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Useful advice to help you navigate workplace culture and help create a positive working environment.

Anon426099 · 30 Oct 2025

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I'm new to the corporate workplace and not sure about whether I should eat lunch with my team if they ask? I prefer to just zone out during my break or watch something on my phone, but I don't want to be seen as anti-social. I'm worried doing my own thing will make me seem like not a 'team player'. Does anyone here have a similar team culture where people usually have lunch together - and what do you do if you don't always want to join them?

Allison · 23d ago

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I am completely devastated after my employment with a really great company was abruptly and unexpectedly terminated due due to, as my boss said, “the established team dynamic not being compatible with me”, which is the only explanation I have been given for my termination. I can only assume that the other team members did not like me. I wish they had said something to me and given me the chance to address the issues but they never said anything to me about it until they let me go.

Anon677251 · 10 Nov 2025

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Work Place Bullying & Harrassment is honestly at an all time high. Literally every job I have had I have been bullied and made to feel like garbage,so many times that I have questioned being alive.I am honestly an honest and open person & so relaxed & yet people still seem to go off at me & make me feel like I am worthless because they are having a bad time or didn't train me properly or out right just don't like me.Like whatever happened to just going to work to do a good job & then go home?!?

Lisa · 3 Sep 2025

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Overcoming weak leadership and workplace toxicity - seeking answers to what has become a growing concern. I have witnessed firsthand and by observation great workers being vilified by weak leaders. Regardless of skills and experience, knowledgeable and highly skilled, emotionally intelligent people are being shown the door without regard to the ripple effect on other staff to placate reactive management who are threatened by a worker who displays intelligence and skill.

Adam · 2 Sep 2025

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What happens when youre made redundant at work, it’s on the day of your one year anniversary and you are requested to hand you work load off to a team member who will take over and then offered the job back at 50% the salary you were currently on …?

Belinda · 11 Jan 2026

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I have worked in the child care industry for over 40 years and have seen so many changes and challenges My wish for the industry is that it becomes more about the. Children and less about profit

Charles · 29d ago

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Finding colleagues that take pride in their work, hold high standards & work hard to achieve the same goal is hard!! I need to join a team that do top tier work, share awesome humour, understand other people, respect work culture and stay focused on the goals. im a hospitality superstar and I like to stay humble, but when im constantly told this, I can show off a bit. We All Have a story, lets share ours.

Anon295858 · 8 Jan 2026

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Lately my manager has been sending me project summaries and briefs that have clearly been written by AI. Just overly wordy text full of bullet points, em dashes and AI-isms. While I get that it saves time and effort I hate that it takes the humanity out of work. Like I'm not worth communicating with as a human being. Is anyone else noticing AI creeping into everything?

Adam · 26 Nov 2025

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I was abused by a co-worker and when I complained about it, I was told thats just the way that person is and to move on. Then in the same meeting they decided to tell me that they're putting me on a performance review plan. Nothing was mentioned about my work until I made a formal complaint about this co-worker.

Sai Rahul · 15 Jan 2026

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It’s always the bad or dodgy employers and business owners who keep looking for cooks and chefs on a regular basis it’s like every two weeks or two months or every 6 months or within a year, these type of businesses they are not willing to have sufficient staff to run the business smoothly and efficiently thus leading to late nights, covering all the work in the kitchens that is including the kitchen stewarding, kitchen hand , cleaners, pot washing stewards, and sometimes work alone !

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