employment issues

Professional writer refuses unsolicited commission work offer from artist after being fooled before, and the artist responds with insults and accusations and gets blocked

Etai Eshet

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Job candidate asked to work entire day for free instead of sitting their scheduled interview, they stand their ground and walk: 'They expected me to work 6 hours for free before even telling me the salary'

Brad Dickson

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Man tells his girlfriend he wants to quit his 60k job to be a full-time streamer, she refuses to support the risky, unrealistic plan: ‘It did not go the way I hoped, she’s barely talking to me’

Etai Eshet

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Corporate management refuses to use 1 of 3 allocated "storm days" to shut down the facility despite 1 foot of snowfall, forcing employees to use their own PTO instead: 'The VP started the email with "Happy Tuesday!!"'

Brad Dickson

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Employee realizes that they have taken less PTO since the company instituted "unlimited" policy due to the implied threat from HR: 'It's just this weird psychological thing where you feel like youre being watched or judged'

Brad Dickson

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Company spends $263,000 a year on engineering team’s daily meeting instead of letting them work: ‘Decisions made during standup: zero’

Etai Eshet

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Experienced job candidate tells off recruiter after getting offered $12/hour with no benefits: 'I told her she needed a reality check because her offer was a joke'

Ben Weiss

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‘[It’s a] vibe coding disaster': Startup CEO skips normal development steps, uses AI to publish a massive unfinished app that barely works

Etai Eshet

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Woman refuses to reference an ex‑friend of 6 years, Daniel, for new job after he threw her under the bus and blamed her for failed project

Etai Eshet

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Job applicant pressured to do an unpaid trial shift before his interview: 'I got up to leave!'

Ben Weiss

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Employee turns the tables, uses micromanaging boss's own reports to trick her and expose her hypocrisy in her criticism of his work: 'I found the folder online and used her past work verbatim'

Brad Dickson

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Employee blindsided by manager and HR after demanding "accountability" from their manager over their mishandling of scheduling and workplace accommodations: 'They threatened to fire me if I expressed myself “that way” again'

Brad Dickson

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Military worker calls out her same rank 30-year-old male colleague for not doing his work, he responds with an anger tantrum: ‘He has been in the military twice as long as I have, but we’re all the same rank’

Etai Eshet

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Woman who works at her dad’s small business notices one coworker ignores her and acts cold whenever her father is in the office, but is friendly and chatty when her dad's away

Etai Eshet

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Management removes automatic login access for widely used tool, employee maliciously complies until they restore access: 'It took about an hour before they sent us the login info'

Ben Weiss

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Manager gets a day of overtime pay for answering employee text when HR refuses to acknowledge their work-life boundaries, HR tries to get them fired, they counter with their own warning: '[If] they wanted to punish me for it, they could see me in court'

Brad Dickson

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