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Imagine working hard all day, finishing your daily tasks and responsibilities on time, and then, as a reward, being asked by your manager if you can stay late. Did I mention that this employee was asked at 4:30 pm, just a mere half hour before the end of his workday? 

This is but one of countless examples we have found of employers not knowing how to reward their best performers properly. Furthermore, if you're a manager and you're about to ask something of an employee that is outside of their regular duties, you should at the very least raise the issue like a conversation and do it in well in advance. Half an hour before you need them to work overtime is simply not good enough! In the end, that's a sign of unprofessional, poor management, pure and simple. 

With that in mind, let's also remember that a sign of quality management is remembering what it's like to be in the opposite position. So let this story serve as a friendly reminder that if you're about to ask something of an employee that you yourself wouldn't necessarily do, don't ask!

Human resources departments and everything else to do with corporate culture exist specifically to reduce and suppress your human imperfections. This has led to it, frankly, being necessary in most workplaces to separate your work life and persona completely from your personal one. If companies could, they surely would find some way to separate you completely from your personal self.

Gee, wouldn't that be an interesting concept for a TV show?

In a somewhat bewildering juxtaposition, employers also want you to sacrifice your personal time to help out in the workplace and to be personable with your colleagues in the workplace, cutting in and blurring the boundaries of what your personal life and true personality even is, bringing about a certain identity crisis in all but the most self-assured.

You can't blame those who do choose to cut their personal lives off entirely from their working lives, but it is understandably off-putting when you try to have a conversation with someone about their day and they're so guarded you can't even glean any insight into their life. 

We have reached the point of summer where even the 10-minute walk back from work is too much to bear in this heat. It's too hot, too humid, and simply too much to be outside. Which means every single person has resigned to never leaving their air-conditioned office or house, and to never stay more than 50 feet away from a shaded area.

However, some unlucky people out there don't have the privilege of staying indoors, especially when it comes to their livelihood. Some jobs have to happen outside, under the ruthless sun, and those who work these jobs have to do them rain or shine.

Which brings us to the question–do they have the right to put their foot down when the weather becomes unbearable? Are they allowed to have a tipping point after which they must say 'enough'?

No one wants to hear that their partner is a stalker. Sure, in some ways, it's charming to know that the person you're dating harbored romantic feelings for you for a long time, but that only isn't creepy if you know who they were at that point. Otherwise, it's a major walking red flag.

This woman was celebrating a career milestone with her boyfriend of two years when he confessed to her that he knew who she was and had been orchestrating their eventual meet-cute for a long time. She had been working at a local library, and he would overhear conversations between her and her coworkers to get an understanding of her personality, likes, and dislikes. Of course, when they eventually "bumped" into one another and "realized" that they shared the same interests, none of it was honest from his end. 

It's the kind of revelation that makes you immediately reconsider all the seemingly great aspects of your relationship. Eventually, the lady seemed to walk back her critiques of her partner after receiving feedback from members of the online community, which doesn't exactly inspire confidence for where their relationship should go.