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Manager demands new hire employee write shorter reports, employee complies: 'He came to my desk. In person. To discuss the report'

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Warehouse manager sends new hire on an impossible errand, new hire quietly slips out and takes a 3-hour break

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Manufacturer helps client with urgent order by supplying differently specced parts at client's agreement, client still makes official complaint because the parts weren't to normal specification, manufacturer delays their orders thereafter in retaliation

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Manager repeatedly ignores developer's warning, resulting in $228k of incorrect transactions: 'The system did exactly what it was told to do'

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Micromanaging Warehouse Supervisor tells employee to start "documenting everything," they comply and use their paperwork to save themselves from being scapegoated: 'I started writing down every single thing'

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An employee is seen from the side, typing on a laptop. In the background, a manager holds a tablet to discuss a project or ticket.

Boss demands employee respond only to ticketed requests that follow the process "no exceptions," employee complies and ignores boss's urgent messages: 'I stopped answering his Slack messages'

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Boss demands that employees remain at their desks and tell him what they're doing every time they get up, they comply and message him so often that he is forced to reverse the order: 'Last week I sent him 9 messages in one day'

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Service worker laid off in July gets a message from their boss asking them to return to their old job: 'Thanksgiving week was a disaster because they didn't have enough people on to handle the crowds'

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Coworker accidentally sends workplace gossip about an employee to that employee creating a tense environment and leading to her changing departments: 'Once they realized I wasn't joining in, they kept it to private chats'

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Coworker sets ultimatum and demands pizza from employer after she misses office pizza party, resigns when they refuse to oblige: 'She quit because of pizza'

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Boss tells employee to be grateful she has a job after reprimanding her for taking her 30-minute unpaid lunch break, forcing her to make a hard decision about the future of her employment: '[I] sent out 5 applications during my lunch break today'

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Employee cautiously convinced to give colleague a single ride home regrets it when she immediately turns to demanding rides at her own convenience like a personal chauffeur: 'From that day on, she started acting like I was her personal ride'

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Employee gets fired with no warning the day their vacation was set to begin, gets a string of frantic messages not even 24 hours later about returning their equipment after they've already left home: 'I cannot get over how insensitive it feels'

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Mother refuses to give adult daughter her own birth certificate and passport sparking a family disagreement about their ownership: 'She said that they aren't mine legally [but] they are'

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Employee gets fired 2 weeks after her wedding because her company doesn't want to add her spouse to her insurance: 'Friday morning, my performance was fantastic, I was getting praised, how would I suddenly be fired for my performance on Monday afternoon?'

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Retail worker accused by their boss of stealing for simply taking their lunch break: 'I told her if it’s unpaid, that time is mine'

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Employee demands 10% raise because he's bilingual, even though his second language is Welsh: 'The manager then told me that the policy meant Spanish'

Employee demands 10% raise because he's bilingual, even though his second language is Welsh: 'The manager then told me that the policy meant Spanish'

Senior staff suspect they're getting replaced after manager demands they fully train new interns: ‘The training has been going mysteriously slowly’

Senior staff suspect they're getting replaced after manager demands they fully train new interns: ‘The training has been going mysteriously slowly’

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Customer forced to pay surcharge for card payment, highlighting a bigger issue: 'You can't do that and refuse cash'

Customer forced to pay surcharge for card payment, highlighting a bigger issue: 'You can't do that and refuse cash'

New Jersey homeowner suspects neighbor trimmed their special family tree without permission: 'I am 99% sure'

New Jersey homeowner suspects neighbor trimmed their special family tree without permission: 'I am 99% sure'

'She just laughed': Boss refuses to stop overworking employee, causing overdue tasks to be forgotten until boss is forced to do them herself

'She just laughed': Boss refuses to stop overworking employee, causing overdue tasks to be forgotten until boss is forced to do them herself

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