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Small business employee struggles with new AI-obsessed manager, considers quitting when job gets too confusing: ‘He does not want to spend the money on compliant software, so I’m at a loss’

Melissa Knudson

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Manager aproves employee's PTO, insists that he be on line anyway, and gives the employee the cold shoulder when he sets the boundary: 'That's how it works here'

Giuliana Tiscioni

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Employee discovers coworker is booking fake meetings with himself for quiet work time, debates telling boss: ‘I can't decide if this is genius or insane’

Bar Mor Hazut

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Boss schedules ‘urgent’ calls during employees' unpaid lunch breaks, employee decide to stop joining after realizing they can wait: ‘It started wearing on me’

Cata Holmes

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New employee refuses to listen to friend’s warnings about their toxic company, only to be proven wrong on their first day of work: ‘I told you so’

Melissa Knudson

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Hardware store employees leave customers mid-sale to comply with boss's strict lunch break schedule, until HR gets involved: ‘He had gotten in trouble’

Bar Mor Hazut

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Employee accepts new job with 40% pay raise, company rescinds offer when former employer sends non-compete clause with forged signature: 'My former boss destroyed my livelihood'

Ally Perry

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Boss forgets she approved employee's project and publicly calls them out, employee fights to prove boss is wrong: ‘I have the approval in writing’

Bar Mor Hazut

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18-year-old gets scolded by neighbor after she offers him a job on her farm, and he refuses due to his tight schedule: ‘This is going to affect my work and my sanity’

Melissa Knudson

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Boss spends 6 months persecuting employees, flips out when one calls him out with anonymous letter: 'He threw a massive fit'

Ally Perry

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Employee gets laid off and is asked to train the recent grad replacing him for $12k less, he refuses to play along: ‘They decided to let me go so they could bring in someone cheaper.’

Cata Holmes

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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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