employment issues

Supervisor insists employee can't work from home after blizzard drops 10 inches of snow, employee takes vacation day instead, gets a free snow day fully paid after working 10 minutes: '[He tells me] I need to drive the 50+ miles to work or take vacation'

Brad Dickson

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Sawmill worker's job security in jeopardy after he wrote about his boss on social media: 'I'm mostly getting fired for a Facebook post'

Ben Weiss

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Guy calls out HR for violating minimum wage laws for salaried employees after receiving a 15% pay cut: 'Several salaried employees didn't even make the minimum'

Ben Weiss

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Woman tries to "return" a coat she stole from a thrift store’s off-limits donation cart, claimed it was hers, and threw a tantrum when staff refused: ‘[She] snapped instantly from tears to rage’

Etai Eshet

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Employee discovers that they no longer have a shop via a Facebook post from their employer announcing a closing-down sale: 'I found out I no longer have a job from a Facebook post'

Brad Dickson

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10 new hires share what made them quit on their first day on the job: 'The microwave [in the break room] was coin-operated'

Brad Dickson

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‘I'm desperate? I'm unemployed, broke, and trying to pay rent’: Job seeker rejected for sounding too eager, with the interviewer saying desperation is a turnoff

Etai Eshet

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Coworker demands company accommodate her schedule for parenting, but chooses late hours to avoid her child and complains about missing time with them: '[She's] an absolute nightmare of a person'

Etai Eshet

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Boss retaliates employee’s wage complaint with new rules, cameras, and strict policies aimed directly at them: ‘I gave so much of myself to this company for many years’

Etai Eshet

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CEO reprimands employee after his 5-year-old appeared in the background during a work call, employee resigns after pressure: 'I don't feel I can work here anymore'

Ben Weiss

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Handshake deal between boss and employee for a bonus in exchange for doing the boss's work goes sideways when the boss suddenly leaves and the new boss refuses to uphold it: 'I was successfully fulfilling my role and extra work'

Brad Dickson

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Coworker replies all all 3000-employee company-wide emails with pointless “thanks” and “noted” messages, flooding inboxes, making whole office slowly lose it: ‘During lunch yesterday I got three separate reply-all emails from her within 20 minutes’

Etai Eshet

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UPDATE: “[She] stole my position and now I get to watch her struggle worse than I did in it”: Teacher loses leadership role to a colleague who now has trouble with the same demands and responsibilities

Etai Eshet

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CEO insults employee's dress, she puts in her resignation, sending him into a panic: '[He] sent me a bouquet of roses after I quit'

Ben Weiss

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Nepo-baby coworker tries to override her dad’s approval of a 3 PM leave to work from home arrangement with a colleague but gets shut down by her boss-father: ‘He told me it has nothing to do with her, she has no authority’

Etai Eshet

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Employee resigns for better opportunity, manager ignores him for two weeks, then panics right before his final day: '[He] asked what it would take for me to stay...'

Ben Weiss

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