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Senior manager refuses to pitch in for a coworker's retirement gift because she constantly mocked her team's function in the company: [Brenda] negatively impacted my work-life balance for years’

Lana DeGaetano

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‘It’s not my job to do your job’: Overworked employee refuses to check coworker's work, despite them making many mistakes, coworker falls apart on the job

Bar Mor Hazut

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Employee in a heavily downsized department get an end-of-year “bonus” in the form of a $5 Dunkin gift card from their boss’s pocket: ‘We aren't the Rockefellers after all’

Etai Eshet

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HR demands employee quit their job after they submit a 79-page report about entitled boss's lack of management, which HR claims lacks proof: ‘I’m talking to a lawyer’

Bar Mor Hazut

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Employee forced to work all night to cover for coworker after he lies about completing their project, they report him to their boss: ‘He got a formal written warning’

Bar Mor Hazut

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Boss fires employee on sick leave after they refuse to answer her calls, then claims the employee resigned on their own: ‘You shouldn't come to work again’

Bar Mor Hazut

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After being ignored by manager Jess when accepting a promotion, an after-school care worker withdraws interest and immediately finds themselves left off the roster for a month: ‘I have gotten a second job to supplement my income’

Etai Eshet

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Management demands 24/7 availability without extra pay for routine work that could wait until Monday, and pulls employee into meetings, criticizing his lack of responsiveness: ‘There’s no emergency, and no contract that says I owe them my free time’

Etai Eshet

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‘I usually work less than 1 hour a day’: Employee gets promoted for playing video games during work hours after convincing management he’s a top performer only by looking busy on office days

Etai Eshet

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Finnish worker finishes working and quits restaurant job after being overworked during university exam week, then shuts down the boss’s guilt-tripping attempts: ‘I told boss it's my right to resign effective immediately’

Etai Eshet

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Boss waits to tell employee that they must change their entire revenue plan overnight because the company is $350k short: ‘I’m expected to magically fix everything’

Lana DeGaetano

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22-year-old worker goes home sick, and her 58-year-old supervisor shows up unannounced at her house asking for her and her mom: ‘[He] just showed up at our doorstep, asking for me by name’

Etai Eshet

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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’

Bar Mor Hazut

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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

Etai Eshet

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