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Supervisor demands analyst complete report unpaid on a Saturday, analyst logs in just to CC the VP of the company in his reply—supervisor gets reprimanded, analyst gets 3 hours pay: 'After that, no one ever tried calling me outside of working hours'

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Mom asks boyfriend to pay for her son's sports fees, despite her having $50K in savings, and him only having a couple of thousand dollars: 'I contribute more than she does for our shared expenses.'

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New manager suggests getting rid of entire department because "AI is going to do it all soon anyway": 'Why would this information be shared if not to make people anxious?'

Sometimes, all somebody needs to hear is a blunt truth Usually, these types of comments are met with a lot of defensiveness, and precisely the way they are expressed is what prevents the message from being received; but sometimes a glitch in the matrix occurs, and a once-in-a-lifetime opening appears, and by saying the brutally honest comment, one gets a message across that wouldn’t have been well received or accepted in any other way. I think this mother did well by pitching her baby-name idea…

‘Before my brain could even stop me I blurted out "wait, is that an anti-virus software or something??’: Woman Ruins Sister's Baby Name Announcement By Being Brutally Honest

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30-year-old couple just bought their first home, but the boyfriend's parents are insisting that they take on their old furniture, the couple doesn't like it: 'His mom called me two days ago, she said we were ungrateful and disrespectful.'

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A woman sits outside a glass-walled office with two people in it, reading a piece of paper in her hand.

Job candidate arrives 10 minutes early for interview, leaves when they make them wait for 50 minutes: 'No one had come to apologize'

Work remotely but do it from the office? Remote jobs have their lights and shadows. Some days you don’t even get out of your pajamas, and you end up feeling like a giant slug. Some days you stop so many times

Boss Demands RTO Then Hosts a Google Meet With Everyone Sitting Right Next To Each Other: ‘We spent forty-five minutes talking to each other through microphones while making awkward peripheral eye contact across our plastic desk dividers’

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Texas storage facility auctions off $14,000 of a customer’s belongings for $420 without notice after a software update silently suspends his autopay

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Where did the habit of having reasonable aspirations go? Some of us only want jobs that pay a normal amount of money and let us check out and go chill at our homes without worrying about anything work-related for the rest of the day. Some of us want to be clerks, cas

Employers Don’t Seem To Hire Normal People With Normal Aspirations Anymore: ‘In a market this crowded, going "above and beyond" has literally become the norm’

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Friend gets mad at trip companion during Erasmus as he was leaving him alone in the hostel when he was sleeping, as he wanted to take advantage of the holiday: 'He just kept repeating that my behavior was "shameful" and "not cool."'

Basically, if you heard about it, it's because it’s already old 10 Years ago, if you got into Tech, and stuck to it as a career path, it would’ve been a great decision. Today, even though we’re facing a major revolution in the tech industry, i

'I can’t imagine why anyone would think of joining right now': Redditors reveal what they think is the most overrated career path right now to keep us on the right path

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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'