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Man arrives to a job interview 7 minutes early but leaves after he’s made to wait almost half an hour to be interviewed: ‘When it got to around 27 minutes, I decided my time was more important than that’

Can entitlement be cured? At this point, it seems like I’m looking for stories to prove my thesis about entitled people who don’t realize how entitled they are because they’ve never worked in service and don’t understand it.

A couple gets turned away by restaurant due to being understaffed. They decide to book via the web and come back a while later: ‘To us it just looked like business as normal and I personally felt like the manager was just in a sour mood’

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Movie fans comment on movies that supposedly end with a happy ending, but if you think about it aren’t as happy or heartwarming as we thought: ‘The actual reality of what the characters are left with is an absolute nightmare.’

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Entitled Customer Demands Fellow Customer Help Her, Mistaking Him for an Employee, Tells “His Manager" Who Power Trips and Threatens To Fire Him From a Job That Isn’t His for Not Being in Uniform: ‘I Didn’t Know I Needed a Uniform To Shop Here?'

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Employee gets called out for agreeing to give a reference for former manager, then giving a bad yet honest review to the hiring manager: ‘You should have declined’

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‘What is a dark or unethical industry secret that you can finally share?’: Ex-employees share all the industry secrets they learned during their time working somewhere they no longer work.

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Employees reveal the wildest times a former employer didn't listen to their warnings: 'The company was reduced to 1/20th the size'

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Manager realizes his best employee has completely changed his attitude after RTO: ‘He has now become a strict 9-5 employee who does nothing that isn’t his written task from me’

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80-year-old boss publicly scolds young bookstore employee over tiny mistakes: ‘He keeps publicly reprimanding me over increasingly ridiculous things’

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Employee Claims He ‘Can’t Trust’ New Coworker Because She Pushes Back on His Instructions

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Employee gets asked by boss that his “team’s status” remains always available, so he complies, creating a system that did it for him: ‘And it simulated just enough activity to keep my status green.’

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Tutor works from 9:00 AM to 6:30 PM, gets fired for refusing to come back to work at 7:30 PM: 'They expect to own my entire life for less than $2.50 an hour'

The ability to receive feedback doesn’t come easily to everybody. Some people have learned the skill very early on, for example, in school or in any activity involving teamwork and a certain degree of hierarchy. Still, e

Employee asks for tips on how to correctly receive feedback so he doesn’t lose his next job: ‘I’m a hard worker, but aside from that, I seriously struggle with interpersonal relationships in the workplace’

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New employee lets senior coworker take credit for his game-changing tool during his 90-day probation, watches him become the office "tech genius" and earn a 5% raise: ‘I haven't corrected anyone’

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Company puts candidate through 9 interviews and a take-home assignment for a $120K-$160K job, then claims the salary was an "error" and offers $95K: ‘That number is insulting’

AI-generated ideas all sound the same; it doesn’t matter if they come from the free version of the LLM’s or if they come from the most perfectly designed model to date, or whether you’ve prompted it to exhaustion. They sound bland and style-less, especially if you are looking for them to

Employee considers leaving his job due to overly confident coworker’s attitude: ‘AI gives you generic answers based on patterns, and this guy takes those answers, shares them with us like they’re some groundbreaking strategy’