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Remote consultants forced to work off old computers, they get even with management by slowing their pace down: 'There really is no way for us to go quicker without quicker laptops'

IT demands employee submit a separate ticket to get access to each folder they need, leading employee to submit hundreds of tickets within an hour until they give in: ‘Stop winding up IT’

IT demands employee submit a separate ticket to get access to each folder they need, leading employee to submit hundreds of tickets within an hour until they give in: ‘Stop winding up IT’

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2 men listening in to work meetings fool their customers into paying $100 per month for "AI note-taking startup": 'The first version... doesn't even have AI'

2 men listening in to work meetings fool their customers into paying $100 per month for "AI note-taking startup": 'The first version... doesn't even have AI'

Boss demands employee use very slow company computer, employee waits 15 hours while editing 2 files: 'I headed to the break room'

Boss demands employee use very slow company computer, employee waits 15 hours while editing 2 files: 'I headed to the break room'

31-year-old IT professional refuses to be family’s unpaid tech support any longer, starts invoicing relatives with a “Family Tech Menu” of fees for his help, sparking backlash from entire family

31-year-old IT professional refuses to be family’s unpaid tech support any longer, starts invoicing relatives with a “Family Tech Menu” of fees for his help, sparking backlash from entire family: 'You're turning into a landlord for computers'

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Teen daughter refuses to let mother confiscate her phone, after ignoring repeated requests to stop blasting YouTube at 2 a.m., so her mother uses parental controls to lock the phone, daughter claims she has no right

Teen daughter refuses to let mother confiscate her phone, after ignoring repeated requests to stop blasting YouTube at 2 a.m., so her mother uses parental controls to lock the phone, daughter claims she has no right: 'I bought it with my Xmas money'

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NFT grifter claims to sell NFT they bought for $425,000 in 2023 for $37,000, posts an AI-generated image of a "Rolex" they claim to own that isn't even a Rolex: 'I wasn't buying a jpeg—I was buying culture'

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20-year-old electronics salesman gets commission for $15,000 sale and then quits on the spot after helping a customer that nobody else would: 'I said only 4 words. "Thank you. I Quit"'

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Tech founder denied airplane boarding after smart ring battery swells up and gets stuck on his finger

UPDATE: Tech founder denied airplane boarding after smart ring battery swells up and gets stuck on his finger: 'This is... not good'

Karen manager demands IT technician take business server offline during business hours, despite technician's protests, gets the order in writing before complying

Karen manager demands IT technician take business server offline during business hours, despite technician's protests, gets the order in writing before complying: ‘Within 15 minutes, the office was in chaos. The CFO stormed into my office’

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Mid-sized marketing firm outsources IT firing the single employee who had been there for 4 years, he gets a job paying $20k more: 'The first week after I left, their main server crashed. The outsourced company took 6 hours to respond, another 8 to fix it'

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25+ Workers who were baffled by modern technology: 'He picked up the mouse and started to use it like a TV remote'

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Scapegoated IT admin gets blamed when client's employee retires and accidentally deletes their entire database: 'Welp, I'm retired now! Guess I'll delete everything'

Non-tech manager gets power hunger with IT department, ends up eating his own tail when employees maliciously comply and anger company's VP: ‘[He] thought it was a Fortune 500.’

Non-tech manager gets power hunger with IT department, ends up eating his own tail when employees maliciously comply and anger company's VP: ‘[He] thought it was a Fortune 500.’

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Marketing demands review of all technical documents, programmer creates a fake protocol to mess with them: '[It was] called the "TP Protocol." [I]t could be implemented as a 2 or 3-layer network, each layer called a "ply"'

Employee publicly blames boss for company's major network outage, boss refuses to accept the criticism, leading employee to pack up their office: ‘I went into full defense mode’

Employee publicly blames boss for company's major network outage, boss refuses to accept the criticism, leading employee to pack up their office: ‘I went into full defense mode’

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Boss mandates overtime to warehouse staff after most workers call in sick, then refuses to let new hire take days off when they catch it too: ‘I'm stuck here for 12-hour days now’

Boss mandates overtime to warehouse staff after most workers call in sick, then refuses to let new hire take days off when they catch it too: ‘I'm stuck here for 12-hour days now’

Neighbor demands closer parking spot because she has 3 kids under 5 years old, resident refuses and reports ongoing disputes: 'You don't NEED close spot like do'

Neighbor demands closer parking spot because she has 3 kids under 5 years old, resident refuses and reports ongoing disputes: 'You don't NEED close spot like do'

Employee backs out of their promise to cover coworker's shift after she also demands they take over all of her extra tasks of the day, gets called out: ‘Coworkers should help each other’

Employee backs out of their promise to cover coworker's shift after she also demands they take over all of her extra tasks of the day, gets called out: ‘Coworkers should help each other’

Marketing agency fires employee for AI usage after they signed a contract that forbade them from using it for work tasks: ‘His work from the past two weeks, also AI‘

Marketing agency fires employee for AI usage after they signed a contract that forbade them from using it for work tasks: ‘His work from the past two weeks, also AI‘

Deli worker schools entitled shopper when the mom mocks her as a “stay in school” lesson for her kids, and she reveals an impressive stack of degrees in response: ‘Don't use me for a life lesson then get mad when I prove you wrong’

Deli worker schools entitled shopper when the mom mocks her as a “stay in school” lesson for her kids, and she reveals an impressive stack of degrees in response: ‘Don't use me for a life lesson then get mad when I prove you wrong’

Entitled customer accuses employee of ruining her daughter's birthday after she makes a last-minute request for a cake flavor that's out of stock: ‘We're a bakery, not miracle workers’

Entitled customer accuses employee of ruining her daughter's birthday after she makes a last-minute request for a cake flavor that's out of stock: ‘We're a bakery, not miracle workers’

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