Horrible Bosses

“Your boss isn’t traveling 190 miles just to fire you’: 17 calming reactions to a scared employee spiraling over a lunch invite

Etai Eshet

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Coworker sends entire office into fabricated crisis looking for “missing” item she hid to teach one worker a lesson: ‘I honestly don’t know whether to be annoyed or just baffled’

Etai Eshet

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Manager turns an approved short vacation into layoff ultimatum, leaving 5-year-strong loyal employee stuck and unsure: ‘I've worked every holiday, hardly call out or request days off, picked up shifts, and never had any issues’

Etai Eshet

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‘We each got a bobble head of one of the executives’: 20+ Employees share the worst bonuses they've received from their jobs

Lana DeGaetano

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Manager lands employee in hot water with coworkers after failing to communicate tasks effectively and quits soon after, employee sends them a clever ‘parting gift’

Lana DeGaetano

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'I got upgraded on this flight and my boss did not': Boss chastises employee for not giving up his first class seat to her during work trip

Ben Weiss

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‘I had a job offer in hand and was preparing to start work, when I get a call from HR that the offer has been rescinded’: Boss gives a poor reference to a former employee, costing them a new position within the company

Etai Eshet

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Employee discovers that IT is monitoring his every move via his work phone, confronts boss immediately: 'They're trying to listen and track everything we're doing'

Ben Weiss

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Power-hungry boss singles out employee, sets them up for failure and fabricates mistakes forcing employee to weigh whether to expose her or walk away: ‘The final blow came when my performance grading was adjusted retrospectively’

Etai Eshet

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'Don't stop baking until I say stop': Assistant manager berates baker at bagel shop for not cooking fast enough, malicious compliance ensues

Ben Weiss

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“They're just stressing people to come up with lists of who to fire if they don't quit first’: Company forces employees back to an unworkable office with missing equipment, non-functional workspaces, and zero effort to support them

Etai Eshet

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Boss promotes employee to ‘leadership role’ but doesn't include a raise or added benefits, just more responsibilities: ‘Calling it a “promotion” felt dishonest’

Lana DeGaetano

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‘"It's their job, not anything above or beyond"’: IT department head tries to deny 25% of department employees their well-earned bonuses, software dev employee is fed up

Lana DeGaetano

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‘I flat out said no’: Employee refuses to train her underqualified replacement after being passed up on a promotion she was ‘heavily encouraged’ to apply for

Lana DeGaetano

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Team lead is fired after they refuse to overwork their team and instead defend them against toxic workplace practices: ‘I was just expected to be another cog in the machine’

Lana DeGaetano

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‘The very next day, I wrote my resignation letter’: Boss targets introvert employee, denies raises, and sets impossible deadlines, forcing her to quit

Etai Eshet

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