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Coworker constantly takes credit for colleague's work, colleague starts leaving easter eggs in their notes: 'I embedded a completely fake bullet point right in the middle'

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Newark Airport self-checkout demands 18% tip even though no employee is working: 'He had to click out of it'

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Employee is fired via group chat in front of coworkers as a fear tactic: 'He just put her on blast in front of the whole company'

When your coworker is a credit thief Some people have mastered the art of looking busy while secretly looking for ways to steal credit from those who are actually doing real work. Don’t get me wrong; they invest a lot of energy in it, and it becomes a full-time job, but it would be more ethical to invest all that energy into actually working.

Malicious Coworker Keeps Taking Credit for Other People’s Work: ‘By the third time, I started keeping copies of everything I sent’

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Employee is written up as 'no call no show' even though they were not notified of the shift change: 'I don’t think my personal phone should be a job requirement'

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Boss continually pings employee during the weekends without offering overtime: 'My weekends feel like they don’t belong to me anymore'

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Company charges $18 for 'free' employee appreciation lunch without warning: 'I just find it ridiculous that a company can turn a thank you into something you owe them for'

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Boss denies employee a promotion, forces them to do the work anyway: 'I've been dragged in again and again to provide fixes, guidance and steer for the new member of staff'

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It’s not that corporate workers are exaggerating; it’s that we have several conflicting ways to measure suffering. Why is sitting in an office sipping your favourite coffee, answering emails, and filling endless Excel sheets while alienated from the product of your work considered the epitome of modern work-related suffering,

‘I honestly don't get why corporate work is often treated as uniquely awful compared to every other form of labor’: Employee reflects on whether we’ve exaggerated how bad corporate jobs are

This employee not only experiences her coworker’s attitude as annoying, but also as a threat to the boundaries of her identity There is a difference between borrowing something from you and claiming a relationship with you that you haven't consented to. If, let’s say, a coworker buys the same top as you, that’d be inoffensive imitation;

[She] said, 'I want to be you'. She corrected herself: "No, I want to be like you”’ Woman rants about a coworker who seems way too interested in her

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Boss puts retail employee on probation because they aren't comfortable shilling credit cards: 'He said I needed to be asking 2-3 times per interaction'

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If you look back all the time, you’ll miss what lies ahead Grief is a complicated thing. If you have ever gone through an important loss, like the one the woman who wrote this story went through, you will understand me.

Woman leaves her corporate job to deal with grief and now regrets her decision: ‘[Boyfriend] said that everyone goes through grief yet still shows up for work’

Sounds like a dream manager to me I don’t know whether the original poster was complaining or what. I don’t see any flaws in his methods; personally, I wish all jobs were like this.

‘Despite what previous management has said, this is not a family. This is a professional company with clear goals that need to be met’: New manager completely changes the company’s rules

Sometimes you have to accept defeat We can’t pull off a perfect Uno reverse every day; sometimes it goes badly. It’s better to accept defeat than to play dumb. As a society, we have forgotten that it’s noble to admit your own mistakes.

Lazy coworker routinely sleeps 5 hours of her 12-hour shift, new manager photographs her: ‘She sees the phone still in his hands, and puts two and two together. She says, "Did you just take a picture of me while I was unconscious?"’

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Don’t we communicate frontally anymore? What happened to "Hi, there is something I’ve been wanting to tell you"? Honestly, though. I get that confronting someone about their perfume can be challenging, but involving HR definitely makes it MUCH worse.

Employee keeps getting reported to HR over strong fragrance and doesn’t know where it’s coming from: ‘Since then, I’ve washed all my clothes, washed my hair, and made sure to wear no scent at all’

What goes around comes around in a different font I have a friend who always says even the smallest things require payback. Yes, he’s petty like that; he needs to get even, and I lowkey think he has a point.

Soon-to-leave employee starts intentionally rage-baiting coworkers: ‘And I encourage anyone reading to stand up for themselves and not let insecure people take their problems out on you’