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'Talk about a hot mess': Fabrication shop accountant reveals a car manufacturer's money-grubbing scheme after they gripe about a $250 price difference on an invoice, halting production until they pay up

Jesse Kessenheimer

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Coworker convinces clueless new boss to give her a fellow teacher's job because it pays $1.5k more, can't handle it: 'She's getting my 1.5K stipend now, but I no longer have to deal with extra meetings, extra parent phone calls, miscommunication, etc.'

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HOA fines homeowner $4,032 for nonsense violations, neighbors’ collective malicious compliance costs them more than they bargained for: 'I took off 2 days from work and prepared'

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Boss refuses to acknowledge employee's two-week notice, refusing to discuss it further and acting like they aren't leaving: 'She's still assigning me projects for next month. Still scheduling me for meetings three weeks out'

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New micromanager demands "detailed" daily reports, IT technician drowns them with every unnecessary detail about their day: 'By Friday, my “daily report” was 87 pages long. Times New Roman, size 11, single-spaced'

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Self-confident new boss threatens to fire employee, employee fires him instead, getting old managers involved: 'He was stripped of the team leader's role in customer support and was begging not to be let go'

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Harvard PhD graduate insults his roommate's “lesser college” degree, then gets exposed when he struggles to figure out how to use the new can opener: ‘I’d find mangled cans in the garbage’

Jesse Kessenheimer

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Business employees get petty revenge on 6 phone reps who won't stop calling them: 'I explained that we didn't have 500 mobile [phone] accounts'

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Entitled passenger purchases a second seat for more space, ends up demanding a refund after learning the flight is nearly empty: 'Of the 150 seats, there are AT MOST 30-40 people on the plane!'

Entitled passenger purchases a second seat for more space, ends up demanding a refund after learning the flight is nearly empty: 'Of the 150 seats, there are AT MOST 30-40 people on the plane!'

22-year-old employee teams up with 30 coworkers to enact payback on micromanager for making them log every detail of every task: 'Data [was] lost in a heap of unusable data'

22-year-old employee teams up with 30 coworkers to enact payback on micromanager for making them log every detail of every task: 'Data [was] lost in a heap of unusable data'

Boss demands employee stop taking advantage of their flexible hours and end workdays at exactly 4 pm, then takes it back after realizing the effects on company output: ‘He admitted he was wrong’

Boss demands employee stop taking advantage of their flexible hours and end workdays at exactly 4 pm, then takes it back after realizing the effects on company output: ‘He admitted he was wrong’

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Boss demands employee send him pictures of all transactions and deposits they make, employee complies, causing boss's phone to lag: ‘He has to spend a lot of time deleting those thousands of pictures’

Boss demands employee send him pictures of all transactions and deposits they make, employee complies, causing boss's phone to lag: ‘He has to spend a lot of time deleting those thousands of pictures’

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'I made the mistake of giving 6 months notice': Entitled manager forgets to hire new employee, spends 4 months doing double the workload

'Mom said you have to let me borrow you clothes': Entitled teenager demands to wear sister's clothes, sister maliciously complies and makes her wear the dirty ones

'Mom said you have to let me borrow your clothes': Entitled teenager demands to wear sister's clothes, sister maliciously complies and makes her wear the dirty ones

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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'

'I want the paperwork! Yes, all of it!': Employee maliciously complies with new colleague's request, promptly receives 1,500 pages of documents when she only needed 3

'I want the paperwork! Yes, all of it!': Employee maliciously complies with new colleague's request, promptly receives 1,500 pages of documents when she only needed 3

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Supervisor insists employee can't work from home after blizzard drops 10 inches of snow, employee takes vacation day instead, gets a free snow day fully paid after working 10 minutes: '[He tells me] I need to drive the 50+ miles to work or take vacation'

Supervisor insists employee can't work from home after blizzard drops 10 inches of snow, employee takes vacation day instead, gets a free snow day fully paid after working 10 minutes: '[He tells me] I need to drive the 50+ miles to work or take vacation'

'It's missing a lot of functions': Project manager dismisses team’s concerns about their primary platform's flawed upgrade, so they deliberately flood his inbox with individual support requests until he's too overwhelmed, forcing his boss to take over

'It's missing a lot of functions': Project manager dismisses team’s concerns about their primary platform's flawed upgrade, so they deliberately flood his inbox with individual support requests until he's too overwhelmed, forcing his boss to take over

Employee who thrives on workplace drama loses his mind after coworker launches a silent revenge campaign: 'If you can't tell, I don't like Jim'

Employee who thrives on workplace drama loses his mind after coworker launches a silent revenge campaign: 'If you can't tell, I don't like Jim'

Employee abruptly fired after four years due to accumulated "late" arrivals, despite promised time-card adjustments due to main entrance restrictions, he claims it's their excuse to replace employees with lower-paid hires: 'The promise didn't apply to me'

Employee abruptly fired after four years due to accumulated "late" arrivals, despite promised time-card adjustments due to main entrance restrictions, he claims it's their excuse to replace employees with lower-paid hires: 'The promise didn't apply to me'

Woman tries to take credit for a volunteer's work at a non-profit, so they let her fail miserably in an important presentation: ‘The most peaceful payback I've had in years’

Woman tries to take credit for a volunteer's work at a non-profit, so they let her fail miserably in an important presentation: ‘The most peaceful payback I've had in years’

Employees forced to return to office after years of working remotely, only to find out the company failed to rent a space big enough for everyone: ‘The desks are crammed together’

Employees forced to return to office after years of working remotely, only to find out the company failed to rent a space big enough for everyone: ‘The desks are crammed together’

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