overworked-employees

Manager makes request at 4:30pm for employee to stay late, employee declines and manager throws temper tantrum: 'Nah, bro! Your emergency is not my emergency'

Ben Weiss

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Coworker reports employee to HR for not inviting her to her private wedding, forcing her to have to explain to HR why she's not invited: 'Some people really do think they’re the main character'

Brad Dickson

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‘Finish the day or you're suspended’: Greenhouse employee leaves work early without telling anyone after being forced to work in 130°F weather, manager demands they return immediately

Bar Mor Hazut

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High-achiever "quiet quits" and gets a job in a different area of the company with better pay when manager ignores their repeated warnings about impending issues, watches as the disaster happens exactly as they predicted: 'My new job is a piece of cake'

Brad Dickson

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'I want the paperwork! Yes, all of it!': Employee maliciously complies with new colleague's request, promptly receives 1,500 pages of documents when she only needed 3

Ben Weiss

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Company hires two job candidates for the same role, claiming they will rotate the responsibilities, only to fire one of them two months later: ‘I was set up to fail’

Bar Mor Hazut

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New supervisor tells warehouse worker to mind her own business when she points out that one of the other machines is smoking, '10 minutes later, the thing actually caught fire'

Brad Dickson

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Employee quits mid-shift after micromanager fires their coworker out of the blue, other employees follow suit, forcing the restaurant to close: ‘I just turned around and left’

Bar Mor Hazut

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Employee labeled as having an "unprofessional attitude" by their employer after inquiring about their missing and late paycheck: 'My last paycheck was late. Not by a day or two, almost a full week'

Brad Dickson

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Overworked employee is unceremoniously fired after giving their 2 weeks' notice, which was to end with 3 days of leave: '55+ [hour] weeks with no overtime'

Brad Dickson

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10+ ridiculous reasons why employees took their sick days: 'I got shampoo in my eyes!'

Ben Weiss

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UPDATE: Manager schedules meeting with employee during her PTO, reprimands her when she doesn't show up: 'Her boss called to chastise her for it while we were on vacation'

Ben Weiss

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Senior executive abruptly fired after he tried to transfer employee to his department just to assert his authority: 'I’ve asked Head Office to transfer you to my site. Then I’ll see how you refuse me'

Ben Weiss

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'I requested 2 Saturdays off 2 months in advance. Both requests were denied outright': Employee can't get PTO request approved for her own wedding because of petty manager's vendetta

Ben Weiss

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Employee comes in to the office when they are sick at their boss's demand, boss soon regrets it: 'Boss said no working from home'

Brad Dickson

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Employee is fired after being placed on a PIP and being given the cold shoulder immediately following medical leave : 'HR is not your friend. Learned that the hard way...'

Brad Dickson

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