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Employee takes $275k a year promotion, does nothing for nearly 2 years after company reorganization: 'It was genuinely a nightmare'

Ally Perry

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Mom turns down promotion with 30% raise to spend more time with 3-year-old, frets about making the right decision: 'I promised I wouldn't be a ghost in her childhood'

Ally Perry

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Boss denies employee a promotion, forces them to do the work anyway: 'I've been dragged in again and again to provide fixes, guidance and steer for the new member of staff'

JR Atkinson

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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’

Bar Mor Hazut

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Manager offers employee promotion, gets offended when he rejects four direct reports and no salary increase: 'You would have thought I set the building on fire'

Ally Perry

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Manager gives employee fake ‘growth opportunity’ because she dumps weeks of her own work on him before taking all the credit: ‘She framed it as a gift to me. And then she erased me from it entirely’

Cata Holmes

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Sister's husband wants to flex his promotion by inviting breakfast but then gets upset about paying for what the brother ordered, even though he always eats the same thing: 'I would have happily paid the bill, like I usually do'

María Cetra

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Boss gives longtime employee a fake promotion to ‘keep him around’, gives zero work for 6 weeks: ‘I’m sitting in an empty office with a fake job and a real paycheck'

Cata Holmes

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IT employee takes management role for better pay and career growth, realizes he hates managing people and wants his old position back: ‘Dealing with egos, pointless arguments’

Cata Holmes

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‘Excellent is just a trap’: Boss refuses to promote top-performing employee because they're too valuable in their current role, and gives the position to a coworker who barely hits quota

Cata Holmes

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Hospital worker accepts higher-level position with a $2 raise at their employer of 2 years, but the pay is missing from their first paycheck, then HR contacts them saying the offer was a mistake: 'The new rate would actually be LOWER than my previous pay'

Brad Dickson

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Employee gets promoted to supervisor over colleague with 3 more years' experience, faces pushback from coworkers: 'I'm not trying to act like everyone's boss'

Ally Perry

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Company plans to fire boss, employee feels conflicted about interviewing for his job: 'My boss is the whole reason I'm even in this position'

Ally Perry

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Top-performing worker resigns after 7 years when company passes him over for a promotion without even considering him, hires an outsider with no experience in the industry instead: ‘Got another offer within 9 days’

Cata Holmes

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Engineer is forced into a management promotion she repeatedly said she didn't want, boss admits he did it on purpose to advance his own career: 'He joked that he ruined my day'

Cata Holmes

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Coworker Jenna "accidentally" deletes employee's entire client campaign folder the day before a major pitch, then lands the promotion they were both competing for: ‘It was a mess’

Cata Holmes

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