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'Our apartment plummeted to 50°F, that was the final straw': Penny-pinching landlord charged $650 after telling their tenants they can't use the gas heater, tenants warm the house with the electric oven instead

Two words: Polar. Vortex.
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‘You can’t claim overtime when you're not doing your job': VP fires new boss after he forbids employee from using competitors' phone during power outage, leading to 9 hours overtime

‘You can’t claim overtime when you're not doing your job': VP fires new boss when he forbids employee from using competitors' phone during power outage, leading to 9 hours overtime

Whenever new management enters the equation, there are bound to be a few issues that pop up, that can affect the entire company… but mostly the employees working under them. This boss joined a small cell phone company in a rural area, and coming from New York, he had no idea what kind of environment he was getting himself into. One of his employees, OP, worked on cell phone towers and used the company's competitors' phones sometimes when he had no service. The former boss had no issue with this…
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'I made the mistake of assuming he was telling the truth': Boss tells employee he'll drive her home from work before a snowstorm hit, ends up ghosting her and left her stranded

Doesn't matter whether it's a boss/employee, parent/child, or friend/friend relationship, this story is pretty messed up. So, our OP doesn't have a car (not sure how she was planning to get home from work originally, but that's beside the point). Her and the boss are the only ones working at her job on this particular day. Once they got word that a pretty big snowstorm was coming, her boss said he'd close up work early and drive her home. As you guys already know, this wasn't the case.
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