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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.

María Cetra

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Employee accepts a job with the possibility of growth, only to discover his boss was gatekeeping him and modifying his job so he wasn’t considered for it and she could get it instead: ‘I lasted about four months and then left.’

María Cetra

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Unemployed person introduces themselves personally to hiring manager, causing the recruiter to say that she didn't care whether the candidate came in person or just sent their CV: 'I knew she meant me.'

María Cetra

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Woman wants to quit her office job after climbing the corporate ladder, discovers that her true calling is in fast food: ‘It [only] paid about $1 more…’

Giuliana Tiscioni

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IT employee gets reprimanded over not taking his lunch on time, so he complies during a critical outage that turned down the network in which he can't really do anything: 'Boss is standing at my desk when I get back today.'

María Cetra

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Employee is frustrated with the younger new hire, as he has been training her for months, but she still has first-day questions, he thinks she should be laid off, but management isn't sure: 'I just don't know what [redacted] else to do!'

María Cetra

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‘Right now they owe me over $1000’: Worker leaves corporate for a small family-owned business and faces chaotic pay, no accountability, and quickly misses the structure she thought she didn’t need

Etai Eshet

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Employee has to pretend to be working because of the lack of real work he receives, he spends the shift checking emails, but now he’s bored: ‘I spent 6 hours doing absolutely nothing.’

María Cetra

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'I lost a lot of sleep': Fired employee finds out company lied on termination report to keep them from getting unemployment, spends months trying to win the appeal

Bar Mor Hazut

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GPS app wrongly marked a Colorado man’s private driveway as a public shortcut, routed thousands of cars through it, ignored every complaint, until someone crashed

Etai Eshet

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Employee gets laid off without notice, and when he says he already has a new job, he gets asked if he was going to give proper notice: ‘You just told me my role is done by Friday, and you're asking me about proper notice.’

María Cetra

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After 3 years under a clueless boss, Employee feels stuck in his career just because his bosses care only for their own ideas and give him no credit: 'While everyone notices my work, no one really gives me any benefit for it.'

María Cetra

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Employee gets punished for being great at his job, so he decides to stop trying at all: 'Even though I performed my duties better than the others in my department, I was effectively punished for being so good.'

María Cetra

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Boss argues with employee because he is paying attention to how much he's getting paid, boss said that he was stealing confidential information: 'She accused me of stealing confidential information.'

María Cetra

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Employee organizes the files in the shared system, causing a fight between other workers for missing documents: 'They’ve started complaining in meetings that they "can't find their stuff" because they were so used to the mess.’

María Cetra

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Employee gets reprimanded over an email he sent defining the boundaries of his job description, but maybe he didn't do it with the best words: 'All I said was “Please don’t do this” and why.'

María Cetra

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