Horrible Bosses

Project manager with 5+ years of experience gets demoted after company makes $500 million off of his work: 'I am absolutely dejected, to say the least'

Ben Weiss

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Restaurant manager laughs at employee when he asks for 2 consecutive days off after working 6 day weeks since starting: 'He literally laughed in his face'

Brad Dickson

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Manager draws fire from HR for his "bias" for not rewarding single-mother employee with the same raises and bonuses as her better-performing coworker: '[Since he] is willing to put in extra hours (maybe 5-10 hrs per week), he gets more done'

Brad Dickson

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Management asks employees to pick up their managers' work after layoffs without an increase in pay: 'We went from weekly 1-on-1s and actual support to a 15-minute standup once a week'

Brad Dickson

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Coworker attempts to push their work onto employee, employee refuses to accept it, inciting discord amongst their team: 'My manager is asking if I could be more flexible'

Brad Dickson

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Workplace encourages workers to be available 24/7, creating an unsustainable workplace culture: 'If you miss a message, they act like you personally sabotaged the company, I’m paid for 40 hours, not 168'

Brad Dickson

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Worker describes their frustration at their coworkers who refuse to take time off even during their vacations, creating a culture where everyone is expected to be constantly connected: '[They have] zero boundaries with work life balance'

Brad Dickson

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CEO is tricked into adopting AI-generated song as the new "company anthem" causing frustration among other workers: 'This needs to get to the marketing team so they can send it to the investors and use it to attract clients'

Brad Dickson

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Employee with plenty of accrued PTO asks for one unpaid day off, but her boss denies it and invents fake rules to justify it: ‘I went by HR again, and they confirmed she’s wrong and the info she’s been telling me is not true’

Etai Eshet

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'It was driving our boss insane, yet our boss had no idea he was doing': Coworker gets petty revenge on impatient boss by blocking him every time he made his daily printer run

Isabella Penn

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Nepobaby boss unjustly fires an irreplaceable employee 5 days before Christmas, then justice is served when the company goes bankrupt: ‘[I’m] living a fantasy'

Jesse Kessenheimer

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Employee fired just 5 days before Christmas after 8 years of service by their nepotistic boss, who inherited the company, watches the company go bankrupt: 'He's destroyed the company, starting with my firing'

Brad Dickson

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Job candidate blindsided when their new employer terminates them on their first day on the basis of their first day being a "trial period": 'I had accepted a full-time job at $22/hour'

Brad Dickson

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Employees asked by HR to contribute $20 each for Christmas gifts to the CEO, coworker stands his ground: 'I won't be pitching in'

Ben Weiss

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'I'm not coming, you've ripped me off': Student delivery worker refuses to show up to work after entitled boss underpays him, leaving boss to make deliveries himself

Ben Weiss

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'No matter how long he stays after this, his salary is frozen and won't increase again': Coworker receives "final" raise after 12 years at his company, immediately submits resignation and uses new salary to get a better job offer

Ben Weiss

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