bad bosses

Company mandates weekly 15-minute "gratitude circles": 'I told my manager privately that I think the whole thing is counterproductive'

JR Atkinson

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20-year-old employee decides to play a little prank on his older coworker Bob, only to get himself a 3-day suspension he was actually grateful for: ‘I have actually already left Town. I am over an hour away and won’t be turning around.’

María Cetra

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22-year-old assistant trains intern on easy tasks, during a phone call, her boss interrupts her, she takes revenge by n going to a volunteering event: 'I explained that I was actively helping a client and would hand the phone over as soon as I finished'

María Cetra

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26-year-old employee was told by a boss that he has to have a doctor's note to miss work when he's sick, so he started to get 4 days' rest instead: 'They can give me the 1 or 2 days I ask for, or they can give me the week the doc gives me.'

María Cetra

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Manager ignores employee's written requests, then blames everyone else for work mistakes, leading employee to confront him in front of client: ‘I stopped letting vague instructions become my responsibility’

Bar Mor Hazut

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'Quitting and not regretting it': Coffee shop manager takes employee off schedule after claiming they're not “excited to work”, employee resigns immediately

Bar Mor Hazut

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Remote employee discovers that the new hire makes 25k more for the same position, so he prepared a presentation to get a raise: ‘Here's what I'm doing and here's what the market and my own scope say it's worth’

María Cetra

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‘Your job is not to coach people’: Boss tells front desk employee to stop helping customers with their mistakes, regrets it when chaos ensues with incorrectly filed forms

Giuliana Tiscioni

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Employee accepts a job with the possibility of growth, only to discover his boss was gatekeeping him and modifying his job so he wasn’t considered for it and she could get it instead: ‘I lasted about four months and then left.’

María Cetra

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Boss demands employee to give them their personal phone number so that they can contact them after work hours and just use that form of contact: 'This is crazy, right?'

María Cetra

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Ex-boss begs former employee to leave a review at a local job review portal, he complies, leaving a very bad one and requesting the elimination of false ones, making the average bad: 'Management has suddenly been acting super nice and accommodating.'

María Cetra

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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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