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overweight employee keeps breaking office chairs, my boss won’t give me a budget, and more

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Overweight employee keeps breaking office chairs. We have an obese employee who has broken several office chairs. As a result, she has used other chairs in the office and broken them. I am getting ready to purchase more chairs and another one that goes up to 400 pounds for her. Here we go….

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coworker keeps saying I’m too muscular, boss suggested I work on a sick day, and more

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I graduated from college just before the pandemic and was not able to find a position in the journalism or communications fields I’ve been attempting to enter. Is this something I should bring up later in a “hey, maybe educate yourself on what’s legal and not” way?

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I was laid off and now my manager wants my help, I don’t want my company car, and more

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Also, there must be legal issues regarding an employer forcing an employee to spend money on something they don’t want to have. In my formal proposal, I didn’t say that my issue was the “employee contribution” because I don’t want to seem difficult.