employment issues

Overworked employee doing a 3-person job solo gets denied PTO for a two-day vacation after her company laid off the rest of the department and never replaced anyone

Etai Eshet

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Boss replaces his employees with AI, then begs everyone to come back when his business goes up in flames: ‘Their clients are suing them’

Jesse Kessenheimer

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Dad convinces daughter to leave her 10-year stable job and join his business, then fires her after one disagreement

Etai Eshet

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Job Candidate Accepts Offer and Resigns From Current Role, Only To Discover the New Position Is Hybrid and the Office Is 47 Miles Away

Ben Weiss

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‘If I get another, I’m fired’: New Boss writes up employee for not coming in on a federal holiday when the location was closed, capping off 8 months of disciplinary action against a 16-year veteran

Etai Eshet

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Senior operator follows his new manager’s order to stop making independent decisions, until manager Phil changes his mind after spending two weeks approving every minor fix, and one costly redo

Etai Eshet

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Co-owner of a 35% profit margin family business tells a trusted employee she wants to cut all staff pay 40% to minimum wage and absorb their tips

Etai Eshet

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Job candidate refuses to have Zoom interview recorded after recruiter won't turn her camera on: 'If cameras are required, both should have it turned on'

Ben Weiss

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Intern fired for declining boss's demand to immediately join last-minute 3:30 pm Sunday meeting on Memorial Day weekend, raising concerns of unrealistic employment demands: 'They just expect 24/7 availability from interns getting paid the bare minimum'

Brad Dickson

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Nursing home receptionist quits and walks out after being repeatedly blamed for patients wandering out of unsecured doors, and her boss asks her to come back to do “one last thing”

Etai Eshet

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Employee forced to meet with HR because his "engagement score" dropped 7 points last quarter: 'This is about being graded by software that has no idea what my job is'

Ben Weiss

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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

Etai Eshet

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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’

Etai Eshet

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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

Etai Eshet

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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'

Brad Dickson

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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'

Brad Dickson

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