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'I fully trusted her and she broke her promise': Boss makes verbal promise to high-performing employee, suddenly chooses an outside candidate instead

My idiot boss just lost $300.000 Dollars over 30 cents

Dumb Boss Rejects Client's Payment Over 30 Stupid Cents, Loses His Business $300,000 Over This

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Effective Immediately: All staff must leave their cell phones on and make themselves available when not on shift

Viral thread, 'Consider yourself on call': Employer demands employees leave their personal phones on and be contactable at all hours to come into work

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'He quit a few weeks later': Manager tries to humiliate security guard, quits when it backfires

Cheapskate Boss | I worked as a shift supervisor in a department of about 60 employees. Every year there is a designated week to celebrate our profession.

'I saw red': Cheapskate boss forces shift supervisors to pay for company pizza parties and refuses to tip, shift supervisors pays them in pettily dispensed pennies

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No sick days. | I am sicker than yesterday. I need rest. No don't say that.

'No. Don't say that.': Employee tries to call out sick, manager begs them to come in

My idiot boss just lost $300.000 Dollars over 30 cents

'The client was so angry': Pedantic boss costs company $300,000 sale over $0.30 transaction fee

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'He responded by adding more workload': Worker quits when boss gives them more work after they complain about their workload

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'I eventually quit': Manager insists on doing things their way because of their age... despite having less experience

The startup I worked at laid me off and is refusing to send me my final paycheck unless I sign an NDA. I'm pretty fed up that they haven't paid me in nearly three weeks, so I forwarded the emails to every company stakeholder.

'I would like to be paid immediately': CEO tries to withhold former employee's final paycheck until they sign an NDA

My sister works for a small restaurant in the area as a server. They charged her $200 for a dine and dash

'They charged her $200': Server saddled with dine and dasher's entire bill in viral thread, internet outraged

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'My boss cancelled my interview': Worker quits when boss interferes with their internal promotion interview

Was told I had an 8 1/2 hour shift and not to leave early, so I started working for only 8 1/2 hours.

'[Boss] got demoted': Boss demands worker stick to scheduled hours, results in obvious outcome

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'I am in dress code': Boss shortsightedly bans shorts but not kilts

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'Go ahead, fire me'': Worker quits after boss denies their leave request

Stiff me on overtime? Queue the long, expensive, revenge. | This happened in the early 2000s when I joined a start-up. We agreed on a salary and no paid over-time and an evaluation in 3 months and then annually. Standard stuff mostly.

'The total demand was something like $135k': Employer cheats guy on overtime, guy plays the long con to get it all back, plus interest

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29-year-old woman refuses to share late parents' inheritance with her estranged, ’rebellious’ younger brother, resulting in a heated sibling feud: ‘He’d had years to reach out’

29-year-old woman refuses to share late parents' inheritance with her estranged, ’rebellious’ younger brother, resulting in a heated sibling feud: ‘He’d had years to reach out’

'Keep your word’: Carpenter tenant gets evicted after making a gentleman's agreement and spending $10k of his own money on renovations, rips everything out as he goes and gets the last laugh

'Keep your word’: Carpenter tenant gets evicted after making a gentleman's agreement and spending $10k of his own money on renovations, rips everything out as he goes and gets the last laugh

Office food thief steals coworker’s food for 6 months, learns the hard way it's been dog food all along: 'Their hair does seem shinier'

Office food thief steals coworker’s food for 6 months, learns the hard way it's been dog food all along: 'Their hair does seem shinier'

Customer complains after employee refuses to help them while on their lunch break, boss takes customer's side: 'My boss sat me down and told me I should have just helped her'

Customer complains after employee refuses to help them while on their lunch break, boss takes customer's side: 'My boss sat me down and told me I should have just helped her'

'My boss is stealing money from my 401k': Employee seeks legal action after discovering his boss has been secretly withdrawing contributions to his retirement account

'My boss is stealing money from my 401k': Employee seeks legal action after discovering his boss has been secretly withdrawing contributions to his retirement account

Boss pressures employee to respond to clients while on paternity leave, employee refuses, boss forced to leave: 'I didn't check my email for seven weeks'

Boss pressures employee to respond to clients while on paternity leave, employee refuses, boss forced to leave: 'I didn't check my email for seven weeks'

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