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Worker describes their frustration at their coworkers who refuse to take time off even during their vacations, creating a culture where everyone is expected to be constantly connected: '[They have] zero boundaries with work life balance'

Brad Dickson

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CEO is tricked into adopting AI-generated song as the new "company anthem" causing frustration among other workers: 'This needs to get to the marketing team so they can send it to the investors and use it to attract clients'

Brad Dickson

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Employee with plenty of accrued PTO asks for one unpaid day off, but her boss denies it and invents fake rules to justify it: ‘I went by HR again, and they confirmed she’s wrong and the info she’s been telling me is not true’

Etai Eshet

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18 Construction laborers attend annual Christmas lunch expecting usual gifts and bonuses, but receive nothing with no explanation from management: ‘No speech, no card, no gift, no thank you, nothing’

Etai Eshet

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Job seeker finds out "networking" advice is useless after going to endless events full of empty promises: ‘This strategy doesn’t work, it’s just an opportunity for mid-career people to revel in having their egos stroked’

Etai Eshet

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Employee fired just 5 days before Christmas after 8 years of service by their nepotistic boss, who inherited the company, watches the company go bankrupt: 'He's destroyed the company, starting with my firing'

Brad Dickson

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Recruiter discovers he has been interviewing with an AI avatar posing as the job candidate for a full 30 minutes: 'My gut told me something was off'

Ben Weiss

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Laid-off employee put on garden leave during office Secret Santa refuses to play along and send a gift: ‘I was technically still employed and being paid, but I was clearly told not to come into work’

Etai Eshet

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Job candidate blindsided when their new employer terminates them on their first day on the basis of their first day being a "trial period": 'I had accepted a full-time job at $22/hour'

Brad Dickson

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‘But that's MY PTO’: Coworker keeps taking every holiday off using company PTO rules, refusing to trade, so colleagues team up against her, leaving her stuck working through all the breaks she claimed last year

Etai Eshet

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Clinician moves to a new clinic, maliciously complies with business casual dress code, wearing fitted chinos that cause workplace chatter, and management reverses back to scrubs: ‘I'm back in my joggers. Problem solved’

Etai Eshet

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‘Coworker assumed I was pregnant,Im not even kidding’: colleague gifts baby items to someone not pregnant, claims a “glow” gave it away, and sparks an office-wide lesson in confidence without awareness

Etai Eshet

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Employees asked by HR to contribute $20 each for Christmas gifts to the CEO, coworker stands his ground: 'I won't be pitching in'

Ben Weiss

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‘The hardest part of my job isn’t the work, it’s the constant urgency over nothing‘: Company treats every minor task like a crisis, drowning its staff in fake emergencies until stress becomes the main worload

Etai Eshet

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'I'm not coming, you've ripped me off': Student delivery worker refuses to show up to work after entitled boss underpays him, leaving boss to make deliveries himself

Ben Weiss

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'No matter how long he stays after this, his salary is frozen and won't increase again': Coworker receives "final" raise after 12 years at his company, immediately submits resignation and uses new salary to get a better job offer

Ben Weiss

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