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'Ok! Everyone is fired!': Heroic manager defends his employees from layoffs after the C-level bosses try to ‘thin out' the higher-paid senior employees, ends up getting HR and the legal department involved

Jesse Kessenheimer

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Boss invents fake conversations to demand employee return to the office full-time, leaving the employee weighing HR complaints against quitting: ‘This isn’t the first time my boss changed his mind, and then blamed me for misunderstanding’

Etai Eshet

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Two-faced coworker constantly criticizes and condescends to new employee, while being incredibly friendly and kind to all other colleagues: ‘She’s everyone’s favorite… it gets harder to ignore’

Etai Eshet

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‘Could we just get it over with and ’do it your way?'': Rookie tow boat drivers put in their place after tattling on their senior barge manager, then they end up begging him for help when their undercooked plan backfires

Jesse Kessenheimer

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‘Things were falling apart’: Team lead refuses to work during busiest shift after boss 'plays favorites' between her and other employees, leaving the entire department high and dry

Bar Mor Hazut

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Company uses unlimited PTO as bait-and-switch, training employees to brag about burnout and shaming themselves for taking a break: ‘I’m starting to think the whole thing is a scam designed to save the company money’

Etai Eshet

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‘What do you want from me?’: Employee hands in their 2-week notice, only for boss to refuse to accept it without being provided with reasons for the resignation

Bar Mor Hazut

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Employee publicly blames boss for company's major network outage, boss refuses to accept the criticism, leading employee to pack up their office: ‘I went into full defense mode’

Bar Mor Hazut

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‘They finally fired me!!!’: Hotel employee celebrates being let go, manager tries to intimidate, but now she has plausible reasons to take them to court

Elna McHilderson

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'I told myself, "All's well that ends well." But nope': Father goes head-to-head with incompetent airline's flight attendants who seat his 4-year-old child alone

Elna McHilderson

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Tech specialist fired after 6 years when boss demands he inflate his car tires as a “friendly” favor: ‘He called me arrogant and started swearing, I asked him if he was firing me as a friend or as an employer’

Etai Eshet

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Employee wins lottery and starts bragging at work, boss fires her after complaints of shaming coworkers' finances: 'She [made] comments about other employees' lunches being cheap'

Isabella Penn

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‘I’m expected to show up even if I have no clients, just to hang around and work for free’: Boss demands part-time personal trainer to work unpaid hours, pushing their limit to brink of quitting

Etai Eshet

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‘I can’t help but feel like it was personal, not professional’: Manager turns sick days into performance issues to justify firing employee during probation period

Etai Eshet

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'How about NO': Hiring manager blocks candidate after they politely inquire about the job's pay rate, all while claiming it's unprofessional to even ask

Bar Mor Hazut

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Hotel owner forces his lead landscaper to train his incompetent nephew to take over his job, nepotism leads to a property fire that burns the place down: 'The nephew seemed more concerned with playing Pokemon than working'

Jesse Kessenheimer

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