toxic-manager

'We’re being taken advantage of': Boss refuses to pay employee for requested vacation days but closes restaurant for his own vacation

Ben Weiss

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'My intern [is] benefitting from pretty privilege': Jealous employee gets into tense argument with intern after discovering office secret

Ben Weiss

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'You can at least train your replacement': Boss threatens to fire employee for revealing their low salary online, employee quits

Ben Weiss

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'[I] handed my two weeks notice': Manager makes employee travel three hours to change work outfit, employee returns with letter of resignation

Ben Weiss

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'My coworkers and I had had enough': Employees switch creamers to get back at manager with lactose intolerance, sparks debate

Elna McHilderson

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'If she wanted to micromanage me I would make her work for it': Employee manages a micromanager by only doing what they're explicitly told to

Brad Dickson

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'I've really started noticing how sad it is': Employee on verge of quitting sparks discussion on what to do when your boss has no work-life balance

Elna McHilderson

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'I am going to quit on the spot': Manager demands written essay documenting every second of employee's workday, gets 8-page paper and an on-the-spot resignation to follow (update)

Elna McHilderson

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'I told you that your expectations were unrealistic': IT consultant fired after refusing to work OT on ridiculous project, gains leverage when negotiating exit terms

Ben Weiss

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Update: 'So you lied to me:' HR denies raise promised to employee, employee gets back at HR by canceling furniture order for her office

Ben Weiss

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‘She [took] 2 weeks prior’: Employee gladly costs freshly-vacayed manager $300-500k in unvested stock after they try canceling PTO for everyone else

Elna McHilderson

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'Your original pay is now void': Employee quits without notice, fast food manager tries to pay him minimum wage for final paycheck

Ben Weiss

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'Can my employer make me pay the difference?': Server accidentally orders wrong bottle of wine, manager makes them pay up

Ben Weiss

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'Quit my job suddenly via email': Worker quits their job because of a bad boss, boss demands they come in and talk face-to-face

Brad Dickson

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'I’m milking every minute to abide to your rules': Fast-food employee maliciously complies to manager's strict closing-shift rules and gets several extra hours of pay

Elna McHilderson

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‘Your generation is so out-of-touch with what the going rate is for everything’: Grown millennial gives her boomer mom a piece of her mind after hearing her complain about how “nobody wants to work anymore”

Elna McHilderson

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