in the workplace

Company introduces new "security badges" which track employee movements, productivity, and even bathroom breaks, employees cease all communication to management, leading to production issues: 'Cost the company $50k in repairs and lost production'

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Factory management holds a meeting to report record profits and tell employees that they won't be paid between Christmas and New Years, doesn't go as planned: 'We didn't even feel heard. But hey, green number get bigger'

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Job recruiter approaches prospective candidate to attend an interview and then ghosts them, accuses them of having an attitude when they try to follow up: 'I waited for a full 20 minutes, thinking maybe there was a technical issue or something'

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34-year-old employee asks his 31-year-old coworker to stop calling herself his "work wife" after his real wife becomes uncomfortable with their relationship: 'She got offended and said I was “making it weird”'

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Company instates 'return to office' policy after 3 years of remote work, attempts to fix morale by holding a "pizza party" but doesn't buy enough pizza: 'They only bought five pizzas for a team of 25. by the time I got there, it was just empty boxes'

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Boss demands IT employee follow process to the letter, stalling out a project with a major client and causing frantic messages from their boss: 'No ticket = no work. Bureaucracy over brains'

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Tech employee skips unpaid ‘mandatory’ team retreat, manager suggests they've lost their chance for a promotion as a result: ‘He said my attitude is the issue’

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19-year-old woman shares experiencing a two-hour-long assessment for a first-round job interview for a minimum wage role, all applicants under 30 are asked to leave: 'The first task was to rank items by importance for surviving on a desert island'

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Manager asks employee over text message to join meetings and assist with "knowledge transfer" after firing them: 'Are you available to jump on a call?'

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20-year-old kitchen worker tells her 40-year-old coworker that she's not surprised his wife divorced him over his online gaming obsession, sparks disagreement dividing the workplace: 'She wanted him to spend time with her instead of playing video games'

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20-year-old electronics salesman gets commission for $15,000 sale and then quits on the spot after helping a customer that nobody else would: 'I said only 4 words. "Thank you. I Quit"'

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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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‘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

Lana DeGaetano

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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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