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Boss keeps calling employee by the wrong name, even giving a promotion to this nonexistent person: '[HR] had to inform my boss that such a person doesn’t exist'

Ben Weiss

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'You requested I do not use my own discretion': Haughty manager belittles the administration employee in charge of scheduling staff training, ends up getting 20+ sessions canceled because of malicious compliance

Jesse Kessenheimer

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New supervisor tells employee not to bother coming in to work if he's even 5 minutes late, he just turns around and goes home every time he gets stuck in traffic, prompting a reversal of the rule: 'I won’t be coming in'

Brad Dickson

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Client accidentally sends engineer confidential documents, yet refuses to believe engineer after they claim to delete them, leading to a security dispute: ‘I didn’t mind escalating it’

Bar Mor Hazut

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'[He] kept calling the shop manager a clown to his face': 20+ Employees whose poor decisions led them to get fired

Remy Millisky

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25 Memes for Millennials Working Big Kid Jobs Who Need a Dang Break Already

Elna McHilderson

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Entitled boss forces overworked employee to pause payroll and prioritize new report, maliciously complies, delaying payroll for the entire company: 'You could almost see the steam coming out of his ears'

Ben Weiss

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'You don't sound sick to me': Employee refuses to give in to management pressures not to use any PTO, records conversation with boss to prove their actions are illegal

Bar Mor Hazut

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Entitled boss spells company name wrong in his emails for years, fed up employee reports it anonymously to the board of directors: ‘He lost his credibility’

Bar Mor Hazut

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'They've already made at least $10K off my free labor': Developer gets tricked into building a full client website for interview test, only to get ghosted and find it live a week later

Isabella Penn

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Employee quits after getting written up for being 2 minutes late after covering 3 people's jobs for 6 months: 'I got a formal write-up'

Brad Dickson

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‘Suddenly no WFH… [So] I put in a request for all 23 of my unused PTO days:' Employees share times they used their PTO to teach management a lesson

Elna McHilderson

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Manager approves employees' unlimited overtime for Mother's Day week, only to take it back halfway through: ‘You are doing too much overtime’

Bar Mor Hazut

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‘It will be devastating for him to lose me’: Overworked all-star employee gleefully gives her two-week notice, then uses all of her remaining PTO to get back at a micromanger who will soon realize she carries the entire department

Jesse Kessenheimer

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Overworked employee starts leaving right at 5pm making their boss think that they've suddenly got better at their job and have "stepped up their game": 'I got a raise after I started leaving exactly at 5pm'

Brad Dickson

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Remote employee transforms spare bedroom into home office, in-laws who visit once a year outraged they’ve lost their guest suite: '[We] live in a 2-bedroom apartment'

Isabella Penn

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