toxic-workplace

'They're freezing all raises and promotions': Upper management causes mass exodus during company meeting after announcing a hiring freeze

Ben Weiss

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Micromanager enforces 14-hour Zoom call to monitor employees, entire team quits to work for their competitor: 'The company closed'

Ben Weiss

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New micromanager enforces strict office hours, employees comply leaving West Coast clients scrambling: 'Management said we had to work 8am - 5pm (ET). So we did!'

Ben Weiss

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‘She goes through my calendar hoping she [can] find things to “manage”’: Manager insists employee fakes their productivity for the sake of seeming ‘professional’, but employee hypothesizes that their manager isn't as productive as she seems

Lana DeGaetano

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Employee gets even with stingy boss after he refuses to allow employees to ask for replacement pens if they lost theirs: 'You had to turn in [your] old out-of-ink pen to get another'

Ben Weiss

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'My boss forces us to turn our cameras on for every meeting': Fully remote team rebels against new boss's camera mandate by using eyebrow-raising filters and backgrounds

Ben Weiss

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Boss refuses to let employee use vacation days from overtime all at once, employee complies and gives himself a 4-day work week for the rest of the year: 'My boss wasn't particularly happy'

Ben Weiss

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'She ghosted me': Job candidate asked to come in for an interview, recruiter bails, candidate gives their supervisor a piece of his mind

Ben Weiss

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Dog sitter quits agency after they find out their boss was pocketing 60% of their total earnings: ‘[She was] trying to claim she only takes 30%’

Lana DeGaetano

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'Ted was cast aside to make room for the owner's son': Company man with 40+ years of experiences gets fired over Zoom and replaced by an inexperienced nepo-baby

Ben Weiss

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‘It literally feels like she's having a breakdown’: Coworker has a ‘temper tantrum’ after employee turns in their resignation, employee implores fellow corporate soldiers to share their worst coworker stories

Lana DeGaetano

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Remote employee automates all daily tasks and does nothing all day while manager praises their work: 'Every once in a while, I panic that my manager will notice'

Ben Weiss

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‘This isn't company policy...’: Employee happily resigns from job due to ‘toxic company culture’ and boss demands to know sensitive details about their next role, even though no other coworkers faced the same fate

Lana DeGaetano

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‘"I'm not sure about him… I think he's like, a video gamer"’: Job applicant finds out he isn't hired because the hiring team profiled him as a ‘video gamer’, all thanks to an Otter.AI meeting transcription

Lana DeGaetano

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'[I] got fired 4 hours into my first day': Entitled coworker gets new warehouse employee fired for working too slowly even though it was his first day

Ben Weiss

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'I can already tell this won't be a good fit': Job seeker gets into heated back-and-forth with hiring manager for requiring him to do extra unpaid work, candidate contacts hiring manager's boss

Ben Weiss

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