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North Carolina employee gets fired before his first day for missing an orientation nobody told him about: ‘If I knew this would have happened I would have never quit my other job’

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Job candidate forced to walk to CEO's house for interview after waiting 3 hours in the office, decides not to show up on first day: ‘I put my phone on silent’

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Employee relocated for new entry-level job, only to get fired a month later for “not having enough experience”, employee claims: ‘Nobody wants to train me’

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Business owner asks job applicant to shadow the employee he is replacing and not tell her that he's her replacement: 'She has been there for 11 years.'

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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'

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"

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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'

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'