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Manager refuses to pay for employee's quality certification that's required for the job: ‘Tell them I'm not paying’

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Hardware store employees leave customers mid-sale to comply with boss's strict lunch break schedule, until HR gets involved: ‘He had gotten in trouble’

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Boss forgets she approved employee's project and publicly calls them out, employee fights to prove boss is wrong: ‘I have the approval in writing’

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Manager monitors employees' electricity usage, demands they turn off lights every time they leave their offices, employee claims: ‘It's driving me crazy’

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Boss charges employees $5 when they're late to the morning meeting, one employee refuses to comply: ‘So that's theft’

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Company promises rewards to employees with fewest absences, leading employees to come in sick to "win": 'They put our sick days on a leaderboard'

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Boss refuses to approve employees' overtime, yet continuesly piles work on them 10 minutes before end of day, employee decides: ‘I clock out, grab my bag, and walk’

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Company gets rid of evening security guard, then demands last employee to leave to take care of closing duties, employee refuses: ‘I'm leaving at 5 from now on’

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Boss's assistant demands employee stop over-documenting, employee proves they followed her exact instructions, boss takes employee's side: ‘She is getting what she asked for’

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Boss offers employee their job back after firing them, employee refuses when they discover the pay is lower: ‘I was making [more] when I started five years ago’

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Leadership forces all employees back to the office, only to have them Zoom each other from their desks: ‘I should have stayed in my sweatpants at home’

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Boss blocks employee from all workplace channels after receiving their resignation letter and notice, employee stops coming to work: ‘Too bad I'm a coward’

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Manager denies 2 PTO requests, claiming the employees submitted them too late, employees refuse to work in response: ‘Consider it your resignation’

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Employee copies and sends company documents to competitors after company fires him and demands that he train his replacement before leaving: ‘He brought a USB drive’

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Boss demands full return to office, resulting in his best employee refusing to do more than the minimum 9-5: ‘Flexibility works both ways'

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Factory machine operator quits job after boss denies him a pay raise, leaving the company with no qualified operators: ‘They effectively lost thousands’