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Woman loses a job offer after her former manager, who volunteered to be her reference, flags burnout concerns to the hiring company

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Ohio woman resigns from her medical billing job and discovers her former manager is telling clients she was fired for misconduct involving patient accounts: ‘I don’t want this rumor to damage my new job before I even start’

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Company cancels a 25-year-old’s signed contract extension, leaves him unemployed with a new lease to pay, pushing him to sue for everything he can

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Boss holds emergency meeting with all 100 staff demanding that responders to "anonymous" company survey reveal themselves on the spot, turning the ordeal into a humiliation ritual: '​The room was silent except for one new girl who raised her hand'

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Employee quiet quits for 4 years straight, gets a raise and then promoted, they tell how they did it: 'I got a raise and a promotion'

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Manager demands remote employee drive to the office on their 2nd day, forcing them to drive 90 minutes to the office 3 times a week for an RTO policy they weren't told about, they quit immediately instead : 'I thought he was joking. I laughed'

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Employee of 37 years gets a $58k offer from a rival company, and their employer suddenly finds room for a 12% raise the moment they start considering leaving

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'Took a counteroffer 8 months ago. Don't do what I did...': Employee's warning to others about accepting counteroffers after their manager's verbal promise of a promotion never eventuates, and the company undergoes reorganization

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‘Karma had my back!’: Call center worker who mocked her coworker online for months gets fired after tweeting confidential details about a celebrity customer and tagging them directly

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‘Oh my gosh, what a trick’: Management job candidate walks out mid-interview after finding out mid-way through the role is actually entry-level customer support

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Manager demands employee charge customers 75 cents for tap water, employee makes sure customers know boss is responsible forcing him to face the customers himself: 'My boss acted like he'd invented modern economics'

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Young worker, early 20s, quits family-owned landscaping job when the 70-year-old owner of the company, whom he has never met, begins sending him scathing emails with false claims: 'Needless to say I quit the next day'

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Employee triples workplace productivity, but her boss still complains about her leaving early a few times, pushing her to deliberately work slower instead of making the company more money

Etai Eshet

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‘I don’t get paid enough for this, I feel like putting in my 2 weeks’: Security guard pushed to quit after boss demands he drive a new coworker home after every shift, adding an unpaid hour to his commute

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Boss demands 16-hour days and weekend work, the employee quits and is thrown by their boss's reaction to their resignation: 'She has us work 12, 14, 16 hour days, weekends, and wishes we could work holidays'

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UPDATE: ‘She decided she doesn’t like me. She has said this directly’: Coworker keeps reporting a 2-month new hire as hostile, formally filing a complaint about an audible sigh, and complaining to their boss for no reason

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