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Job candidate lies on resume and gets the job, is then forced to come clean during extensive background check: ‘I emailed HR and spelled out the discrepancies’

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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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Employee gets laid off and is asked to train the recent grad replacing him for $12k less, he refuses to play along: ‘They decided to let me go so they could bring in someone cheaper.’

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Fast food restaurant hires employee, declines to contact them, and fires them within 2 weeks: 'Never went in or earned a cent'

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Employee gets rejected for supervisor role because they lack 'leadership presence', manager makes them train new hire: 'I usually have people handle the technical weeds for me'

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Boss extends new employee's probation period, so employee quits without notice after finding better job: ‘Boss threw an absolute fit’

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New hire refuses to comply with CEO's demand for a full return to the office after signing as remote employee: ‘I fell for a total bait and switch’

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New hire replies to future colleague's email about offer letter, gets chastised by boss for sharing salary details: 'You shouldn’t handle work this way'

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This new hire began a new office job and thought that they'd be receiving some on-the-job training. Instead, they found themselves only with two short onboarding sessions. The two days' worth of company-values videos and tests. This continued, with no real work assigned to them and no practical instructions being given. They started trying to train themselves, searching around company files for procedure manuals. Their boss still told them to "work more" and to learn by doing.

New hire left abandoned with no training or assigned work—boss starts insisting they get more work done and "learn by doing"—they consider quitting: 'I told him that I didn't get any proper training'

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Factory worker walks out after 27 years when manager scolds her for falling behind while helping a new hire, company publicly claims she was "slow and inefficient"

Manager complains when new employee walks out 20 minutes into shift: 'You were fired as an employer'

Manager complains when new employee walks out 20 minutes into shift: 'You were fired as an employer'

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New employee receives warning after bragging about how company orders lunch for employees every day: 'You're not getting a lunch break'

New employee receives warning after bragging about how company orders lunch for employees every day: 'You're not getting a lunch break'

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Remote employee discovers that the new hire makes 25k more for the same position, so he prepared a presentation to get a raise: ‘Here's what I'm doing and here's what the market and my own scope say it's worth’

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Potential hire gets rejected from camp counseling job, only to be contacted by boss a week before camp starts, asking about their first shift: ‘I didn't think I got the job’

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Employee is frustrated with the younger new hire, as he has been training her for months, but she still has first-day questions, he thinks she should be laid off, but management isn't sure: 'I just don't know what [redacted] else to do!'

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New-hire fast food worker told to stand in one place and not move, they comply, standing still and not helping customers for more than 30 minutes: 'I’m sorry, I would get that for you but I’m not allowed'