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Micromanager enforces new "performance tracking policy" forcing employees to prioritize phone calls over emails, creating major backlog of work: 'And just like that, [the] policy quietly vanished'

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Engineer passed over for promotion for their own direct reports, instead up-skills himself on the job, uses those skills to land a better job with 3x the pay: 'I developed skills on the company dime that got me a >100% raise at another company'

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Manager demands construction workers stop using shortcuts to keep an efficient workflow, leading to a backlog in orders when they follow her rules: ‘Hope you’ve got time to wait’

Manager demands construction workers stop using shortcuts to keep an efficient workflow, leading to a backlog in orders when they follow her rules: ‘Hope you’ve got time to wait’

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Boss schedules meeting with HR to discuss employee's attitude after they say "no" to increased workload for the first time ever in 2 years: 'So now we have a meeting scheduled with HR to talk about it'

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Boss tells key client that go-to employee has left the company, employee quits for real when they find out: 'My supervisor told a high-end client that I was quitting. That was a lie, and I was gone for a week.'

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39-year-old administrative assistant refuses to cover lunch for entitled coworker, confronts her in the office

39-year-old administrative assistant refuses to cover lunch for entitled coworker, confronts her in the office: '[Theresa,] I'm not your bank and I’m not responsible for feeding you'

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Boss demands 24/7 "urgent" access to employee, interrupting the employee's evenings and weekends with tasks that could have waited: 'If I’m not answering emails at 10PM, I’ll wake up to passive aggressive messages'

Temp employee works until 3:00 AM, asks if he can finish work from home, boss refuses, sparking malicious compliance

Temp employee works until 3:00 AM, asks if he can finish work from home, boss refuses, sparking malicious compliance: 'Temps are not allowed to work from home'

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Company refuses to give employees raises unless they have a competing offer, employee provides a fake offer letter, resulting in a $45,000 raise

Company refuses to give employees raises unless they have a competing offer, employee provides a fake offer letter, resulting in a $45,000 raise: ‘Don't mind if I do’

Employee calls out coworker for stealing her ideas in company-wide meeting, brings receipts

Employee calls out coworker for stealing her ideas in company-wide meeting, brings receipts: 'Amy's face went from triumphant to pale to comically flustered in under 30 seconds'

Employee discovers that restaurant manager has been changing her and her 17-year-old coworker's clock out times when they are forced to stay late after closing

Employee discovers that restaurant manager has been changing her and her 17-year-old coworker's clock out times when they are forced to stay late after closing: 'You know you don’t get paid past 8:15 right?'

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New employees get left alone to close the store, forcing them to clock out an hour late every day, only to find out they don't get paid past closing time

'Manager changed my clock-out times': New employees get left alone to close the store, forcing them to clock out an hour late every day, only to find out they don't get paid past closing time

Assistant makes a standard PTO request, manager informs her he's done away with all paid vacation time

'Just so you know, we're not doing the PTO thing anymore': Assistant makes a standard PTO request, manager informs her he's done away with all paid vacation time

Boss offers employee a $1 promotional raise, then hires someone in the employee's current role before he accepts the offer

‘I’m furious. I’m disgusted I work for this company’: Boss offers employee a $1 promotional raise, then hires someone in the employee's current role before he accepts the offer

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Underpaid and overworked employee scores a unicorn job offer and resigns from their current role, boss loses it

‘And just like that, the tables have completely turned’: Underpaid and overworked employee lands a unicorn job offer and resigns from their current role, boss loses it

Contractor quits job without any notice after manager publicly boasts about being able to fire contractors without repercussions

Contractor quits job without any notice after manager publicly boasts about being able to fire contractors without repercussions: ‘Thanks for everything, this is my last day!’

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Employee informs manager he has to miss work due to medical emergency, HR reframes this as a resignation: 'I never resigned!'

Employee informs manager he has to miss work due to medical emergency, HR reframes this as a resignation: 'I never resigned!'

HOA fines condo owner $500/month over noise complaints and expects them to redo their flooring, despite not having owned the condo when the original floors were installed: ‘Retaliation mixed with incompetence’

HOA fines condo owner $500/month over noise complaints and expects them to redo their flooring, despite not having owned the condo when the original floors were installed: ‘Retaliation mixed with incompetence’

Retail employee tells off their manager, Gary, pointing out his failure to handle his own tasks when he starts micromanaging theirs: ‘Slow clap for the hero in aisle 7'

Retail employee tells off their manager, Gary, pointing out his failure to handle his own tasks when he starts micromanaging theirs: ‘Slow clap for the hero in aisle 7'

Marketing agency fires employee for AI usage after they signed a contract that forbade them from using it for work tasks: ‘His work from the past two weeks, also AI‘

Marketing agency fires employee for AI usage after they signed a contract that forbade them from using it for work tasks: ‘His work from the past two weeks, also AI‘

Employee backs out of their promise to cover coworker's shift after she also demands they take over all of her extra tasks of the day, gets called out: ‘Coworkers should help each other’

Employee backs out of their promise to cover coworker's shift after she also demands they take over all of her extra tasks of the day, gets called out: ‘Coworkers should help each other’

'Telling family members I scammed them': College student refuses to transfer back from Art History to Business major, after discovering her parents paid off her student loans on the "condition" she study business, turning a “gift” into emotional leverage

'Telling family members I scammed them': College student refuses to transfer back from Art History to Business major, after discovering her parents paid off her student loans on the "condition" she study business, turning a “gift” into emotional leverage

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