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Company excludes senior software engineer from meetings instead of telling him he's being let go, leaving him to piece it together himself: 'I knew the moment people stopped answering me'

Cata Holmes

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Engineer is forced into a management promotion she repeatedly said she didn't want, boss admits he did it on purpose to advance his own career: 'He joked that he ruined my day'

Cata Holmes

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Engineer kicks out friend-turned-partner after letting him buy into his already-thriving workshop for $1,700, watching him work two hours a day, and now the friend is demanding $3,000 and claims he owns the brand: 'My productivity literally doubled'

Etai Eshet

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Manager refuses to spend $50 on external software, insisting engineer waste company resources developing a platform in-house: 'This project was costing the company roughly $4,000 in billing hours'

Ben Weiss

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Engineer complies with manager's insistence to never stay past 5:00 PM by pausing an imminent project at the end of the day: 'Greg had explicitly told me to leave even if the building was on fire'

Ben Weiss

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WFH engineer sparks family drama after kicking nephew out of home office he had warned was off-limits, catching him messing with expensive equipment: ‘It’s not a playroom’

Cata Holmes

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Senior engineer's ex-company loses 8x his salary after denying him a well-earned 15% raise: ‘They now need 8 people to do the work I was doing alone’

Jesse Kessenheimer

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Senior engineer outsmarts an arrogant new hire when the newbie tries to play office politics, shattering his misplaced corporte confidence: 'He quit out of embarrassment'

Jesse Kessenheimer

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Senior mechanical engineer dismisses junior's correct analysis, costing the company tens of thousands of dollars: 'Maybe next time you’ll check my math before calling me useless'

Ben Weiss

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Overworked engineer gets passed up for promotion, uses company training to secure 200% raise at new job: 'That's more than I make'

Isabella Penn

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Electrical engineering student demands his entitled neighbor turn down her loud radio in the early morning, after she refuses, he jams the signals to the radio, ensuring she has no choice: 'Suddenly silence from the neighbor’s radio'

Emma Saven

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Competitive coworker tries to get engineer fired, ends up getting fired himself: ''[He's] trying to play games with my career!'

Ben Weiss

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‘I brought the company to a standstill to make a point': Manufacturing comes to a halt when an engineer weaponizes a software flaw he had been trying to fix for months, ends up getting updates fast-tracked by the VP himself

Jesse Kessenheimer

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Engineer backs out of volunteer work for his company, then finds out volunteers got paid after all, he throws a fit: ‘You set me up, I would’ve come if I knew’

Bar Mor Hazut

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'My CPA was laughing so hard he almost fell out of his chair':"Fake engineer" buys entire meal for bragging dinner guests to prove a point

Remy Millisky

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'In the first week alone, the local facility lost 3 jobs': Longtime electrical engineer loses vacation privileges, HR absentmindedly agrees to his drastic new schedule changes

Remy Millisky

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