Horrible Bosses

‘I’ve been with this company for 20 years and this is how they’re doing me’: New managers try to force 20-year employee to quit after a department merger, piling on extra work and inventing dress code and shoe violations

Etai Eshet

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Employee gets suspended for not standing up to greet the CEO when he visited the office, he quits after returning to work: 'This is insane'

Ben Weiss

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22-year-old retail employee gets her friend and coworker fired when her friend lies to their manager about a "family emergency" to go to a party and tells the manager she will cover their shift: 'My manager called me and asked me why I wasn't at work'

Brad Dickson

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HR requests a ‘legalized resignation document’ from a former employee who quit 5 months prior, ex-employee thinks something shady is going on: ‘Their organization might be a front’

Lana DeGaetano

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Company's South African branch unexpectedly receives $1,800 donation, manager uses it to create a successful staff micro-loan fund, only for head office to shut it down, demanding the money's return: 'Widely regarded as incredibly helpful'

Emma Saven

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Minimum wage baker takes their crooked boss down after catching them pocketing 75% of the bakery's weekly tips: 'Boss says we aren’t entitled to the tips we made'

Jesse Kessenheimer

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Coworker Kim demands changing desks, claiming her crystals need better energy flow by the window to work and align better with her aura: ‘I laughed because I thought she was joking. She wasn’t’

Etai Eshet

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Employee uses obscure employee handbook loophole to take PTO when their boss forbids them from taking it before it expires: 'PTO requests not explicitly denied [...] within 48 business hours are [...] approved.”'

Brad Dickson

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‘She quit a week later. Three others followed. All four mentioned the "family" hypocrisy’: CEO calls company family for years, denies financial help to a longtime employee after she loses her house, then criticizes her for not being “team player”

Etai Eshet

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Employee refuses to text overbearing boss every time she leaves the house, asserting boundaries: 'I'm literally never late'

Ben Weiss

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Company seemingly forges their former employee's signature on a company NDA after they quit: ‘[I want] my name off any documents I did not sign’

Lana DeGaetano

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Company says basic office supplies are for managers only, new hire brings his own and forces a policy change overnight: 'Facial tissues are not for non-managers'

Isabella Penn

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‘She only worked at a small restaurant and a bakery before’: Hardworking employee gets skipped for promotion when company hires a newbie boss with no experience

Etai Eshet

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‘I’ve complained about him, but nothing can be done as he is the head of his area’: Senior staffer exhausts new employee with late-night texts and power plays, pushing him to ignore the senior and avoid the office

Etai Eshet

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‘Now they'll have to pay 50% more to replace me’: Tech manager tries to negotiate a lower raise with their star employee, only for her to resign and score a senior position elsewhere

Lana DeGaetano

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'PTO is not permission to vanish': Boss bothers employee with constant non-urgent messages during his vacation, employee forwards messages to HR

Ben Weiss

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