Many of us have experienced situations in our workplaces, or know someone else who has, that has changed perceptions about a certain person, company or profession.
A Quora thread, “What work secret did you accidentally find out that changed everything,” is proof of that. Responses across different industries ran the gamut. All while the economy is trying to recover after the years-long pandemic that wreaked havoc in most industries.
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A Bookkeeping “Mistake”
One response from a man named Jim Ashton, which has been upvoted over 20,000 times, was not about him but his former girlfriend with reported obsessive-compulsive disorder. He said she formerly worked as a bank teller and, after multiple paychecks that seemed to short her and her co-workers on pay, looked into the matter.
She allegedly discovered that her unspecified company was not paying workers for holidays and weekends as part of their part-time salaries. When she brought it up to management, she was told to “keep quiet.”
“Quiet was not her strong point,” Ashton said. “She wrote a few letters, made a few calls. Her manager was pissed. But a month or so later everyone got a check for a ‘mistake’ in book keeping. I found it hard to believe a corp as big as a national bank ‘accidentally’ made such an error.”
Dress For “Success”
Another man, Jim Martin of Calgary, Alberta, described himself as an IT guy with full arm tattoos and a shaved head who formerly wore jeans and band t-shirts. When he found out his position was being outsourced at his company, he panicked and wasn’t sure if his persona could land him an interview elsewhere.
Knowing his tenure was coming to a close at year’s end, he applied at other jobs but received no interviews. At the suggestion of his female companion, he “began dressing nicely for work” and his dress clothes eventually…