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Coworker demands friendly employee give her cash after she locks her credit card, employee refuses, coworker calls them out on social media: ‘I stopped speaking to her’

Bar Mor Hazut

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Employee double-checks a grant detail to prove his right, accidentally uncovers widespread legal noncompliance that everyone in the organization ignored for years: ‘This entire situation happened because I wasn’t about to let someone tell me I’m wrong’

Etai Eshet

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Boss demands employee stop sitting on the floor of their private office to relieve their back pain, claiming it's against company policy, employee demands proof: ‘Show me the rulebook’

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‘[She’s] constantly trying to throw me under the bus’: Finance employee struggles with coworker who screenshots mistakes, excludes them from meetings, and reports them to management while hiding her own errors to look competent

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15+ Employees who were fired for bizarre reasons: 'I was fired for not putting ketchup on a customer’s table'

Remy Millisky

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STEM PhD graduate fired via email just two months in for asking to be paid on time after repeated salary delays, and refusing to be blamed for everything: ‘He was the boss, HR, everything, I couldn't do much’

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‘I'll keep my mouth shut’: Boss demands employee stay silent during project presentation, trying to take credit for employee's work, VP puts boss in her place

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HR disciplines employee for missing mandatory meeting, only to discover they forgot to invite them in the first place: ‘Do you want me to telepathically sense meetings?’

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‘I thought he was joking…’: Mediocre tech who's worked for the company for 3 years preaches about flat earth to the new manager of 2 months, gets fired

Elna McHilderson

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UPDATE: Manager rejects engineer’s ideas in private, then implements the same solutions as his own, after the construction professional refuses to demote himself

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‘Hey, I tried to help’: Blue collar guy ends up managing his old workplace frenemy, so he promotes him to a higher position where he can ‘shine’ and where the work is loathsome

Elna McHilderson

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'[He] didn't even make it to his desk': 15+ Workers who were fired from their jobs on the first day

Remy Millisky

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Retail worker returns from pre-approved, off-grid camping trip to discover she was scheduled for multiple shifts during time off, then wrongly blamed by manager, despite documented approval: 'We need to have a serious conversation about your employment'

Emma Saven

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'[He] got chewed out for that for sure': FAA facility manager gets humbled after his rule forbidding airplane techs from talking to the clients gets him on a ‘Performance Improvement Plan’

Elna McHilderson

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Employee gets boss fired by successfully taking care of a last-minute product shipment to Europe that boss had neglected: ‘He had no one else to blame for his mess-ups’

Bar Mor Hazut

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Single mom Lena returns from maternity leave, dumps mountains of work onto coworker Daria, who finally goes to HR when the workload becomes too much: ‘It became full accounts with notes saying "Daria will handle."’

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