Horrible Bosses

Boss refuses to allow part-time employee to work a second job on his days off because he must be available if a colleague calls out, but does not give him on-call pay: ‘I have to show up no matter what’

Lana DeGaetano

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Entitled boss "Paul" claims employee's work as his own and fires him, employee gets even years later by buying Paul's company and demoting him: 'Enjoy litigation and demotion!'

Ben Weiss

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'We settled for 5 times my yearly salary': Lawyer secures pest-control technician a legal payout of $300k, after manager forces him to use damaged ladder, causing him to fall 25 feet

Emma Saven

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Print shop's new district manager demands all employees wear ties near a tie‑eating laminator, staff answers with giant clown bow ties: ‘The employee handbook doesn’t provide color or size parameters’

Etai Eshet

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‘She was telling MY COWORKERS the same lies she’s been trying to spread at her store’: New manager gets her branch to near perfect condition, while a different location’s supervisor paints her as lazy and a job taker

Etai Eshet

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Micromanager enforces 14-hour Zoom call to monitor employees, entire team quits to work for their competitor: 'The company closed'

Ben Weiss

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Employee maliciously complies with letting her overbearing manager take credit for all her work, by intentionally sending off manager's proofreading errors, prompting the client to question the manager’s credibility: 'She no longer wanted to proofread'

Emma Saven

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New micromanager enforces strict office hours, employees comply leaving West Coast clients scrambling: 'Management said we had to work 8am - 5pm (ET). So we did!'

Ben Weiss

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'I will take any little win': Micromanaging boss orders employee to scrutinize and reduce freelancer's billable hours, accidentally gets them more money

Isabella Penn

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‘She goes through my calendar hoping she [can] find things to “manage”’: Manager insists employee fakes their productivity for the sake of seeming ‘professional’, but employee hypothesizes that their manager isn't as productive as she seems

Lana DeGaetano

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‘The bank's call center manager personally called me’: Bank freezes man’s account for over a month due to clerk’s error, ignores his calls, so he floods their social media with complaints and they come running

Etai Eshet

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Employee gets even with stingy boss after he refuses to allow employees to ask for replacement pens if they lost theirs: 'You had to turn in [your] old out-of-ink pen to get another'

Ben Weiss

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Warehouse workers comply with a strict hair-length policy of "can't touch the collar", by wearing increasingly absurd wigs, forcing management to eventually drop the rule: 'The wigs became more and more ridiculous'

Emma Saven

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'My boss forces us to turn our cameras on for every meeting': Fully remote team rebels against new boss's camera mandate by using eyebrow-raising filters and backgrounds

Ben Weiss

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New boss refuses to acknowledge engineering contractor's resignation or even discuss renewing their contract, tries to dictate their own bizarre notice terms: 'I've just decided your last day will be 2 months from now'

Brad Dickson

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‘The judge actually congratulated me and my lawyer’: Boss exploits employee using a fake freelancing contract and then fires her without warning, so she takes them to court for violating labor laws

Lana DeGaetano

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