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Boss's assistant demands employee stop over-documenting, employee proves they followed her exact instructions, boss takes employee's side: ‘She is getting what she asked for’

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Employee that is leaving the company gets tired of the new trainee disregarding everything he says and teaches, as she doesn't believe it's important: 'The new associate said she wasn't going to follow what I was telling her because I'm not her manager.'

An older boss rubs his temple in frustration as he looks at his phone.

New hire replies to future colleague's email about offer letter, gets chastised by boss for sharing salary details: 'You shouldn’t handle work this way'

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Neighbor demands 19-year-old pay her for damage to her vehicle after backing onto her lawn and over her garden stakes—when the local authority makes her remove them, she plants a shrubbery instead

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Homeowner starts confiscating stray pickleballs after players trespass from neighbor's $18,500 court, getts billed $184: ‘My basil bed was flattened’

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Parents spend $30k of daughter's tuition money on kitchen renovation after she takes a year off from school: 'She thought we were bluffing'

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'It all started when...': Pour a dash of these laughs into your morning meme coffee for extra energy

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This teacher worked as an adult educator under their supervisor for a year. They became increasingly frustrated with their supervisor's repeated criticism of their attempts to improve lesson plans. This improvement included migrating the teaching materials to a new platform. But their supervisor insisted on using the outdated platform.

6-year-veteran teacher adapts lesson plans for their students' benefit, quits when a supervisor reprimands them for it in front of the entire 60-student class: 'My boss then starts berating me and saying the students aren't appreciative of what we do'

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Boss drops employee's pay from $12 to $9 an hour after coworkers find out how much they make, claims it was to “make this fair”: ‘ We have to bump people down’

Two coworkers, one of whom keeps telling the other, in no uncertain terms, that she stinks. LIterally.

Coworker accuses employee of smelling bad, despite her doctor telling her that she doesn't have a smell: 'I take great pains to NOT smell.'

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Customer complained that she wasn't greeted at the store, and it made it seem like no one was available to help her, so an employee complied with the demand: 'I proceeded to follow her around the store constantly asking'

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A server stands behind a cash register as another woman looks at a piece of paper and shakes her finger.

Couple vacation in Germany, get surprised when restaurant server rejects them pressing 'no tip' at the cash register: 'She held it in front of me again'

At this point, we should create a LinkedIn dictionary I’ve been saying this for the longest time: I think employers might have good intentions when titling their job offers like this, such as trying to make potential workers feel more important, but the problem is, nobody understands what they’re applying for anymore,

‘A job title should tell people what your job is. If it needs an entire paragraph to translate it into plain English, then it has failed as a title’: Employee reflects on LinkedIn’s cryptic titles for completely normal jobs

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Employee quits job after finding out their direct report was making more than them: ‘I brought it up to management and was brushed off’

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23-year-old daughter wants to prevent mom from shopping at the same stores as her: 'I just hate feeling like she's trying to copy me...'

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Neighbor hires a contractor to enter a woman's yard without permission for hedge trimming, but the homeowner refuses and insists that all work on her property be scheduled with her first

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'What is the most bizarre, unexplainable habit your pet has developed for absolutely no reason?': Pet owners talk about the weird habits their lovable animals do that they can't fully explain why

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Frustrated homeowner describes how people use her front garden as a shortcut to get between public pathways—one entitled visitor even uses her driveway as her own parking space: 'People constantly trespass on my lawn just to save a few minutes'

Is it delusional to want work conditions to change in this day and age? If we received a reward for hard work, most of us would most certainly make the effort, but in most cases, that’s definitely not the case.

‘They effectively have negative incentive to work. They’ll only be punished for work’: Reflections on why Gen Z has gone the minimum effort route