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‘HR hung up on me’: After being fired, HR director contacts ex-employee asking to hire them as a contractor, only to be appalled when they ask for a pay rate 5x their former salary

Bar Mor Hazut

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Employee gets fired over email at midnight with no warning, reports company to the IRS for misclassifying him as a contractor: 'It's mind-blowing how fast things can go sideways when companies cut corners'

Isabella Penn

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Contractor disrespect his small community, locals happily give him a dose of his own medicine: ‘Heck, one of the FB groups "[Loser] of Our Town" made him their profile picture'

Elna McHilderson

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Brother-in-law avoids family for 10 years after they "borrow" his expensive equipment: '[He's] putting money in the way of a family relationship'

Remy Millisky

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‘I locked him out’: Cyber security contractor locks a client out of their computer system after they refuse to pay an invoice, teaching them a lesson about weaseling out of their end of the deal

Jesse Kessenheimer

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‘I tossed it in the dumpster as I left’: Guy finds a binder full of someone's valuable documents, realizes it belongs to a contractor who stole money from him in the past, he throws it all away

Bar Mor Hazut

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Homeowner hires contractors to paint house for $22k, they rip out entire kitchen instead: 'I get a text saying that they finished the demo[lition] on the kitchen'

Remy Millisky

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‘I cut into their profit’: Advising contractor punishes a big company's project foreman with copious overtime hours after managers mandate attendance to trivial daily 'stand-up' meetings

Jesse Kessenheimer

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'I'm petty': Driver gets revenge on arrogant tradesmen who held up gas station line by calling number on their work truck and sending them to fake jobs

Isabella Penn

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'My new favorite customer': Contractor in awe after a determined homeowner pays $35 to put a stop-payment on a $1 check to get back at his home insurance company

Jesse Kessenheimer

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Honest subcontractor gets fired after refusing to lie to the client about a phony $800 bill from his boss, sues his shady ex-employer: 'The homeowner will go to bat with me, he's furious'

Jesse Kessenheimer

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'This whole situation is messy': Houseguest who overstayed her welcome "makes a scene" with garden contractors, sibling kicks her out

Remy Millisky

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To save $2,000, penny-pinching Karen chooses a budget handyman over a respectable contractor, pays the price later when he refuses to fix the amateur's mistakes: ‘Not worth my trouble’

Jesse Kessenheimer

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Entitled Karen demands free labor from her locksmith, gets ornery then left without doorknobs: 'Drove off and blocked her number'

Jesse Kessenheimer

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33 Construction Fails That'll Make Your Contractor Cringe (July 28, 2024)

Jesse Kessenheimer

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Boss directly blocks tech contractor's raise due to lack of "leadership" despite them not being in a leadership role at all: 'I was genuinely taken aback'

Brad Dickson

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