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20-year-old kitchen worker tells her 40-year-old coworker that she's not surprised his wife divorced him over his online gaming obsession, sparks disagreement dividing the workplace: 'She wanted him to spend time with her instead of playing video games'

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58-year-old essential employee gets laid off 1 year before retiring, entire team quits out of loyalty, HR begs them to come back for double their original pay: 'I'll come back for 13 weeks'

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Engineer passed over for promotion for their own direct reports, instead up-skills himself on the job, uses those skills to land a better job with 3x the pay: 'I developed skills on the company dime that got me a >100% raise at another company'

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Boss schedules meeting with HR to discuss employee's attitude after they say "no" to increased workload for the first time ever in 2 years: 'So now we have a meeting scheduled with HR to talk about it'

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Boss tells key client that go-to employee has left the company, employee quits for real when they find out: 'My supervisor told a high-end client that I was quitting. That was a lie, and I was gone for a week.'

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Boss demands 24/7 "urgent" access to employee, interrupting the employee's evenings and weekends with tasks that could have waited: 'If I’m not answering emails at 10PM, I’ll wake up to passive aggressive messages'

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Employee discovers that restaurant manager has been changing her and her 17-year-old coworker's clock out times when they are forced to stay late after closing: 'You know you don’t get paid past 8:15 right?'

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New boss refuses to acknowledge engineering contractor's resignation or even discuss renewing their contract, tries to dictate their own bizarre notice terms: 'I've just decided your last day will be 2 months from now'

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Boss tells supervisor they have to work 2 extra hours every day or quit, totaling an extra 10 hours of unpaid work every week: 'HR backed my supervisor up. They agreed.'

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New coworker tries to frame employee and get her fired for "sabotaging her work," leading to a confrontation with HR, where the truth is revealed: 'After interviews and digging, HR found Lisa was lying through her teeth'

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Boss schedules employee to work during their vacation, threatens to fire them if they don't come in and hires someone to replace them: 'Turns out while I was gone he tried to replace me with someone who quit after 2 days'

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Employee resigns after they fall ill while moving and have to take sick leave, their boss slowly unravels, escalating to accusations: 'My boss went nuts and I quit, but now my CEO is begging for me back, should I return?'

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Employee gets falsely accused and fired after asking for a raise when they hadn't gotten one for 3 years: ' I asked why I was fired, and he still wouldn’t even give me a reason'

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Boss asks employee to stay late on a Friday when it's already 4pm, the employee tells them they can't because they already have plans, boss says they're not a "team player": 'I've been working here for 8 months and I always stay late when needed'

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HR rep lectures candidate after he rejects their lowball offer, telling him he should have been "grateful for the opportunity": 'I have 4 years [of] experience and know my value'

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Mid-sized marketing firm outsources IT firing the single employee who had been there for 4 years, he gets a job paying $20k more: 'The first week after I left, their main server crashed. The outsourced company took 6 hours to respond, another 8 to fix it'

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