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20+ Employees Share Their Most Ridiculous First Day Stories and Interview Nightmares From Their Job-Hunting Era

Elna McHilderson

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CEO revokes new employees' job contract, costs himself millions: 'He had a "bad feeling" about me'

Remy Millisky

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'What kitchen utensil would you be?': 25+ of the Worst Job Interview Questions

Elna McHilderson

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'They lost': Engineering firm removes employee from project to punish them, replacing them with inexperienced project manager who runs project into the ground

Eleonora Bader

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‘She refused to pay me back': Woman demands roommate pay entire rent after losing her job, then proceeds to eat all of their frozen dinners

Eleonora Bader

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'Fine, do your job then': HR puts a stop to employee's office tradition of bringing in bagels from family-owned business due to ‘HR policy’

Eleonora Bader

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'He set me up': Recruiter informs employee's boss they're planning to quit after dazzling them with 300k position

Eleonora Bader

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‘Everyone has a problem with you’: Hotel worker quits after manager calls her into meeting to discuss why ‘she needs to be nicer' to team of employees

Eleonora Bader

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‘You need to return your lab coat’: Employee brings manager a bag full of muddy ashes after he quit following manager's demands he return work clothes

Eleonora Bader

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'I quickly realized that [the company] was horribly managed, and they made errors all the time': Employee quits new job after 7 days, receives a bill for $24,981.62

Isabella Penn

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‘My boss kept cutting my hours’: Employee trains new hire who ends up taking their job, so employee quits, leading to boss taking every last one of their shifts away

Eleonora Bader

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‘Don’t put all your eggs in one basket': Data engineer earning below average is expected to do the work of 3 people, so he quits instead

Eleonora Bader

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‘We are leaving’: Administration cripples company by denying employees raises, leading to mass resignation

Eleonora Bader

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'Got asked to make it 4 weeks notice, then got fired': Worker agrees to extend their notice period after finding new job before being fired on the spot

Brad Dickson

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'I wasn't interested in taking a wage cut': Audacious recruiter guilt trips a prospective employee after offering him $6,000 less than his current wage

Jesse Kessenheimer

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'Where are you? It's your first day': Boss calls confused random guy too chew him out for missing his first shift

Brad Dickson

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