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Mom retires after advocating for higher salary for 18 years, replacement quits after one shift, ex-boss now offers double the salary for her to return: 'If a company doesn't give you what you deserve, believe me, you'll find another one that will'

Ben Weiss

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Guy calls out HR for violating minimum wage laws for salaried employees after receiving a 15% pay cut: 'Several salaried employees didn't even make the minimum'

Ben Weiss

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35-year-old's helicopter parents refuse to let him accept an offer that pays $23,000 more than his last job: 'They want me to turn this opportunity down [...] and keep looking for local jobs in Kansas'

Ben Weiss

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Employee resigns for better opportunity, manager ignores him for two weeks, then panics right before his final day: '[He] asked what it would take for me to stay...'

Ben Weiss

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Company begs former employee for passwords after not sending his final paycheck: 'With how they treated me, I'm not inclined to answer'

Ben Weiss

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NYC accountant "snaps" at venture company offering $70k-100k for senior accountant role: 'Why would someone... making much more decide to join their company?'

Remy Millisky

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HR yells at employee for asking about fake bonus, accuses him of recording on his Meta glasses, he calmly shuts them down, and his boss ends up apologizing: ‘This "bonus" wasn't extra money, it was just my salary’

Etai Eshet

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Boss begs for former employee to come back after entire department falls apart, employee considers his options: 'My salary increased by 120%!'

Ben Weiss

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Manager expects employee to take over late coworker’s $100k role, but claims there’s no budget to increase their salary, pushing employee to look for another job: ‘They're playing games’

Bar Mor Hazut

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Employee quits job after being denied a promotion and raise for heavy workload, company begs her to stay, but when she refuses, they are forced to hire three people to replace her: 'Could've saved themselves a lot of money by giving me what I asked for'

Emma Saven

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'No matter how long he stays after this, his salary is frozen and won't increase again': Coworker receives "final" raise after 12 years at his company, immediately submits resignation and uses new salary to get a better job offer

Ben Weiss

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Science teacher's $6k raise request is denied, so they accept a new job with a 40% pay increase; admin backpedals with too little, too late: ‘I will not be changing my mind’

Jesse Kessenheimer

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Boss forces manager to require that his assistant join team meetings during his vacation: '[We] need to attend meetings for free on our days off'

Ben Weiss

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'I had the worst interview of my life': 53-year-old professional gives potential employer a piece of his mind after being asked to work 10 hours a day on $65k salary despite 30 years of experience

Ben Weiss

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'We shouldn't be talking about our wages': Employee exchanges fiery emails with HR after manager reprimands him for discussing his salary with his coworkers

Ben Weiss

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'[He] got chewed out for that for sure': FAA facility manager gets humbled after his rule forbidding airplane techs from talking to the clients gets him on a ‘Performance Improvement Plan’

Elna McHilderson

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