quitting

'Not for less than $45/hour': Irreplaceable employee gets fired after falling sick; two years later, the company begs him to return; he refuses unless he gets a 40% raise

Jesse Kessenheimer

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‘HR quashed the employee’s raise': HR override manager who approves employee's request for 8% raise, employee quits, company crumbles

Eleonora Bader

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'Boss wants me to work more hours': Part-time student takes on former coworker's work with extra hours but no extra pay

Ben Weiss

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'Do I go AWOL and [...] just ghost the company?': Employee considers ghosting his boss after temporary relocation appears to be permanent

Ben Weiss

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‘I can’t do this anymore': Karen demands barista ‘label’ her drinks, despite them already being labeled; barista quits

Eleonora Bader

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'Boss changed my off days': Employee forced to leave second job after toxic manager changed their schedule with no notice

Ben Weiss

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‘Customers found the letters, and walked out before ordering': Employee attempts to tank boss's restaurant, hiding letters around entire restaurant, explaining why he quit

Eleonora Bader

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‘My boss promoted the wrong person after I quit; the company tanked’: Boss tanks company after replacing employee who quits with new hire

Eleonora Bader

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'They thought I was useless [but] within a week, they were frantically trying to get me to help them': Overworked employee quits his job after being disregarded for months; company scrambles, then retaliates with a baseless lawsuit

Jesse Kessenheimer

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‘I was denied a raise, so I quit’: Boss denies IT employee 5-10% raise, employee quits, leading to boss paying 40% extra for replacement

Eleonora Bader

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'This is my supervillain origin story': Boss tries to tell worker that getting demoted is a good thing, they leave and cripple the company

Brad Dickson

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'Girl, it's a job not a family': Boss denies overworked employee a raise despite telling her the company would 'crumble' without her

Ben Weiss

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‘I don’t need to train anybody; I don't work for you anymore': Boss demands employee who quit come back to train new hire, employee's refusal leads to dozens of phone calls

Eleonora Bader

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'I shut down a lawsuit with a single question': Company tries to sue employee for leaving their job

Brad Dickson

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'[Quitting] started a cascade of resignations': IT guy quits after boss expects him to handle an absurd workload, watching the company implode as management tries to pull the same tricks on the rest of the employees

Jesse Kessenheimer

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'They didn't like that': Ten workers quit on the same day after having their requests ignored

Brad Dickson

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