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'This is what you asked for': IT guy drops ~$18,000 on company phones after his technologically illiterate boss bans the largest operating system in the world, learns a lesson in malicious compliance

If you say so...
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‘She literally put my life at risk’: Employee gets the office Karen fired after she tries to defraud their medical alert service dog, taking things dangerously far for the sake of being 'right'

Practically begging to be fired
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Artist gets fired when a shady studio director suspects they're a whistleblower for OSHA, 3 years later, they get their revenge through subsequent success: ‘I have $30k in savings and I’m booked through 2026'

Success is the best revenge
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'You're the new hire right?': Good-guy CEO surprises his new worker after getting a scalding cup of coffee spilled all over him, buying the employee a replacement cup as a welcome

First-day fumble
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'I just burst out laughing': Interviewee walks out of a laughably terrible job interview after getting 'offered' $16/hour, no travel compensation, and zero hours

LOL
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'Steal my lunch? Lose your job': Hangry senior manager catches lunch thieves on camera stealing his meal and fires them immediately

You messed with the wrong lunch
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‘You’re next': Clumsy C-level executive steamrolls their all-star employee, motivating them to quit, leaving a desperate manager to ‘save a sinking ship’

Who's next to walk the plank?
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'I'm tired of his lack of commitment': Retired man gives family business to struggling son, then fires him for entitled behavior and takes it back

They say you should never mix family and business, and this story might just be the perfect example of why. After his son struggled to find work due to a legal incident 15 years ago, a retired father stepped in to help. He hired his son at the family business, hoping to set him up for success. The father, now 74 and mostly retired, still enjoys working occasionally and earns a commission for his efforts. But things have taken a turn. The son, now running the business, has started withholding hi…
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'I'm the talk of their office [now]': Lawyer snaps on a feral 7-year-old kid after 'hands-off' parents let them terrorize the entire office building

A not-so-gentle approach to mitigate a lack of parenting
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Employee doing the jobs of 4 people gets fired leaving company stranded without any equipment: 'I'll take it all down with me'

You don't know a good thing until it's gone: a phrase that is applicable to so many areas of life. And it fits quite neatly in the sense of employers This media designer slowly found themselves, over time, burdened with more and more responsibilities that were unrelated to their own actual role, over time eventually taking on the equivalent roles of “at least” four people. Finding themselves on the hook for their own materials and equipment as if they were a contractor despite, you know, being…
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Clueless sales rep tries to circumvent the IT support crew claiming he 'knows what he's doing', then he single-handedly destroys all of the electronics on their floor: 'He really went all out'

A transplant from the sales floor thought that he could out-IT the tech team.
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'Make your own': CEO fires the one employee who knows how to manage their 3 largest clients, ending up in a tailspin after they delete all of their work on their way out

Startups... amirite?
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Micromanager Ends Up in the Cross-Hairs of a Poorly-Worded Write-Up After Scrutinizing the Wardrobe of the Company's Most Talented IT Guy

Become unSUITable
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Corpo baboon gets proven wrong when underling employees insult his 'strict suit' policy, undermining his examples with deadly accuracy: 'Where are the suits?'

A dress code? At work? Y'all are lucky I'm even here.
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‘The plant got paid to do nothing': New management brings a $1M+ production day to a halt by trying to force their setup engineer to adhere to a nonsensical 9-5 policy

New management seemed to think that they knew how to do his job better than he did
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'Can we socialize this idea?': Cringey Corporate Jargon Guaranteed to Give Employees the Ick

And we all heave a collective sigh
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