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IT Helpdesk manager emails demanding staff arrive 15 minutes early to login and be ready to take calls "1 second before" their shift, staff comply and hang up on customers the second their shift ends: 'Sorry to interrupt you, my shift is over. Goodbye'

Brad Dickson

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The hidden risks of over-performing in your role... Star employee does the bare minimum, then quits, when a manager's new system unfairly alters his bonus payout making his wage unlivable: '[That] bonus put me above $20 per hour'

Brad Dickson

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Employee Sparks Backlash After Giving Two Weeks Notice While on PTO

Ben Weiss

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Manufacturing Company Wastes Job Candidate’s Time for 2 Months, Only To Repost the Position Online After Lying About a Hiring Freeze

Ben Weiss

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Job applicant accidentally emails her grocery list instead of her cover letter, recruiter opens the call with "did you get the oat milk?", internet responds with their own application disasters: ‘I didn't get the job but best interview of my life.’

Inés Soubrie

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Candidate spends 6 weeks and 4 interview rounds as top pick for a role that was frozen two months before he even applied, nobody told recruiting: ‘[The] role was frozen before I even applied.’

Inés Soubrie

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Candidate shares salary expectations on startup screening call, recruiter laughs and says "that's cute," she hangs up immediately and gets a better offer days later: ‘I said “I don't think we're aligned, thanks for your time" and hit leave.'

Inés Soubrie

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Intern fired for declining boss's demand to immediately join last-minute 3:30 pm Sunday meeting on Memorial Day weekend, raising concerns of unrealistic employment demands: 'They just expect 24/7 availability from interns getting paid the bare minimum'

Brad Dickson

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Manager abandons factory floor workers to fend for themselves when 90 degree heatwave sweeps the plant, says overworked and overtired employee, they resign giving their 2 weeks' notice: 'After getting a promotion, I got a 1 dollar raise'

Brad Dickson

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Employee quiet quits for 4 years straight, gets a raise and then promoted, they tell how they did it: 'I got a raise and a promotion'

Brad Dickson

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Manager demands remote employee drive to the office on their 2nd day, forcing them to drive 90 minutes to the office 3 times a week for an RTO policy they weren't told about, they quit immediately instead : 'I thought he was joking. I laughed'

Brad Dickson

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'Took a counteroffer 8 months ago. Don't do what I did...': Employee's warning to others about accepting counteroffers after their manager's verbal promise of a promotion never eventuates, and the company undergoes reorganization

Brad Dickson

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CEO singles out employee during a company meeting and makes a mockery of their request for reimbursement of commute costs amid rising fuel costs and a hypocritical RTO policy: 'He works fully remotely and makes several million a year'

Brad Dickson

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Manager demands employee charge customers 75 cents for tap water, employee makes sure customers know boss is responsible forcing him to face the customers himself: 'My boss acted like he'd invented modern economics'

Brad Dickson

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Young worker, early 20s, quits family-owned landscaping job when the 70-year-old owner of the company, whom he has never met, begins sending him scathing emails with false claims: 'Needless to say I quit the next day'

Brad Dickson

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Boss demands 16-hour days and weekend work, the employee quits and is thrown by their boss's reaction to their resignation: 'She has us work 12, 14, 16 hour days, weekends, and wishes we could work holidays'

Brad Dickson

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