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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’

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Company hires 5 different managers for 1 employee, only 1 of the managers actually contributes any value: 'Why do companies keep employing these people?'

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Company offers employee double their salary to move into their hotel for 6 months, employee hesitates to accept: ‘They don’t want to give me a management title’

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Employee gets tired of awful client and wants to fire them, manager is against, so she decided to give a one-year notice for her PTO not to deal with the client: 'A year later, he finally got a taste of his own medicine and did not like it'

A man works on his laptop while sitting on a couch and taking a phone call.

Employee gets written warning from HR, demand he tells disorganized manager whenever he spends 30 minutes away from his desk: 'It seems extremely micromanagerial'

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Manager aproves employee's PTO, insists that he be on line anyway, and gives the employee the cold shoulder when he sets the boundary: 'That's how it works here'

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Employee discovers coworker is booking fake meetings with himself for quiet work time, debates telling boss: ‘I can't decide if this is genius or insane’