bad bosses

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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Manager fires top performer over contract dispute to intimidate the rest of the team: 'Keep in line, produce, and don't cause trouble'

Ben Weiss

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Former employee wipes data from his work computer after discovering his replacement was offered the salary he wanted

Ben Weiss

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'It is basically a $50 "loyalty tax" to keep your name off the troublemaker list': HR tries to force workers to "donate" $50 for the CEO's birthday party, until one brave employee stands up to them

Jesse Kessenheimer

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Working mom stands her ground and quits after boss breaks promise on flexibility for her kids: ‘Work from home stops’

Cata Holmes

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New hire shows up to an empty office with no one to train him, ends up collecting a paycheck for 7 months before someone notices

Ben Weiss

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Principal leaves a new hire hanging for 45 minutes, so the prospective Spanish teacher walks out of her interview: ‘You know what? I’m no longer interested'

Jesse Kessenheimer

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Managers discover an employee's social media account, then proceed to ‘gang up’ on her by hazing her on the job: ‘They were writing a physical list of my failures’

Lana DeGaetano

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Boss claims any employees' personal belongings left out in the office are up for grabs when his kids visit: ‘Get control of YOUR children’

Lana DeGaetano

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Scorned employee divulges plan to resign after dealing with narcissistic boss for far too long: ‘He spoke to me as if I was a child’

Lana DeGaetano

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