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Entitled HOA president gets his after failing to sue smaller HOA because they have individual easements, resulting in getting kicked out of the neighborhood and going bankrupt

‘Lawyer destroys HOA’: New HOA feels entitled to beach property of preexisting HOA, board president gets his after losing two lawsuits and going bankrupt

"This ended up with another lawsuit against the HOA president personally by the original homeowners, who also filed to dissolve the HOA completely."
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Entitled manager pushes employee to resign, backtracks on their workplace maltreatment and tries to convince her to stay, even though she has already found a better job

‘Never make that mistake again’: Employee resigns after multiple instances of workplace mistreatment, manager backtracks on prior reprimands and refuses to ‘accept’ her two-week notice

"I spilled coffee onto my clothes. Never make that mistake again. I brought brownies in. Never do that again, people could have allergies."
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15+ stories from HOA homeowners about the most ridiculous and outrageous violations they received because of their board's incompetence

‘I had birds on my roof . . . Wild birds’: Homeowners reflect on some of the most ridiculously outrageous violations their HOAs accused them of and fined them for

Shoutout to the HOA that thinks kids playing with chalk is vandalism
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Vindictive manager gets what's coming to them after he berates employee and doesn't back up his promises, employee finds new job offer and considers making a scene while quitting

‘So I switched my LinkedIn back on’: Employee signs remote offer right before RTO mandate is enacted, gets unicorn job offer and considers loud-quitting to spite vindictive manager

"I’ve accepted (pending paperwork) so I’ll be the second lead this company has lost in as many years due to this same person."
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malicious compliance ensues when freight driver is refused help 4 times, only half of his tasks end up completed and multiple parties get cheated as a result

‘This time it bit them badly’: Tired freight employee is refused backup 4 times by crooked management, is only able to complete 1/2 tasks and management gets chewed out as a result

"I had exceeded legal driving time [so] they had to make sure I went home early for a few days." WIN!
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Employee faces unfair treatment when he is being singled out by his shift scheduler, leading him to find work elsewhere

Employee faces unfair reprimands made by disrespectful schedule manager, is informed that scheduler has ‘been trying since day one’ to get him fired

“Apparently, she tried to use me leaving early a lot as a reason that I should be fired, BUT SHE WAS THE ONE WHO WAS TELLING ME TO LEAVE EVERY DAY.”
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Entitled middle manager gets caught for excessive lateness when a night audit employee is wrongfully reprimanded for ‘excessive use of overtime’

Hotel employee is reprimanded by GM for ‘excessive use of overtime’ until documented punch times reveal that his middle manager was clocking in 1.5 hours late for every shift

"I explained to them that I was only staying on until the next crew relieved me and I had sufficient time to brief the incoming crew per the corporate policy [that] the hotel must be manned 24/7."
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Malicious executive is fired from company, attempts to block employee multiple times from being hired at new company and scrutinizes management as a result

Employee assists in the firing of malicious executive, now faces retaliation when the same executive tries to block employee from being hired at a different organization

"[He] is now scrutinizing my current management for them hiring me."
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man fixes his leak after HOA fails to do so, resulting in a reprimand and empty promises for fixing the damage beyond that

Incompetent HOA fails to repair man's condo's multiple water leaks, man is reprimanded when he hires a restoration company to fix it instead: ‘After this nightmare, never again’

“These people are top tier con artists.”
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new cfo causes company to lose out on a $500k deal because she advised the senior compliance officer to cut his staff in half, losing the one person needed to close the deal

‘Make it work, or I’ll find someone who can’: New CFO forces senior compliance officer's hand to fire half his team, company loses $500K because they needed the employee they fired to close the deal

“The documentation needed his specific knowledge and a set of reports that were saved on his company-issued laptop, which had been returned and promptly wiped after his departure.”
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woman is wrongfully fired from nursing home for being late and reporting unlawful practices at the facility, despite nobody else being written up: infers it's because of whistleblowing

Employee is wrongfully terminated from assisted living facility after reporting them for not following regulations, despite being one of few assistants who actually does their job

“It looks like retaliation for whistleblowing.”
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Employee's WFH privileges are revoked without warning, is told by apathetic boss that senior employees with families take WFH priority

‘I should’ve never fallen into the trap’: Entitled boss revokes employee's WFH privileges because it's simply more convenient for her, sparks feud in a 1:1 meeting resulting in tears

“They will watch you cry as they take away the only thing you have asked for at this job, and then leave early to go work from home that same day.”
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retail employee is subjected to chaos when management reverses staff roles, clueless supervisors find out for themselves that their ideas are better on paper than in practice

‘Short staffed? No problem’: Management implements major changes to tourist attraction employee roles, chaos ensues when staff is unaware of standard procedures

Some ideas are better in theory than in reality.
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entitled manager wrongfully terminates coffee shop employee, expects them to work their last shift without compensation

‘You're clearly not a barista’: Coffee shop employee's job is terminated by toxic manager, is still expected to finish her busy last shift without compensation

Small coffee with a side of revenge, anyone?
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employee forced to sign official reprimand because toxic management expects them work outside of their normal shift hours because a selfish co-worker was a no-show

‘It's not my responsibility to work shifts that aren't assigned to me’: Employee wrongfully reprimanded by entitled management after refusing to work overtime for a no-show co-worker

“They made me sign some official reprimand and put it in my file.”
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employee refuses to work unpaid over time because he was denied WFH privileges, company only wants him to WFH when it's unpaid

Employee outsmarts toxic management's unreasonable free labor expectations after denying him WFH privileges: ‘My contract says that I am prohibited [from] work[ing] from home’

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