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Employee with 20 years of experience takes new job, gets fired after 30 days: 'Zero feedback, zero expectations, almost no communication from my boss'

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Remote employee hired to work from home faces impossible ultimatum when company demands they move 220 miles away in 14 days, or lose their job: ‘This feels like a blatant backdoor layoff’

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California technician pushes back after company demands he install a tracking app on his personal phone that monitors his location even when he's at home: ‘Who refuses to install it will be taken off the schedule’

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Company demands employees come on a weekend to pack and move the entire office instead of hiring movers: ‘No overtime, just pizza afterwards’

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Employee decides to quit job instead of training new hire who makes $22k more than them: ‘After my boss claimed promotions were budget frozen’

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Manager refuses to pay for employee's quality certification that's required for the job: ‘Tell them I'm not paying’

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Company mandates return to office, employee receives warning for working from home when they have 40 desks for 60 people: 'The expectation is that you find a solution in real time'

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Company hires 5 different managers for 1 employee, only 1 of the managers actually contributes any value: 'Why do companies keep employing these people?'

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Company offers employee double their salary to move into their hotel for 6 months, employee hesitates to accept: ‘They don’t want to give me a management title’

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Employee gets tired of awful client and wants to fire them, manager is against, so she decided to give a one-year notice for her PTO not to deal with the client: 'A year later, he finally got a taste of his own medicine and did not like it'

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Coworker shuts down employee's idea in front of external partner, then presents it to the team as her own after realizing it works: ‘I was the one pushing for the change’

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Traveling employee had an arrangement for the money he gets for the trip, if any funds were not spent, they have to give it back: ‘I get the standard letter through internal mail saying that my expenses are out by 29 pennies’

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Company decides to implement ChatGPT for client work until one employee discovers dozens of unchecked AI mistakes: ‘[Now] staff members have to complete mandatory retraining’

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Company refuses to give employees raises, claims anyone's raise will come out of someone else's paycheck: ‘What’s the point of growing in the job?’

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Employee gets written warning from HR, demand he tells disorganized manager whenever he spends 30 minutes away from his desk: 'It seems extremely micromanagerial'

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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