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Employees cost employer coveted award by submitting unlimited anonymous responses to corporate survey: 'The company never really recovered from that point onward'

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Employee gives two weeks' notice while traveling for work, employer cancels their flight home: 'I have worked for this company for 3 years...'

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'How do you feel about overtime?': 20+ Job interview signs that hint at a bad work environment

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Employee maliciously complies after being told to take shorter breaks: 'I decided to take short breaks every five minutes'

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Boss cancels employee's work-from-home policy following a bout of illness that took them out of work: ‘I’m on the verge of being fired'

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Coworkers try to usurp employee's desk fish tank demanding that it become a communal office project: 'They keep saying I'm not being a good team player'

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Boss fires manager for refusing to do his bidding, promotes a crony into the job who sinks the department: 'I stopped doing anything except what he told me to do'

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Employee told to drop everything to serve their boss coffee, drops 300 files on the ground and spills the coffee on him before quitting: 'I was working for the new company 22 minutes later'

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Comedian doesn't realize the joke is on them when they're unknowingly condescending to the bar's manager: 'I'm the manager and I will never book you again'

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Coworker complains about tech support worker getting credit for their unfinished jobs, forced to finish them himself: 'So now, he’s doing twice, sometimes 3 times the work, all because he wanted full credit for partial results'

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Management blames worker for their own decisions, accusing them of sabotaging the company: 'They started blaming me even though I had nothing to do with the decision'

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Client says contractors are working "too fast" demand they work slower, making project cost four times more: '$200,000 for a job that should have realistically only been worth about $45,000'

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Job candidate receives bait-and-switch lowball offer after successfully interviewing for the role, quits two hours before their first shift: 'I quit two hours before my first shift this morning'

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Customer complains after employee refuses to help them while on their lunch break, boss takes customer's side: 'My boss sat me down and told me I should have just helped her'

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'My boss just decided water isn’t free anymore': Warehouse worker shares their frustration when their boss declares employees now need to buy water

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Coworkers stealing food from break room fridge for 6 months learn they've been eating gorumet dog food the entire time: '[They] gave me horrified looks'

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Candidate walks out of interview after interviewer is 1 hour late and opens with irrelevant personal questions about their family: 'If you can't answer, then I don't think we can continue'

Candidate walks out of interview after interviewer is 1 hour late and opens with irrelevant personal questions about their family: 'If you can't answer, then I don't think we can continue'

Small business owner locks the adjacent daycare out of his parking lot after the manager of the daycare has his car towed for parking in theirs, causing chaos the next day when parents try to drop off their kids: 'I tell you the mayhem was well worth it'

Small business owner locks the adjacent daycare out of his parking lot after the manager of the daycare has his car towed for parking in theirs, causing chaos the next day when parents try to drop off their kids: 'I tell you the mayhem was well worth it'

50-year-old tries "quiet quitting" after achieving mid-level management goals, ends up quadrupling net worth: 'Focus on [the] minimum amount of work [and] delegate everything you possibly can'

50-year-old tries "quiet quitting" after achieving mid-level management goals, ends up quadrupling net worth: 'Focus on [the] minimum amount of work [and] delegate everything you possibly can'

Retail worker leaves mid-shift to go to the movies, complying with manager's strict overtime policy: 'I had hit 40 hours and had to leave'

Retail worker leaves mid-shift to go to the movies, complying with manager's strict overtime policy: 'I had hit 40 hours and had to leave'

Senior designer quits over 6 years of denied raises, refuses boss's demand to train less-experienced replacement when discovering she's earning $20K more than her salary for the same job: 'Willing to pay new employee significantly more than a loyal one'

Senior designer quits over 6 years of denied raises, refuses boss's demand to train less-experienced replacement when discovering she's earning $20K more than her salary for the same job: 'Willing to pay new employee significantly more than a loyal one'

Computer science student refuses to work on project with assigned group, submits AI-generated project that he can’t explain, professor forced to fail him, despite multiple warnings that he wasn't meeting any requirements: 'Complete lack of understanding'

Computer science student refuses to work on project with assigned group, submits AI-generated project that he can’t explain, professor forced to fail him, despite multiple warnings that he wasn't meeting any requirements: 'Complete lack of understanding'

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