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Coworker Kim demands changing desks, claiming her crystals need better energy flow by the window to work and align better with her aura: ‘I laughed because I thought she was joking. She wasn’t’

Etai Eshet

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‘She quit a week later. Three others followed. All four mentioned the "family" hypocrisy’: CEO calls company family for years, denies financial help to a longtime employee after she loses her house, then criticizes her for not being “team player”

Etai Eshet

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‘She only worked at a small restaurant and a bakery before’: Hardworking employee gets skipped for promotion when company hires a newbie boss with no experience

Etai Eshet

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‘I’ve complained about him, but nothing can be done as he is the head of his area’: Senior staffer exhausts new employee with late-night texts and power plays, pushing him to ignore the senior and avoid the office

Etai Eshet

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Veteran employee gets written up by new boss for clocking in 5 minutes later than his usual early time, even though he was early: ‘I told him my shift doesn’t start until 5:00, he said it doesn’t matter when my actual shift starts’

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‘Don’t be toxic to your colleagues. You never know when you might need them in the future’: Ex‑coworker applies for a job and lists former colleague as a referral without asking, only for the employee to shut it down immediately

Etai Eshet

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Family business new hire snaps at two brother‑bosses and dares them to fire him after 2 months of nonstop micromanagement and wins as they back down: ‘[They] can either treat me like a respectable adult, or fire me’

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‘It's crazy my quiet co-worker is over here living a whole other secret life’: 28-year-old coworker Chris accidentally reveals he’s rich after adding a teammate on social media, exposing a life of mansions, jets, and luxury trips

Etai Eshet

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Bosses cut workers' pay for working too fast, so employees slow down and milk the clock until company caves: ‘I'd go grocery shopping, get lunch, read a book, look at social media, anything, until clock out time'

Etai Eshet

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Stubborn salesman denies warehouse manager credit card for fuel, delivery truck runs out of diesel and breaks down mid-route, causing major delays and repair costs, salesman never withholds card again: 'He decided 1/8th of a tank was perfectly adequate'

Emma Saven

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Office manager gets fired and replaced by new hire for 1/4 of their salary, learns his $2,500 bonus is conditional on training his replacement: 'I received nothing when I started!'

Ben Weiss

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Employees under untracked unlimited PTO policy thrive until HR calls their vacations “excessive” and demands new restrictions their manager has to enforce : ‘Now I have to penalize them for failing to meet expectations that none of us knew existed’

Etai Eshet

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Data analyst corrects manager in an important meeting because he misrepresented a project the employee is spearheading, and is then reprimanded for making him ‘look unprepared’

Lana DeGaetano

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29-year-old architect rejects requests for her project files and designs after being laid off and rehired as a contractor by the same firm: ‘They’re saying I’ll “burn bridges” in the industry’

Etai Eshet

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‘I then told her I would be putting in my 2 weeks if she couldn’t give me a raise’: Boss mocks employees for wanting a raise, so they threaten they quit and end up getting more money

Etai Eshet

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Waitress fired after 13 years over a Reese’s cup, when a lying coworker turned a harmless snack break into a full-blown scandal: ‘I just feel like I was unfairly and unlawfully terminated’

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