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15+ Employees recount actions from their managers that caused morale to plummet: 'Boss made a big speech about austerity measures and no raises this year'

Ben Weiss

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'5 people are planning their exit because of this': Entitled coworker gets promotion after becoming company president's "work girlfriend," makes other employees consider leaving

Remy Millisky

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‘I gave them 24 hours': Senior programmer gets demoted for ‘performance issues’ after a health crisis, so he diverts all his managerial duties to his boss, ends up demanding a 10% raise and a 4-day workweek after they beg him to come back

Jesse Kessenheimer

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15+ Employees who watched their coworkers get fired: 'HR cleaned out his desk within 10 minutes'

Remy Millisky

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15+ Bosses who had the worst workers: '[She was] sleeping on the job. She was a lifeguard. Fired on the spot'

Remy Millisky

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'Do I feel guilty? Nope': Distribution center employee steals £18,000 from a mega-corporation through a phony return loophole, ends up with enough cash to put a downpayment on a house before quitting

Jesse Kessenheimer

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'They accused me of 'ruining their trip'': Responsible coworker bails on a work trip after catching his 'trusted' colleagues being sketchy in their Airbnb, he leaves them to fend for themselves then takes it to HR

Jesse Kessenheimer

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'Ok! Everyone is fired!': Heroic manager defends his employees from layoffs after the C-level bosses try to ‘thin out' the higher-paid senior employees, ends up getting HR and the legal department involved

Jesse Kessenheimer

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Hotel owner forces his lead landscaper to train his incompetent nephew to take over his job, nepotism leads to a property fire that burns the place down: 'The nephew seemed more concerned with playing Pokemon than working'

Jesse Kessenheimer

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'After years of unpaid overtime, I started logging out exactly at 5 PM': Employee shares how sticking to scheduled hours improved their wellbeing and productivity

Brad Dickson

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‘I thought my career was over’: Plucky new hire gets caught bluffing on his resume, ends up impressing his hiring manager by learning everything about their software in two weeks

Jesse Kessenheimer

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'Keep the pizza and the donuts': 24 Ways to tell that your company actually cares about you

Jesse Kessenheimer

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Employee forced to go home and change after wearing shorts, proves micromanager wrong with the help of the company handbook: 'I'm changing back into my shorts'

Ben Weiss

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Employee applies for internal promotion and their egotisitcal boss finds out just before their annual review: ' Is it going to hurt my chances of getting promoted?'

Brad Dickson

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Boss retaliates against employee for letting their coworkers vent to them, employee stops doing all of the extra tasks they had been taking on out of goodwill: 'Coworkers should be allowed to vent to each other without it being treated like this'

Brad Dickson

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Employee forced to stay late for optics, puts in hours of OT for doing nothing: 'Well, you asked me to stay late!'

Ben Weiss

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