Reading Workplace Secrets!

[@InfamousShark]

I’m fully aware my employees aren’t at their permanent address. Many of them travel all year long. They get their work done and I DON’T CARE! As long as they have an internet connection and are able to work within the office hours, why does it matter?

[@Jon6429]

Well... you know how a sign saying "Wet Paint!" collects fingerprints. Same thing happens when hackers create a hotspot called "Free WiFi".

[@cl8855]

There can actually be tax implications for the company based on this type of issue

[@InfamousShark]

@@cl8855 agreed. But only if the employees residence has been declared to be anywhere other than the state they work in. A company cannot determine how often or where their employees travel. So as long as their residence is in the same state their employer is, they can travel all they like and get their mail in their state of residence and also work in that state.

[@augustaseptemberova5664]

what the others said, plus, in the case of mexico - germany: insurance. in germany, anything that happens to you or your gear during working hours when working remotely is considered a workplace accident and covered accordingly - so long as your workplace is known and agreed upon with your employer. in your own interest, you _want_ that insurance. in the worst case (accident renders you unable to work permanently) that insurance makes the difference between a continued salary and becoming a welfare case. another factor could be data protection laws. for example, by eu laws, certain data must not leave eu space. if you bring a laptop with such data outside of the eu, you and by extension your company are violating those laws. in a similar manner, in my home office i can guarantee that no outsider can hear my or my colleagues' or my clients' end of confidential conversations. nobody except me can watch my screen etc. if worked from a hotel bar, or a park bench or a starbucks however .. you get the idea. all of this depends on your country's laws ofc.

[@Evie534]

Best type of boss - as long as your employees get their work done, it shouldn’t matter. Employees just have to declare their location as the same place for taxes, but that’s it.

[@Loralie571]

I did hear once of a high-level executive at a government organization, that was thrown a going away party, but the individual was not invited.

[@traceythomas5923]

I had a coworker who refused to spell my name right after I told her multiple times that she was spelling it wrong. So I decided to spell her name wrong and she immediately pointed it out. She said "my name is spelled with an E." So I responded "Yeah, so is mine!" She never did it again.

[@melsky]

I really enjoy this. I would love to hear a version with fewer but longer confessions.

[@Worldbuilder]

We’re a little bunch who bring knitting to large-scale meetings (like; 15-20 people, where everyone just have to sit and listen for 90+% of the 2+ hours). Even brought knitting to class once in college. Sat front and center. The (male) teacher glared at me for the first ten minutes until he figured out I participated *way* more than the kids in the back playing on their laptops, and after that he didn’t mind when I brought my knitting.

[@tessat338]

It used to be considered normal for women students to bring knitting to class lectures. It was considered appropriate for both male and female students to take notes during lectures, but knitting was considered normal public behavior for women up until the late 20th century.

[@lisaboban]

Cross stitch keeps me engaged in meetings. I'm not playing on my phone or answering emails. But if I'm not keeping my hands busy my mind wanders. And I have a boss who understands this!

[@terrancat]

ADHD people Unite!

[@SamBarge1]

Yes. When I take meetings from home I'll cross stitch or work on a puzzle. My focus is so much better. I wish I could knit. I'd have so many sweaters.

[@donnahibbard1774]

My boss was arrogant, rude and condescending. He drove his newly painted jaguar to work and parked outside the office. I somewhat loudly discussed with a coworker about the impending hall storm…. The boss ran out of the office and returned with his old car. 🤣😂🤣

[@orielwiggins2225]

Haha, Brandon =Butter knife. I miss your office characters and all their development and adventures.

[@stacemikewood6733]

For the "camera doesn't work" situation...a piece of clear tape over the lens with a lil smear of vaseline. Camera's on, but it's near impossible to see anything clearly (if it's too clear, another dab). So I've heard... 😉

[@priscillamoore5736]

@stacemikewood6733 - Oooh, *excellent* idea!! 😂

[@theyoftheravens]

I've done that but used it to pick up a little bit of dust off the top of my second monitor before putting it over the camera. Helped to fuzzify the camera and not have anything that could smear since we were hybrid.

[@mgk2600]

The demoted one hits home. Our company waited until the second week of January to notify around 2200 employees of layoffs.

[@billhirth4487]

While bad, that's better then 1 week before Christmas.

[@sechmet987]

​@@billhirth4487 Wizards of the Coast say hello hi

[@Healermain15]

It can actually be worse, because the holidays are very expensive and now you're out of a job.

[@rebenaq4506]

​@@billhirth4487it's worse because people spend a lot during Christmas. If they knew they could lose their job they could save money instead of spend spend spend

[@cocoavideos]

@@billhirth4487Yes. Several times I've been around where layoffs occurred between Thanksgiving and Christmas.

[@timtimtimmay4654]

Getting to know Salesforce reports well uncovers a lot of productivity secrets, and when someone gets promoted who is unproductive, you know what's up. That alone was one of the last straws in leaving one company.

[@Marianita195]

the senior slack channel is WILD!!

[@rakido7388]

You want micromanagy? I worked at a place where the boss: -Opened all mail, including that not addressed to him -Installed remote desktop software on all the PC's , so he could watch people work. -Read all email. Logging into personal email on the web was banned, the reason given 'it spreads viruses' (which is nonsense, the real reason is he couldn't read it) -Had a live display of all phone calls, and could monitor or cut into calls at will.

[@Fashion5328]

I accidentally stole two days worth of work days for vacation around christmas because I forgot to put in the system as non paid time off because I was out of vacation days. I didn't realize or became aware until six months later on my own. No one noticed.

[@KarlMalowned32]

I’ve started a trend where if a colleague badly mispronounces my name on a Teams call, I don’t respond. “Oh I’m sorry, I didn’t know you were talking to me. I was listening for my name but I didn’t hear it.”

[@eyerollthereforeiam1709]

I'm a crusty grey bearded blue collar guy, but it's remarkable how much of this translates to those of us who get dirty for a living. I love you're channel, and more dogs cannot possibly be a bad thing!

[@joannec1999]

Yep, employers still track time periods of being nonproductive. My employer’s computer system will keep track so they can look easily. It is set for 15-20 minute times of inactivity.

[@tasmanianbadger]

As a way to ‘harmlessly’ illustrate that the Job Descriptions, Policies, and Procedures at a major School within an Australian University were all just ‘write only’ documents and had NO relationship with what was actually done… well, I changed the Senior General Staff positions to ‘Winged Minions’, the General Staff to ‘Lackeys’ and the Junior General Staff to ‘Lickspittle’. I was at the University for three more years… they were all still ‘altered’ on the day I left. Nobody had ever noticed.

[@jeremyhershberger3012]

My boss is super supportive. I work from wherever in the world I want, never dress up for work and set my own hours and I boss is happy.

[@suew3973]

One of the companies I worked for actually had us log in to a system that was used for our client service phone pool. The computer would automatically log you out of the pool after 5 minutes of not detecting movement on the mouse or keyboard. So if you were on a webcast, or reading a lengthy white paper, you had to keep the mouse moving anyway.

[@lesliemoiseauthor]

That sweater is so gorgeous.

[@helenahandebasquet]

I recommended in an email that the complainant contact our Cunty Councillor (instead of County). I didnt correct it as i felt it was apt.

[@patmaurer8541]

A company where I used to work had such a restrictive purchasing process that it was an unspoken policy to go out of pocket to buy what you needed to do your job, then take undocumented comp time to an equivalent dollar amount.

[@Morberis]

I once had way too many plates in the air and ordered 2x the amount of several expensive components. Just a few k. Almost all of them were used elsewhere but I had to return the VFD and pay a $1k penalty. No one at work asked me about it, I never told anyone. Normally they were on us for $50 of wasted material.

[@Surax]

Re: getting a mouse jiggler to keep your status as active. I don't know if companies still track that (I assume some do) but one coworker was complaining to me recently that another coworker was ratting her out to our boss whenever there was a status change.

[@Delphae111]

I color during staff training. sometimes my boss has supplied the coloring

[@MydNyteRayne]

I had to start coloring during a 6 weeks training I had for the job Im in now.. its the only way I could process the information. I think I have ADHD Inattentive.

[@user-gr6rn3un8y]

I have travelled while working without them knowing and didn’t post any pics on Facebook 😂😂😂 I am waiting for another year to post them

[@woodychopp]

the mouse logging happens continuously; every time your mouse is not moving for a certain amount of time, a timer will start running. at the end of the day/week/month it will show how much time the mouse was idle during work hours.

[@jbw6342]

I really wonder how that makes sense - when I do research or look into certain things, I read for longer periods of time and might only use the keyboard if anything. Of course I could always just move the mouse around but I find the whole idea really useless... As far as I know it isn't allowed in my country so I will most likely never have to find out.

[@TypoKnig]

The computers I work with automatically log me out after a certain amount of idle time, about 15 minutes. I don’t think my activity is being recorded, but having to log after a bio break is a small annoyance. When I’m at the office the policy is to lock screens every time we step away, and I follow that.

[@woodychopp]

@@TypoKnig well the logging out is a security issue. my laptop asks for a biometric or code login every time the screen goes out which it does after a minute or so of inactivity. does the lock screen keep you from logging out? But i was talking about the fact that people became aware of the need to use mouse wigglers; i don't have that need as i don't face repercussions as long as the work gets done. it's the workforce that gets preprimanded when a manager goes over the metrics of idle time instead of work done that gets shafted.

[@TypoKnig]

@@woodychopp I agree - that kind of micromanagement is pointless and frustrating. It drives away the people who have other employment options.

[@PatrickMurtaghptm]

The Butterknife is the spread I’m here for.

[@ddeuerme]

I used to fall asleep during meetings. I never knew what anyone was talking about and if I tried to participate I was cut off. It was a high demand job with employees around the world. I was too burnt out to function so I gave up trying.

[@heatherb.72]

Re: the mouse jiggler confession - when I worked in an office,I would change the timer on the messenger we used for inner office chat. I would reset it to not show as away for 30 minutes 😂

[@XCCON2009]

Do explain 🙃

[@Theminnieminx8]

Yes more info please. Was it Teams?

[@XCCON2009]

@@Theminnieminx8 lol I stil want to know! Especially if teams! 🙈

[@Evie534]

Would you just make sure it didn’t say “away” from the app on your cell?

[@themoran2]

A few years back I worked with a client in the defense industry. Close to (what would turn out to be) the end of my tenure at that company, I was drowning in work. I was working in a service desk, and I was responsible for routing tasks either to other members of my team, or to other teams. A short while before I quit, we found out that sending tasks to this very specific group ended up with the task disappearing - e.g. the task was removed from the system when sent there. Me and a few others ended up routing hundreds, if not thousands, of tasks, in bulk, to this that specific group. No one noticed a thing and the people who logged the case didn't log any new cases complaining. I'm guessing it was due to how need to know everything was - in the end, we had to do less work for (much) better statistics.

[@melanielotos6139]

This SWEATER! ❤ please share details… it’s gorgeous!!!

[@lesliemoiseauthor]

Are we ever going to see Brenda, Ned, and the others? I love all of your content.

[@loewhaley]

Yes I am working on some new material for them so expect to see them soon 😊

[@lesliemoiseauthor]

​@@loewhaleyHooray 🎈

[@jamespaul2587]

​@loewhaley will Butterknife make a guest appearance? 😊

[@noddybrown3074]

I love Donna sue and Ben

[@MydNyteRayne]

@@loewhaley I recently started watching your shorts and this is my first actual long form video. Im curious, are you a former corporate person gone KZbin? Your on point office scenarios are funny as ever... story of my career over the years with various jobs LOL!

[@jesperstoringgaard8367]

On the micro-management bit, and sitting and keeping taps. At my old job (storage), we used these hand scanners. And they had installed a program into them that would alert the dayshift leader (I worked evening) if a certain user had not used their scanner for a period longer than some amount. Then once a month someone in the higher ups would sit and go through all these periods of inactivity. And clogging them in as either our early, dinner, or late break. And if there was any more periods than that, they'd write to our supervisors who then had to ask us what we did for those 12 minutes we weren't active that one day last month. There were 2 different shift supervisers, one of them got realy bothered whenever he had to do one of those "meetings", since it was a waste of everybodys time. The other seemed to be taking pride in whipping his people forward...

[@thisbushnell2012]

We poached a cook from our old boss, and killed their breakfast business. (Totally unintended, but they replaced him with an _angry_ incompetent coworker. Not our fault!)

[@lovejanalips]

The non-private chat. Amazing!

[@RandomNexus]

I like the workplace confessions/secrets. Nice. Also like your sweater, btw. Thanks for the video! 😁👍🏻

[@Anonom2012]

The mouse jiggler is used to prevent the computer from locking due to inactivity...a common security feature. It's just irritating to have to log on completely again.

[@Worldbuilder]

…especially if you’re working from home and live alone. Like… who *is* going to be accessing my computer? My cats? 😂

[@stephanieweeks3489]

I also use a mouse jiggler. I don’t think anybody’s monitoring me, and I sure as hell don’t monitor anyone (people will be listed as offline but still reply, so long as I can reach them, I don’t care). But logging in and sending the verification to my phone everytime makes me crazy

[@CB-vt3mx]

I spend hours a day in meetings or reviewing documents. I intentionally print the documents and read them so I can organize my thoughts before doing any revisions or comments...my boss is kind of weird but she gets that I spend almost all my time that way and never bothers me about Teams status...but I can see some overpaid boss somewhere tracking every key stroke...nothing ever really getting done, but lot's of typing! LOL

[@GrannyDryden]

I have two laptops, both personally owned but I use them both for work. The majority of the workforce is remote. On the occasions When I have to go into the physical office and want to leave early, I can remotely wake up my laptop at home from my other laptop. The laptop at home is setup, so it will automatically login to windows, launches Teams, mark me as ‘Available’. Also it will start my mouse jiggler software so my status won’t change to ‘Away’. That way I can shutdown my Laptop in the office and leave for home and no one is non the wiser.

[@thijsvandervoort8261]

The one about the chat box made me think of a worse one. I've heard one about colleagues complaining about an annoying needy client in a chat but the client could read those comments.

[@wyan69]

Heard a Zed! Hello fellow Canadian!

[@georgewashing10]

Yes, companies still track employees and have automated systems to analyze activity.

[@rabidelfman]

Some industry standards require idle lockout periods for security reasons. HIPAA requires at least a fifteen minute idle lockout period. If you're going for SOC2, CIS benchmarking compliancr, etc., idle lockout timers are required. More often than not, it's a security thing and not a tracking thing.

[@MC-dr4vp]

Once had a package turned away from a union office because I used FedEx & they weren’t unionized.

[@paulcurtis2779]

As a Computer and Network Engineer - NO ONE needs to sit at a terminal and look to see who is on line and who is off line or away or busy. . the Corp software does that for them. The manger only needs to log in and get a report of activity from the software program. It's all automated. We network engineers do the same thing for each network device and PER Port on each switch / router / firewall / etc. Pretty easy. And we can have it send emails and or text alerts any time the limit or threshold is reached or exceeded. Automated.

[@Robert8455]

Some good ones!

[@arousedyoda]

3:47 No, of course they don't have someone monitoring inactivity. They have software that does just that. I know some of these products do provide managers with a live dashboard with alerts that go off when one of their employees has been "inactive" for a preset amount of time. But mainly, they compile statistics on your active/inactive time, package it into a nifty individual report with percentages and graphs, then send it to your manager every month/quarter/year so that they can use it to challenge you in a performance review.

[@brianmozisek2682]

My name is frequently misspelled as Brain.....I usually respond, Yes Pinky, and today we will take over the world!

[@MissMustang98]

3:59 Yes…my micromanager boss who has nothing else to do. When we are away from our desk, we have to log in to MSTeams via our phone. He’s been known to message us while we were in our doctor appointments (even though our MSTeams said we were away at the moment).

[@Tbirdcarr1]

The status checking… do they really think people don’t potty or make coffee…. You do that in the office… so why wouldn’t you do that remote….micromanaging says more about supervisor than employee they are tracking

[@Evie534]

Exactly regarding the micromanaging bit. If the supervisor trusts their employees enough to hire them, they should give them the benefit of the doubt, unless there is a concrete reason to believe otherwise. I’ve always been super motivated to work hard for supervisors that don’t micromanage me because I don’t want to let them down. Micromanaging supervisors drive me nuts and have the opposite effect on my motivation. Pretty sure it is commonly known that supervisors who micromanage demotivate their employees.

[@Tbirdcarr1]

@@Evie534 and yet HR keeps them and the toxicity and lower productivity live on, I’ll never understand it

[@Audiogeek-kf2ez]

Love, you are one of the best , if not the best in corporate misconduct, malfense, and just plan horrible corporate policy's

[@MNChoirMom]

I've misspelled someone's name in an email after my name was constantly misspelled during a business related email conversation. I had to point out that while she spelled her name with an ie, my name ends in y. She ended the conversation, and we haven't chatted since.

[@darrenc3140]

As an IT freelancer, I was asked to set up an auto-forward of Company Owner's email to a random email address to test a new system from our provider. I was never asked to remove it. I have full access to that email address and get a copy of every email sent to the owner. I moved to a different employed role at a competing company 8 months ago......

[@LA2TXQueen1]

Crawford & Co tracks wfh employees status throughout the day. Mouse movement, number of key strokes, monitor the number of calls, minutes spent on each call, ect.

[@courtneybentley7109]

You always have more questions (we all do)! I feel like you should set up an anonymous form for people to write in like hey this was my confession in your video...here's some more info. Then you can do another whole video with the follow up 😂

[@KerryWhitbread]

I used to have a coworker who would call me a nickname I didn't like. It wasn't malicious, just a standard variant of my name. When she did it, I'd call her Tinkerbell... she eventually self corrected.

[@Discerning_Viewer]

per Mouse Jiggler & tracking: if you work for a freelance site like Upwork with an hourly payment arrangement with the client, the platform creates screenshots & logs keystrokes etc. That's "OK" if the client isn't a jerk.

[@jennaalden3658]

I literally just did the petty name spelling thing for the first time last week 😄. My name is Jennetta, not the easiest name to spell but also every time I communicated with this one woman, she would ALWAYS spell it wrong, and spell it wrong in different ways (Jeannette, Jeannetta, etc...). And we communicate via WhatsApp, so my name is literally spelled out on her screen for her. So one day she wrote to me and my business partner "Hey Jeannette and Lisa, would love to get coffee with you next week when Im in town", and I responded "Sure thing Searreh, sounds good!" and me and my partner were cracking up over it.

[@andreagriffiths3512]

I once accidentally ordered 27 bunches of oregano instead of oranges. It cost an absolute bomb but I rang our supplier, arranged for the oranges to be dropped off the next day and the oregano picked up, with the cost difference refunded. Only once it was sorted out did I tell my boss.

[@artistic_mars]

I sent a letter to a child calling her Minge and the mum had to ask me to correct the name on the system. We were both embarrassed.

[@tynand6827]

So i started this job 3 months back as a fresher and the only HR person there (its a small ngo, maybe 120 employees. The previous HR person left and the senior HR person resigned due to health issues) One employee was supposed to be exited from our tracker app thing called Greythr I didnt do it apparently and only realised this month We paid her 2 full months of salary that we were not supposed to because i didnt exit her or note it down This has cost the ngo close to 25k I still beat myself over it when someone brings it up

[@NeoPhoneix]

I have an uncommon name that has 2 spelling variations. It annoys me when people misspell it because its right there in my signature. I might start mispelling their names - I will leave calling people butterknife as a nuke option lol.

[@kstorts7348]

I will admit when I am training in a virtual environment, I do track and look for inactivity, especially when new team members should be doing modules. I will reach out via teams, if no response after 2 tries they are booted from the modules and have to reach out to be added back.

[@moimeself1088]

6:45 i do this too. My email address is literally my full name. Mispelling my name in the message is a choice at that point. Pettiness unleashed. 😅

[@markwalsh2709]

Big companies have software that counts mouse movements and keystrokes. Actually, some companies record keystrokes. I do not approve, but it is done. I agree with you, manage the work and not the worker. As an interesting note, I once worked for an automotive supplier that an employee caused a shutdown of an automotive manufacturing line, causing a $100k/hr charge back to our company. When I asked if the person was going to be fired, I was told that they are sure this mistake will never be done again by this person. Hiring a replacement risks a similar mistake by the new person. A lesson learned and not repeated, is better than a lesson never learned.

[@amylyn722]

For over 2 years until a systems upgrade at previous job, everytime HR scanned a file I received a BCC. I was not in HR or management. No idea how this happened, but I had all the tea 😮😅

[@ADG247]

LOL😅😅😅

[@violetmoodswing666]

I feel like my bosses did the reverse to me! And I needed mental health days

[@myrojyn]

I personally liked the disembodied voice

[@rebeccam2565]

Yes, they totally watch your screen time and give you a report about your use. Then they send the time keeper police “productivity assistant” to tell you how to do your job better. But that person has no idea what your job entails.

[@reversminer6376]

4:18 I once delivererd food for a Skip office employee. I work with Uber

[@like90]

If people call me and they have their camera on, I don't turn my camera on unless it's my boss. No one is going to tell me that I need to turn my camera on for them, it just won't happen

[@mathadawnharris7315]

I work from my house unless I let them know two weeks before since internet change would be noticed by IT.

[@Tirani2]

My legal name has an odd spelling, but is pronounced the standard way. I had an attorney I worked for who would constantly, despite knowing better, say my name incorrectly. I started not responding until she started pronouncing it properly. It took her about two weeks. She was also a micro manager of the worst sort.

[@SirLouie12]

I don’t think anyone is paid to monitor your online status but softwares are used to alert a team, manager, it etc of unusual behavior that shows a pattern. Also… if a manager suspects your aren’t working they have that tool to back up what they suspect .. just a thought

[@mgk2600]

I also really wish someone at my current employer would watch people's Teams statuses. I manage a team and have one employee who is legit away for hours, but my hands are tied. UGH!!

[@sdennen]

Interesting 🤔 my manager claims to get a report of our status activities from Teams. So either he's lying, or you have options! Best of luck to you!

[@a6b9fu11]

Some people intentionally put their teams status to away or do not disturb so they aren’t bothered

[@bonnienegron3593]

The state of NJ tracks your wfh status throughout the day

[@Klaudyacampos]

I was not expecting someone to throw s whole party for someone they did not like. BUT then again it’s a see ya never party so I kinda get it 😂

[@pthornton102652]

My boss wasn't doing his job, so I changed my email to add his title. After seeing my email, my boss retaliated by adding Executive to his title. When I resigned, I saw that HR changed the titles in our personnel files, thinking they missed the update. Do you want a promotion?

[@ADG247]

😂

[@neviestix]

FedEx to UPS was the best 😂

[@arcorob]

Love your videos young lady. How the heck do you come up with such perfect answers to DUMB things said to you by corporate....I am fast (my mind and often my words) but you are super fast and I can feel the sting from the other side...God bless you and please, put out a book. Even after 46 years in corp America, could use what you have :-)

[@mgk2600]

Have done the petty response too, people always call me Mark or Mike, which isn't my name, so I responded with a name completely off from theirs. And if someone mispronounces my last name I'll mispronounce theirs too

[@Jacqueline_Thijsen]

In my job we handle confidential information. The having to log in again after some inactivity is purely a safety measure to prevent others from accessing the data if you happen to be away from your laptop for a bit. As for taking years to get the money back: if the mistake was yours, it's not the bank's problem. All you can do in that case is contact the recipient and ask them to give the money back. If they refuse or have already spent it, you have to go through the court system which can indeed take years and where you need to prove that the recipient could reasonably be expected to understand that it was a mistake.

[@shadow_witch_]

4:04 no now they have softwares that automatically tracks and notes down

[@Jacob1986]

How do we send in work confessions?

[@afrobonvivant]

The tracker one...YES😒THEY😒DO😒!!!

[@ellenkostro2727]

UPS has refused to except deliveries sent through the competition.

[@terrancat]

A customer had a german name that looked like 'douche'. I was practicing his name as the phone rang and right before he picked up my coworker distracted me and I ended up calling him Mr. Douche.

[@lindab.716]

I was hospitalized twice with pneumonia. The financials were not going to prepare themselves. I took naps on the sofa in the “bridal tower” which was only used on weekends.

[@kat35lulu88]

I think we all have a LOT of questions! I'd make some confessions but........ I plead the 5th. 😮 I will admit putting ex-lax in some chocolate frosting on a couple of brownies for a guy we all detested at work. He spent the rest of the day in the men's room. 😮

[@SP-ny1fk]

My employer knows exactly where I log in from because I need to connect through corporate VPN

[@sc00b3rt]

State Farm tracks movements on your computer and if your mouse isn't moving the system tracks it as down time. It's all compiled and put into your metrics.

[@Evie534]

Geeze - sounds over the top. I would think they would focus more on the kind of work people get done. I don’t think I could work for a company like that.

[@1972LittleC]

The party thrower should've waited one day, so it would be a great party! The lingerie story; he could work for a lingerie company... I did, but I never sent my dates lingerie.

[@iconoclad]

Maybe get the mic closer to get rid of the room echoes.

[@cleaner10399]

When I quit my previous retail job, I told the micro manager he was not the reason, when in fact he was THE MAIN REASON behind my decision to go elsewhere. I now work a Job I like a lot more.

[@NotMuchHere]

5:30 ... brings new meaning to servicing the client ... the customer is always right ... happy client, happy corporate?

[@bovax6259]

Lady I know says she's got to "authenticate" her status every 30 to 60 minutes. Her tech guy she has known for 10+ years and is friends with tells her that they do not actively monitor her, or everyone's, working BUT that authenticator DOES track her if and whenever they want to. For the camera on her laptop being on, she just pulls the USB cord so that they can't turn it on from their side without her knowing.

[@tvguyau]

My full name is the same as a famous movie director. So I have to deal with people commenting on it and think they are being original. Or some times they say I bet you get lots of people saying they love my movies. Atleast his a good director so most the movies they mention i'd love to take credit for. But as I am now unemployed next job i start i will change my name i am known to be the short version of my first name. Don't get the comment as much if i use the short version of the name VS the full version of my first name

[@haveyougotyourtowel]

It sounds like the employee bought women lingerie with a company credit card, claiming the expenses as gifts for clients, not women he was sleeping with. One assumes he also bought them nice dinners. The lingerie could have been sent to his home, picked up by him, or even sent to his office. Probably not the women's home addresses.