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Trainer tells new hire who is going to replace her at the job position that she needs to resign before her clause of staying 6 months starts: 'Should I catch on that major red flag and leave? or should I give it a try and see what happens?'

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Virginia Couple Move to Alaska for Wife's New Job, She Gets Fired After One Month of Working: 'We are out over $10,000 from this move and have absolutely nothing now to show for it.'

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Manager marks 1 minute late as a 'no call no show,' consistently asks for 30 minutes of unpaid labor

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Employee takes advantage of coworker changing his chair because it's broken, so he fixes it and keeps it, as it's better than the one he had: 'Then [he] brings back my original chair and says “hey man, thanks for fixing it. You can have yours back now.”

Manager complains when new employee walks out 20 minutes into shift: 'You were fired as an employer'

Manager complains when new employee walks out 20 minutes into shift: 'You were fired as an employer'

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Woman decides to cut off her parents and sister after years of the sister and her boyfriend disrespecting her and parents taking her side: ‘I don’t want reconciliation with my sister’

Giuliana Tiscioni

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HR implements dress code for fully remote employees, demands 'business casual' in virtual meetings: ‘Do they think this will magically make us more productive?’

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Employee criticizes coworker for doing too much work on a company retreat and refusing to spend time with the team: 'Her working ruined the group dynamic for the rest of us.'

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2nd-shift factory worker forced to come in for 1 hour on his day off to help cover gaps in shift handover after the 1st shift complains about overtime, raising the issue of the personal cost and burnout

New employee receives warning after bragging about how company orders lunch for employees every day: 'You're not getting a lunch break'

New employee receives warning after bragging about how company orders lunch for employees every day: 'You're not getting a lunch break'

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Boyfriend gets tired of girlfriend's family taking advantage of him and his money, using him to buy things like food for the girlfriend's 27-year-old sister: 'I’ve also been using the (very real) excuse that my bank has been flagging my purchases'

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'I hit her with a Gen-Z stare': Boss walks up to employee who's juggling multiple projects and says they're 'not doing enough'

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Las Vegas homeowners agree to a neighbor's request of a 50/50 split of costs for a new fence along the shared boundary, $5,000 for the 85-foot section—neighbor has it built with all the framing on homeowner's side, ignoring existing "Good Neighbor" design

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High-performing employee leaves company, HR manager demands remaining employees provide 'roadmap' on how to be better: 'You guys aren't irreplaceable'

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Wealthy mother blocks sale and demands full repayment of her $450k investment into 40-year-old daughter's Florida family home after son-in-law loses his job in a return-to-office mandate and the family is forced to sell: 'She is refusing any compromise'

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'What workplace habit became normal after 2020 and isn't going away?': Employees discuss things that have completely changed, for good or bad, after 2020 and never went back to normal

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Employee gets tired of coworker taking 2-hour lunch breaks and leaving him with most of the workload, so after confronting him multiple times, he takes action: 'Today was the first day he took a 45-minute lunch.'

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New employee is forced to spend $53 on a surprise birthday party for a mean coworker, when she asks the others to pitch in, no one does: “I hate that this was pushed into me”

Giuliana Tiscioni

Some decisions are supposed to be taken without thinking too much about them I know this advice can sound strange, but sometimes intuition is pointing in the right direction. People who love us oftentimes try to help us make good decis

‘Got a masters degree in something I was truly passionate about and not what was expected of me or where the jobs were at the time’: Redditors share the major life decisions they made based entirely on a gut feeling that turned out to be 100% right