human resources

'I call companies and tell them I'm following up': Job candidate beats the system by skipping application process and calling HR directly, gets results

Ben Weiss

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Employee informs manager he has to miss work due to medical emergency, HR reframes this as a resignation: 'I never resigned!'

Ben Weiss

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Employee requests to WFH one day a week for childcare purposes only to be denied by fully remote HR manager: '[This] is 100% about control!'

Ben Weiss

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Employee discovers that her boss is looking to replace her, files a report with HR: ‘My boss was fired’

Ben Weiss

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'My coworker lied about not having a girlfriend': 28-year-old employee discovers work crush's double life, calls him out during the next company happy hour

Ben Weiss

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Marketing employee calls out coworker for taking credit for their work, HR and CEO refuse to do anything about it: 'I want to quit on the spot'

Ben Weiss

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Employee arrives at their disciplinary work hearing with receipts that disprove the accusations against them, committee still gives them a written warning: ‘Politics trumped evidence’

Lana DeGaetano

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Employees asked by HR to contribute $20 each for Christmas gifts to the CEO, coworker stands his ground: 'I won't be pitching in'

Ben Weiss

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Boss spends 3 months trying to get employee fired, now can't stop calling him for help: 'The nerve of some people!'

Ben Weiss

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Employee confronts new boss to higher ups after he reprimands her for missing "mandatory training" during her maternity leave: 'I've literally done nothing wrong'

Ben Weiss

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'We shouldn't be talking about our wages': Employee exchanges fiery emails with HR after manager reprimands him for discussing his salary with his coworkers

Ben Weiss

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'I'm not a computer person': IT department refuses to walk incompetent employees through basic tech issues, claiming it's 2025

Ben Weiss

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'She literally quit over pizza': 63-year-old part-time worker hands in resignation because HR ordered everyone pizza on one of her days off

Ben Weiss

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Boss writes employee up to HR for not following instructions, employee proves that boss contradicts himself constantly: 'Sometimes you have to do what needs to be done'

Ben Weiss

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Employee denied raise after outstanding performance review, so he starts leaving early and quietly cuts his hours by 20% without anyone noticing: 'I gave myself the raise'

Isabella Penn

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Employee put on PIP after bad stakeholder review, so he brings 500 pages of receipts to HR proving the stakeholder was just jealous he was dating his ex-wife: 'The stakeholder admitted in the investigation to falsifying data'

Isabella Penn

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