Horrible Bosses

49-year-old designer is penalized at work for keeping his personal life private, and is fed up with corporate culture treating basic boundaries as a career-ending red flag

Etai Eshet

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Call center operator obliged to start 15 minutes before his shift to load the company's archaic software, told to work until 4:00 PM on the dot, he complies, ending a call right at the end of his shift: 'I am following expectations and written directions'

María Cetra

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Retail employer demands 24/7 GPS tracking on workers making $16/hour through a “workforce management” app on their personal phones, the employees refuse: ‘Why do they need my location at 11 PM, on weekends, or while I’m on vacation?’

Etai Eshet

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Company demands worker cancel pre-approved PTO or lose his job after sneaky managers hide vacation and sick day policy changes

Etai Eshet

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Volunteer refuses to come back after being bossed around, given no water, no bathroom breaks, and nearly having her phone confiscated, gets emails a year later telling her she needs to be a better team player

Etai Eshet

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Travel agent discovers manager has been skimming hours for 18 months, spends 8 months quietly documenting it, then gets called into a meeting where the manager accidentally exposes herself to head office

Etai Eshet

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Professional butcher gets back at his boss 5 years after he stole his paternity pay: ‘When I left that shop, I had the biggest grin on my face’

Etai Eshet

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Tech guy gets fired at 58 after 35 years in tech, and instead of panicking, sees it as a chance to retire early, do DIY, and work part-time at a hardware store: ‘It's actually a relief, I was getting SO sick of the corporate stuff’

Etai Eshet

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Union electrician spitefully applies to low-wage jobs requiring expert skills to waste unjust employers' time in interviews

Etai Eshet

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Employee plans to leave his job without notice and refuses to train his designated successor: 'If anything remotely related to "what she does" is brought up by the employees, I tell them that they'll have to reach out to her, and I can't help them'

Olivia Arocena

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Entitled boss quietly dumps his own admin onto an employee for months on end, dismissing any kind of confrontation about it: ‘He laughed and said "Let's not make a big thing of it"'

Olivia Arocena

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Anonymous Company Survey Accidentally Leaked By HR to the Entire Company

Ben Weiss

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Boss Denies Agreeing to Employee's Raise Request, Employee Finds Receipts with HR

Ben Weiss

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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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Virginia employee refuses to use software that records customers without approval, seeks legal action after employer threatens termination

Ben Weiss

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Remote Worker Reprimanded for Not Being Performative Enough on Slack Despite Stellar Output

Ben Weiss

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