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Fast food employee calls in sick 5 times in their first 4 months, manager calls them out: 'He was trying to guilt trip me for following health codes'

JR Atkinson

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Manager threatens to take away 2 week's pay and bonus if employee doesn't disclose the company they're leaving to work for: 'Does she really have the right to withhold money?'

JR Atkinson

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Company mandates return to office with 2 weeks notice, half the team looks for new jobs: 'I have a 90-minute commute each way. That's 3 hours a day. 12 hours a week'

JR Atkinson

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New work rule doubles employee's commute time home, refuses to let them leave 15 minutes early to avoid this: 'Are we being unreasonable?'

JR Atkinson

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Boss demands employee show up 1 hour earlier unpaid, sends an AI-generated message to motivate them: 'You have the potential to do great things'

JR Atkinson

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Manager asks employee to clock them in 30 minutes before they arrive, ices them out when employee refuses: 'I'm not risking my job for someone else'

JR Atkinson

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Boss asks employee to stay on for 4 weeks after being denied a full-time job to help train her replacement: 'I’m so frazzled'

JR Atkinson

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28-year-old employee gets fired, but her boss claims she resigned—all after she left work early upon being lectured for 2 hours about her request to be treated with respect: 'I received an email that he interpreted it as resigning and I could not return'

Brad Dickson

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Boss forces employee to sign offer letter with worse benefits and pitiful pay raise, threatens to fire them if they don't comply: 'I signed out of panic and fear'

JR Atkinson

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Hospital worker accepts higher-level position with a $2 raise at their employer of 2 years, but the pay is missing from their first paycheck, then HR contacts them saying the offer was a mistake: 'The new rate would actually be LOWER than my previous pay'

Brad Dickson

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Boss continually contacts employee after work hours with non-emergency asks: 'I'm muting her number going forward'

JR Atkinson

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New hire left abandoned with no training or assigned work—boss starts insisting they get more work done and "learn by doing"—they consider quitting: 'I told him that I didn't get any proper training'

Brad Dickson

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Boss harasses employee for leaving work at 5 PM exactly, claims he's leaving earlier than 5 PM according to her watch: 'It's just breaking my spirit.'

Emmy Pratt

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Tennessee employer gleefully changes projected profits following the wake of Dolly Parton's passing, planning on an economic surge from those chasing the icon's legacy: 'My boss posted to the message wall about how the company is gonna make lots of money'

Brad Dickson

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Boss forbids supervisor from eating lunch with his employees because he thinks that socializing with subordinates will compromise work performance: 'I truly have a sick, sociopathic boss.'

Emmy Pratt

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Illinois company forces employees to use their own phones to authenticate into company systems, leaving them wondering who should be paying their phone bill: 'They say it's for security, but they won't provide work phones'

Brad Dickson

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