Management demands 24/7 availability without extra pay for routine work that could wait until Monday, and pulls employee into meetings, criticizing his lack of responsiveness: ‘There’s no emergency, and no contract that says I owe them my free time’

Etai Eshet

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The Warner Bros. Acquisition Will Make Going to the Movies as Expensive as Going to the Theater

Ben Weiss

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Middle-aged woman hesitant to purchase home with long-term boyfriend after 5 years of dating, as his adult daughter repeatedly avoids and excludes her from the family, fears creating a "her or me" situation: 'I don't want to strain their relationship'

Emma Saven

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Candidate gets told they are an ideal match by a recruiter, then quickly rejected by the hiring manager for not staying long enough in previous jobs: ‘You’re told you’re a great match until you aren’t’

Etai Eshet

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Supervisor gets petty revenge on difficult employee by purposefully using advanced vocabulary in emails to confuse her, employee files complaint about supervisor, claiming she's "singling" her out: 'Who even says that? I don't even know what that means?!'

Emma Saven

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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'

Ben Weiss

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Woman refuses to sell her late husband's $800,000 vintage car collection to pay for her new partner's kid's college funds, letting her firstborn son claim his inheritance instead: 'He spent 20+ years restoring them'

Jesse Kessenheimer

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'I automated my job over a year ago and haven't told anyone': IT specialist spends all day playing video games after perfecting automated system for his entire job

Ben Weiss

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Restaurant manager refuses to give diner her employee's discount after watching her make non-stop demands to new server to mock his inexperience: ‘Their smiles dropped’

Bar Mor Hazut

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47-year-old father of 14-year-old refuses to take son on art museum trip because 39-year-old stepmother disagrees: 'My wife tried to tell him why we were saving the money'

Remy Millisky

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29 Work Posts to Distract You from Performance Review Season

Isabella Penn

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Overworked junior specialist realizes his ‘above and beyond’ work mentality won't get him anywhere so he stops, managers are now drowning in work: 'It's truly satisfying to see'

Elna McHilderson

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Boss overloads employee with work to try to get him to quit, he confronts her directly: 'If you want me gone, you'll have to fire me and pay my severance'

Ben Weiss

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‘I usually work less than 1 hour a day’: Employee gets promoted for playing video games during work hours after convincing management he’s a top performer only by looking busy on office days

Etai Eshet

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Neighbor vandalizes a renter’s car, and after five keying and spray paint incidents, he finally catches her on camera, but fears the unclear footage won't be enough to get her successfully reported: 'Cops said you can’t directly see her hand doing it'

Emma Saven

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Finnish worker finishes working and quits restaurant job after being overworked during university exam week, then shuts down the boss’s guilt-tripping attempts: ‘I told boss it's my right to resign effective immediately’

Etai Eshet

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