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An employee working while her coworkers hang out with each other on a company retreat.

Employee criticizes coworker for doing too much work on a company retreat and refusing to spend time with the team: 'Her working ruined the group dynamic for the rest of us.'

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2nd-shift factory worker forced to come in for 1 hour on his day off to help cover gaps in shift handover after the 1st shift complains about overtime, raising the issue of the personal cost and burnout

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New employee receives warning after bragging about how company orders lunch for employees every day: 'You're not getting a lunch break'

New employee receives warning after bragging about how company orders lunch for employees every day: 'You're not getting a lunch break'

A male employee leans on a desk, speaking to a female coworker working on a computer in front of him.

High-performing employee leaves company, HR manager demands remaining employees provide 'roadmap' on how to be better: 'You guys aren't irreplaceable'

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Guest discovers he missed his hotel booking by a full year, proceeds to blame hotel for his mistake and demand a room anyway: ‘That's not how anything works’

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Employer demands all employees return to the office 4 days a week despite there not being enough desks or even seats for everyone—this marks a brutal end to the previous 2-day flexible working policy: 'People often have to work at the cafeteria'

A female employee smiles and raises her arm while walking down stairs outside.

Employee gets yelled at for being 8 minutes late, quits when boss tries to take away their lunch break: 'I haven't gone back'

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Leadership forces all employees back to the office, only to have them Zoom each other from their desks: ‘I should have stayed in my sweatpants at home’

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Back view of a male employee sitting at a desk in an office chair.

Employee swaps broken chair with coworker's chair, gets annoyed when coworker fixes it and won't return it: 'You can have yours back now'

An employee wearing headphones smiles as he sits in an office eating salad.

Employee constantly takes 2 hour lunch breaks, gets upset when coworker stops working in protest: 'I work faster than you. It's not my fault you're slow'

An employee handing in their resignation letter.

Employees share the final straws that made them quit their terrible jobs: 'The boss told us to take waste from our job and dump it into an open Walmart dumpster.'

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Company demands employee fix coworker’s mistakes after he does a bad job, but refuses to pay for the extra work, employee responds: ‘I don't have to take on his workload for free’

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After coworker refuses to stop taking employee's office chair, employee forces him to stop by swapping the chair with a broken one: ‘He hasn’t touched it since’

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Boss blocks employee from all workplace channels after receiving their resignation letter and notice, employee stops coming to work: ‘Too bad I'm a coward’

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Manager denies 2 PTO requests, claiming the employees submitted them too late, employees refuse to work in response: ‘Consider it your resignation’

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There are some crazy people out there! Customer mistook a shopper for an employee and mistreated her for not doing her job, then the manager screamed at her, also thinking she was an employee