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‘Lock the doors’: Retail employee kicks customers out after manager demands they abide by ever-changing schedule, store loses major sales, manager gets written up as a result

‘Lock the doors’: Retail employee kicks customers out after manager demands they abide by ever-changing schedule, store loses major sales, manager gets written up as a result

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18-year-old working her first job takes her loafing coworker up on his offer after he tells her to "do it herself", takes his job after doing his work for him: 'I’m doing it myself now. With a raise'

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Entitled customer expects retail employee to apply outdated discount on an item their store doesn't sell, an audacious argument ensues: ‘He got all huffy when he didn't get his way’

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Bookkeepers refuse to continue working 18-hour-shifts, call out sick and ghost employer so there's no one to fill their role: '[They] refused to let me switch schedules after scheduling me to close at 11 PM and open at 5 AM'

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UPDATE: 'The store... treated me like I was not a potential client': Furniture store customer gets unfairly judged by employees, contacts manager to share their experience

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Boss calls 20-year-old woman working her first job "ungrateful" for not working unpaid overtime: 'Now I'm worried they're going to cut my hours or make my life harder'

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Entitled customer pays $40 to get car unlocked at the last minute, employee gets even with him: 'I throw his keys in the car, lock the doors... and leave':

Retail worker forced to deal with entitled mom and her 4 screaming children: '[She] let them loose to play tag/Marco Polo in the aisles'

Retail worker forced to deal with entitled mom and her 4 screaming children: '[She] let them loose to play tag/Marco Polo in the aisles'

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Entitled mother confronts tech retail worker at the supermarket who helped her and her son earlier: 'This happened about a week ago and I still think about it because of how absurd this lady was...'

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Manager yells at teen worker in front of customers, customers complain and he gets fired: 'I later found out he lost his job'

Employee gets into a ‘shouting match’ with arrogant customer after they let their kid fool around with heavy products, saves child from a potential injury: ‘What if he was still under there?!’

Employee gets into a ‘shouting match’ with arrogant customer after they let their kid fool around with heavy products, saves child from potential injury: ‘What if he was still under there?!’

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‘You just cash it, right?’: Customer attempts to pay with a handwritten check that isn't filled out properly, suggests the cashier go to the bank and deposit it for her

‘You just cash it, right?’: Customer attempts to pay with a handwritten check that isn't filled out properly, suggests the cashier go to the bank and deposit it for her

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'I am not allowed to do anything': Retail worker faces down angry parents after colleague sells parents the wrong computer for kid's gaming ambitions, prevented from helping them by silly company policy

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My employer has decided to give us a monthly in-person mandatory meeting at 8am one Sunday every month: 'the meetings are always things that could easily be covered in a simple email'

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Goth retail worker gets revenge on judgmental jewelry store employee by walking out and buying expensive watch at competitor: '[He was] treating him like he was about to steal something'

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'I honestly felt bad for the guy': Cashier sides with frustrated customer who leaves store without buying his groceries

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32-year-old roommate asks 34-year-old woman to cover her rent for her because she's financially struggling, brings home a $2000+ MacBook weeks later: 'I informed her that if she can afford luxury products, she should repay me the rent I paid immediately'

32-year-old roommate asks 34-year-old woman to cover her rent for her because she's financially struggling, brings home a $2000+ MacBook weeks later: 'I informed her that if she can afford luxury products, she should repay me the rent I paid immediately'

‘You'd think she was begging for charity’: Entitled cousin expects woman to give them her graduation gifts during the post-grad celebration, woman's aunt enables the entitled behavior further

‘You'd think she was begging for charity’: Entitled cousin expects woman to give them her graduation gifts during the post-grad celebration, woman's aunt enables the entitled behavior further

Adopted child learns that their birth mother has left them a large sum of inheritance money, adopted siblings demand an equal cut despite having no relation: 'They want to split it three ways!'

Adopted child learns that their birth mother has left them a large sum of inheritance money, adopted siblings demand an equal cut despite having no relation: 'They want to split it three ways!'

Entitled neighbor's dog keeps resident up all night, resident records barking and uses it to get even with neighbor: 'Sometimes the best revenge is pressing play'

Entitled neighbor's dog keeps resident up all night, resident records barking and uses it to get even with neighbor: 'Sometimes the best revenge is pressing play'

Entitled driver parks their car in the middle of a driveway, annoyed neighbor uses wheel dollies to move it to a tight spot, watches as driver struggles to get it out: ‘The expression on his face was priceless'

Entitled driver parks their car in the middle of a driveway, annoyed neighbor uses wheel dollies to move it to a tight spot, watches as driver struggles to get it out: ‘The expression on his face was priceless'

Teacher told to "work contracted hours" when he's been helping kids in the gym after school, he stops forcing the district to hire someone: ‘I was told to work my contractual hours, I’m only paid until 2:22. I did this for fun, and it was unofficial’

Teacher told to "work contracted hours" when he's been helping kids in the gym after school, he stops forcing the district to hire someone: ‘I was told to work my contractual hours, I’m only paid until 2:22. I did this for fun, and it was unofficial’

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