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'What do you think you're doing? You're not one of the big shots': Employee books expensive flight to abide by stingy boss's travel rule

'What do you think you're doing? You're not one of the big shots': Employee books expensive flight to abide by stingy boss's travel rule

'I had the misfortune of working for the laziest manager I've ever known': Overworked auto parts store assistant manager quits at the worst possible time

'I had the misfortune of working for the laziest manager I've ever known': Overworked auto parts store assistant manager quits at the worst possible time

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'I'm only working for 7 hours each day': Website manager agrees to manager's strict work hours, but commenters advise them about a more pressing issue

'I'm only working for 7 hours each day': Website manager agrees to manager's strict work hours, but commenters advise them about a more pressing issue

'Guess who didn't answer the numerous desperate calls?': Frustrated gardener abandons job on the day of the owner's daughter's wedding

'Guess who didn't answer the numerous desperate calls?': Frustrated gardener abandons job on the day of the owner's daughter's wedding

'Sorry man, can't let you in': Movie theater employee gets to stop annoying teens from buying tickets

'Sorry man, can't let you in': Movie theater employee gets to stop annoying teens from buying tickets

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'He... had to delete 40 pages of emails': Boss insists web developer send him emails for every 404 error

'How could you not foresee this?': Manager forbids security guard from letting visitors enter office without his approval, guard complies, causing manager to miss important meeting when he fails to answer his phone

'How could you not foresee this?': Manager forbids security guard from letting visitors enter office without his approval, guard complies, causing manager to miss important meeting when he fails to answer his phone

Employee flips the script on micromanager's 'constructive criticism', prompting a humbling retraction

Employee flips the script on micromanager's 'constructive criticism', prompting a humbling retraction

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'[I was] tired of an old man hanging around my house': Entitled landlord insists on bothering tenant, tries to take back his property

'[I was] tired of an old man hanging around my house': Entitled landlord insists on bothering tenant, tries to take back his property

retail employee is subjected to chaos when management reverses staff roles, clueless supervisors find out for themselves that their ideas are better on paper than in practice

‘Short staffed? No problem’: Management implements major changes to tourist attraction employee roles, chaos ensues when staff is unaware of standard procedures

$'The new owner has made some questionable choices': Baker tries to explain simple math to business owner, owner rejects their logic$

'The new owner has made some questionable choices': Baker tries to explain simple math to business owner, owner rejects their logic

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'Staff... mutually agreed to give this person exactly what they asked for': Micromanager creates strict new rules for employees, sparking a "great resignation"

'Staff... mutually agreed to give this person exactly what they asked for': Micromanager creates strict new rules for employees, sparking a "great resignation"

'Young girl, please. I know what fuel my car needs': Taxi driver insists he knows how to fuel his vehicle and pays the price for his mistake

'Young girl, please. I know what fuel my car needs': Taxi driver insists he knows how to fuel his vehicle and pays the price for his mistake

'Won't fix your buggy software? Fine, pay our bills': Company scrambles after realizing they're being constantly overbooked by an app

'Won't fix your buggy software? Fine, pay our bills': Company scrambles after realizing they're being constantly overbooked by an app

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'You want a large pizza with everything? Ok': Entitled customer gets exactly what she asked for after vague delivery instructions

'You want a large pizza with everything? Ok': Entitled customer gets exactly what she asked for after vague delivery instructions

'I got fired and cost the store approximately $30,000': Retail employee refuses to work two jobs at once, boss doesn't realize they quit

'I got fired and cost the store approximately $30,000': Retail employee refuses to work two jobs at once, boss doesn't realize they quit

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Factory worker starts 30 minutes later when "bean counter" says he isn't going to be paid for that time to save on costs, company loses money instead when the entire production line is forced to shut down because he's not there: 'I don't work for free'

Factory worker starts 30 minutes later when "bean counter" says he isn't going to be paid for that time to save on costs, company loses money instead when the entire production line is forced to shut down because he's not there: 'I don't work for free'

High-achiever "quiet quits" and gets a job in a different area of the company with better pay when manager ignores their repeated warnings about impending issues, watches as the disaster happens exactly as they predicted: 'My new job is a piece of cake'

High-achiever "quiet quits" and gets a job in a different area of the company with better pay when manager ignores their repeated warnings about impending issues, watches as the disaster happens exactly as they predicted: 'My new job is a piece of cake'

Entitled siblings conspire to get 80-year-old mother's secret inheritance, mother retaliates by taking them out of the will: 'She doesn't have a secret bank account'

Entitled siblings conspire to get 80-year-old mother's secret inheritance, mother retaliates by taking them out of the will: 'She doesn't have a secret bank account'

18-year-old college student wants to move out of her parents' home after being forced to care for her 3 younger siblings for all her teenaged years: 'I don’t want to go through that again'

18-year-old college student wants to move out of her parents' home after being forced to care for her 3 younger siblings for all her teenaged years: 'I don’t want to go through that again'

Company boss and head of HR fired together after employee documents years of manipulation and micromanaging, then presents evidence to SVP during boss’s promotion attempt: ‘What he didn't know was that all those years I kept all our communications’

Company boss and head of HR fired together after employee documents years of manipulation and micromanaging, then presents evidence to SVP during boss’s promotion attempt: ‘What he didn't know was that all those years I kept all our communications’

One-bedroom apartment renter endures elderly neighbor turned property manager who nitpicks everything from bike storage to candle smells: ‘I am a quiet tenant, rarely have guests over, keep my space clean’

One-bedroom apartment renter endures elderly neighbor turned property manager who nitpicks everything from bike storage to candle smells: ‘I am a quiet tenant, rarely have guests over, keep my space clean’

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