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‘She’s acting like a 12-year-old in middle school fawning over her unobtainable crush who happens to be dating me’: 35-year-old coworker Sarah fixates on colleague’s boyfriend she never met, fishing for details and copying her to feel connected to him

Etai Eshet

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‘Trying to save money on travel made them spend more, oops!’: Penny-pinching contracting company bans mileage, forces a 21-year-old to rent “cheapest” car with under-25 fees, and ends up paying nearly $800 plus gas

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Coworker Emma claims she has celiac to get special gluten-free food at work, but grabs regular pizza at office party, and has to admit it’s just a sensitivity when called out publicly: ‘She's saying I "outed" her medical information’

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Pennsylvania truck driver outsmarts boss Fred and state commercial driver’s license laws, gets the license, a raise, then quits on his own terms: ‘Over that 2-week period I got about 25hrs of overtime, a CDL, and a pay raise’

Etai Eshet

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‘I listen to gossip you have better nails now’: 20+ More professionals describe their job as poorly as possible

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‘They went sight-seeing, they weren’t at the airport’: Two junior employees miss their flight back from Nashville after skipping work events and ignoring repeated reminders, leaving company director to deal with corporate fallout once they end up stranded

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30-year-old coworker tries to turn the office against a 23-year-old after her ex hits on the younger woman, but whole staff starts reporting her behavior and management issues last warning: ‘She went out of her way to corner my friends’

Etai Eshet

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Employee reveals 9 ridiculous reasons his boss rejects job candidates, from disliking their initials to scrutinizing their habits at every interview: ‘This is to remind you It's not your fault most of the time if you get rejected’

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HR rescinded candidate's job offer after assuring them multiple times they got the job, claiming upper management put the role on hold: ‘There is nothing I can do about it’

Bar Mor Hazut

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'Helicopter parenting just hit the job market': Interviewer shocked when job candidate’s parent calls to ask for higher salary offer, HR says it’s not as rare as you’d think

Isabella Penn

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Woman stuck working for a CEO who's best friends with her sister, gets tired of him making separation of personal and professional life an impossible (work-life) balancing act: ‘[My] work relationship and my personal life are becoming too intertwined’

Etai Eshet

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Hotel guest times 7-minute wait on stopwatch, forgets own name during check-in, demands feather-free room accommodation, then complains about slow service he created through obstinate behavior

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‘Play stupid games, win stupid prizes’: Wannabe office big shot gets fired after swapping his coworker’s $30 ear buds for knockoff replacements, exposing a long list of small stings

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Guy contacts government worker on LinkedIn demanding he find him a $100k job because they had small talk in 2018, claiming it’s his civic duty as a public servant to help: ‘He asked me to send him my CV so he could copy it’

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‘There has been an absurdly high number of complaints’: Hotel reception employee wishes he called in sick after dealing with impossible guests featuring a disoriented woman insisting AC doesn’t work while standing under it

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Company boss and head of HR fired together after employee documents years of manipulation and micromanaging, then presents evidence to SVP during boss’s promotion attempt: ‘What he didn't know was that all those years I kept all our communications’

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