Print shop manager removes ‘Customer Approval’ status to make production numbers look better, only to create more confusion and slow down the entire process: ‘It undermines customer confidence’

Cata Holmes

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Old employer demands employee pay $60k college debt for leaving job 8 months early, employee resents husband for not paying: 'She really hates her current job'

Ally Perry

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Employee gets pushed out of company after being “too honest” about manager on HR survey: ‘The email said all responses would be anonymised ’

Melissa Knudson

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Landlord tells tenant she has 30 days to move out because his son wants to move into the unit, son texts tenant and tells her that his dad was lying: 'I had no idea he was using me as an excuse.'

Emmy Pratt

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22-year-old woman cooks for friend and then takes home the groceries they both paid for: ‘She then proceeds to split every single item in half, regardless if, for my portion; she, for example, used 1 slice of cheese from the 14 bought’

Olivia Arocena

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Employee discovers coworker is tracking everyone's workplace activity on a spreadsheet: ‘What time they usually leave, what time they get coffee, who they talk to…’

Bar Mor Hazut

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'The Kelly Clarkson Debacle': Singer tries to buy an expensive item at a small business shop and gets mistreated in a 'Pretty Woman's' way, now nobody knows who was right

María Cetra

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Hotel staff reports constant understaffing, which is causing high check-in wait times and issues with impatient guests—the manager has a solution: 'My manager pulled me aside and told me to change "understaffed" to "unexpected high guest volume"'

Brad Dickson

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Family claims sister 'ruined Thanksgiving' after calling out cranky, immature 35-year-old brother: 'He had a tantrum, grabbed his things & took off in his car'

JR Atkinson

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Ohio theater bartender threatens to kick out paying customer because he assumes they won’t tip: ‘TO BE CLEAR! I was intending on tipping him’

Etai Eshet

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Job candidate receives a $30k lowball offer despite being the hiring panel's "unanimous first choice"—this after a 4-week-long intensive 5-round interview process: 'They sent an offer for $62k and claimed the higher band was for a "unicorn"'

Brad Dickson

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Recruiter forbids unemployed people from applying to their job posting: 'These companies get the talent they deserve.'

Emmy Pratt

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Employee gets offered a job by biggest client with a 35% raise but doesn’t know how to proceed to avoid problems: ‘Do I keep this completely to myself until there is an actual offer?’

María Cetra

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Job candidate lies on resume and gets the job, is then forced to come clean during extensive background check: ‘I emailed HR and spelled out the discrepancies’

Bar Mor Hazut

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Friend tells bestfriend's girlfriend that the "grandma's pasta recipe" was taken from the back of a pasta box, despite what the boyfriend said: ' I genuinely didn't know he'd created an entire backstory for it'

María Cetra

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‘I honestly don't get why corporate work is often treated as uniquely awful compared to every other form of labor’: Employee reflects on whether we’ve exaggerated how bad corporate jobs are

Olivia Arocena

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