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Management demands 24/7 availability without extra pay for routine work that could wait until Monday, and pulls employee into meetings, criticizing his lack of responsiveness: ‘There’s no emergency, and no contract that says I owe them my free time’

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Candidate gets told they are an ideal match by a recruiter, then quickly rejected by the hiring manager for not staying long enough in previous jobs: ‘You’re told you’re a great match until you aren’t’

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Boss overloads employee with work to try to get him to quit, he confronts her directly: 'If you want me gone, you'll have to fire me and pay my severance'

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HR pressures employee returning from 3 years of medical leave to input all of their time-off requests once they return to work, then gets mad when they use all 75 accrued days: ‘Still makes me smile like a maniac’

22-year-old worker goes home sick, and her 58-year-old supervisor shows up unannounced at her house asking for her and her mom: ‘[He] just showed up at our doorstep, asking for me by name’

22-year-old worker goes home sick, and her 58-year-old supervisor shows up unannounced at her house asking for her and her mom: ‘[He] just showed up at our doorstep, asking for me by name’

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Boss forces manager to require that his assistant join team meetings during his vacation: '[We] need to attend meetings for free on our days off'

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‘We all just stood there in silence’: Arrogant manager breaks down after several of his employees quit, leads a meeting where he berates remaining staff, and then receives another resignation

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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'

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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’

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’

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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'

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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!'

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Boss cuts 22-year-old sandwich shop worker's hours after he helps train new hire: 'I went from working 30+ hours a week to working less than 15'

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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'

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Employee confronts new boss to higher ups after he reprimands her for missing "mandatory training" during her maternity leave: 'I've literally done nothing wrong'

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Overworked employee calls out boss in a 3:00 AM email after being set up to fail following her returns from medical leave: 'I couldn't take it anymore'

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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'

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'That's a 40 hour donation': Job candidate rejects job offer with fiery email after learning they need to work an unpaid "one-week trial"

'That's a 40 hour donation': Job candidate rejects job offer with fiery email after learning they need to work an unpaid "one-week trial"

Employee backs out of their promise to cover coworker's shift after she also demands they take over all of her extra tasks of the day, gets called out: ‘Coworkers should help each other’

Employee backs out of their promise to cover coworker's shift after she also demands they take over all of her extra tasks of the day, gets called out: ‘Coworkers should help each other’

IT project manager sabotages business after boss refuses to pay for car repairs they caused: 'They won't provide me with a car!'

IT project manager sabotages business after boss refuses to pay for car repairs they caused: 'They won't provide me with a car!'

Retail employee tells off their manager, Gary, pointing out his failure to handle his own tasks when he starts micromanaging theirs: ‘Slow clap for the hero in aisle 7'

Retail employee tells off their manager, Gary, pointing out his failure to handle his own tasks when he starts micromanaging theirs: ‘Slow clap for the hero in aisle 7'

Difficult neighbor moves in at 2:00 AM, resident next door gets even by testing their loud speaker: 'I turned it up to 90%, let the music blast and enjoyed it'

Difficult neighbor moves in at 2:00 AM, resident next door gets even by testing their loud speaker: 'I turned it up to 90%, let the music blast and enjoyed it'

New micromanager scolds employee for using the company credit card for meals while working overtime, employee decides to write individual expense reports for everything they buy moving forward: ‘By week two, Dave's inbox was flooded’

New micromanager scolds employee for using the company credit card for meals while working overtime, employee decides to write individual expense reports for everything they buy moving forward: ‘By week two, Dave's inbox was flooded’

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