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58-year-old essential employee gets laid off 1 year before retiring, entire team quits out of loyalty, HR begs them to come back for double their original pay: 'I'll come back for 13 weeks'

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Engineer passed over for promotion for their own direct reports, instead up-skills himself on the job, uses those skills to land a better job with 3x the pay: 'I developed skills on the company dime that got me a >100% raise at another company'

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Unrelenting coworker badgers man for his secret homemade hot sauce recipe, to the point where the two cannot be assigned to work on the same projects

‘If he gets a third [warning] he could be fired’: Unrelenting coworker badgers man for his secret homemade hot sauce recipe, to the point where the two cannot be assigned to work on the same projects

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Boss schedules meeting with HR to discuss employee's attitude after they say "no" to increased workload for the first time ever in 2 years: 'So now we have a meeting scheduled with HR to talk about it'

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Boss tells key client that go-to employee has left the company, employee quits for real when they find out: 'My supervisor told a high-end client that I was quitting. That was a lie, and I was gone for a week.'

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HR intervenes after disagreement over office thermostat heats up: 'My coworker decided 72 degrees was “too cold” even though it literally feels like a sauna to the rest of us'

Irksome colleague uses the office coffee station as his personal TED Talk summary stage:

Irksome colleague uses the office coffee station as his personal ‘TED Talk’ summary stage: ‘He goes into detail like he is trying to recite the transcript’

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Boss demands 24/7 "urgent" access to employee, interrupting the employee's evenings and weekends with tasks that could have waited: 'If I’m not answering emails at 10PM, I’ll wake up to passive aggressive messages'

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Essential employee resigns during meeting with "huge" client after being denied a raise and getting another job offer mid-meeting, client cancels contract: 'I accepted their offer, contract in my email within 5 minutes, digitally signed it within 10'

Employee discovers that restaurant manager has been changing her and her 17-year-old coworker's clock out times when they are forced to stay late after closing

Employee discovers that restaurant manager has been changing her and her 17-year-old coworker's clock out times when they are forced to stay late after closing: 'You know you don’t get paid past 8:15 right?'

Boss brags to essential contractor about firing contractors without notice, essential contractor quits with 10 seconds of notice in return, leaving the company scrambling to pick up the pieces

Boss brags to essential contractor about firing contractors without notice, essential contractor quits with 10 seconds of notice in return, leaving the company scrambling to pick up the pieces: 'Hey, thanks for everything, this is my last day!'

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17-year-old worker shuts down entire ride at the theme park where they work after their boss scapegoats the team for his own mistake: 'I shut down the ride'

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Check Your LOL Inbox for These Work Funnies That Couldn’t Have Been an Email

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New CEO tells the team they have to work 8-5, causing problems with clients in another timezone: 'The policy was lifted within 2 weeks when our West Coast clients couldn't get in touch with us'

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New boss refuses to acknowledge engineering contractor's resignation or even discuss renewing their contract, tries to dictate their own bizarre notice terms: 'I've just decided your last day will be 2 months from now'

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Retail boss tells assistant manager that "everyone's replaceable" when they ask for their first raise in 3 years, business struggles after they quit: 'Turns out, he was wrong'

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Entitled HOA board members demand that new homeowners give up their designated space for another neighbor, homeowners refuse: 'Peg didn't like that. Not one bit'

Entitled HOA board members demand that new homeowners give up their designated space for another neighbor, homeowners refuse: 'Peg didn't like that. Not one bit'

Full-time employee informed he's going part-time despite having to complete the same amount of work per day: 'I didn't see how all this work could get done'

Full-time employee informed he's going part-time despite having to complete the same amount of work per day: 'I didn't see how all this work could get done'

HOA Karen building manager, tries to force out tenant so her friend can move into the building, tenant gets the owner involved, who fires her and doubles her rent: 'she couldn’t afford to pay the full rent'

HOA Karen building manager, tries to force out tenant so her friend can move into the building, tenant gets the owner involved, who fires her and doubles her rent: 'she couldn’t afford to pay the full rent'

58-year-old essential employee gets laid off 1 year before retiring, entire team quits out of loyalty, HR begs them to come back for double their original pay: 'I'll come back for 13 weeks'

58-year-old essential employee gets laid off 1 year before retiring, entire team quits out of loyalty, HR begs them to come back for double their original pay: 'I'll come back for 13 weeks'

Former homeschooler begs parents not to homeschool their kids: 'If you think you'll be a good teacher, you're wrong'

Former homeschooler begs parents not to homeschool their kids: 'If you think you'll be a good teacher, you're wrong'

58-year-old employee gets let go, the rest of the department leaves, HR begs for employee to come back 4 months later: 'That's not going to work for me'

58-year-old employee gets let go, the rest of the department leaves, HR begs for employee to come back 4 months later: 'That's not going to work for me'

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