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Employees reveal the wildest times a former employer didn't listen to their warnings: 'The company was reduced to 1/20th the size'

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Manager realizes his best employee has completely changed his attitude after RTO: ‘He has now become a strict 9-5 employee who does nothing that isn’t his written task from me’

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80-year-old boss publicly scolds young bookstore employee over tiny mistakes: ‘He keeps publicly reprimanding me over increasingly ridiculous things’

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Employee Claims He ‘Can’t Trust’ New Coworker Because She Pushes Back on His Instructions

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Employee gets asked by boss that his “team’s status” remains always available, so he complies, creating a system that did it for him: ‘And it simulated just enough activity to keep my status green.’

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Tutor works from 9:00 AM to 6:30 PM, gets fired for refusing to come back to work at 7:30 PM: 'They expect to own my entire life for less than $2.50 an hour'

The ability to receive feedback doesn’t come easily to everybody. Some people have learned the skill very early on, for example, in school or in any activity involving teamwork and a certain degree of hierarchy. Still, e

Employee asks for tips on how to correctly receive feedback so he doesn’t lose his next job: ‘I’m a hard worker, but aside from that, I seriously struggle with interpersonal relationships in the workplace’

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New employee lets senior coworker take credit for his game-changing tool during his 90-day probation, watches him become the office "tech genius" and earn a 5% raise: ‘I haven't corrected anyone’

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Company puts candidate through 9 interviews and a take-home assignment for a $120K-$160K job, then claims the salary was an "error" and offers $95K: ‘That number is insulting’

AI-generated ideas all sound the same; it doesn’t matter if they come from the free version of the LLM’s or if they come from the most perfectly designed model to date, or whether you’ve prompted it to exhaustion. They sound bland and style-less, especially if you are looking for them to

Employee considers leaving his job due to overly confident coworker’s attitude: ‘AI gives you generic answers based on patterns, and this guy takes those answers, shares them with us like they’re some groundbreaking strategy’

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Hotel guest complains to front desk employee that she wants to check in 11 hours early, the employee explained that’s not possible: ‘Girl, if you needed a room tonight then you should have booked tonight initially.’

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Live-in caregiver is forced to give up her bedroom and cook for employer's unexpected guests as her duties suddenly expand: ‘This is more than what I agreed to’

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Is It Excessive for HR to Demand an Original Copy of a Job Candidate’s College Degree? Employees Discuss

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Frustrated Ex-Remote Worker, Who Was Forced to Work From the Office 3 Days a Week in Return-to-Office Mandate, Demands Their Employer Cover Their Cost of Commuting—Employer’s Response Offers Little to Help: ‘It Costs Me 90 Minutes a Day and $190 a Month'

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Boss tells employee that they need to cut the amount of PTO they take even though, according to his contract, he is allowed however much he wants: ‘I’ve taken 8.5 PTO days- one of the lowest on my team.’

An older employee, who got fired for refusing to learn the new technology, because he thought he was irreplaceable.

64-year-old baby boomer loses job after refusing to learn new software that his company gave him 3 months to learn: 'He’s telling people he’s retiring early.'