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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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Restaurant manager humiliates employee by printing complaint email sent by customer after food takes too long: ‘Feels incredibly dumb to blame me for ticket times being slow’

Melissa Knudson

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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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Customer in gas station calls company policies 'childish', so the cashier manages to give it back to the guy, making him call himself 'childish': 'Jeez, some people are dumb'

Giuliana Tiscioni

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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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Retail Store in Central Oklahoma Paying Minimum Wage Forbids Employees Taking Any Time Off Work Until January 1, 2027

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Coworker keeps stealing ergonomic chair from another employee until she breaks it, owner decides to lock it to the desk: 'It’s a chair I bought with my own money'

Giuliana Tiscioni

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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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Employee gets pushed out of company after being “too honest” about manager on HR survey: ‘The email said all responses would be anonymised ’

Melissa Knudson

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"'

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Job candidate lies on resume and gets the job, is then forced to come clean during extensive background check: ‘I emailed HR and spelled out the discrepancies’

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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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Employee brings 5-year-old daughter to work, forcing coworker to confront her when daughter keeps disturbing their work: ‘I don't think I should be responsible for entertaining someone else's child’

Melissa Knudson

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Startup employee resigns after being denied a raise, company falls apart without them: ‘Many bigger clients are upset with service and want to leave’

Melissa Knudson

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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'