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Employees discuss why they quit their jobs only a few days (or hours) in: ‘[I was] working 12-13 hours a day’

Lana DeGaetano

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Job applicant pressured to do an unpaid trial shift before his interview: 'I got up to leave!'

Ben Weiss

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Job seeker circumnavigates 1,000 character minimum application essays, manages to land an interview: 'Your application box wanted 1,000 characters, so you got exactly that'

Ben Weiss

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Employee resigns after finding better job with a 20% raise, now his boss wants to renegotiate his salary: 'Why are you surprised that I found a place willing to pay me what I'm worth?'

Ben Weiss

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Employee resigns for better opportunity, manager ignores him for two weeks, then panics right before his final day: '[He] asked what it would take for me to stay...'

Ben Weiss

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Reputable company lowballs overqualified ‘unicorn candidate’ with 10% below her asking salary, candidate questions their intentions: ‘She's already taking a pay cut’

Lana DeGaetano

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'I had the worst interview of my life': 53-year-old professional gives potential employer a piece of his mind after being asked to work 10 hours a day on $65k salary despite 30 years of experience

Ben Weiss

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Boss denies raise to employee for lacking enough "passion" to respond to Slack messages at 10:00 PM, employee makes tough decision: 'I've been here 3 years and haven't gotten a single cost of living adjustment'

Ben Weiss

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Employee finds out boss looks at their browsing history at work, they purposely search for other jobs, leading boss to offer them a raise when he sees the search: ‘I left it there’

Bar Mor Hazut

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Manager demands to read employee's offer letter after they get promoted to a new department, employee informs HR, they refuse to give the letter: ‘It's not his business’

Bar Mor Hazut

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HR rescinded candidate's job offer after assuring them multiple times they got the job, claiming upper management put the role on hold: ‘There is nothing I can do about it’

Bar Mor Hazut

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‘I've been in a financial hole for years now and this job would help bring me out of it’: Man considers accepting a job that would give him a $20k+ pay increase, but his girlfriend tries to guilt him into declining because he'd be unavailable on weekends

Lana DeGaetano

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Guy lands interview for dream job, practices for a week but then gets stuck with a glitchy AI robot as his interviewer: 'AI is confusing a lot of people...'

Elna McHilderson

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24 Memes for “Adults” Stuck Between a Job and a Hard Place

Etai Eshet

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‘I would not recommend hiring him’: Job seeker asks sister-in-law to be a reference when applying to the company she works at, SIL badmouths him and ruins his chances

Lana DeGaetano

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Employee discreetly looks for another job, only for boss to find out and demand they stop the search, employee refuses to back down: ‘I cannot stay at this job’

Bar Mor Hazut

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