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Laid off employee left conflicted when the new hire who got their job contacts them on LinkedIn, asking for training and advice, they're unsure whether to play along, wanting to keep things on good terms: 'Would you help them?'

Brad Dickson

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Employee forced to meet with HR because his "engagement score" dropped 7 points last quarter: 'This is about being graded by software that has no idea what my job is'

Ben Weiss

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Manager abandons factory floor workers to fend for themselves when 90 degree heatwave sweeps the plant, says overworked and overtired employee, they resign giving their 2 weeks' notice: 'After getting a promotion, I got a 1 dollar raise'

Brad Dickson

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Employee calls out lazy coworker in public for constantly making other team members correct her mistakes: 'There is no “we” in this. She is going to fix her own problems'

Ben Weiss

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Update: Boss denies employee's July PTO request because it aligns with her vacation, employee refuses to cancel her trip, finds better job at competitor

Ben Weiss

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Boss holds emergency meeting with all 100 staff demanding that responders to "anonymous" company survey reveal themselves on the spot, turning the ordeal into a humiliation ritual: '​The room was silent except for one new girl who raised her hand'

Brad Dickson

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'I had such high hopes for this company, but now I just feel disgusted': Job candidate left stunned after business manager spends 95% of the interview bad-mouthing his coworkers and colleagues

Ben Weiss

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Employee quiet quits for 4 years straight, gets a raise and then promoted, they tell how they did it: 'I got a raise and a promotion'

Brad Dickson

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Manager demands remote employee drive to the office on their 2nd day, forcing them to drive 90 minutes to the office 3 times a week for an RTO policy they weren't told about, they quit immediately instead : 'I thought he was joking. I laughed'

Brad Dickson

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'Took a counteroffer 8 months ago. Don't do what I did...': Employee's warning to others about accepting counteroffers after their manager's verbal promise of a promotion never eventuates, and the company undergoes reorganization

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CEO singles out employee during a company meeting and makes a mockery of their request for reimbursement of commute costs amid rising fuel costs and a hypocritical RTO policy: 'He works fully remotely and makes several million a year'

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Barista new hire making $15 an hour at a small local Michigan coffee shop discovers that their boss has been keeping tips, which he insists is "to put into the business," and their coworker experienced retaliation when they confronted the boss about it

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Manager demands employee charge customers 75 cents for tap water, employee makes sure customers know boss is responsible forcing him to face the customers himself: 'My boss acted like he'd invented modern economics'

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Young worker, early 20s, quits family-owned landscaping job when the 70-year-old owner of the company, whom he has never met, begins sending him scathing emails with false claims: 'Needless to say I quit the next day'

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Boss demands 16-hour days and weekend work, the employee quits and is thrown by their boss's reaction to their resignation: 'She has us work 12, 14, 16 hour days, weekends, and wishes we could work holidays'

Brad Dickson

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New manager targets respected senior technical specialist and threatens him with a PIP, completes more tasks in 2 days than the boss did in 6 weeks before management intervenes: 'I did it over 20 times faster than him'

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