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10 Habits of Good Managers That Employees Want to Have

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Company mandates every employee gets Friday off, team lead complains when she's scheduled 11 Fridays in a row: 'The system doesn't call it work'

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Restaurant manager humiliates employee by printing complaint email sent by customer after food takes too long: ‘Feels incredibly dumb to blame me for ticket times being slow’

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Boss Puts Employee on Commission Pay After Deciding They Make Too Much Money, Employee Refuses to Work: ‘I don't get paid to answer the phone’

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7 Employees Who Are Only "Working for the Money": An Employee Surprises Their Boss With a Truthful Answer When the Boss Asks Them Why They’re There if They Are So Unhappy

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Employee with 1 hour commute complains about gas prices, manager struggles to accommodate him: 'Wouldn't want to lose him for this'

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‘9-5, in Office, No Exceptions’: A New CTO Ended Remote Work and Imposed Strict Office Hours, Then He Discovered How Much Work Employees Were Doing on Their Own Time—and How Much the Company Relied on That Mutual Goodwill

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Print shop manager removes ‘Customer Approval’ status to make production numbers look better, only to create more confusion and slow down the entire process: ‘It undermines customer confidence’

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Employee discovers coworker is tracking everyone's workplace activity on a spreadsheet: ‘What time they usually leave, what time they get coffee, who they talk to…’

A hotel manager tells staff to attribute delays to unexpected demand instead of deliberate understaffing

Hotel staff reports constant understaffing, which is causing high check-in wait times and issues with impatient guests—the manager has a solution: 'My manager pulled me aside and told me to change "understaffed" to "unexpected high guest volume"'

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'You'll never lock your office': Fired employee gets back at boss by hiding the keys to his office on their last day of the job

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Remote employee hired to work from home faces impossible ultimatum when company demands they move 220 miles away in 14 days, or lose their job: ‘This feels like a blatant backdoor layoff’

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Office manager demands all maintenance requests to go through their ticket system and not verbally, maintenance complies, but what happens when the building floods?: 'I told him they needed to submit an emergency ticket through the portal'

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Company demands employees come on a weekend to pack and move the entire office instead of hiring movers: ‘No overtime, just pizza afterwards’

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Employee decides to quit job instead of training new hire who makes $22k more than them: ‘After my boss claimed promotions were budget frozen’

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Manager refuses to pay for employee's quality certification that's required for the job: ‘Tell them I'm not paying’