tales-from-the-workplace

Employee discreetly looks for another job, only for boss to find out and demand they stop the search, employee refuses to back down: ‘I cannot stay at this job’

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'We are still waiting’: Manager demands employees wait for her approval to start closing restaurant, leading manager to pay them overtime when she forgets to follow through

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Company forced to pay $6000 to fix tech issue after boss demands sole IT employee deletes his account on his last day at the job: ‘You asked me to do this’

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Boss hires inadequate daughter to replace top employee, employee refuses to train daughter and quits job instead: ‘She's not fit for the job’

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'It's a private matter':Job candidate refuses to answer interviewer's questions, claiming they are too personal, interviewer tells him to leave

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Micromanager demands to know where employees are at all times by forcing them to report every move on a board, they take it one step too far: ‘Needless to say the board was very short-lived’

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Employee gets offered a promotion but is told they'll have to ‘work hard’ to prove themselves, employee decides to firmly decline instead: 'I'm not interested in the slightest'

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New hire gets fired in front of everyone after two shifts on the job, owner claims it's due to a 'mix-up' with another hire, no one believes him: ‘He’s a complete loser'

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Gas company cancels customer's technician appointment 30 minutes before it's due, customer convinces the entire building to switch gas companies as payback: ‘It's going well’

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Boss cuts all of employee's hours without explanation, only to call them to cover random shifts, employee refuses every time: ‘If he needed the help he shouldn't have cut all my hours’

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Hiring manager rejects job candidate after failing to schedule an interview for over a month, candidate responds to the rejection email: ‘Good luck or whatever’

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Manager declines employee's requests for in-house training, claiming there's no budget, employee convinces higher-ups to pay for an entire master's degree instead: ‘They ended up paying me $12,000’

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Employee risks termination after refusing to go to work during a snowstorm, demanding boss does not back down: ‘I told him I am not coming in no matter what’

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Manager claims employee is lying about getting stuck in the snow en route to work, admits she left work to try and catch employee red-handed: ‘I sent [her] proof’

Lana DeGaetano

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Bus company refuses to allow driver to work for another company due to 'conflict of interest', driver backs out of the job: ‘If you want to control my time, pay for it’

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Manager refuses to assign warehouse worker an assistant to help with heavy lifting, leading worker to spend the entire shift with their arms crossed: ‘I didn’t move an inch’

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