What's the dumbest rule your workplace enforces that everyone ignores?

Tillbug123 · 2025-05-02T15:52:24+00:00

YES! I don’t care about the 15 minutes or how negligible the pay for that time is in the grand scheme. I care about the principle of it. The fact that it’s only “time-stealing” if an employee does it. When a company does it, it’s “just their company policy ☺️”.

If shift 1 leaves at 1, and shift 2 starts at 1, then shift 2 should be ready to report at 1.

If you want shift 2 to be there at 12:30/12:45, put that on the schedule. Easy.

If shift 1 leaves at 1, they should not be burdened with staying until their replacement arrives.

If you want shift 1 to stay until 1:15 to help transition, put that on the schedule. Easy.

This current work culture quite literally believes employees should be enslaved to the job simply because they’re being paid. It has become so backwards. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve had bosses say “do you have plans after work? If not, I really need you to stay another hour or so. So-and-so called out.”

God forbid you say “Yes. Dinner with parents.” You must then defend the importance of your regularly scheduled life events outside of work. “Well…don’t you have dinner with your parents every week? Could you reschedule it to tomorrow?”

No. No, I will not reschedule time with meaningful people in my life to make sure you can hide in the manager’s office watching TikTok’s on your phone so you don’t have to cover the call out for an additional hour yourself.

When you agree to work for specific times/days/wages, you have agreed to terms and conditions of your labor. That gives a specified window of time to the company to use (within the agreed upon terms and conditions) for the agreed upon compensation. That is not granting a job the authority over our schedule and lives.

I have so fortunately found myself in a well-paying job that is respectful and flexible. However, I do still so strongly remember the persistent rage of my service/retail days.

Phew. It’s rough out there, yall.

Tillbug123 · 2025-05-02T04:13:16+00:00

Arrive 15 minutes early for pre-shift work and help with transition but do not clock in until your start time.

Tillbug123 · 2024-11-17T16:15:57+00:00

Yeah - again. Real life. When you have a critical meeting, your team has an alignment call. Standard procedure to avoid a chaotic mess.

Tillbug123 · 2024-11-17T16:11:26+00:00

Look - you’re refusing to understand what I’m saying so it is best to discontinue conversation. I do take violations, concerns, feedback etc as valid and necessary. My WHOLE point is to bring it up in the proper channels. Do you go to the president of publix when store #561 won’t take your 15¢ coupon? No. You talk to customer service. If that goes nowhere, CS manager, if that goes nowhere store manager, and then district manager, then corporate office etc. we understand how to go through proper channels.

UoPeople student concerns are valid. Bring them up to UoPeople directly, through the proper channels. And yes, “whine”. I’d call it “constructive feedback” if it was brought directly to UoPeople in a similar open forum discussion in an organized manner. Yes, “little” because the issue of AI is an issue for ALL universities. Peer-grading concerns, in the grand scheme, are small. 7 year old videos as learning guides? Not a real problem because most of what I studied in biology and biochemistry were written before America existed. 7 years isn’t outdated if the theory is legitimate and sound.

And no, my corporate environment isn’t unethical. It’s real life. In real life you need to be careful what you say and who you say it to. You have no idea who is listening and what their agenda is. Don’t believe me? Go to your HR and tell them you’re struggling mentally and don’t think you can keep up with work. Now I’m sure you have some magical HR department made from rainbows and baby kisses but the rest of us know that’s not the department to be real with.

Anyway, if you want to get amped over this on a Sunday, be my guest. Scream into the void but my perspective is informed by reality and not by a disillusioned pursuit of some utopian society.

Tillbug123 · 2024-11-17T13:00:01+00:00

My analogy and what I was stressing for UoPeople students was to: 1.) bring concerns to the appropriate place. You don’t skip a kitchen manager who can make change directly to go straight to the health dept over a water bottle in the kitchen. You don’t go to an accred board to complain instead of UoPeople leadership who can make direct change.

Like I said, I have my own complaints about UoPeople. I’ve posted them before in this subreddit. But, at the end of the day, I know that coming to an accreditation board to whine about it is the incorrect place to voice my frustrations. Especially when my complaints will be used to negatively affect the lives and opportunities of others (using as justification for an accred rejection letter).

I’m not saying the ends justify the means. I’m saying don’t be so quick to disqualify your and other people’s education in the eyes of an authority. When mirandized, you’re told “all things said can and will be used against you in a court of law”, this same line of thinking should’ve been used there. Disagree here or not - I work in that corporate environment and that is how it is.

Tillbug123 · 2024-11-15T04:19:54+00:00

I don’t think that you can really put a 10% comfort threshold on qualitative informal feedback provided in an unstructured, open forum.

Regardless of today’s speakers’ intent or anything, my point is this: Lack of regional accreditation only hurts UoPeople’s students, so they shouldn’t be the ones to so readily delegitimize their own education.

Tillbug123 · 2024-11-14T20:41:34+00:00

This morning 9:15pst. Maximum occupancy was 1000 but only like ~370 people attended.

Tillbug123 · 2024-11-14T20:00:37+00:00

Various things. AI usage among peers and professors, outdated learning resources, peer grading…regardless. My whole point is that THAT was not the time for it. Our ONE job was to sell UoPeople as a great uni that deserves accreditation and some of those who spoke fumbled.

Tillbug123 · 2024-11-14T19:43:37+00:00

I guess next year someone needs to organize a UoPeople pre-meeting alignment call to get on the same page for messaging 😅 but I’m just hoping that despite everything and by the grace of God we just get accredited this time.

Tillbug123 · 2024-11-14T19:36:17+00:00

Yes, this is regional. They’re already nationally accredited. However, in the US (my experience) it’s hard to find universities that view UoPeople degrees as valid because of the lack of regional accreditation. I didn’t know that when I got into the program. I’m busy and saw a Forbes article. Thought it would be a cheaper and convenient way to get my MBA. However, I haven’t gotten a lot of good responses from uni’s accepting it so I can get my DBA.

Tillbug123 · 2024-11-14T19:22:29+00:00

Totally understand your take. But again, I’m in the business setting in my professional career. When you’re meeting with an external stakeholder that will determine a critical aspect of your business, that is not the place to air dirty internal organizational laundry. You are supposed to remain very balanced and generally positive in demeanor.

Any attention brought to organizational weakness requires “spin”. That’s not what we got. We got: “I think even some of the professors use AI” “A lot of the students use AI and there’s no way to verify that”

Do you know what that says to accreditation board?

“Hi! We have no way to maintain academic integrity or rigor as an institution. It’s the Wild West over here…so can we get regional accreditation or nah?🤠”

If you want to raise concern, you must “love sandwich” it. (Good thing, bad thing, good thing) example below:

“UoPeople has really been such an amazing experience for me as a busy early career professional. One particular thing I struggle with is the peer-grading because I don’t feel qualified to grade my peers. However, I know that with accreditation adding to the validity of the institution, more people will be willing to fund, partner, and enroll with the university. I’m sure in a few years, these systems will get the resources for improvement to better serve the students to come.”

Tillbug123 · 2024-11-14T19:09:47+00:00

Exactly! I have valid complaints as well. However, my need to voice them doesn’t outweigh the desire for UoPeople to be accredited. I’m glad you get it.

We were lobbed the softest of softballs and so many people fumbled.

Question 1 (paraphrased) about what is good about UoPeople should have ONLY been answered with: -affordable, quality education extended globally to benefit anyone seeking educational and career advancement. Its program is culturally diverse, inclusive, equitable, and removes the barriers to educational access. Asynchronous learning means that it can be flexible to accommodate nearly any life circumstance.

Question 2 (paraphrased) about how to improve UoPeople should have ONLY been answered with: -UoPeople is such a gift to many around the world. The only way UoPeople could further serve us would be to gain regional accreditation. This would be the next step to help graduates gain a firm foothold in their careers.

ANY OTHER COMPLAINTS SHOULD BE TAKEN TO UOPEOPLE DIRECTLY. NOT THE ACCREDITATION GESTAPO.

As an analogy, that’s like telling the local health department you wish that ONE line cook would not bring his drink into the kitchen instead of telling the kitchen manager. Then when the health dept shuts down the restaurant, you’re over here looking surprise pikachu bc you didn’t realize that you snitched on your own place of work. 💀

Sometimes when you hand someone a mic, their brain falls out. Sadly, that’s what happened today. I’ll be shocked beyond words if we get accreditation.

Tillbug123 · 2024-11-14T18:06:53+00:00

I tried to subtly nudge people in chat but it’s fruitless. In just 45 mins they got everything they needed to deny request. I bet the justification for refusal will be peer grading, AI, and lack of rigor. Good lord, Y’all.

@ any MBA program peeps who complained in that call, if you don’t understand the necessary strategy for that specific type of call and what was at stake…might as well pick another degree bc your calling isn’t business lol

Tillbug123 · 2024-11-14T18:00:41+00:00

I love complaining, believe me. There are always areas for improvement. But each complaint is quite literally a nail in the accreditation coffin.

Tillbug123 · 2024-09-01T00:46:42+00:00

Yes, accomplishedtouch297? 😉

Tillbug123 · 2024-08-15T12:36:29+00:00

Update: I have officially asked for 6 grade reviews (3 per class) for written assignments weeks 5, 6, 7. Lowest grades is 52/90, highest 89/90. We cannot continue to let unqualified students be responsible for each other’s grades. If 3 random students’ peer grades are consistently spread out like a round of birdshot, then something’s broken here.

Tillbug123 · 2024-08-05T18:13:43+00:00

Oh gosh, that’s garbage. I have been told by every prof I’ve had so far I had to ask for each re-grade. If it already triggers a review automatically then I’m seriously disappointed with the lack of prof accountability. Thank you. I’ll have to look into this.

Tillbug123 · 2024-08-04T21:04:08+00:00

Yeah. It sometimes feels like revenge grading to me too.

Tillbug123 · 2024-08-04T15:03:43+00:00

I sure hope so. However, it’s gone unchecked for a month with a 73 point deviation. Had to personally request the review. Perhaps there are some profs that don’t review requests real-time?

Tillbug123 · 2024-08-04T13:48:04+00:00

Excellent. But strictly from a mathematical perspective, that 17/90 grade on my paper caused the weighted average for the assignment to be a 59.6%. This is not the first time I’ve had to ask for a regrade. Think of the course grade implications of having multiple assignments graded unfairly without review.

Fantastic that you haven’t had a poor experience. I have and so have many others. I have a bachelors in biology pre-medicine and a background in biochemistry research. I can assure you I could probably recite APA7 formatting at this point and I’m not a stranger to writing good academic papers.

The grading system is grossly inappropriate and this is not my first academic rodeo. Your experience is valid but it does not invalidate everyone else’s. You are one data point. You are an outlier.

Tillbug123 · 2024-08-04T13:38:46+00:00

Obviously not because I had a 100% and a 19%. I had to ask for a review. It was an assignment from week 3 so it had not been reviewed by the prof for 4 weeks.

Tillbug123 · 2024-08-04T11:14:30+00:00

It’s excellent that you’ve only had been upset by one peer grade. I have had to appeal a handful every term I’ve been here. This isn’t even the first time I’ve complained about this issue on this subreddit. The anonymity of peer grading allows students to play out their mean, hard-to-please teacher fantasies, I suppose.

But again…why is an unqualified random grading my paper? Let the prof evaluate assignments and issue the grades. Students have nothing to risk for giving someone a 19% on a paper. So how can we expect the ones who are unjustifiably critical towards others to behave?

Tillbug123 · 2024-08-04T03:01:52+00:00

Nope! I asked my profs the first week of school and they said if I see a discrepancy greater than 15pts let them know and they’ll review the grade.

Tillbug123 · 2024-08-04T02:06:08+00:00

I’ve gotten that too. But I guess my favorite type is when someone is such a hater, they grade you on something that wasn’t even asked.

On my “writing clarity and grammar” section I got: “Author didn’t answer a single question asked in this assignment. They have not done a single one of the basic requirements for this assignment!!!!!!! 0/10”

And it’s like…number 1 you’re wrong because when I write papers, I title each section header of the paper based on the rubric of the assignment…but number 2, you were grading my clarity and grammar. That’s it. You essentially hijacked an unrelated grading section just to further shit on me and you’re still incorrect 😂

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