wing it"
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If you are a celebrity you don't want people in your house to totally mind their own business, so remember their birthdays.
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I agree with the comment about people doing the bare minimum. My coworker actually just quit because she felt too bored. She just texted and browsed social media most of the time it seems, but I could have thought of many tasks for her to do.
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NathanX95 posted...

The vast majority of people are lazy assholes who will literally do only the bare minimum to keep their job.

On the other hand, you bust your ass, but never see a change in your paycheck. The asskissers and/or friends of the managers get the promotions because you accidentally made yourself too valuable in your current position.
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loafy013 posted...

NathanX95 posted...

The vast majority of people are lazy assholes who will literally do only the bare minimum to keep their job.

On the other hand, you bust your ass, but never see a change in your paycheck. The asskissers and/or friends of the managers get the promotions because you accidentally made yourself too valuable in your current position.

Oh yes. I worked so hard all of my years here and perhaps they don't realize how well things ran because of me. But I hardly received raises.
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People would rather lie or blame others than stand up and take responsibility.
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Vol2tex posted...

People would rather lie or blame others than stand up and take responsibility.

This is why you should avoid working 3rd shift in certain places.
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Not every customer/client will like the work you do, and will look for someone who is the right fit for them.
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ehhwhatever posted...

If you are a celebrity you don't want people in your house to totally mind their own business, so remember their birthdays.

wat
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upper management will always make bad decisions yet somehow operate a company that generates hundreds of millions of dollars a year in profit

yes, dumb team building exercises exist and are as dumb as you would believe they are

if something is critical and needs to be acted upon literally years ago, upper management will "get around to it" years later
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Always wash your produce

Win the lottery because jobs suck.
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You can get away with a lot of of bullcrap until someone decides to make an example of somebody. After a while things will go back to normal.
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Minimum job qualifications are often BS or misleading, just apply anyway
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Good coworkers and cooperative environments are more important than bigger paychecks where happiness is concerned.

The further you have to travel to work, the more stress you experience in your daily life. That has obvious negative effects on happiness.

People who bring strong-smelling food to work for lunch aren't assholes unless they do it consistently. So don't throw too much shade.
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No matter if Person A has been at a company for 4 years, where as Person B has only been there a lil over a year. Person B will think Person A doesn't know shit, and will proceed to tell them that they will not follow the correct procedures, and use wasteful products.
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Don't ever let them see what your 100% looks like if you're not looking for a promotion.
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Walk around with a box in your hand. Easy way to always look busy.
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apocalyptic_4 posted...

Walk around with a box in your hand. Easy way to always look busy.

lol unfortunately that doesn't work everywhere... if I had a box in my hand, everyone would ask why i have a box in my hand... now, my iPad, thats a different story.
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Make sure everyone you work with/for knows your name. If they don't say your name out loud at least once a day you may as well not exist.

Make sure everyone knows exactly what position you will end up in, and remind them weekly. Don't say "I want to be the Division Manager" or whatever...it's "When I'm the Division Manager".
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Never work extra time because it doesn't mean shit
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This

DK9292 posted...

Employers expect you to dedicate yourself entirely to their company, regardless of your own physical, mental and emotional well-being. Refuse, and you're the problem.

and this

hollow_shrine posted...

The further you have to travel to work, the more stress you experience in your daily life. That has obvious negative effects on happiness.

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Talk a lot of shit but also back it up. Don't just let your work speak for itself. Shameless self promotion works better.
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the people who should get promoted based on their performance and capability never do, because the people who make those decisions either act too slow or refuse to listen to someone who's watched an employee constantly bust their ass for years

knowing that you were either getting crucified by the workers or torn apart by higher ups if they decided to implement some asinine addition to the workflow that was never going to work but went ahead with it anyway to make it seem like they were improving or changing something

If it needs to be done, its not being done, and you know how to do it, its your job. If youve run out of stuff the manager told you to do, thats the best policy.

This applies to absolutely everything you were taught how to do and then some. NEVER assume someone else is doing something you know how to do, no matter how much thats been the case before. Its not because theyre lazy, but because the company just plain doesnt have everyone scheduled all the time, and thank goodness for that.

Also, ever hear the saying Do the thing you dont want to first thing in the morning so you can get it out of the way? Yeah, cant do that if you work a closing shift.
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Rika_Furude posted...

if something is critical and needs to be acted upon literally years ago, upper management will "get around to it" years later

I work as a manager at a theatre, and our ticketing kiosks don't accept gift cards. We called it in to corporate IT 4 years ago when we changed software. Flash forward to today, and it is still a known issue that they are looking into.
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Old people are dicks.
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Some customers are so mind numbingly fucking stupid/aloof that it's a wonder they're even able to get from point A to point B (that being your workplace), let alone actually continue to live out each day and not just have natural selection take care of them.
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Find the difference between working to live and living to work, then adjust your life to meet that instead of the other way around.
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Even if the manager tells you what sounds like just doing one thing, always assume you have to do everything youve been taught. Learned this the hard way. Turns out its extremely fucking obvious that youre working the grill means youre working the grill and these three other things that blatantly arent a grill!
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teamwork makes the dream work

and having fun at work = winning at life
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also if you work hard you're really doing it for yourself, because most people really don't care.
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All those dozens of fictional villains who say that if you want something done right, you have to do it yourself, are right. At least in that particular sense.
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offices that say they "dont play politics" play politics worse than Washington.