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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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Manager stands up for employee after she gets a poor performance review returning from maternity leave: ‘She’s being unfairly judged’

Bar Mor Hazut

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Fast food employee calls in sick 5 times in their first 4 months, manager calls them out: 'He was trying to guilt trip me for following health codes'

JR Atkinson

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Boss denies payroll employee's vacation for her sister's wedding because she's ‘too essential’, despite her asking to train a backup for months: ‘I've never been so angry’

Cata Holmes

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18-year-old factory trainee does not know what Microsoft Windows is, thinks his computer doesn’t have an operating system: 'It’s just a MacBook'

Etai Eshet

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Manager monitors employees' electricity usage, demands they turn off lights every time they leave their offices, employee claims: ‘It's driving me crazy’

Bar Mor Hazut

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Manager threatens to take away 2 week's pay and bonus if employee doesn't disclose the company they're leaving to work for: 'Does she really have the right to withhold money?'

JR Atkinson

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Boss charges employees $5 when they're late to the morning meeting, one employee refuses to comply: ‘So that's theft’

Bar Mor Hazut

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California employer drains employee’s bank account, leaving it -$3200 for 2 weeks after accidentally overpaying him, then withdrawing way more than the overpayment without warning

Etai Eshet

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Company promises rewards to employees with fewest absences, leading employees to come in sick to "win": 'They put our sick days on a leaderboard'

Bar Mor Hazut

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Boss gives longtime employee a fake promotion to ‘keep him around’, gives zero work for 6 weeks: ‘I’m sitting in an empty office with a fake job and a real paycheck'

Cata Holmes

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Golf ball manufacturing company loses millions after ignoring technician’s warning and refusing to spend $500K to replace faulty equipment: ‘[They] drained the entire production budget for 2 years as I sat smiling. I left shortly after'

Etai Eshet

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‘Man it feels good. I never liked her’: IT worker quits on spot after HR consultant becomes de facto boss, demands he comb through 200 hours of CCTV footage from 28 cameras to spy on coworkers and deliver dozens of clips in 2 days

Etai Eshet

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Boss refuses to approve employees' overtime, yet continuesly piles work on them 10 minutes before end of day, employee decides: ‘I clock out, grab my bag, and walk’

Bar Mor Hazut

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Company mandates return to office with 2 weeks notice, half the team looks for new jobs: 'I have a 90-minute commute each way. That's 3 hours a day. 12 hours a week'

JR Atkinson

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‘Um, no. You decided to be petty, so I’ll be gone in 2 days’: Boss backtracks and begs employee to work through his two weeks’ notice after telling him to leave in 2 days

Etai Eshet

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