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A remote employee making $75K does his stress-free job in the comfort of his living room.

Remote employee making $75K considers rejecting a senior job offer where he'd make $105K: 'It's 5 days in the office, a 45-minute commute, and obviously comes with a lot more responsibility.'

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Boss faces dilemma when bad employee asks for reference: 'They do the bare minimum'

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Employee befriends new manager and starts ignoring her coworkers, manager gets fired for bad performance, so she tries to go back to her old friends: ‘She started acting like she was untouchable’

Giuliana Tiscioni

Managers often share credit for the success of their teams, but when does this go too far? And what should employees do about it?

Employee realizes her boss is taking credit for her work when he repeatedly refuses to promote her—she starts working to her job description, and company sales plummet: 'Took 3 months off and got another job at a 35% salary increase'

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Boss demands employee alter clients' invoices to falsely overcharge them, employee refuses, reports boss, and quits job: ‘He assumed I was morally bent in his favor’

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Employee leaves job of 4 years for new role, the position gets eliminated 3 days before his start date: 'Now I'm unemployed with rent due in 3 weeks'

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Employee refuses to cover for coworker who always takes long lunches, coworker blames employee when she gets in trouble for it with boss: ‘[You] should have warned me’

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Employee gets rejected from working from home full time by claiming she has nothing to do in the office: 'She framed it as flexibility'

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Employee misses work calls on day off, manager demands a disciplinary meeting despite no on-call duties: ‘I'm afraid of what might happen’

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Pet store employee starts locking her work locker after one coworker helps herself to her perfume, only for another colleague to publicly accuse her of thinking they are thieves: '[You] don’t trust any of [us]'

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Factory machine operator quits job after boss denies him a pay raise, leaving the company with no qualified operators: ‘They effectively lost thousands’

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Manager charged $718 in hotel expenses on his employee's card in April, he still won't pay them back months later in August: He told me he'd pay me back the next morning as soon as accounting fixed the issue. That was April 27'

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Manager gets fired after employee reports her bad behavior, leading manager to spend her last days making employee’s work life a nightmare: ‘She has dropped all pretenses of being a professional’

Giuliana Tiscioni

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'I pulled out the records': Employee records every conversation with coworker to prove she lied to HR about their “condescending” interactions

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When should you go above and beyond at work, and when should you know to stop? When is your extra effort simply being taken advantage of? These workers gathered in a viral thread to share the thing that made them stop putting in the extra effort.

22 Workers shared the thing that made them finally stop caring about "going above and beyond" at work—It is often seen as an important trait, but when should you stop?

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Coworker brings nothing to company potluck, packs several containers with everyone else’s food to take home, then grabs the cookies too, prompting a colleague to call him out: 'He didn’t want to cook after his shift'