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UPDATE: Manager schedules meeting with employee during her PTO, reprimands her when she doesn't show up: 'Her boss called to chastise her for it while we were on vacation'

Ben Weiss

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Grocery store employee fired after one trial shift, then reprimanded for not showing up to their next shift: 'I didn't know I was scheduled!'

Ben Weiss

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Senior executive abruptly fired after he tried to transfer employee to his department just to assert his authority: 'I’ve asked Head Office to transfer you to my site. Then I’ll see how you refuse me'

Ben Weiss

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25+ Employees whose coworkers are driving them up the wall: 'It was easily the worst shift I ever had'

Remy Millisky

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'I requested 2 Saturdays off 2 months in advance. Both requests were denied outright': Employee can't get PTO request approved for her own wedding because of petty manager's vendetta

Ben Weiss

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Competitive coworker tries to get engineer fired, ends up getting fired himself: ''[He's] trying to play games with my career!'

Ben Weiss

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Entitled coworker switches shifts with 26-year-old server without his approval, assuming he's free because he is single: 'You don't have anything else to do anyway!'

Ben Weiss

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Fast food worker fired by manager for throwing his half-filled soda away, gets immediately reinstated by his manager's boss: 'He asked why I was back since he fired me'

Ben Weiss

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Former employee confesses to receiving over $80,000 in overpayment after he quit 1.4 years ago: '[I'm] still receiving the same bi-weekly pay [...] as if I still work there!'

Ben Weiss

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‘HR said it doesn't matter’: Nursing home employer forces employee to falsely ‘clock out’ for breaks they aren't taking in an already severely understaffed environment

Lana DeGaetano

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'I won't be reapplying': Boss makes employee reapply for the same position because of changes in the school district, employee stands ground

Ben Weiss

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Update: New employee refuses to work overtime, boss fires him to make an example, entire team suffers without employee's efforts: 'We didn’t need to work overtime!'

Ben Weiss

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Overworked startup employee gets ghosted by boss for weeks and then suddenly fired and blamed for the business's failures: 'They're using you as a scapegoat'

Ben Weiss

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Higher-ups reject employee's work pitch for years, then expect them to leave a 'plan' detailing the idea after they put in their two weeks: ‘I'd re-pitch the idea, every year, nothing moved’

Lana DeGaetano

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Teacher tests school's strict dress code policy, claims 'sore feet' to be able to wear whatever he wants: 'There were a solid 10 of us that were [...] in blatant disregard of the dress code'

Ben Weiss

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Manager fears her employee will be more absent once she gets married, fires her two days before the ceremony, employee retaliates: 'I got quiet fired two days before my wedding'

Ben Weiss

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