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Management starts tracking employees' every move and forcing them to stay at their desks, their compliance cost the company $50k: 'We're doing exactly what they wanted - staying at our desks and not moving around'
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58-year-old essential employee gets laid off 1 year before retiring, entire team quits out of loyalty, HR begs them to come back for double their original pay: 'I'll come back for 13 weeks'
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Engineer passed over for promotion for their own direct reports, instead up-skills himself on the job, uses those skills to land a better job with 3x the pay: 'I developed skills on the company dime that got me a >100% raise at another company'
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32-year-old carpenter fixes her older neighbor’s broken fence secretly at night so he won’t feel embarrassed just for others in the neighborhood to criticize her actions: ‘I didn’t do it for credit; I just wanted him to feel capable and happy’
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'It all started when...': Pour a dash of these laughs into your morning coffee to energize you for the work week ahead (October 11, 2025)
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