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Scapegoated IT admin gets blamed when client's employee retires and accidentally deletes their entire database: 'Welp, I'm retired now! Guess I'll delete everything'

Tech employee gets skipped for promotion at his first ‘real’ job because he was out sick, gets revenge on petty manager several years later: ‘I love telling [this story]!’

Tech employee gets skipped for promotion at his first ‘real’ job because he was out sick, gets revenge on petty manager several years later: ‘I love telling [this story]!’

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Loyal employee of 10+ years gets made ‘redundant’ so company's nepo baby employees can climb the latter, gets a new job that Friday and leaves old boss on read: 'The equipment was all signed into my personal emails…'

Loyal employee of 10+ years gets made ‘redundant’ so company's nepo baby employees can climb the latter, gets a new job that Friday and leaves old boss on read: 'The equipment was all signed into my personal emails…'

Elna McHilderson

Non-tech manager gets power hunger with IT department, ends up eating his own tail when employees maliciously comply and anger company's VP: ‘[He] thought it was a Fortune 500.’

Non-tech manager gets power hunger with IT department, ends up eating his own tail when employees maliciously comply and anger company's VP: ‘[He] thought it was a Fortune 500.’

Elna McHilderson

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Marketing demands review of all technical documents, programmer creates a fake protocol to mess with them: '[It was] called the "TP Protocol." [I]t could be implemented as a 2 or 3-layer network, each layer called a "ply"'

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Tech employee working 50+ hour weeks takes one personal day, now HR accuses him of being a slacker: 'It’s insane how taking care of yourself is seen as a red flag'

Tech employee working 50+ hour weeks takes one personal day, now HR accuses him of being a slacker: 'It’s insane how taking care of yourself is seen as a red flag'

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‘Everything collapsed bit by bit’: All-star tech developer denied a raise after years of taking on more work, so he sticks to his job description as revenge, ends up getting promoted

Jesse Kessenheimer

Non-tech savvy office mom accidentally becomes unofficial head of IT by fixing the Wi-Fi with a bag of frozen peas: ‘Someone asked if I could “optimize the cloud.” I told him I optimize casseroles.’

Non-tech savvy office mom accidentally becomes unofficial head of IT by fixing the Wi-Fi with a bag of frozen peas: ‘Someone asked if I could “optimize the cloud.” I told him I optimize casseroles.’

Elna McHilderson

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Management forbids tech support employees from providing customers solutions to their problems, claiming it makes them look bad: ‘We had customers call back for months’

Management forbids tech support employees from providing customers solutions to their problems, claiming it makes them look bad: ‘We had customers call back for months’

'Don't mess with IT folks': Entitled employee unapologetically makes his coworker cry, so IT makes his job a living nightmare until he apologizes

'Don't mess with IT folks': Entitled employee unapologetically makes his coworker cry, so IT makes his job a living nightmare until he apologizes

Elna McHilderson

Employee publicly blames boss for company's major network outage, boss refuses to accept the criticism, leading employee to pack up their office: ‘I went into full defense mode’

Employee publicly blames boss for company's major network outage, boss refuses to accept the criticism, leading employee to pack up their office: ‘I went into full defense mode’

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'She's a nightmare, a dragon': Theater diva wrongfully fires her all-star light technician, so he boobytraps her next big show to exact revenge

Jesse Kessenheimer

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IT teams tries to warn boss after she bans employees from multitasking, higher-ups step in and fire her when productivity tanks: 'We just followed the rules'

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Coworker tells on himself by complaining to CEO when IT guy deletes banned and inappropriate "personal" files off his work computer: 'He went to the CEO and complained'

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IT worker told to stop wasting time helping their coworkers, IT tickets get out of control when all the small problems are no longer getting fixed: 'Everyone was quietly enjoying the fact that Boss's ridiculous policy had backfired spectacularly'

Employee discovers 100 company laptops were stolen after boss refuses to invest in asset management software, uses it to strengthen their case: ‘I just want to do my job’

Employee discovers 100 company laptops were stolen after boss refuses to invest in asset management software, uses it to strengthen their case: ‘I just want to do my job’

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Parents and 20-year-old brother insist that 18-year-old university student give $2700 of her own savings for her school to her brother to pay for his rent debt: ‘He owes $2,700 in rent and my mom expects me to cover it’

Parents and 20-year-old brother insist that 18-year-old university student give $2700 of her own savings for her school to her brother to pay for his rent debt: ‘He owes $2,700 in rent and my mom expects me to cover it’

Neighbor takes resident's parking spot and tells her to park somewhere else instead, he gets towed: 'He came banging on my door yelling about how I am heartless for not just parking somewhere else'

Neighbor takes resident's parking spot and tells her to park somewhere else instead, he gets towed: 'He came banging on my door yelling about how I am heartless for not just parking somewhere else'

'He fumbles, repeats himself, and starts sweating’: CEO steals sole credit for his employee's work, then he gets burned in an international meeting when she refuses to help him answer questions about ‘his program’

'He fumbles, repeats himself, and starts sweating’: CEO steals sole credit for his employee's work, then he gets burned in an international meeting when she refuses to help him answer questions about ‘his program’

‘I was woken about an hour ago to a coworker at my door’: Night-shift worker’s day off is ruined when management sends a colleague to his door after another employee didn’t show

‘I was woken about an hour ago to a coworker at my door’: Night-shift worker’s day off is ruined when management sends a colleague to his door after another employee didn’t show

Customer walks out of diner without tipping after overhearing 20-year-old waitress mocking him: 'She was making fun of a paying customer for no reason'

Customer walks out of diner without tipping after overhearing 20-year-old waitress mocking him: 'She was making fun of a paying customer for no reason'

Boss demands to have meetings at employee's house instead of the office, leading him to visit her late at night, until she asks him to stop: ‘Last night I saw his car parked at my driveway’

Boss demands to have meetings at employee's house instead of the office, leading him to visit her late at night, until she asks him to stop: ‘Last night I saw his car parked at my driveway’

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