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15 Top Professions and Careers That Are Way Over-Romanticized and Offer a Reality and a Lifestyle That Is Way Less Glorious Than You Expected: 'Doctor sounds amazing until you find out the real prize is a decade of debt and a pager'

Brad Dickson

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Employer surprises employee with a "new offer"—a pay cut —after he already agreed to a transfer to be with his family after 5 months of long-distance separation for the job: 'Why would they literally take money out of my pocket?'

Brad Dickson

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Team lead publicly humiliates employee and tells her to stop "overstepping" after previously expecting her to do her work, then the lead’s boss tells the employee to apply for a new senior job

Brad Dickson

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MI Employee, a woman in her 40s, learns her new boss has tried to have her fired, when that fails he restructures 15% of her salary into an impossible bonus and begins giving her direct report her own tasks: 'My boss had gone to our CEO to have me fired'

Brad Dickson

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Job seeker shocked when employer offers $30,000 below advertized rate 3-month interview process, then rescinds the job offer after following their simple organizational question: 'The second I asked a basic professional question, they panicked'

Brad Dickson

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28-year-old employee gets fired, but her boss claims she resigned—all after she left work early upon being lectured for 2 hours about her request to be treated with respect: 'I received an email that he interpreted it as resigning and I could not return'

Brad Dickson

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Hospital worker accepts higher-level position with a $2 raise at their employer of 2 years, but the pay is missing from their first paycheck, then HR contacts them saying the offer was a mistake: 'The new rate would actually be LOWER than my previous pay'

Brad Dickson

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New hire left abandoned with no training or assigned work—boss starts insisting they get more work done and "learn by doing"—they consider quitting: 'I told him that I didn't get any proper training'

Brad Dickson

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Boss denies employee’s bereavement leave, schedules "mandatory fun" team event after working hours instead

Brad Dickson

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New manager suggests getting rid of entire department because "AI is going to do it all soon anyway": 'Why would this information be shared if not to make people anxious?'

Brad Dickson

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Is It Excessive for HR to Demand an Original Copy of a Job Candidate’s College Degree? Employees Discuss

Bar Mor Hazut

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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

Brad Dickson

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28-year-old worker learns coworker, with whom she privately vented frustrations, secretly recorded their conversations for over a year—HR blindsides her, firing her and promoting him—When is private venting ok and when is it a workplace issue?

Brad Dickson

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Employer Cuts Overachieving Employee’s Pay in Half When They Switch Them From Flat Rate to Hourly Pay— I Work Fast and Efficient and Can Get Most Jobs Finished in Half to 3/4 of the Allotted Time

Brad Dickson

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Employees Sat Through Months of RTO Lectures Before Discovering What Their Boss Had Been Hiding, Highlighting His Hypocrisy and Lack of Accountability

Brad Dickson

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Job candidate refuses to have Zoom interview recorded after recruiter won't turn her camera on: 'If cameras are required, both should have it turned on'

Ben Weiss

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