PTO

17-year-old babysitter quits after her boss’s husband, Jason, leaves, making her unpaid primary caretaker of their 1, 5, and 7-year-old unruly kids, dealing with their mom, Mina's daily emotional meltdowns: ‘ The 1-year-old calls me mom’

Etai Eshet

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A Suitcase Full of Memes for Traveling Folks Who Have No Idea How to Pack

Elna McHilderson

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New army boss urges employees to take their PTO, entire team takes off at once, leaving new boss scrambling: 'Each of us had accumulated between 200 and 500 extra hours'

Ben Weiss

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'We need a doctor's note': Employee requests 3 days off due to burnout, boss demands a doctor's note, doctor demands a full month off

Ben Weiss

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‘It's annoying to have to find ways to lock up your possessions because you might get robbed by a 40-something mother of 3’: Office worker discovers her seemingly sweet coworker is responsible for stealing $1,300, food, and spreading rumors

Etai Eshet

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'It got so bad that the upper management started an intimidation campaign': Employee gets written up for being transparent about sick time, so he trains 150+ coworkers to exploit the system

Isabella Penn

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New American boss tries to cut British-based employee's "excessive" PTO, HR sides with employee: 'I have referred this to HR because I think this isn't right'

Ben Weiss

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'You don't sound sick to me': Employee refuses to give in to management pressures not to use any PTO, records conversation with boss to prove their actions are illegal

Bar Mor Hazut

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‘They fired the Cash Cow’: Carpet cleaning company axes its top phone upseller, who turns every $99 call into a multi-hundred-dollar deal for years over sick leave, leaving owners to watch profits tank

Etai Eshet

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Coworker throws a fit and delivers a mini TED Talk on teamwork after being politely refused help with a task she was perfectly capable of doing herself: ‘I told her that nothing would have happened to her too if she wrote it’

Etai Eshet

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‘I’m tired of asking him to do his job. Our department is breaking down because of his refusal to communicate’: Boss goes into hiding every time an employee quits, insisting it isn’t his job to communicate the departures when confronted

Etai Eshet

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‘I put in a one-week notice, laughed, and left’: Employee put on a surprise 30-day performance improvement plan during annual evaluation by boss who can’t remember his job duties, quits after landing a better offer

Etai Eshet

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Employer denies PTO to a remote employee with 90 hours accrued, desperate to care for his declining mom, pushing the worker to find fresh job offer and consider the most satisfying way to walk out: “for as much financial security as I can get”

Etai Eshet

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Forklift driver at 1.4-million-square-foot factory strictly follows strict no-phones rule by shutting his off, sending managers on a wild goose chase every shift as their own policy backfires: ‘I received like 30 calls a day that were left unanswered’

Etai Eshet

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Nepo-boss’s plan to spy on employees backfires when his Big Brother cameras meant to monitor the office reveal the staff’s reviews on his CEO skills: ‘He can now hear our unfiltered opinions of him’

Etai Eshet

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‘I’ve been warned by my manager to not to go to HR because they “won’t care about petty drama”’: Hotel night shift coworker dodges every task, leaving all the work and stress to her teammate while management turns a blind eye

Etai Eshet

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