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Job seeker finds out "networking" advice is useless after going to endless events full of empty promises: ‘This strategy doesn’t work, it’s just an opportunity for mid-career people to revel in having their egos stroked’

Etai Eshet

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‘But that's MY PTO’: Coworker keeps taking every holiday off using company PTO rules, refusing to trade, so colleagues team up against her, leaving her stuck working through all the breaks she claimed last year

Etai Eshet

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Clinician moves to a new clinic, maliciously complies with business casual dress code, wearing fitted chinos that cause workplace chatter, and management reverses back to scrubs: ‘I'm back in my joggers. Problem solved’

Etai Eshet

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‘Coworker assumed I was pregnant,Im not even kidding’: colleague gifts baby items to someone not pregnant, claims a “glow” gave it away, and sparks an office-wide lesson in confidence without awareness

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Employee quits job after being denied time off for the holidays, only for HR to extend their notice period by 30 days without warning: ‘HR can shout all they want’

Bar Mor Hazut

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HR demands employee quit their job after they submit a 79-page report about entitled boss's lack of management, which HR claims lacks proof: ‘I’m talking to a lawyer’

Bar Mor Hazut

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Worker finds a 4-foot blinking artificial Christmas tree taking over her desk, calls HR to get it moved when management refuses, and gets side-eyed by coworkers for ruining the holiday decor: ‘This tree took up half of my space’

Etai Eshet

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After being ignored by manager Jess when accepting a promotion, an after-school care worker withdraws interest and immediately finds themselves left off the roster for a month: ‘I have gotten a second job to supplement my income’

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'[She's] my hero:' Entitled manager tries to belittle hardworking single mother in front of management team, so she cuts him off and quits on the spot

Elna McHilderson

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Management demands 24/7 availability without extra pay for routine work that could wait until Monday, and pulls employee into meetings, criticizing his lack of responsiveness: ‘There’s no emergency, and no contract that says I owe them my free time’

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HR pressures employee returning from 3 years of medical leave to input all of their time-off requests once they return to work, then gets mad when they use all 75 accrued days: ‘Still makes me smile like a maniac’

Lana DeGaetano

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22-year-old worker goes home sick, and her 58-year-old supervisor shows up unannounced at her house asking for her and her mom: ‘[He] just showed up at our doorstep, asking for me by name’

Etai Eshet

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‘[She’s] constantly trying to throw me under the bus’: Finance employee struggles with coworker who screenshots mistakes, excludes them from meetings, and reports them to management while hiding her own errors to look competent

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STEM PhD graduate fired via email just two months in for asking to be paid on time after repeated salary delays, and refusing to be blamed for everything: ‘He was the boss, HR, everything, I couldn't do much’

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HR disciplines employee for missing mandatory meeting, only to discover they forgot to invite them in the first place: ‘Do you want me to telepathically sense meetings?’

Bar Mor Hazut

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UPDATE: Manager rejects engineer’s ideas in private, then implements the same solutions as his own, after the construction professional refuses to demote himself

Etai Eshet

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