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After our electronics company suffered two bad operating years in a row, top management announced there would be no annual bonuses. This, despite our group putting in six months of 12-hour-plus days on a project of great urgency. Naturally, morale was rotten. Imagine our surprise when our boss gathered all 14 of us together and explained that al Read More...

I had found the perfect summer work-study position working with the elderly. As an returning adult student I had my choice of positions, but this one was close to home and would give me some valuable experience. I should have smelled the rat however when the boss had no time to meet me. I explained that I had been instructed to be sure the conditio Read More...

Recently, our department was working extremely long hours to produce a proposal before a looming deadline. We were issued a memo saying that the department was instituting "mandatory" seven-day workweeks until the proposal went out the door. After working several long days (7 a.m. one day until 8 a.m. the next day, non-stop) a co-worker was taking Read More...

I was doing a freelance temporary job with a company who had 12 employees quit in a two week time period. I was called and asked if I could manage the phones and mail until they could hire other people (it was only myself and the director there - everyone else had quit). I sounded like a great job for me so I agreed to do it as long as they underst Read More...