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Two-person office forced to use a fancy phone system with hold music, so workers play the owner’s son-in-law’s terrible CD as muzak, and the requirement gets dropped as soon as a VP hears it

Etai Eshet

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Boss reschedules weekly 9:35 AM meeting to 9:32 AM, berates employee at 9:33 when he's a minute late: 'I would have assumed it was a mistake and still joined at 9:35.'

Emmy Pratt

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Wife cheats on her husband with her boss, gets divorced and married to her boss, now she thinks her husband is cheating on her and gets mad at her friend for not supporting her

Giuliana Tiscioni

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Manager cuts all employees hours from 30-40 hours per week to 10-15 hours per week, leaving facility barely functional: 'The AC was stuck at 82 degrees during the 95+ degree heatwave.'

Emmy Pratt

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Employee gets blamed for boss's poor performance after boss disappears for 6 weeks, employee collects evidence to show HR: ‘I had not heard one complaint’

Bar Mor Hazut

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Company announces RTO, requires four in-office days, eliminates assigned desks, and tells workers to find whatever seat they can while executives keep empty private offices

Etai Eshet

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Manager refuses to fund underperforming employee's training on critical thinking, claiming it's “wasting money” on a failing employee

Bar Mor Hazut

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Manager marks 1 minute late as a 'no call no show,' consistently asks for 30 minutes of unpaid labor

JR Atkinson

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'I hit her with a Gen-Z stare': Boss walks up to employee who's juggling multiple projects and says they're 'not doing enough'

JR Atkinson

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Startup boss demotes new employee in front of their coworkers with no warning: 'I haven't even been here for 2 months, but this is all getting to be a bit too much'

JR Atkinson

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Leadership forces all employees back to the office, only to have them Zoom each other from their desks: ‘I should have stayed in my sweatpants at home’

Bar Mor Hazut

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Would you do something like this? Boss denies PTO time to two employees who have tickets for a concert, as this boss and another employee are going to be off that same day

María Cetra

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Worker lands job at employer’s main competitor after being fired when CEO’s decision to use his personal notebook as an official work manual backfires because new unskilled workers can’t follow the handwritten notes

Etai Eshet

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Boss blocks employee from all workplace channels after receiving their resignation letter and notice, employee stops coming to work: ‘Too bad I'm a coward’

Bar Mor Hazut

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COO replaces a professional employee with a less qualified friend of his, then cuts his salary, and finally fires him for trying to warn leadership about the mistake and speaking up

Etai Eshet

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Manager denies 2 PTO requests, claiming the employees submitted them too late, employees refuse to work in response: ‘Consider it your resignation’

Bar Mor Hazut

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