employees

'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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Director upset that employee emailed their resignation when she's unreachable while working from home against company policy, freezes their entire bank account after accidentally overpaying them on their final pay: 'I do plan to formally escalate'

Brad Dickson

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Employee's hours get cut, then boss calls him to come in early, employee stands his ground: 'If they wanted me in early, they shouldn’t have cut my hours!'

Ben Weiss

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'[This] will drive them NUTS': Employee denied his bonus then wrongfully terminated from a snooty corpo job, so he donates all of his company-branded merch to the homeless to tarnish the polished image of his executives

Jesse Kessenheimer

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Boss accuses burned-out worker of sabotaging the company, still wants them to work their two week's notice when they quit: 'My boss asked me [if] I was sabotaging the company'

Brad Dickson

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Cowardly managers ghost an employee instead of firing him, then the ex-ice rink worker gets payback by pillaging break room meals: ‘I bring a tupperware and steal as much food as I can’

Jesse Kessenheimer

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'That was blatantly a work-related activity': PT assistant bills his boss double-overtime after he instructs hourly employees to wash work towels on their own time at home, gets the policy revoked overnight

Jesse Kessenheimer

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Nepo-hire project manager tries to outwit his engineer, leading to a construction site failure that costs millions, engineer provides email receipts to prove his innocence to management: ‘He was sacked… Even his uncle couldn’t save him'

Jesse Kessenheimer

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'Proof or not, there’s a perspective you are not at work': Boss accuses a hybrid employee of skipping work, so they respond with detailed daily reports of all of their activity, boss backtracks immediately

Jesse Kessenheimer

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HR employee single-handedly establishes a company's mental health day policy to improve office morale, gets a private ‘thank you’ from the burnt out coworker that inspired them: ‘I realized HR could be more than just paperwork’

Jesse Kessenheimer

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