• DragonAce@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      20 days ago

      Same here! “We’re a family”. It was an abusive relationship where the CEO was the narcissistic abuser. God he treated everyone like crap in that place.

    • chiliedogg@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      20 days ago

      We’re just like a family.

      Any time there’s an emergency, day or night, you’re supposed immediately to drop everything to take care of us and demand nothing in return.

        • Unstoppable_Flop@lemmy.zipEnglish
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          20 days ago

          We’re a family! Complete with the narcissistic micromanaging lunatics, Favoritism and nepotism, and miserable people willing to throw you under the bus for a chance to be rewarded!

    • Brem@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      20 days ago

      Applies for “The Office: Operation Dwight”

      (ノಠ益ಠ)ノ彡┻━┻

      Jim’s camera

      “Well here I go again…!”

  • ivan@piefed.socialEnglish
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    20 days ago

    When they also say “We’re one big family here!”. They don’t say it’s a dysfunctional one. 🌚

    • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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      20 days ago

      Usually this means, “we don’t value work/life balance, so we want you to combine the two like we have”

    • dejected_warp_core@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      20 days ago

      This has always been my problem with conflating “family” with “office”. It’s tragically subjective, and usually for the worse.

      Some people have garbage family dynamics, with no counseling in sight. So these same people trot this steaming pile of bad values, reactionary behavior, trauma dumping, triggers, and more right into the workplace like it’s totally normal.

      In a smaller way, I also see managers emulate mom or dad to run their little piece of the company. All the while, not understanding that they themselves were horribly abused by their parents and think that behavior is completely a-okay to project onto their team.

        • Brem@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          20 days ago

          We all know that one person who likes to explain things. It’s sort of a way to get attention, and an easy way of doing that is mansplaining. I’m not sure if you’ve heard of mansplaining, but mansplaining is a term used for a situation where a man explains what something means, to a woman. Now, you may be asking yourself, “what is a woman?”. I’d answer, that is a very good question. By that I mean are you asking what defines femininity, or what are they literally composed of? For that may I refer you to reddit. What is Reddit, you might ask? That’s a very good question. I’d say it’s a place for people, but these days none of it is actually people. By that I mean that it’s become weaponized in a way, using very basic propaganda. What is propaganda, you might ask? Well, that’s probably something I might ask myself later today. Probably has something to do with updog.

  • hOrni@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    20 days ago

    I saw “payment on time” stated as what the position offers. Or “free parking”. I once read an offer that tried to suggest “working shifts” is a positive.

  • BackgrndNoize@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    20 days ago

    Translation: we hired incompetent insecure assholes into management positions and can’t get rid of them for some reason, can you tolerate their bullshit and manage their egos

    • cheers_queers@lemmy.zipEnglish
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      19 days ago

      or the classic “we wanted to downsize the employee budget to pad the CEOs salary, so we fired half our staff and the remaining plebs do twice the work because fuck you thats why”

  • rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    20 days ago

    Do you want to pay me like i’m in a fast paced break everything environment where i’m going have to put up with a lot of shit?

  • Ceruleum@lemmy.wtfEnglish
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    20 days ago

    “I can make a hundred trillion calculation per second and they’re all wrong”

  • getFrog@piefed.socialEnglish
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    20 days ago

    I lowkey do want to work like that, but it has to be on my own terms. Because Fast paced and high pressure works much much better with my brain than infinite meetings + horribly convoluted bureaucratic hoops to jump through to work productivly + nothing gets done + there’s still high pressure because people are frustrated about it.

    • FudgyMcTubbs@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      20 days ago

      Ditto. And the worst jobs ive ever had are the jobs where I was bored. To quote Method Man: I do my best work stressed out and under pressure.

    • lightnsfw@reddthat.comEnglish
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      20 days ago

      Yeah I worked at a T1 help desk that had a pretty consistent high call volume but still gave us enough access to actually fix shit and I low key loved that job. I was good at it, There was a decent amount of variety, no on call, no real responsibility because anything we couldn’t fix got escalated up the chain. It was great. Just clock out at the end of the day and don’t think about it until I worked next.

      Conversely my current job which pays far better is the second type you described and it’s fucking miserable.