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Employee starts to hate his job because his bosses are always contacting him after hours and expect him to be available, they also skimp on bonuses and don't treat employees right: 'They like to portray themselves as caring employers.'

María Cetra

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IT employee gets reprimanded over not taking his lunch on time, so he complies during a critical outage that turned down the network in which he can't really do anything: 'Boss is standing at my desk when I get back today.'

María Cetra

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Restaurant employee gets denied vacation even though she had approved time off by management, she tries to fix it, but the union rep is on vacation: 'Ever since one of my coworkers got fired, we've been working 6-day weeks and doing two people's jobs.'

María Cetra

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Boss targets employees one at a time until they quit, leading targeted employee to push back and look for ways to stop her: ‘I'm writing to the board’

Bar Mor Hazut

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Employee loses her dream job for being ‘too eager’ after her probation period is extended to 180 days: ‘I had no write-ups, no warnings, nothing’

Cata Holmes

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Employee gets laid off without notice, and when he says he already has a new job, he gets asked if he was going to give proper notice: ‘You just told me my role is done by Friday, and you're asking me about proper notice.’

María Cetra

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After 3 years under a clueless boss, Employee feels stuck in his career just because his bosses care only for their own ideas and give him no credit: 'While everyone notices my work, no one really gives me any benefit for it.'

María Cetra

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Employee is told by boss to stop being chatty and friendly, she complies, rumors about her being in a bad state of mind start to rise: 'The following week, the director called me into her office and asked what was wrong".

María Cetra

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Employee gets punished for being great at his job, so he decides to stop trying at all: 'Even though I performed my duties better than the others in my department, I was effectively punished for being so good.'

María Cetra

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Employee gets reprimanded over an email he sent defining the boundaries of his job description, but maybe he didn't do it with the best words: 'All I said was “Please don’t do this” and why.'

María Cetra

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Former employee joins rival company and ends up in meeting with old bosses criticizing his work: 'The nervous little laughs were glorious'

Cata Holmes

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Boss demands employee 'evaluate' whether leading people is for him after getting too emotional in a meeting, employee is left wondering if he still has time to flip the script: 'Everything doesn’t scream trust. We have lost this trust in you.'

Olivia Arocena

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Boss replaces his employees with AI, then begs everyone to come back when his business goes up in flames: ‘Their clients are suing them’

Jesse Kessenheimer

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‘We are not concerned with your personal life’: Intern gets fired on first day after leaving office 15 minutes after shift ends and refusing to return at 8 PM

Cata Holmes

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Former employee keeps getting asked to fix problems after leaving company, discovers why his old managers still can’t function without him: 'She doesn’t understand anything at all'

Cata Holmes

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Company cuts employee’s salary by $18K after he moves to Austin despite identical performance: “The only thing that changed was my zip code”

Cata Holmes

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