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'Karen is speaking as though she is my supervisor...the board members [are] giving strange looks': Company troubleshooter agrees to let new hire take over, business soon begs them to return

Remy Millisky

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‘Teacher's assistant on a power trip’ expects student to predict exact questions his peers will ask during a lesson, student maliciously complies with 10 pages of hilarious wise-guy predictions

Lana DeGaetano

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'I broke a rewards program': Crafty customer buys 1,400 packages of cookies to finesse massive amounts of rewards points

Remy Millisky

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'I don't want suggestions or help unless I specifically ask': Employee gets awful boss fired by exposing her incompetance

Remy Millisky

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Tech support employee prevents major deletion of client's data despite being asked to remove their subscription, maliciously complies by faking the deletion of data to prove a point

Lana DeGaetano

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'He seems annoyed... I do this to him all day': Bad manager tries to make auto store worker follow unnecessary rule, worker gleefully bugs him all day long

Remy Millisky

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Hotel employee is reprimanded by GM for ‘excessive use of overtime’ until documented punch times reveal that his middle manager was clocking in 1.5 hours late for every shift

Lana DeGaetano

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'You can either work with me, or I walk': 18-year-old discovers that car dealer won't negotiate car price despite their strong evidence for the asking price

Remy Millisky

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‘I was dumbfounded’: Grocery store manager Karen tries to cut employee's hours, so he uses her own words against her and ends up with a higher hourly pay

Lana DeGaetano

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'I'll make sure I fail': Nonathletic teenager maliciously complies with school's walking club requirements

Remy Millisky

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'I will go a great distance for a good laugh': Man retaliates against cellphone carrier over an additional fee for deactivation, resulting in charge cancellation and official apology

Sienna Varady

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'Pay for 20 hours of work, get 20 hours of work': Client insists that software contractor cut their hours, refuses to listen when told that the project will be delayed

Remy Millisky

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'In the first week alone, the local facility lost 3 jobs': Longtime electrical engineer loses vacation privileges, HR absentmindedly agrees to his drastic new schedule changes

Remy Millisky

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'He kept sending bills for it': Boss refuses to let bridge keeper take his coffee breaks

Remy Millisky

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Upper management tells store employee to ‘become less loud’, backfires hilariously when employee starts frightening customers by being too quiet: ‘I need a bell’

Lana DeGaetano

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'Boss made a rule... and soon changed his mind': General manager instructed to carry 2 phones and "not mix things," boss soon regrets it

Remy Millisky

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