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Company charges $18 for 'free' employee appreciation lunch without warning: 'I just find it ridiculous that a company can turn a thank you into something you owe them for'

JR Atkinson

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Boss denies employee a promotion, forces them to do the work anyway: 'I've been dragged in again and again to provide fixes, guidance and steer for the new member of staff'

JR Atkinson

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Employee gets offered a job by biggest client with a 35% raise but doesn’t know how to proceed to avoid problems: ‘Do I keep this completely to myself until there is an actual offer?’

María Cetra

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Job candidate lies on resume and gets the job, is then forced to come clean during extensive background check: ‘I emailed HR and spelled out the discrepancies’

Bar Mor Hazut

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'You'll never lock your office': Fired employee gets back at boss by hiding the keys to his office on their last day of the job

Bar Mor Hazut

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Husband demands his wife's mother stay at a hotel after his cousin practically moves in with them after losing her job and installs herself in their guest room

Giuliana Tiscioni

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Boss puts retail employee on probation because they aren't comfortable shilling credit cards: 'He said I needed to be asking 2-3 times per interaction'

JR Atkinson

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Company demands employees come on a weekend to pack and move the entire office instead of hiring movers: ‘No overtime, just pizza afterwards’

Bar Mor Hazut

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Employee decides to quit job instead of training new hire who makes $22k more than them: ‘After my boss claimed promotions were budget frozen’

Bar Mor Hazut

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Manager refuses to pay for employee's quality certification that's required for the job: ‘Tell them I'm not paying’

Bar Mor Hazut

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18-year-old gives her 55-year-old coworker rides to work, even on days when she isn't working: 'How do I tell my coworker I don't want to give her any more rides?'

Emmy Pratt

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'Is it normal for people to take a screenshot of your direct Teams message, and send it in an email to other people in the company?': Boss sends out screenshot of direct message with employee, employee wonders if it's a breach of privacy

JR Atkinson

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Hardware store employees leave customers mid-sale to comply with boss's strict lunch break schedule, until HR gets involved: ‘He had gotten in trouble’

Bar Mor Hazut

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Boss forgets she approved employee's project and publicly calls them out, employee fights to prove boss is wrong: ‘I have the approval in writing’

Bar Mor Hazut

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New in-office policy incentivizes coworkers to snitch on each other, ruining remote work for everyone else: 'Hall-monitoring coworkers just ruined remote work for our entire company'

JR Atkinson

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Fast food employee calls in sick 5 times in their first 4 months, manager calls them out: 'He was trying to guilt trip me for following health codes'

JR Atkinson

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