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Manager monitors employees' electricity usage, demands they turn off lights every time they leave their offices, employee claims: ‘It's driving me crazy’

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Boss charges employees $5 when they're late to the morning meeting, one employee refuses to comply: ‘So that's theft’

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Mean manager throws away employee's drink before she finishes drinking, she retaliates by throwing away his can collection: 'We both don’t have anything'

Giuliana Tiscioni

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Company promises rewards to employees with fewest absences, leading employees to come in sick to "win": 'They put our sick days on a leaderboard'

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Manager accuses salaried employee of ‘shortchanging the company’ by leaving 20 minutes early despite finishing all their work ahead of schedule

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Boss refuses to approve employees' overtime, yet continuesly piles work on them 10 minutes before end of day, employee decides: ‘I clock out, grab my bag, and walk’

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Marketing director gets exposed after blaming employee for his own AI-generated newsletter, forgets the paper trail is in the same email thread: ‘Don’t touch the copy'

We should take his story as an example or a to-do list for when we find ourselves trapped in a situation like this- when somebody else takes credit for something we did, especially in the workplace or university, for example.

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’

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‘Excellent is just a trap’: Boss refuses to promote top-performing employee because they're too valuable in their current role, and gives the position to a coworker who barely hits quota

I’ve seen variations of this play out time and time again. Whether it’s upper management asking their employees to track how many hours their work actually takes, with the secret intention of making them prove

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’

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‘A nepo baby is trying to destroy my career’: Manager confronts CFO's son for refusing to do his job, but higher-ups warn that being too harsh on him could get the manager fired

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Employee automates 15 hours of weekly work, only to get fired by boss immediately after: ‘I literally worked myself out of a salary’

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Los Angeles employee returns from a pre-approved vacation only to get fired and denied months of earned bonuses and commissions after boss claims they're "discretionary"

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This high-performing service manager stopped working unscheduled and unpaid overtime after their boss demanded they work to their scheduled hours after they went home early once: 'I'm working my 9-5'

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Boss's assistant demands employee stop over-documenting, employee proves they followed her exact instructions, boss takes employee's side: ‘She is getting what she asked for’

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Boss drops employee's pay from $12 to $9 an hour after coworkers find out how much they make, claims it was to “make this fair”: ‘ We have to bump people down’