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Employer fires 17-year-old employee after they miss a shift due to hospitalization, despite family phoning boss: 'At this point we are terminating your employment'

Brad Dickson

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27 Jobs that are much less enjoyable than employees expected: 'Working in a small company that likes to think they are a big company will destroy the fiber of your being'

Isabella Penn

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Chairman singles out only female board member, asking her to watch visiting politician's children: 'I do not have any children, but everyone else on the board [does]'

Brad Dickson

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'Bye-bye': Employee leaves company high and dry after learning that micromanager attempted to undermine his promotion

Sienna Varady

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Retail chain cuts workers' hours rather than paying overtime: 'They are going to schedule all the full timers at 35 hours so that no one goes over 40'

Brad Dickson

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'She was released last week after 25 years': Worker gets old boss fired years after being forced to resign under false accusations

Brad Dickson

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Boss tells line manager that she's "too friendly" with her male colleagues after they side with her in a meeting: 'This manager has had an issue with me for a long time'

Brad Dickson

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'One big problem is we are given way too much time': Management enforces employees be paid for exact project time only, employees rebel by taking maximum time to complete tasks

Isabella Penn

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Boss cuts productive employee's hours, they quit, boss gets fired due to drop in performance: 'So, I quit'

Brad Dickson

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Boss lies on incident report after workplace incident, blaming employee: 'Should I confront my boss about this?'

Brad Dickson

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Boss wants employee to train their outsourced replacement who will be earning 75% less: '[He] expects me to train her...'

Brad Dickson

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Efficiency consultant "experts" advise firing the wrong employee cost the company their biggest account: 'Business went from $200k to zero'

Brad Dickson

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Boss declines pregnant employee's requests for accommodation a week before her due date, HR steps in and grants her leave immediately

Brad Dickson

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25 Employees share the best jobs they've ever had: 'I do about 10-15 hours of actual work a week'

Isabella Penn

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Worker told they can't take their leave the day before they're set to leave, they take it anyway: 'I'm ignoring the fact that the leave isn't sanctioned now'

Brad Dickson

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Overworked truck depot worker calls boss's bluff after being reprimanded for working their scheduled hours like they were told: 'Clearly, you're not going to fire me. You have no one who can do my job'

Brad Dickson

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