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Coworker Carrie ruins her team manager’s laid-back honor system by crying bias to HR, forcing a department-wide crackdown that tanked morale and drove people to quit

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Resigning employee refuses to sign a “separation agreement,” demanding $5,000 per negative online post, and her firm threatens to withhold $2,200 in earned PTO if she doesn’t comply

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College sends employee to mandatory retraining months before his retirement, falsely claiming he failed a phishing test he never took

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Remote worker stops answering his older coworker's calls after being phoned 5-6 times daily, including during flights and customer dinners

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'The guy who made my life miserable for a year is now going to be under my authority': Software engineer takes a 50% pay cut to join “dream team,” finally gets promoted over undermining team lead

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Tenant’s sewage complaints get ignored for over a month, organizes neighbors to flood the management phone lines, and gets the pipe fixed by Monday morning: ‘The change in their attitude was instant’

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Employee tries to take coworker's job by taking over her tasks, coworker complains to manager, who fires both of them: 'We got the same prize'

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30-year-old quits her job of 6 years after new coworker, Ben, keeps stealing her work and credit, and faces zero consequences despite multiple complaints: ‘I addressed it with my manager, director, and HR. After a year I simply couldn’t take it anymore’

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Boss issues formal warning to employee during her approved vacation in Cabo for missing a meeting added to her work calendar while she was out of the country

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Manager tries to get employee to work during PTO, giving her personal number to a contractor and listing her as on-call for tasks she was never hired to do: ‘I said “absolutely not!” I am taking a paid vacation and will not be coming in’

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Teacher walks out mid-shift on her last day after an admin yells at and follows her for taking a brief call, leaving the already mismanaged school scrambling to cover her classes, leaving the already mismanaged school scrambling to cover her classes

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Biotech employee starts planning to quit after their boss expects them to train the fresh-out-of-college new hire they gave the promotion to :‘[She’s] asking me to hold her hand through tasks daily’

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Company demands employees pay for branded clothes, then forbids everyone from wearing them on shift: 'Wait, you thought you could actually wear the uniforms you paid for?'

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‘Should I tell my boss how upset I am with them?’: Employee wants to skip work lunch her boss invited her to, because she doesn’t like 2 of the coworkers who are also attending

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30-year-old woman blocks male coworker for “being distant” after she stepped back to appease her jealous boyfriend, and still expected casual friendly office small talk: '[She] blocked me for respecting the distance she created'

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‘He’s trying to get me fired but he’s just too dumb to do it well’: Coworker tries to get the contractor in trouble by micromanaging and tattling to higher ups but they all ignore him

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