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‘Everything collapsed bit by bit’: All-star tech developer denied a raise after years of taking on more work, so he sticks to his job description as revenge, ends up getting promoted

Jesse Kessenheimer

'If you're on time, you are late': Employee starts showing up 30 minutes before shift to be paid overtime after boss claims being on time is not good enough

'If you're on time, you are late': Employee starts showing up 30 minutes before shift to be paid overtime after boss claims being on time is not good enough

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20+ Bosses whose petty rules backfired: 'Sorry, boss, as per your rules, we are off until 1 PM, no exceptions'

City records worker denied a promotion for making her job look “too easy” is left watching the rookie she trained get the pay raise and desk upgrade: ‘I’m not quitting. I’m just here. Clocking in. Doing exactly what's asked. No more, no less’

City records worker denied a promotion for making her job look “too easy” is left watching the rookie she trained get the pay raise and desk upgrade: ‘I’m not quitting. I’m just here. Clocking in. Doing exactly what's asked. No more, no less’

20-year-old almost college-graduated digital marketer is tired of her “corporate girlie” era and is brought to tears every Monday as her dream job turns out to be hours of commute to an uninspired office, to do no meaningful work: ‘all I wanna do is cry’

20-year-old almost college-graduated digital marketer is tired of her “corporate girlie” era and is brought to tears every Monday as her dream job turns out to be hours of commute to an uninspired office, to do no meaningful work: ‘all I wanna do is cry’

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'70% of their staff quit': 20+ Job quitters who left their toxic jobs

17-year-old babysitter quits after her boss’s husband, Jason, leaves, making her unpaid primary caretaker of their 1, 5, and 7-year-old unruly kids, dealing with their mom, Mina's daily emotional meltdowns: ‘ The 1-year-old calls me mom’

17-year-old babysitter quits after her boss’s husband, Jason, leaves, making her unpaid primary caretaker of their 1, 5, and 7-year-old unruly kids, dealing with their mom, Mina's daily emotional meltdowns: ‘ The 1-year-old calls me mom’

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‘I am ready to burn all bridges’: Entitled boss expects freshly let-go employee to do more work and train their replacement in the 2 months they have left at the company

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Electrician tells out-of-town job crew what they need to get the job done, gets ignored, company ends up having to pay double the fees: ‘He should have listened...'

Electrician tells out-of-town job crew what they need to get the job done, gets ignored, company ends up having to pay double the fees: ‘He should have listened...'

Elna McHilderson

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University employee tells off toxic CFO after being denied $2,000 bonus: '2 can play that game!'

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Marketing associate cleverly doubles her micromanager's workload, taking their nitpicky demands very literally: ‘By EOD, I had sent her 17 approval requests… By EOW, it was over 100’

Jesse Kessenheimer

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Boss refuses to read emails, demands employee print them out for him instead, employee complies by making his desk look like a filing cabinet: 'He couldn’t find anything’

Boss refuses to read emails, demands employee print them out for him instead, employee complies by making his desk look like a filing cabinet: 'He couldn’t find anything’

PTO Memes for Employees Already Planning Their Next Vacation

21 PTO Memes for Employees Planning Their Next Vacation

Elna McHilderson

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Friendship torched after a guy persuades his childhood friend to leave a stable job to help launch a construction business, ends up firing him via mail, then ghosting him: ‘My role has been eliminated due to 'streamlining''

Jesse Kessenheimer

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'I don’t need to be babysat': Project coordinator gets told to stop reminding supervisor about overdue tasks, only to be reprimanded when supervisor misses a deadline

'I don’t need to be babysat': Project coordinator gets told to stop reminding supervisor about overdue tasks, only to be reprimanded when supervisor misses a deadline

Job candidate completes unpaid free labor for hiring manager, gets rejected for not going above and beyond: '[I] already have a full-time job [and] was only given two days to do this!'

Job candidate completes unpaid free labor for hiring manager, gets rejected for not going above and beyond: '[I] already have a full-time job [and] was only given two days to do this!'

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UPDATE: “[She] stole my position and now I get to watch her struggle worse than I did in it”: Teacher loses leadership role to a colleague who now has trouble with the same demands and responsibilities

UPDATE: “[She] stole my position and now I get to watch her struggle worse than I did in it”: Teacher loses leadership role to a colleague who now has trouble with the same demands and responsibilities

Coworker replies all all 3000-employee company-wide emails with pointless “thanks” and “noted” messages, flooding inboxes, making whole office slowly lose it: ‘During lunch yesterday I got three separate reply-all emails from her within 20 minutes’

Coworker replies all all 3000-employee company-wide emails with pointless “thanks” and “noted” messages, flooding inboxes, making whole office slowly lose it: ‘During lunch yesterday I got three separate reply-all emails from her within 20 minutes’

Employee resigns for better opportunity, manager ignores him for two weeks, then panics right before his final day: '[He] asked what it would take for me to stay...'

Employee resigns for better opportunity, manager ignores him for two weeks, then panics right before his final day: '[He] asked what it would take for me to stay...'

Employee resigns, upper management fails to convince him to stay after refusing to relinquish in-person office requirement: 'They know very well I've been unhappy for 10 months'

Employee resigns, upper management fails to convince him to stay after refusing to relinquish in-person office requirement: 'They know very well I've been unhappy for 10 months'

‘He came into the office with a big smug smile’: Under-appreciated tech employee is reprimanded for not wearing a tie, comes in with the most obnoxious yellow tie, quits, and finagles free training for himself

‘He came into the office with a big smug smile’: Under-appreciated tech employee is reprimanded for not wearing a tie, comes in with the most obnoxious yellow tie, quits, and finagles free training for himself

36-year-old employee frustrated at the lack of upward mobility after being stuck in the same job for 5 years due to aging bosses' refusal to retire: 'My manager is 71. Been in his role for 19 years.'

36-year-old employee frustrated at the lack of upward mobility after being stuck in the same job for 5 years due to aging bosses' refusal to retire: 'My manager is 71. Been in his role for 19 years.'

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