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Manager offers employee promotion, gets offended when he rejects four direct reports and no salary increase: 'You would have thought I set the building on fire'

Ally Perry

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Manager gives employee fake ‘growth opportunity’ because she dumps weeks of her own work on him before taking all the credit: ‘She framed it as a gift to me. And then she erased me from it entirely’

Cata Holmes

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Employee constantly covers for lazy coworker, gets written up by boss when he stops: 'He said I used to be more helpful'

Ally Perry

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Manager stands up for employee after she gets a poor performance review returning from maternity leave: ‘She’s being unfairly judged’

Bar Mor Hazut

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Team lead publicly humiliates employee and tells her to stop "overstepping" after previously expecting her to do her work, then the lead’s boss tells the employee to apply for a new senior job

Brad Dickson

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Employee procrastinates all day then works until 7, judges coworker for leaving at 5: 'Must be nice to leave on time'

Ally Perry

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Boss denies payroll employee's vacation for her sister's wedding because she's ‘too essential’, despite her asking to train a backup for months: ‘I've never been so angry’

Cata Holmes

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23 Questionably Professional HR Memes to Review Before Your Next Performance Evaluation

Cata Holmes

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Manager monitors employees' electricity usage, demands they turn off lights every time they leave their offices, employee claims: ‘It's driving me crazy’

Bar Mor Hazut

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Boss charges employees $5 when they're late to the morning meeting, one employee refuses to comply: ‘So that's theft’

Bar Mor Hazut

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Employee refuses to cancel paid weekend trip to cover coworker's shift after her babysitter cancels, only for manager to pressure him because she has kids: ‘My plans [are] less important’

Cata Holmes

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Company promises rewards to employees with fewest absences, leading employees to come in sick to "win": 'They put our sick days on a leaderboard'

Bar Mor Hazut

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Boss gives longtime employee a fake promotion to ‘keep him around’, gives zero work for 6 weeks: ‘I’m sitting in an empty office with a fake job and a real paycheck'

Cata Holmes

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MI Employee, a woman in her 40s, learns her new boss has tried to have her fired, when that fails he restructures 15% of her salary into an impossible bonus and begins giving her direct report her own tasks: 'My boss had gone to our CEO to have me fired'

Brad Dickson

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Boss refuses to approve employees' overtime, yet continuesly piles work on them 10 minutes before end of day, employee decides: ‘I clock out, grab my bag, and walk’

Bar Mor Hazut

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Marketing director gets exposed after blaming employee for his own AI-generated newsletter, forgets the paper trail is in the same email thread: ‘Don’t touch the copy'

Cata Holmes

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