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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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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 discovers coworker is tracking everyone's workplace activity on a spreadsheet: ‘What time they usually leave, what time they get coffee, who they talk to…’

Bar Mor Hazut

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'You'll never lock your office': Fired employee gets back at boss by hiding the keys to his office on their last day of the job

Bar Mor Hazut

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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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Employee decides to quit job instead of training new hire who makes $22k more than them: ‘After my boss claimed promotions were budget frozen’

Bar Mor Hazut

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Manager refuses to pay for employee's quality certification that's required for the job: ‘Tell them I'm not paying’

Bar Mor Hazut

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Company refuses to give employees raises, claims anyone's raise will come out of someone else's paycheck: ‘What’s the point of growing in the job?’

Bar Mor Hazut

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Employee discovers coworker is booking fake meetings with himself for quiet work time, debates telling boss: ‘I can't decide if this is genius or insane’

Bar Mor Hazut

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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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'I’m just confused': Illinois worker seeks advice after employer gives him one day to accept a schedule outside his availability or resign

Etai Eshet

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Hardware store employees leave customers mid-sale to comply with boss's strict lunch break schedule, until HR gets involved: ‘He had gotten in trouble’

Bar Mor Hazut

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Boss forgets she approved employee's project and publicly calls them out, employee fights to prove boss is wrong: ‘I have the approval in writing’

Bar Mor Hazut

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18-year-old gets scolded by neighbor after she offers him a job on her farm, and he refuses due to his tight schedule: ‘This is going to affect my work and my sanity’

Melissa Knudson

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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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Manager allows employee to take work laptop home for maternity leave, and his boss demands it be returned during 9-month-long leave even though no one will use it: ‘It isn’t her fault this situation happened - if anything, it’s mine’

Etai Eshet

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