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Woman wants to quit her office job after climbing the corporate ladder, discovers that her true calling is in fast food: ‘It [only] paid about $1 more…’

Giuliana Tiscioni

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Customer shares their harmless petty method of getting back at the major bank that unceremoniously laid off their dad, who had worked there for 20 years: 'They wanted to maximize their profits'

Brad Dickson

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Employee trains a very young colleague that then bosses him around: 'He had the audacity to try to yell at me and say, I will cut the files if they are correct. You need to do your job and make sure that I have the right measurements. I lost it'

Olivia Arocena

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New manager forces employee out by leaving them out of meetings and micromanaging their every move, leading employee to realize they have no choice but to quit: ‘I can't shake the feeling that this was calculated’

Bar Mor Hazut

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High-performing employee gets demoted and forced to train his new manager, he quits and refuses leadership's demands to negotiate: ‘We lost him for good’

Bar Mor Hazut

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New hire becomes the next victim to the office “Chatty Cathy” employee every time she goes to the bathroom, begs the internet for help: ‘She’s the sweetest… I don’t know how to stop it.'

Elna McHilderson

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Ex-employer asks employee to write a positive review for them on a third-party platform—employee leaves them a scathing 1-star review and gets their fake positive reviews removed: 'I reported the 3 new 4.5-star reviews for manipulation'

Brad Dickson

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29-year-old employee leaves his job as a specialist at a small planning and design firm and his ex-boss instists on him leaving a review on a popular local job review site: 'He wanted a review? Fine. Let's comply'

Olivia Arocena

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Coworker gets asked to pick up another coworker's lunch all the time, once he did, but never got paid for the food, and now he doesn't know how to set boundaries: 'There is no reason that he can't drive to a restaurant during lunch'.

María Cetra

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Work "enemy" turns out to be the only one to have employee's back when he needed it, worked 6-8 extra unpaid hours for him and refuses to accept a gift in retribution: 'I approached him about it and he told me basically he was busy and not to bother him'

Olivia Arocena

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Sales manager embarrasses himself while on the phone with a long-time client by accidentally saying “I love you,” they all laugh it off, but HR still gives him 2 write-ups: ‘Basically had to convince them not to fire me’

Giuliana Tiscioni

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Calm employee discovers his quiet competence made his good work invisible: 'People who get noticed are the ones who create urgency, send 14 Slack messages, act stressed, then get praised for solving the same issue they made everyone aware of'

Olivia Arocena

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70-year-old employee is interviewed for a higher-paying position only for it to be given to an employee 40-years-younger: 'It’s not like I didn’t know the reason I wasn’t chosen'

Olivia Arocena

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Boss bans tech employee from taking lunch after allotted time, forcing employee to go on break while the company's entire network is down: ‘So I clocked out’

Bar Mor Hazut

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Spiteful employee spent two years learning spanish to hear what his coworkers were saying about him during lunch and was confused when he found out what it was: ​'I wanted to crawl under my desk and evaporate.They weren't mocking me'

Olivia Arocena

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Angry manager states that server is expected to always arrive 30 minutes before scheduled work time and that is not considered extra-hours: '2 families needs to be sat down and I as the main server wasn’t here ”on time“ to attend them'

Olivia Arocena

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