bosses

‘They fired the Cash Cow’: Carpet cleaning company axes its top phone upseller, who turns every $99 call into a multi-hundred-dollar deal for years over sick leave, leaving owners to watch profits tank

Etai Eshet

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HR green lights employee's April Fool's prank in the office bathroom, employee is subsequently fired for it: ‘[HR] even told me what washroom to put it in’

Lana DeGaetano

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‘Game on’: Arrogant boss tries to micromanage high-performing employee into quitting, fails miserably

Lana DeGaetano

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Coworker throws a fit and delivers a mini TED Talk on teamwork after being politely refused help with a task she was perfectly capable of doing herself: ‘I told her that nothing would have happened to her too if she wrote it’

Etai Eshet

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'We were audited and fined $80k': 25+ Workers whose brainless bosses left them speechless

Remy Millisky

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'New boss gives me an impossible task': Overworked IT employee stands up to boss, demands guarantee of never working overtime again

Remy Millisky

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‘I’m tired of asking him to do his job. Our department is breaking down because of his refusal to communicate’: Boss goes into hiding every time an employee quits, insisting it isn’t his job to communicate the departures when confronted

Etai Eshet

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Boss and coworker have a loud ‘introvert bash session’ and trash-talk friends for refusing to play a card game: ‘Tell me you don’t respect boundaries without telling me you don’t respect boundaries’

Lana DeGaetano

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‘I put in a one-week notice, laughed, and left’: Employee put on a surprise 30-day performance improvement plan during annual evaluation by boss who can’t remember his job duties, quits after landing a better offer

Etai Eshet

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Employer denies PTO to a remote employee with 90 hours accrued, desperate to care for his declining mom, pushing the worker to find fresh job offer and consider the most satisfying way to walk out: “for as much financial security as I can get”

Etai Eshet

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20+ CEOs who ran companies into the ground with their terrible workplace decisions: 'He fired the guy who owned almost all the patents'

Remy Millisky

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Apathetic boss calls employee ‘overdramatic’ for taking a PTO day after they put down their sick family cat, employee reports boss to HR: ‘The way my boss handled this was just unacceptable’

Lana DeGaetano

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Restaurant employee is ostracized after speaking up about the manager's newborn baby being in the kitchen during working hours: ‘Holy OSHA violation’

Lana DeGaetano

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Forklift driver at 1.4-million-square-foot factory strictly follows strict no-phones rule by shutting his off, sending managers on a wild goose chase every shift as their own policy backfires: ‘I received like 30 calls a day that were left unanswered’

Etai Eshet

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'I told him he couldn't spend 4-8 hours on break': Managers who were paired with the world's worst employees

Remy Millisky

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Mom of 17-year-old daughter makes her apply to 42 jobs: 'You owe your child a huge apology'

Remy Millisky

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