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Company lays off employee, wants to throw a farewell party for them: 'Genuinely don’t know how to feel or react to this'

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Employee travels 1700 miles for new job, is laid off after 1 month for not having enough experience in an entry-level position: 'How are young people supposed to make it in this world?'

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Prospective employee is rejected because they didn't agree to the job before seeing the final offer: 'The wanted me to give up on all negotiating'

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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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A hotel manager tells staff to attribute delays to unexpected demand instead of deliberate understaffing

Hotel staff reports constant understaffing, which is causing high check-in wait times and issues with impatient guests—the manager has a solution: 'My manager pulled me aside and told me to change "understaffed" to "unexpected high guest volume"'

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'

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’