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'My review comes up a lot in their interview process': Worker's Glassdoor review causes trouble for previous employer

This employee has learned that a Glassdoor review they wrote when they quit their job has been giving their past-employer grief with hiring. They left their position after experiencing unprofessional treatment from their manager, which they felt necessitated the review being written. This thread was posted to Reddit's r/pettyrevenge subreddit this week by a user who shared their experiences with the popular sub. They posted their topic with the title “Left my old place due to bad management - M…
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Manager Demands Their Inferior Process is Followed, Predictable Outcome Ensues

There is something about being a manager that makes you think you know better than the actual people doing the work. Maybe it's in the way that even a tiny semblance of power links neurons in their brain that cause them to overestimate their knowledge and abilities. This dreadful disorder of “manager-ism” afflicts many a manager you might have encountered. This is how it was for Reddit user u/AdElectrical5354 in a story they shared with Reddit's popular r/maliciouscompliance subreddit. Their ma…
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Email I sent when they wanted me to send in weird recordings as a first step in the interview process. Hard pass.

'I won't be pursuing this position': This candidate refused to make impersonal video recordings for his interview

This prospective candidate turned down a job because they wouldn't take the time to schedule a real interview.
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'Corporations Quiet Quit Long Before Employees Did': this hot take on quiet quitting asks companies to look in the mirror

'Corporations quiet quit long before employees did': this hot take on quiet quitting asks companies to look in the mirror

Quiet quitting is really about setting boundaries and corporations are going to have to accept that to a certain extent.
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Cheap Boss Insists on Low Thermostat Setting, Cheeky Apprentice Recalibrates It

We've all worked for or lived with this person in the past. That person who would rather suffer frostbite than pay one red cent for one of the most basic comforts that modern society offers. These people insist that the thermostat be set low or the heat be turned off and everyone else be damned. You're going to live and/or work in an icebox and you're going to like it. Well, this apprentice had a bright idea and decided that if they couldn't change their cheap boss's mind then they would warp h…
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Update: IT Director Quits Arrogant CEO, Reduces His Notice Period After Unprofessional Response

These are the types of "leaders" who will gladly tell you that "It's just business" when they're laying you off or refusing you a raise. Yet, when you find a better opportunity and give notice, they take it personally, acting as if you've betrayed them. Suddenly, "It's just business" isn't valid, and the employer wonders why all these employees end up "Turning against them," utterly blind to the fact that they are the common denominator.
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Work Memes and Awkward Office Moments We Can All Relate To

Top Work Memes This Week That We Can All Relate To (August 23, 2022)

As long as we have jobs, work memes will never get old.
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Lovely conversation I overheard regarding layoffs and terrible HR people

'She was absolutely giddy about it': Sadistic HR person from Hell gossips about upcoming layoffs

This guy's birthday lunch for his Mom was ruined after overhearing a catty conversation at a nearby table led by a sadistic HR manager.
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Engineers throw their own party when they're not allowed to attend the company party.

'Smelly' Engineers Get Disinvited From Company Party, Host Bigger One of Their Own and Expense Everything

When these engineers weren't invited by the CEO to the company party, they instead threw a party of their own with the help of the VP charging it all to the company card.
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Messages from crazy manager firing the entire staff and making them interview if they want their job back. Local dive bar drama blowing up today.

'Everyone is terminated:' New manager at local dive bar fires literally everyone and makes them re-interview.

Everyone has had an experience with a crazy, vaguely threatening manager. But not everyone has had this one.
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'Attention! We DO NOT get our tips!': Worker exposes thieving boss by posting forbidden sign in their workplace in viral thread

A worker uploaded this viral image of a sign they posted at the coffee shop where they work. The sign instructs patrons not to leave tips as they will be stolen by the owner of the coffee shop. "I'm probably going to be fired for this… but I don't care," the employee claims in the title of their thread.
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"POV: Day in the Life Working From Home"

Ok But What Does Your Actual Work From Home Routine Look Like?

This viral video says it all about what remote work actually looks like.
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Viral Thread: Insane GM Comes to Workers House and Calls the Police When They Go Home Sick

This General Manager saw fit to visit their worker's home, called her mother, and even called the police for a welfare check after she went home sick, all part of a malicious ploy to punish her for going home sick.
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For those of you who could use a commiserative laugh or two in the middle of a stressful work day, we've got you covered.

Antiwork Memes for the Tired and Overworked

For those of you who could use a commiserative laugh or two in the middle of a stressful work day, we've got you covered.
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Update: Boss Reads Employees Private Fan-Faction Erotica Out Loud to Entire Team as "Prank", Wonders if He's Wrong

This fast food manager read his subordinate's erotic fan-fiction to the team as a prank and has taken to Reddit's r/AITA community to see if he was wrong.
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A school support staff member refused to allow his manager to bully him after being three minutes late one time.

Employee Stands His Ground With Manager After Getting in Trouble for Being Three Minutes Late

A school support staff member refused to allow his manager to bully him after being three minutes late one time.
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