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Office worker discovers company is secretly tracking his location after they force every employee to download a ‘timekeeping’ app, quits and takes half of the company with him: ‘They never fully recovered’

Elna McHilderson

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Tech employee gets skipped for promotion at his first ‘real’ job because he was out sick, gets revenge on petty manager several years later: ‘I love telling [this story]!’

Elna McHilderson

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15-year-old poultry farm supervisor gets talked down to because of his age, ‘promotes’ mean employee to waste duty: 'As it turns out, you still don't want to [mess with] your boss even if he's 15.'

Elna McHilderson

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Guy ‘fakes it until he makes it' after getting unexpectedly fired; ends up getting a career-making job offer as a result of an elaborate bluff: ‘I just played along until it worked’

Jesse Kessenheimer

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Manager forces HR to hire his ‘crush’ even though she was the least ranked candidate, costs the company thousands of dollars: ‘Turns out, hiring your crush isn’t as cute when the company starts losing money.’

Elna McHilderson

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Manager enacts new policy that puts speed over accuracy, employee notices a mistake but gets forced to ‘follow policy to the letter,' company losses $12,000: ‘You got it boss!’

Elna McHilderson

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Hardworking lawyer shows up to work hours before everyone else and still gets fired: 'The three hours early riser put in before the sun was up did not count, because no one was there to see them.'

Christiana Maimone

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Employees share over-hyped dream jobs that sound glamorous until you actually do them: 'I'm 44, a little late to start a new career... but here I am'

Isabella Penn

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Guy lands interview for dream job, practices for a week but then gets stuck with a glitchy AI robot as his interviewer: 'AI is confusing a lot of people...'

Elna McHilderson

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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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Mom and pop shop ignores employees concerns, exact issue ensues: 'That was my first taste of, “maybe being a manager doesn't mean you have all the answers”.'

Elna McHilderson

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‘An extreme waste of time’: Job candidate refuses to continue excessive hiring process after being forced to do 7 rounds of interviews for over 5 months

Bar Mor Hazut

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‘"You're just not the hire we want"’: Restaurant general manager berates job seeker for 10 minutes straight during second interview, job seeker calls her ‘strange’ and walks out

Lana DeGaetano

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‘We all attend church together on Sundays’: 20+ employees discuss job interviews that made them ‘run for the hills’

Lana DeGaetano

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‘Anything that keeps you there’: Employees discuss the nonsensical so-called benefits that were disguised as company ‘perks’

Lana DeGaetano

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Tech startup employee is expected to work on days they take PTO, internet discusses the fallacy of ‘unlimited’ PTO policies: ‘[It] really means no PTO’

Lana DeGaetano

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