bad bosses

Employee is written up as 'no call no show' even though they were not notified of the shift change: 'I don’t think my personal phone should be a job requirement'

JR Atkinson

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Boss continually pings employee during the weekends without offering overtime: 'My weekends feel like they don’t belong to me anymore'

JR Atkinson

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Company charges $18 for 'free' employee appreciation lunch without warning: 'I just find it ridiculous that a company can turn a thank you into something you owe them for'

JR Atkinson

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Burned out tech employee moves to small company for $22k less salary, works even more hours as a result: 'It is absolute chaos'

Ally Perry

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Boss denies employee a promotion, forces them to do the work anyway: 'I've been dragged in again and again to provide fixes, guidance and steer for the new member of staff'

JR Atkinson

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Employee starts logging 15 minutes on timesheet every time boss texts after hours, HR proposes paying him $2100 more to get rid of overtime: 'She said it was a 'stability upgrade''

Ally Perry

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Boss puts retail employee on probation because they aren't comfortable shilling credit cards: 'He said I needed to be asking 2-3 times per interaction'

JR Atkinson

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Company hires 5 different managers for 1 employee, only 1 of the managers actually contributes any value: 'Why do companies keep employing these people?'

Emmy Pratt

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Employee with 4-year-old daughter is only parent on team, boss protests when he can't attend mandatory Saturday meetings because of childcare: 'That's a you problem'

Ally Perry

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Well-liked employee gets called for a performance improvement meeting that included HR without him knowing, so he flipped the scene, looked for a new job, and resigned: 'The director called me after, absolutely flabbergasted by his unprofessionalism'

María Cetra

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'Is it normal for people to take a screenshot of your direct Teams message, and send it in an email to other people in the company?': Boss sends out screenshot of direct message with employee, employee wonders if it's a breach of privacy

JR Atkinson

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Employee accepts new job with 40% pay raise, company rescinds offer when former employer sends non-compete clause with forged signature: 'My former boss destroyed my livelihood'

Ally Perry

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Boss spends 6 months persecuting employees, flips out when one calls him out with anonymous letter: 'He threw a massive fit'

Ally Perry

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Manager offers employee promotion, gets offended when he rejects four direct reports and no salary increase: 'You would have thought I set the building on fire'

Ally Perry

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New in-office policy incentivizes coworkers to snitch on each other, ruining remote work for everyone else: 'Hall-monitoring coworkers just ruined remote work for our entire company'

JR Atkinson

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Employee constantly covers for lazy coworker, gets written up by boss when he stops: 'He said I used to be more helpful'

Ally Perry

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