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Remote worker stops answering his older coworker's calls after being phoned 5-6 times daily, including during flights and customer dinners

Etai Eshet

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Employee tries to take coworker's job by taking over her tasks, coworker complains to manager, who fires both of them: 'We got the same prize'

Bar Mor Hazut

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30-year-old quits her job of 6 years after new coworker, Ben, keeps stealing her work and credit, and faces zero consequences despite multiple complaints: ‘I addressed it with my manager, director, and HR. After a year I simply couldn’t take it anymore’

Etai Eshet

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Teacher walks out mid-shift on her last day after an admin yells at and follows her for taking a brief call, leaving the already mismanaged school scrambling to cover her classes, leaving the already mismanaged school scrambling to cover her classes

Etai Eshet

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Biotech employee starts planning to quit after their boss expects them to train the fresh-out-of-college new hire they gave the promotion to :‘[She’s] asking me to hold her hand through tasks daily’

Etai Eshet

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'[I’m not] her backup plan': Childfree coworker refuses to continue bending over backwards for a single mom when she starts taking advantage of their availability, setting healthy office boundaries

Jesse Kessenheimer

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‘You shouldn’t have a maid, you are not busy enough!’: Coworker criticizes young professor for hiring household help, tries to shame her at a work dinner for not doing her own chores, pushing the lecturer to shut it down and cut her out

Etai Eshet

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Employee gets unjustifiably black-balled by the office mean girl after accidentally uno-reversing an insult, then they find a clever workaround to the office politics

Jesse Kessenheimer

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‘Should I tell my boss how upset I am with them?’: Employee wants to skip work lunch her boss invited her to, because she doesn’t like 2 of the coworkers who are also attending

Etai Eshet

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30-year-old woman blocks male coworker for “being distant” after she stepped back to appease her jealous boyfriend, and still expected casual friendly office small talk: '[She] blocked me for respecting the distance she created'

Etai Eshet

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‘He’s trying to get me fired but he’s just too dumb to do it well’: Coworker tries to get the contractor in trouble by micromanaging and tattling to higher ups but they all ignore him

Etai Eshet

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Retired coworker Jeff spots a colleague on medical leave eating dinner and decides to play unpaid HR and tells their managers

Etai Eshet

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Boss admits she intentionally gave one employee extra work to test how they cope, while her coworker, Sue, slacks and leaves them handling whole project alone

Etai Eshet

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Retired manager comes back 1 day after heartfelt retirement party, leaving employees feeling tricked out of their money emotions and patience with management

Etai Eshet

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Boss calls employee he fired on Christmas, asking for unpaid weekend help as a favor "as a friend” after his wife and only other worker quit, but the former employee refuses

Etai Eshet

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Game designer at small indie studio gets excluded and disrespected by three coworkers who ignore him during meetings, dismiss his ideas, and refuse to collaborate professionally

Etai Eshet

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