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Boss enforces rule that doesn't allow employees to work overtime but still assigns last-minute work on Fridays at 4:50 for Monday, so the employee complied: 'I clock out, grab my bag, and walk out while he’s still standing there with his mouth open'

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Manager gives employee urgent tasks at 4:55 p.m. on Fridays, when their office hours are till 5, the employee finally stands up and says "no" to them: 'A coworker told me I’m making things harder for everyone'

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Fired employees confess the biggest lies HR told them during their termination meetings: 'It isn't personal'

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New management tells employees that if they aren't at their desk, it means they aren't working, so employees comply, and it doesn't go as expected: 'Alert fired at 5:06. Nobody was at their desk, that meant nobody was working. So nobody looked'

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Sister writes in her job application that her sister is a referral, even though she asked her not to, as she didn't want to vouch for her again after some previous situations: 'HR emailed me confirming the referral. I replied and said no'

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‘How to handle quiet quitting?’: Team lead is preoccupied about how to handle the situation between a great employee who deserves to get promoted but won't due to his issues with management

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Manager presents his team's project as his own in front of impressed senior leadership, but nobody dares to correct him: ‘The actual team gets zero visibility for it’

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Employee who was abruptly laid off is asked by the company that fired them to request assistance with removing their admin access: ‘Can I respond requesting payment for my time to do this?’

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Employee takes advantage of coworker changing his chair because it's broken, so he fixes it and keeps it, as it's better than the one he had: 'Then [he] brings back my original chair and says “hey man, thanks for fixing it. You can have yours back now.”

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'What workplace habit became normal after 2020 and isn't going away?': Employees discuss things that have completely changed, for good or bad, after 2020 and never went back to normal

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Employee gets tired of coworker taking 2-hour lunch breaks and leaving him with most of the workload, so after confronting him multiple times, he takes action: 'Today was the first day he took a 45-minute lunch.'

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Employee is forced by management to clock out earlier than she should, as she’s not doing anything, when she complained: ‘They respond with “No, I’ll fire you.” I ended up clocking out early because I didn’t want to take the risk.’

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Boss likes to micromanage her employee and act as if she didn't hear when she tells her that she needs to be out of the office as soon as her shift ends: 'She will keep me for an additional 15 mins sometimes.'

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Employee sets boundaries after their manager keeps assigning them with “urgent task” at 4:45 pm, when his work hours end at 5 pm: ‘Last week I finally said that I couldn't stay and would complete it first thing in the morning.’

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Core employee resigns at the job he has had for 13 years, and his boss doesn't seem to care, even though when everyone else left he made a whole deal about it: 'I put in my notice, and to my surprise my boss [...] seems more cheerful than usual.'

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‘What's an unwritten office rule everyone learns the hard way?’: Employees discuss workplace habits they only got to discover because of a mistake they made.