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Manager allows employee to take work laptop home for maternity leave, and his boss demands it be returned during 9-month-long leave even though no one will use it: ‘It isn’t her fault this situation happened - if anything, it’s mine’

Etai Eshet

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18-year-old factory trainee does not know what Microsoft Windows is, thinks his computer doesn’t have an operating system: 'It’s just a MacBook'

Etai Eshet

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California employer drains employee’s bank account, leaving it -$3200 for 2 weeks after accidentally overpaying him, then withdrawing way more than the overpayment without warning

Etai Eshet

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Golf ball manufacturing company loses millions after ignoring technician’s warning and refusing to spend $500K to replace faulty equipment: ‘[They] drained the entire production budget for 2 years as I sat smiling. I left shortly after'

Etai Eshet

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‘Man it feels good. I never liked her’: IT worker quits on spot after HR consultant becomes de facto boss, demands he comb through 200 hours of CCTV footage from 28 cameras to spy on coworkers and deliver dozens of clips in 2 days

Etai Eshet

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‘Um, no. You decided to be petty, so I’ll be gone in 2 days’: Boss backtracks and begs employee to work through his two weeks’ notice after telling him to leave in 2 days

Etai Eshet

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UPDATE on the employee who took credit for his coworker’s project: ‘Apparently my coworker had presented my involvement as occasional support, not me doing significant parts of the work’

Olivia Arocena

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Employee realizes that management values teams that look stressed over ones that deliver: ‘I spent two years building a healthy operational system, only to learn that executives reward visible panic over competence’

Olivia Arocena

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‘How firing me backfired for my boss’: Textile company tries to dodge severance by dragging out a firing, but boss's own delays and paperwork mistakes force him to pay two months of unworked salary plus full severance and a 10% penalty.

Etai Eshet

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An essential developer looks for advice on how to leverage a raise after becoming the last one remaining at the company capable of maintaining the company's legacy backend: 'How do I turn this into a raise without looking like I am holding them hostage?'

Brad Dickson

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VP orders a full-time return to office, so employees fully comply by continuing to WFH because their contracts have officially designated their home as their office for the past 6 years

Etai Eshet

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Job candidate finds a California company falsely listing him as a “Senior Advisor” in its sales materials, using his photo, résumé, and a quote he never gave without permission

Etai Eshet

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After posting an anonymous Glassdoor review about a toxic workplace, former employee receives legal warning demanding its removal and threat of an industry blacklist

Etai Eshet

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Printing technician follows his new supervisor’s “manual only” rule, leaving a press shut down for three days and exposing impractical boss to the plant manager

Etai Eshet

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‘How to handle quiet quitting?’: Team lead is preoccupied about how to handle the situation between a great employee who deserves to get promoted but won't due to his issues with management

María Cetra

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Customer service rep decides to quit after being publicly scolded by boss for being 10 minutes late to a weekly meeting because they stayed on a call to resolve an upset customer’s issue, takes a full-time second job instead

Etai Eshet

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