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Boss tells employee that they need to cut the amount of PTO they take even though, according to his contract, he is allowed however much he wants: ‘I’ve taken 8.5 PTO days- one of the lowest on my team.’

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Boss demands full return to office, resulting in his best employee refusing to do more than the minimum 9-5: ‘Flexibility works both ways'

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A business owner asks his employees to volunteer to work on Saturdays for a private event hosted at the office.

Business Owner Threatens to Assign Volunteers to Work His Private Event on a Saturday if His Employees Don't Willingly Volunteer: 'We Don't Work Saturdays.'

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Relentless coworker demands employee move out of “her seat” in break room, despite knowing there are no assigned seats, employee firmly refuses: ‘You don't own it’

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Return-To-Office Mandate Forces Employees Into the Office 4 Days a Week for “Collaboration” Following Years of Remote Work, But All Meetings Are Still Online Anyways—Then the Company Fires Half the Team and Remaining Employees Get 2 Times the Workload

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A remote employee making $75K does his stress-free job in the comfort of his living room.

Remote employee making $75K considers rejecting a senior job offer where he'd make $105K: 'It's 5 days in the office, a 45-minute commute, and obviously comes with a lot more responsibility.'

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Boss faces dilemma when bad employee asks for reference: 'They do the bare minimum'

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Employee befriends new manager and starts ignoring her coworkers, manager gets fired for bad performance, so she tries to go back to her old friends: ‘She started acting like she was untouchable’

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Managers often share credit for the success of their teams, but when does this go too far? And what should employees do about it?

Employee realizes her boss is taking credit for her work when he repeatedly refuses to promote her—she starts working to her job description, and company sales plummet: 'Took 3 months off and got another job at a 35% salary increase'

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Boss demands employee alter clients' invoices to falsely overcharge them, employee refuses, reports boss, and quits job: ‘He assumed I was morally bent in his favor’

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Employee leaves job of 4 years for new role, the position gets eliminated 3 days before his start date: 'Now I'm unemployed with rent due in 3 weeks'

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Employee refuses to cover for coworker who always takes long lunches, coworker blames employee when she gets in trouble for it with boss: ‘[You] should have warned me’

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Employee gets rejected from working from home full time by claiming she has nothing to do in the office: 'She framed it as flexibility'

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Employee misses work calls on day off, manager demands a disciplinary meeting despite no on-call duties: ‘I'm afraid of what might happen’

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Pet store employee starts locking her work locker after one coworker helps herself to her perfume, only for another colleague to publicly accuse her of thinking they are thieves: '[You] don’t trust any of [us]'

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Factory machine operator quits job after boss denies him a pay raise, leaving the company with no qualified operators: ‘They effectively lost thousands’