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Regular customer demands retail worker stop smiling and drop her cheerful customer service act, she complies, leaving the customer to deal with the uncomfortable reality of her request: '[I] would stop even smiling as she'd approach the counter'

Brad Dickson

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Restaurant manager laughs at employee when he asks for 2 consecutive days off after working 6 day weeks since starting: 'He literally laughed in his face'

Brad Dickson

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Manager draws fire from HR for his "bias" for not rewarding single-mother employee with the same raises and bonuses as her better-performing coworker: '[Since he] is willing to put in extra hours (maybe 5-10 hrs per week), he gets more done'

Brad Dickson

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Management asks employees to pick up their managers' work after layoffs without an increase in pay: 'We went from weekly 1-on-1s and actual support to a 15-minute standup once a week'

Brad Dickson

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Coworker attempts to push their work onto employee, employee refuses to accept it, inciting discord amongst their team: 'My manager is asking if I could be more flexible'

Brad Dickson

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'I stopped being the nice guy at work': Coworkers start treating employee differently as soon as he stops covering their shifts and taking on extra work

Ben Weiss

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Workplace encourages workers to be available 24/7, creating an unsustainable workplace culture: 'If you miss a message, they act like you personally sabotaged the company, I’m paid for 40 hours, not 168'

Brad Dickson

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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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Agency tries to steal assignment from rejected job candidate, candidate revokes their access before they can get away with it: 'If they wanted to use it, they would need to hire me'

Ben Weiss

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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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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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Boss throws extravagant Christmas party after round of layoffs, then posts about it on social media: 'It was quite inconsiderate on their part'

Ben Weiss

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Employer threatens remote employee with lawsuit for a second time after they hand in their resignation, despite them extending their notice period by 45 days: 'I just want out of this circus without getting a lawsuit thrown at me'

Brad Dickson

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Job applicant walks out of interview before it starts after waiting for 30+ minutes, but not before giving the hiring manager a piece of his mind: 'My time [is] more valuable than this!'

Ben Weiss

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Automotive product planning employee gets promoted and boss fired by booking wheels and tires as checked luggage when boss tries to blame him for a misdelivered shipment of wheels for a photoshoot: 'He had no one else to blame'

Brad Dickson

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