employment issues

Coworker reports employee to HR for not inviting her to her private wedding, forcing her to have to explain to HR why she's not invited: 'Some people really do think they’re the main character'

Brad Dickson

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High-achiever "quiet quits" and gets a job in a different area of the company with better pay when manager ignores their repeated warnings about impending issues, watches as the disaster happens exactly as they predicted: 'My new job is a piece of cake'

Brad Dickson

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New supervisor tells warehouse worker to mind her own business when she points out that one of the other machines is smoking, '10 minutes later, the thing actually caught fire'

Brad Dickson

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Employee labeled as having an "unprofessional attitude" by their employer after inquiring about their missing and late paycheck: 'My last paycheck was late. Not by a day or two, almost a full week'

Brad Dickson

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Overworked employee is unceremoniously fired after giving their 2 weeks' notice, which was to end with 3 days of leave: '55+ [hour] weeks with no overtime'

Brad Dickson

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Employee comes in to the office when they are sick at their boss's demand, boss soon regrets it: 'Boss said no working from home'

Brad Dickson

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Employee is fired after being placed on a PIP and being given the cold shoulder immediately following medical leave : 'HR is not your friend. Learned that the hard way...'

Brad Dickson

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‘HR said it doesn't matter’: Nursing home employer forces employee to falsely ‘clock out’ for breaks they aren't taking in an already severely understaffed environment

Lana DeGaetano

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Interviewer tells candidate to stop talking when candidate's refusal to let them speak leads to candidate literally talking himself out of a job: 'You walked into this room with a 99 percent chance of getting the job. Now that chance is zero'

Brad Dickson

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Employee shares her struggle of commuting 3 hours to work, leaving little personal time to even do chores, receives sound advice: 'In a single 24-hour weekday cycle, I have on average 4 hours a day to just exist without work'

Brad Dickson

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UPDATE: 'He didn't take it well': New boss demands employee stay to work unscheduled overtime, employee hits him with a "no," gets fired

Brad Dickson

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Manager covers employee's work and sends care packages to their home when they suddenly take an extended leave of absence, surprising the other team members: 'You're one of us. We take care of each other here.'

Brad Dickson

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Worker who always comes to work 20 to 30 minutes early is late to work once, prompting reprimand from their boss, the next time they're late they show up 2.5 hours late instead: 'Same penalty for being 6 minutes late as for being 3 hours late? Ok boss'

Brad Dickson

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Employee tries to quit after working 80 hours for 3 months straight, boss hits them with "no": 'My salary has actually declined since over the past 5 years'

Brad Dickson

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Employee loses days of PTO for taking an hour for lunch: 'I finally decided to treat myself and go to lunch one day...I received an email that I will be losing 2 days of PTO.'

Christiana Maimone

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Employee discovers that they're doing the majority of the work for their team, boss refuses to intervene and distribute the workload: 'Started tracking my workload out of curiosity. Turns out I’m handling roughly 70% of what our team produces.'

Brad Dickson

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