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Charlotte is a regular Daily Dot contributor with bylines in Insider, VICE, Glamour, The Independent, and more. She holds a Masters&#8217;s degree in Magazine Journalism from City, University of London.

Charlotte Colombo

What’s going on with @hubs.life on TikTok? How a 9-to-5 creator quit his job and lost his audience

Rebekah is a freelance reporter for the Daily Dot.

Rebekah Harding

“Stop calling”: Walmart worker reveals the real way to get hired

Lindsey is a Seattle area writer interested in all things society, including internet culture, politics, and mental health. Outside of the Daily Dot, her work can be found in publications such as The Mary Sue, Truthout, and YES! Magazine.

Lindsey Weedston

Culture

“It’s getting hard to watch”: Thrift store manager details the most heartbreaking aspects of the job

Alexandra Samuels is a national political reporter and contributor to the Daily Dot, where she started as an intern covering politics in the summer of 2016. She enjoys all things Marvel, keeping up with the latest TikTok trends, long walks with her pup, and reading murder-mystery novels.

Alexandra Samuels

woman ups delivery driver shows off her deliveries

“Do you get the easier routes because you’re a girl?”: UPS worker shares a look at the large amount of deliveries she’ll be making that day

Susan is a freelance writer following humanity one UGC at a time.

Susan LaMarca

Hvac tech asking what others would do in this situation after customer pulls up price for cheap part

“Cry about it”: HVAC tech claps back after customer Googles part and sees 1000% markup

woman working alone in a mcdonalds kitchen

“But yet no one’s hiring”: McDonald’s customer shocked to learn it’s just one worker doing all of the jobs at once

Background: Smiling middle aged business man shaking hands with Reddit post overlay reading: "“I lied about my resume and it changed my life. I was jobless, depressed, and running out of time. One night out of pure desperation, I added a fake degree. Just a little stretch. A bachelor’s from a local university I never finished. They hired me."

“You can just do things”: Guy admits to faking a degree on his resume—and says it changed his life

“Office chair butt” is the latest workplace wellness concern—but there’s a solution

Ljeonida is a reporter and writer with a degree in journalism and communications from the University of Tirana in her native Albania. She has a particular interest in all things digital marketing; she considers herself a copywriter, content producer, SEO specialist, and passionate marketer. Ljeonida is based in Tbilisi, Georgia.

Ljeonida Mulabazi

2 panel image of an EEG machine and a stressed healthcare worker.

Would you wear an “e-tattoo” on your face for your job?

Rebecca Redeker was The Daily Dot’s Fall 2024 FOIA Intern. She is a Journalism student, pursuing a minor in General Business at the University of Maryland. Rebecca has been published in The Greenbelt News Review, worked with The Howard Center for Investigative Journalism and produced commercials in a team for the Philip Merrill College of Journalism.

Rebecca Redeker

Illustration of the Walmart spark logo made up of caution tape.

Heatstroke and amputation: What OSHA reports reveal about Walmart’s worker safety

2 Panel image of women stressed at work covering her face and women with brown hair

“It worked like a charm”: Can’t stop crying at work? Clenching your butt may be the answer

Tiffanie Drayton is a geek culture and lifestyle reporter whose work covers everything from gender and race to anime and Xbox. Her work has appeared in Complex, Salon, Marie Claire, and elsewhere.

Tiffanie Drayton

Split screen with two male coworkers talking on left and packages being scanned on right.

Man asks Reddit for advice after anonymously reporting a coworker—is he a ‘snitch’?

Laiken Neumann is a former Trending news editor based in Austin, Texas.

Laiken Neumann

3 panel image. On the left is a person, in the middle is a nurse, and on the right is a nurse. Text over reads: Happy Nurses week!

‘Basically they hate us…’: Nurses receive ‘gifts’ from employers for Nurses Week. Then they see what’s inside the plastic bag

Screenshot from Tiktok user @canweberealpod; Photo of a Stressed out business woman with a briefcase.

‘Is this legal??’: ‘Ultimate workplace hack’ reignites war between parents and childfree workers

Woman goes to Italy to be an au pair. Days later, she flees in the middle of the night

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