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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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Job cancels PTO that employee of 15 years scheduled in order to go on his honeymoon: 'Should I quit?'

Emmy Pratt

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IT employee takes management role for better pay and career growth, realizes he hates managing people and wants his old position back: ‘Dealing with egos, pointless arguments’

Cata Holmes

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Boss increases salaried employees hours from 9-5 to 7-5 after team goes from 5 employees to 2 employees: 'Is that a red flag?'

Emmy Pratt

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Boss demands employee attend an unpaid ‘mandatory fun day’ on Saturday despite knowing she has a second job, warns that missing shows lack of commitment: '[She said] it would be "noted in my file’

Cata Holmes

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"Is everyone short-staffed?": Workers everywhere wonder how and why seemingly every workplace is operating at a near-permanent reduction in staffing levels

Brad Dickson

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Employee refuses to charge coworkers for the free candy bowl he's stocked for years, office committee blames him for taking profits away from its snack fundraiser: 'You're not being a team player'

Celeste Mello

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CTO enforces rule stating employees should only work if they're at their office desks, they all comply, resulting in client crisis during the weekend: ‘Nobody was working'

Bar Mor Hazut

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Florida employee accepts a new job to learn they must pay a $1000 onboarding fee and stay a full year to get it back: ‘Is it even legal to charge a fee?’

Cata Holmes

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Employee automates 15 hours of weekly work, only to get fired by boss immediately after: ‘I literally worked myself out of a salary’

Bar Mor Hazut

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