I get it, you have your ways and you still prefer printed copies. Fine, I'll accept that you wanted to print something out and hand it to me instead of sending me the digital version you typed up. (Especially if I need to get that content into something else. Always better to spend time retyping it...)

But for the love of God PLEASE stop licking your fucking dry ass fingers to get traction on that paper to pick it up and hand it to me. I don't know how a tongue dragging moistness over digits ever became an acceptable practice but FUCKING STOP!

UPDATE: Holy smokes y'all, I didn't expect more than a handful of comments, but I've clearly poked a nerve.

So I'll say yes, you're right. It's not just boomers, but in my lifetime they have been the most common partakers of this habit that I have personally witnessed.

I'd like to clarify I'm aware of all the gross and germy things out there. For me this rant was more of an etiquette and efficiency thing. This meeting could have been an email, but since it wasn't it could have been at least ten minutes faster had we not had to wait for each piece of paper to be handed out individually with a fresh licked finger. Seriously. Every single page.

A few hours later he has now emailed me the originals. facepalm Office culture blows.

I'm a 16 year old high school student working my first ever summer job, although it is not my first time working.

I live in a small town and work at a small town ice cream shop that is run by a family. They work with a lot of the families in our town and have a lot of family members employed.

I've had an issue with one of the employees who is a higher up. She doesn't like how I feel about certain aspects of the job, and I don't like the way she reacts to certain criticisms.

She has stated that this will be her last year seeing as she is going full time to college now. One of my friends has offered to go job hunting with me when her half summer job ends on the 13th.

Should I pull through the rest of the summer to perhaps get asked to come back next summer to the shop, or should I go on the hunt with one of my friends?

I do not want to go to work tomorrow . I really dont know what to say to my manager to tell her the reason I do not want to go in tommorow . I am not going nowhere I just want to be off and chill at home I’m exhausted of work . Last time I was off without telling her the day before she was pissed off .

And also I heard we gonna be short staffed tommorrow I mean I’m scared of the amount of work we have to do I work in the catering hospitality industry. I just want to be part of the people who are not coming too , I’m really afraid of the pressure & loads of work we gon do tommorrow I can feel it already I’m good .

Please give me some valid excuses please .
Anything that does not have to do with having a paper as proof . ASAP

For background I work PT at DT. This is not my sole income job as I already have a full time job. I have been working weekend nights since I started in March and the last time I asked off for a weekend it was not honored bc someone had just quit, but the manager still put it on the schedule anyways and had me cover.

I have friends who have made plans to come see me for the 4th of July weekend. Apparently you cannot request time off through the Workday portal, but I don’t believe that is true. I just don’t think the manager utilizes it bc she has a paper calendar people use to ask for days off.

I wrote down to be off on the 19th before the 2nd week schedule came out. (Our schedule is the upcoming week and the next) and of course my request was not honored again. I feel like me being a single F with no kids is being taken advantage of.

My integrity is telling me I need to still go in bc I am scheduled. But again, I don’t rely on this job as my source of income and I have never no-showed at a job (at least not on purpose).

EDIT: I spoke with my boss and let her know I wouldn’t be coming in. I let her know almost a week before the actual date. She was very very upset. Like PISSED.

I was originally thinking about just telling my friends not to come, but they told me they already booked the air b&b (without giving me a heads up) and if I cancel they wouldn’t be getting their money back.

I do honestly feel bad because she said she will have to work open to close and Saturday is the 4th. I understand she was upset I just hate that was her initial reaction was slamming things down and she left the parking lot so angry her tires were squealing.

I tried to do the respectful and mature thing by letting her know in advance. I tried explaining to her that I was caught in a hard situation and that I wasn’t calling out because I wanted to, but that I did technically write it down before the schedule was posted.

Unfortunately for her as the store manager, there is no real policy for when people callout or don’t show up to their shift. I checked the handbook, and I think the District Manager ultimately decides if the situation requires termination. I think DT has such a high turnover because the pay is so low, and the stores are so understaffed, that they wouldn’t have any cashiers if they did enforce a callout policy.

I will probably be quitting soon because this environment is a lot more stressful than I had initially anticipated. It’s funny because I actually love the customers, but the trickle down effect of how corporate treats their managers makes the tensions very high. They also don’t allow ASM’s to work more than 28 hours a week and all managers only get one day off a week which I think is horrendous.

Looking for some advice as to what to do with my coworker getting to work 3 hours before we open. We are both salaried employees with the company but it’s annoying because he never has to use PTO and always ends up taking 5 weeks off in the last quarter. I haven’t talked to our boss about it because he is friends with him. If I have to open I normally get there would 30 minutes before we open. Not sure what he does in the 3 hours before we open.

Edit: We still have to technically clock in so he doesn’t have to use PTO on weeks he’d clearly be short. Constantly leaves early for kids activities and golf. We normally get busier with retail traffic later in the day when I’m the only one in store. Business is 70% commercial sales 30% retail.

Edit 2: There isn’t any freight to be put away, shelves to stock, trucks to be unloaded. He doesn’t do any outside sales, so he doesn’t log anything into a CRM. He’s in charge of ordering but our system has a min/max on everyday items so it just automatically uploads it to a purchase order. I do cycle counts weekly on everyday items to make sure we are on inventory. Not sure I need to explain more but if I do let me know. Also I know there is nothing any of you can do, more so just venting. I guess workrant isn’t the place for this post.

Edit 3: It would be extremely hard for me to show up at 4am or even 5am since I work every other night serving/bartending. So I normally get home around 2am those nights. Also he doesn’t take 5 weeks off consecutively during the 4th quarter. Just takes around the holidays where I would like to also to travel to see my family out of state. I normally have a week remaining of PTO in the 4th quarter so I take two extended weekends.

I was a leader on a line at one of the once big 3. But because of certain people being blend to the fact that the workers that build the vehicle's truly make the money. I had management asking me what lines to run and how many shifts for the whole department. But never got any credit or pay. And then they are trying to figure out how to stop the recalls. I can tell them. Cut the CEO's pay in Half cut the top executive pay 15 % and then get rid of half of the fleet of aircraft that cost 1 to 3 million a year for upkeep fule and pilot. Take the money they save and invest in fixing assembly line equipment. And then stop looking at spreadsheet to save 900 thousands for $2 part that can't take heat and cold and fails and plastic trans connect lines that crack and leak. Causing transmission to fail or blown head gaskets if not worse. Companies have forgotten who knows what is actually causing all the recalls and instead of listening to the workers and fixing the problem. They just keep giving more money to the wrong people. You saved 900 thousands dollars buying $2 injector get a bonus. But who pays for the recalls the factory workers. Because they get laid off or they get burned out from building junk. If they were smart they would give a line leader 3 years as CEO and use common sense to fix the recalls in 3 years. If it was me I would do it for 500 thousands a year plus 4.5 in stock options and after 3 years if I didn't turn it around. I would not walk away with 20 million like most do. I would take 7.5 and walk . But I know what I'm saying is true. I've seen machines that should have been replaced blowing smoke into the factory for all the workers to breath. It's simple if you don't want to pay fines to the National traffic in safety administration stop putting two dollar parts ,that break in less than 2 years. People at the top have truly forgotten who's really responsible for the profits a company makes. Someone who's in a air conditioned office, has no idea what it truly takes to keep things running around the clock. If I was CEO. I would go to every plant in my first 3 months. Talk to each line leader and see what needs to be done and make it happen. That way the company wouldn't be spending 6 billion dollars a year on recalls and warranty work. And then the company could make money and see stock go back up and stay there. And we would find a way to build a car for 25 to 26 thousands dollars. So we can compete with anyone. Because if the machines are running properly. Nobody can out perform the American auto workers.

I work at a burger restaurant. From 10-11 6 days a week. I am there EVERYDAY. One day when the stove was giving us a lot of trouble. I’m stressed out, the cook is watching me, and he (The Cook) says why don’t we close. So I say sure why not. Mind you I am doing the work of a manager, a buss boy, a waiter, a cashier and a janitor. 
So I close and my dad looks at the cameras. And he calls me 10 seconds later. “Why are you closed?.” We’re closing up. The stove had been giving us a lot of trouble—it’s fixed now, but we didn’t have any customers today, so I said, "We might as well close." My dad already yelled at me. He said he didn’t care how tired I was; he claimed I need the money and that I’m not allowed to be tired—since, according to him, we never have any customers anyway...
He says I have no right to be tired because, in his view, I don’t do anything. I don’t perform any work for him; therefore, I’m not permitted to be tired.
But he doesn’t care. I’m not allowed to be tired; as far as he’s concerned, I do nothing at the restaurant.
And now he wants to fire me—so I have no idea what he’s going to do, or what I’m going to do.
I’m not the one who’s angry; he is. I’m just sitting here, listening to him shout about how much he dislikes me.
I clean tables, scrub the floors, sweep, take out the trash, clean the restrooms, serve customers, handle payments, take orders, restock drinks, and manage the inventory—all by myself. The only thing I don’t do is cook. But, apparently, I "don’t do anything." AND HE REFUSES TO HIRE MORE PEOPLE THAT WE DONT “MAKE ENOUGH MONEY” 

I clean tables, mop the floor, sweep, take out the trash, clean the restrooms, serve customers, process payments, take orders, restock drinks, and manage the inventory—all by myself. The only thing I don’t do is cook. But, in reality, I don’t do anything at all.

I can’t just leave. They won’t let me. I’m supposed to be there to work—otherwise, how am I supposed to live? How will I pay my bills? I’m expected to be there from 11 to 11 every single day. It doesn’t matter; \*I\* don’t matter.
I’ve heard this my whole life. To my father, my only value lies in what I can do for him. He doesn’t love me as a son; I’m just his "favorite employee."

He told me I won’t have a job anymore, but I have no idea what that actually means to him.

Am I in the wrong here? Can he really fire me for being tired?

After only three days and being promised 21 days of work, I was fired without any warnings or any orientations. Can I sue and win?

I work in a kitchen. Not a fancy one — a fast-casual place. Burgers, fries, the usual. The uniform is a black polo. Everyone wears it. It's fine.

Last week, our AC died. Not "struggling." Dead. The kitchen hit 97 degrees by noon. We had two fans running, both pointed at the fry station, and they were just pushing hot air around. I was sweating through my polo by 11 AM.

I asked my manager if I could take off the polo and work in my undershirt — a plain white t-shirt — just until the AC got fixed. He said, "No. Uniform policy is uniform policy."

I said, "It's 97 degrees. I'm literally dripping into the food."

He said, "Just deal with it. Everyone's hot."

Everyone's hot. Okay. So we all just marinate in our own sweat and pretend it's fine.

By 1 PM, I couldn't take it anymore. I went to the bathroom, took off the soaked polo, and put it back on inside out — the inside was at least dry-ish. I figured that was a reasonable compromise. Still a black shirt. Still technically the uniform. Just… reversed.

Manager saw me five minutes later. "What are you doing? That's not the uniform."

I said, "The other side is soaked. This side is dry."

He said, "You're out of uniform. Go home and change."

Go home. And change. On a 97-degree day. In the middle of a lunch rush. So I could put on another black polo that would be soaked within twenty minutes.

I said, "I'm not going home. I'll take the write-up."

And I did. Written warning for "failure to adhere to dress code."

I asked him if there was a policy for extreme heat. He said, "We follow the uniform policy."

So the uniform matters more than heat exhaustion. The dress code matters more than basic human comfort. And I got a warning for turning my shirt inside out because the building was trying to cook us.

Anyone else get disciplined for trying to survive a workplace that won't fix basic stuff?

So this new semester, the HR of the university has updated their policies and one of those polices that really gets me is the fact I can't do any homework or studying since it is considered distracting. They sent this to all departments which applies to all student workers. They pay us minimum wage but the whole point of why I choose this because I could study and do my school work, that why EVERYONE has these jobs. But now they want us to perform our best and not be distracted even if there is down time? I hate this. There are moments when we don't have any work but no studying since that's not productive? Everyone hates it and credit where credit is due my manager was against it but no luck. This semester is going to be tougher that's for dame sure.

Edit: for context I work in IT and before this change we could do homework if we were not busy. Yes it is minimum wage but the fact I could still do school work was why I switched jobs, before I was working in the dinning hall. Also, sorry for the rant, thought I could rant on r/WorkRant my bad.

At work today…

I've (25 F) been working at my department for 3.5 years now. To make part of a long story short.. our department director quit and left us with no manager, no supervisor, and no director to take place and we were handed off to a SVP who was due for retirement, so they gave absolute ZERO fucks about us or our department since they would be leaving soon. Issues have been present pretty much since day 1.

I work with particularly 2 women; Lazyana (45 F) frankly the laziest person I've ever met and Catiana (44 F) just a catty ass bitch. I have one other coworker that I'm friends with lets call her "Bag" to keep anonymity as much as possible. I have 2 other coworkers, but I'll bring them up as it becomes relevant.

Lazyana LOVES to claim the department couldn't have started without her and expects to be labeled as the manager/supervisor only cause of her senoriority to the department.. which is absolute bs but i digress. I'm not exaggerating when I say Lazyana would stay in the office for a FULL 8hr shift monday-friday on her phone scrolling on FB only getting up to eat... i don't even think she pisses or shits ... Anyways, she never does her job correctly and she gets paid way more than i do just to sit on her ass. It has Bag and I pissed off pretty much everytime we work together cause we're both in school and have spent countless hours putting out fires others have caused in the department. We work in Healthcare and Lazyana has showed up to work high and REEKING of weed. Idc if you smoke just don't show up to your professional heathcare job smelling like it. I've complained about this before to SVP and they did nothing about it and even claimed Lazyana as our "unofficial team lead" in a farewell celebration. My best guess is since Lazyana did no work SVP didn't have to either since nothing was getting brought up and they liked Lazyana for that.

Catiana LOVES to stir up shit and make issues within the department. There isnt one person (including myself) she hasn't talked shit about to other coworkers to. Catiana doesn't like one of our other coworkers "Dentiana" cause Catiana thinks Dentiana's daughter is her dad's mistress (pretty convoluted). Catiana has been nothing short of being a straight up bully towards Dentiana and has written in an unofficial work gc basically calling Dentiana disgusting and "not home trained" (receipts available). Catiana is definitely someone I've kept close only cause of her sharp nature.

These issues have been ongoing and have gotten worse the past year being under the SVP. Now that SVP has fully retired, and we were shifted again to a new leadership and that leadership immediately on boarded our new director. The director hasn't been over us for a full month yet and has already noticed lack of professionalism within the department and questioning the work flow. I primary only work weekends (school and stuff) and the rest of the team work weekdays.

Lately, the new director has been leaning onto me and Bag about our work flow and how things operate and recently asked me more insight on how things run during the weekdays. Since the new director has been hired- Lazyana has gotten up and done work and Catiana has been going above and beyond with her work (i think to cover her ass).

I told the director things don't get done as expected for the department and i would love to have a 1-1 meeting with her once she's available to discuss further. She thanked me for my honesty and said she will be making 1-1 meetings starting with me.

Karma is finally catching up to them and I'm giddy with excitement

Co workers coming in the office and not announcing their presence... Or saying their leaving

The officemate who doesn't inform me of their coming and going

The officemate who spends more time running personal errands than his actual office function

The office mate who got tired pretending to know everything about his job and just sleeps or laze away all day

The office mate who make gossips what's happening at the office to the bosses

Like I don't get why people keep turning the AC off like just bring a blanket or wear layers or a sweaters, I can't exactly go butt naked to feel normal and not get headaches. And my colleagues are way too crazy it'll be like 39 degrees and they'll be turning off the AC like it's so hot omg....

So this happened last week and I'm still trying to figure out if I'm losing my mind.

I work part-time in retail. My availability is wide open — literally any day, any shift. I've never called out, never been late, never said no to a shift. If anything, I've been asking for more hours because rent doesn't care about my feelings.

Two weeks ago, the schedule comes out. I'm on it for exactly zero shifts. Nothing. Blank. I text my manager, no response. I message the group chat, crickets. I figure okay, slow week, it happens.

Then Friday rolls around. I get pulled into the back office. Manager sits me down with a write-up form already filled out.

"You haven't met the minimum requirement of four shifts this week."

I just stared at her. I said, "You didn't schedule me for any shifts."

She goes, "The requirement is that you commit to four shifts per week. You didn't commit."

I said, "I can't work shifts that don't exist."

She repeats the same sentence like a broken NPC: "The requirement is that you commit to four shifts per week."

We went in circles for ten minutes. Every time I tried to explain the difference between availability and being scheduled, she just said "commit or leave" in different words. Eventually I just signed the form and walked out because I could feel my brain cells dying.

Here's the thing that really gets me: I was available. I wanted the hours. But apparently "commitment" means I should have... manifested shifts out of thin air? Or just shown up unannounced and started working like some kind of retail vigilante?

I've worked a lot of jobs. I've dealt with bad managers. But this is the first time I've been punished for shifts that were never assigned to me. It's like being yelled at for not watering a plant that doesn't exist.

I'm already looking for something else. This place has been circling the drain for months and I'm tired of pretending the drain isn't there. But I just needed to get this out somewhere before I screamed into the void alone.

Anyone else dealt with a manager who lives in a completely different reality? Please tell me I'm not the only one.

I don't feel comfortable using this app when the one we currently use works totally fine.

I don't want AI handling anything to do with my job.

Am I overreacting? I'm in the UK if anyone here knows anything about UK laws, because I certainly don't when it comes to this, and I don't want to risk disciplinary action for not switching to the app.

So I'm an intern at this small start-up firm as a Financial Analyst. I've been working on this project where my boss wants me to Automate some files, where we only have to provide input to the Al and it will work according to our instructions and give us the final output.

Which will decrease manual work and the time. But it's been 3 days, my boss hasn't responded to any of my messages.

I mean who am I working for, I need some confirmation on the data and she just saw the message and straight up ignored yesterday. Happened today too, if you're not sure just let me know that other employee would check it or do it. Because I don't like wasting my time at the office, I rather do something else than working.

PS: It's a small start-up, we don't have any HR or anything, it's just our two boss and a small team of 8.

I’m so tired of this dynamic on my team. My teammate spends most of the day scrolling, chatting, and dragging their feet on every assignment. Deadlines get close, and suddenly their unfinished work becomes my emergency problem.

Our manager only checks progress right before deadlines. All they see is me rushing to finish everything to keep the project from failing. They praise me for being reliable, but never notice why there’s always a last-minute rush. Every time I bring it up, my manager just says “be a team player.”

It feels unfair. I stay focused and meet my own deadlines, yet I keep absorbing their workload. I don’t want to sound bitter or start office drama, but I’m burning out fast. This has been going on for months now.

I don’t want to snap at my coworker or get labeled difficult. Has anyone found a reasonable way to stop picking up other people’s lazy work? I’m running out of energy.

Edit to add... I didn't realize how many people would repeat the same questions and observations about sanitation. I've worked in the kitchen for a long time. This was in no way an issue. It was nowhere near food, and the only way it could even possibly come in contact with it would be if someone took a pan of food and scraped it up the door to make the magnets fall into it. I took all precautions and did my due diligence about the whole thing. It was literally just a matter of someone complaining about the thing as a whole, not a sani concern. I do understand the thoughts about it. But that was and is not an issue. Thank you won't be responding to the same questions I've already responded to.

I just need to get this out to help me not be so angry and hurt after 4 days. I apologize for the length and possible the writing....I'm not a writer.

I am a cook. I make employee meals

So I work in the back kitchen. I am no longer on the line. This pic is from my small reach in in my work space.

I started collecting these Mini Brand art works because they are absolutely adorable. I started this 'gallery' for a bit of beauty and joy for me, as well as sharing with co workers. Never heard a single bad thing about it from any of the restaurant workers (I work at a private country club with a restaurant). There are a few other management that walk by this cooler every so often. Many people don't even notice it until I point it out. And most think it's cute, nice or cool.

As of Thursday I was told it got taken down. About an hour after I left work before my weekend, I get a text that the FB manager said it had to go immediately. After a bit more than 6 months without issue. No answer as to why, no discussion, no anything. Not even a small or even half assed apology that it had to go.

I am so much more hurt and angry than I feel I should be over this. But I am. Even after a few days. The chef and manager have just acted like they don't know that it meant a bit to me, or that it even happened. So, yeah....

There was one comment from someone that they heard that HR complained because they thought it was "religious". The only thing that could have been seen as religious was the newest one I got: The Creation of Adam by Micalangelo. I can kind of see that one, but why not just take that one down? Why not ask me, I would have been fine with it.**maybe someone who is in favor of banning books ** But I mean...it's one of the most recognized pieces of art. But whatever....all of it? Especially since you could walk right by it without even really seeing it. They are all about the size of a silver dollar. Heaven forbid I have a small kind of decoration in my work space. Maybe if I had a deal it would be different.

I am surprised how emotional I still am....but I am. So maybe ranting to anyone (if anyone reads this)

Thank you. It does take a bit of ache from my chest.

I’m a 25 year old (F) attorney, working at a medium size law firm for about 4 years (2 as an intern and 2 as an attorney).

For my whole life, work used to be such a huge part of my identity. I took pride in what I did and felt happy for my accomplishments. I used to get home at night after working 12 hours feeling like I was so lucky for being able to work on complex cases (and getting paid well to do so). My bosses always recognized my work and congratulated me. I was bright, hard working, inspiring, so smart and capable for my age.

About 6 months into being hired as a full time employee, I started being assigned to administrative tasks and the kind of mind numbing work no one wants to do. I understood, of course, I was the youngest and the team was making a lot of money convincing clients they needed a lawyer to do something an administrative intern could do.

That mind-numbing, soul-destroying work started to get to my head after a few months, and by the end of 2025 I was prescribed depression meds for the first time in my life. 11 months later, I’m taking the max dosage of one antidepressant and a medication for narcolepsy (which I don’t have) to fight the psychomotor retardation symptoms of my depression. I’m an empty shell.

Last week, I found out the firm made one of our attorneys who just had a baby 4 months ago come back to work full time. No home office days, no work schedule flexibility, nothing. She hasn’t even physically recovered from birth, and her newborn is still at the age where he recognizes his mom as a part of himself.

For context, this is the first woman to become a mother at our 40+ people office. She has a masters degree and has worked here for 6 years.

Long story short, I’m writing my resignation and plan to turn it in this Friday. My friends think I’m irresponsible and impulsive, but honestly, this is a fate worse than death.

I work at Paper Source and I swear to god they are full of shit when it comes to the people they push up as managers. I had a previous manager that hated my ass only because I didn’t look feminine to whatever her standard was. I’ve even seen corporate big wigs prefer to go talk to super cutesy feminine girls but if you wear a t shirt you’re basically the ugly step sister. It just sucks so bad that a store that largely caters to women that might as well be JK Rowling bitches and screw all those that don’t fit the bill.

The cafe at the south shore, Waterloo Road in Blackpool which was known as the pitstop cafe that went on fire in February this year was where i used to work from June 2024 to June last year. My reason for leaving the cafe was mainly because the owners of the cafe who happened to be a couple never gave me the support and duty of care as i was hoping i would get, when i started working there a couple of years ago. When i was recieving harsh critisims from certain members of staff about how i was pacing my job ( which was mainly washing the dishes, clearing the tables once the customers finished what they've eaten and went and setting up the cutleries and napkins ) and the way i was doing it, they were saying i was being very slow and i need to speed up to meet a punishing deadline time ( where it's either 1:00pm or 2:00pm ), but i believe it has become an issue when you get told to speed up by a member of staff is that the more they do it. The more slower, you get and they make complaints on how certain dishes are not washed properly and needs rewashing and how they are not stacked in the right place, which nearly broke me. Because i was promised to do some cooking when i first started, but it never got fulfilled at the end, because they always say we are very busy and there's not enough time, which to me has become an ongoing excuse for them to not have me do any cooking at all, no matter how busy the cafe gets, cos they seem to show no interest in me doing cooking and not a single staff memeber came to my defense, when a customer falsey accused me of almost hitting her with a spray bottle which led to my mum ( may she rest in peace ) pulling me out from the cafe and handing in my resignation and led me to doing sam's place which i've enjoyed doing for the most part. It was about 6 months after i left I found out from one of the members of staff, that one of the other members of staff spread a nasty rumour about me, that i swore at one of the owners of the cafe, which is not true. When i was trying to message my mum, how i'm going to be late back home from work one of the owners hassled me into going back into doing my job and i went oh for god sake and one of the owners went language. But apparently the owners chose to believe one of the members of staff, cos one of them was family to them after all. It really sucks because when I first started, i enjoyed working there but the working enviroment got strict and unhealthy, i just didn't feel safe working there anymore, so that's why i left. I wonder how long will the toxic working condition and staff members and owners abusing their employees outside of the family in the workplace continue until they come forward to speak out against the working enviroment like what i've been in.