Stories

Is a 100K p.a salary considered a lot for a young person?After more than 4 years in the workforce, a couple of job changes, countless hours of overtime and sacrificing social and family time, I have finally reached the...

Family members that do embarrassing acts in public - how do you deal with it?Hi all, just wanted to rant about my dad and gather some opinions on what can be done.My dad is retired (50+) and stays at...

I had been searching for a job for months and I was getting extremely frustrated. I got a uni degree, experience, and references, but I still wasn’t having any luck.I was feeling desperate and I wasn’t sure what I...

The background is that I am working in a small company, small enough that there is only minimum HR support and each of us team leads needs to conduct our job posting, interview, even discussing the contract with the...

Response to office politics failHello. I am a manager in a sales line. Yes, I am in property/insurance.As a manager, this is my opinion, your sales director likes you.Sales require guts and you probably impressed him when you took...

I’ve been working as a corporate employee for over a decade now. And while I’ve had a lot of successes, I’ve also had my fair share of failures. Recently, I learned the hard way that there’s no such thing...

So this was a couple days ago. I (f) got super smashed at home while my husband (m) was out and was doing the usual thing by hanging out on games with my best friend(m).I am a person who...

Affair with my Subordinate Turned AwryI am writing to get this off my chest.2 years ago, I hired her to work directly under me. I later developed a crush on her and when we discovered that the feeling was...

I am a Uni student and I was struggling with a particularly tricky programming problem one particular day. I was getting more and more frustrated, and before I knew it, I was shouting out a few vulgarities.It hit me...

I can't believe what I had found out recently. My girlfriend had been lying to me for months, using the excuse of 'meeting her insurance agent' as a cover for her cheating.I had been suspicious for a while,...