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The Worklife Bowl

A bowl for professionals from any industry to come together and discuss the day-to-day happenings of work-life.

11.9M members
  1. Principal Consultant
    First time poster

    Would it be considered sexual harassment if the male leaders of a project tell the women on the project that they aren't showing up with enough excitement and enthusiasm when working with a client? Th...

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  2. Human Resources Manager

    Certain states in the US are thinking about increasing the minimum wage (again), this time to $25/HR. Are the elected officials actually this incompetent? Every single time the minimum wage increases,...

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  3. works at Self Employed

    Jeff Bezos of the Amazon corporation gets paid $270 million every day; while millions of people are being deprived of vital resources. Why are we allowing this to happen? Why do we not just take all t...

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  4. Co-publisher

    Do you think working remotely kills creativity? I spoke to a CEO who called everyone to return to in person work becuase working remotely lacked the out-of-the-box results he was looking for.

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  5. works at Fidelity Investments

    If you work for a company that offers remote work and is generally not terrible to work for, please share the name of the company. Now that fidelity will require full RTO, I am looking for somewhere t...

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  6. Community Manager

    After being laid off, what helped you regain confidence? If none of these answers apply to you, sound off in the comments. Would love to hear your perspective!

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  7. Co-publisher

    If the government were to pass a new labor law right now, what do you think would make the biggest impact? 30 hour work week? Required paid sick/family leave? I'd love to see paid family/maternity l...

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  8. Product Manager

    Hello HRs - Can you tell why do you NEVER give any feedback with rejections? Did 4 interviews where I asked for feedback at the end of my 45 mins with the hiring manager, they'll say i'll send my no...

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  9. Senior Manager

    I have a rockstar employee that I unfortunately have no levers to reward for their contributions and I’m worried about losing them. Raises and bonuses are fixed company wide and there are no roles to ...

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  10. Procurement Analyst II

    My friend suggested that after my 90-day probation period is over, I should let them know of the living wages in California and I should ask to get a raise. Is that reasonable to do? Has that ever bee...

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  11. Territory Manager

    How do you tell your current employer that you need a 5 days off to do an in person evaluation that could possibly lead to another job? Can they fire you for even pursuing it? Just curious what some r...

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  12. AR Supervisor
    First time poster

    I was let go from my job for failed phishing attempts from IT. They said after an investigation I failed all phishing attempts from IT attempts from our IT department and it was grounds for immediate...

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  13. Private Equity Associate

    Please stop with the post work happy hours and dinners. We all have lives we want to get back to

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  14. Project Manager
    First time poster

    I feel like im being targeted at work. I just got “in trouble” for doing what my sr team member instructed me to do after the SOP was in clear. I just got put on a PIP and was left out of the annivers...

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  15. Quality Assurance Manager

    I was laid off in March and put out over 400 applications, so I recently accepted a job with a $20k hit for the rest of the year to be increased $10k at the top of 2027 plus a 5% bonus so a $10k salar...

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  16. Project Manager

    Curious how Fidelity employees in Boston are feeling about this. Boston has some of the worst traffic in the country. Time to move on?

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  17. Co-publisher

    Are all CEO's actually narcissists? I went to a conference and was struck by the amount of self-importance and lack of overall empathy.

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  18. works at Walgreens

    Today, I walked into the break room. Apparently, the “old folks“ have nicknames. I’m “someone’s dad“, another guy is “grandpa“. Is this actually a thing with Jen Z? Rotten kids! What’s your nickname?

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  19. Co-publisher

    At a conference today, one of the presenters was adamant that your first job out of college should be in person. His argument was that remote jobs are much harder for career advancement. Does anyone a...

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  20. Research & Development Technician

    I need advice on how to leave the company I currently work for as they have a reputation of firing people when they put in their notice to leave. I have landed a new job and am scheduled to start next...

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