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Employee makes boss $1.5 million in commissions, only to get a $25 AMC gift card as a Christmas bonus: 'When I put in my two weeks' notice, he called legal on me'

Ben Weiss

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Employee double-checks a grant detail to prove his right, accidentally uncovers widespread legal noncompliance that everyone in the organization ignored for years: ‘This entire situation happened because I wasn’t about to let someone tell me I’m wrong’

Etai Eshet

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Entitled coworker participates in Office Secret Santa to receive his gift but refuses to purchase anything: 'He thought it was childish to participate, yet didn't ask for his name to be removed from the hat'

Ben Weiss

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Boss spends 3 months trying to get employee fired, now can't stop calling him for help: 'The nerve of some people!'

Ben Weiss

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‘[She’s] constantly trying to throw me under the bus’: Finance employee struggles with coworker who screenshots mistakes, excludes them from meetings, and reports them to management while hiding her own errors to look competent

Etai Eshet

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Service worker laid off in July gets a message from their boss asking them to return to their old job: 'Thanksgiving week was a disaster because they didn't have enough people on to handle the crowds'

Brad Dickson

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STEM PhD graduate fired via email just two months in for asking to be paid on time after repeated salary delays, and refusing to be blamed for everything: ‘He was the boss, HR, everything, I couldn't do much’

Etai Eshet

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'We can't go home early anymore?': Part-time employee teams up with decent manager to maliciously comply with upper management's new scheduling rule by discreetly adjusting the lengths of the team's shifts

Ben Weiss

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Boss tells employee they "lack passion" for not responding to messages at 10 pm, despite them having not received a raise for 3 years: 'I make $19/hr'

Brad Dickson

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Coworker accidentally sends workplace gossip about an employee to that employee creating a tense environment and leading to her changing departments: 'Once they realized I wasn't joining in, they kept it to private chats'

Brad Dickson

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UPDATE: Manager rejects engineer’s ideas in private, then implements the same solutions as his own, after the construction professional refuses to demote himself

Etai Eshet

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Coworker sets ultimatum and demands pizza from employer after she misses office pizza party, resigns when they refuse to oblige: 'She quit because of pizza'

Brad Dickson

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‘I let Karma do what she does best’: Jealous coworker Barb plots to steal her trainer's job and gets her fired, only to end up jobless herself while the former friend is rehired to a higher position

Etai Eshet

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Single mom Lena returns from maternity leave, dumps mountains of work onto coworker Daria, who finally goes to HR when the workload becomes too much: ‘It became full accounts with notes saying "Daria will handle."’

Etai Eshet

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Mid-40s coworker living on parents’ expense constantly brags about money and success, making 24-year-old colleague increasingly annoyed by the nonstop ego show: ‘For some reason, he sees himself as a mentor to me, giving me advice on life’

Etai Eshet

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Employee social fund gets tense when 23-year-old fresh graduate new hire asks for evidence of costs, coworkers single her out for being "stingy" and not contributing: 'I told him I’d be happy to once I got the breakdown I’d asked for'

Brad Dickson

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