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"‘I have no interest"’: Manager's new elderly employee refuses to complete his job duties simply because he doesn't want to do them, upper management fails to re-train or fire him

Lana DeGaetano

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'I am not employed elsewhere!': HR accuses remote worker of "overemployment" due to "abormal" keyboard and mouse activity

Ben Weiss

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47-year-old employee on business trip turns down dinner with coworkers, boss threatens consequences: 'It was outside work hours, unpaid, and not scheduled'

Ben Weiss

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22-year-old employee teams up with 30 coworkers to enact payback on micromanager for making them log every detail of every task: 'Data [was] lost in a heap of unusable data'

Ben Weiss

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19-year-old new employee puts 50-year-old baker in her place: 'Cat needs an attitude adjustment'

Remy Millisky

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‘I'm done being the reliable one while people like her lie and get away with it’: Coworker asks for emergency shift coverage, employee finds out they took a beach day through selfies she posted on Instagram

Lana DeGaetano

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Employee asks for a raise after 3 years at the company, gets fired for a fabricated story about an interaction with a client, CEO steps in to cover his tracks: 'I asked why I was fired and he still wouldn’t even give me a reason'

Ben Weiss

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'He was on the Zoom call the whole time': 30-year-old remote worker bashes talkative colleague Jake in front of the entire team

Remy Millisky

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'Coworker "accidentally" deleted my entire project... right before the deadline': Marketing employee discovers weeks worth of work are "totally wiped" from their computer by coworker Jenna, company loses client

Remy Millisky

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Employee overhears her coworker Megan talking about her "unmuted" on a work call, Megan tries to cover her tracks: 'I swear she loves the sound of her own voice'

Ben Weiss

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'You need to leave. Now': Coworker's clueless boyfriend shows up unannounced at her work, she breaks up with him on the spot in front of the entire office

Ben Weiss

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HR rescinds job offer despite assuring the candidate he had the position after 5 rounds of interviews: 'My job offer has been kept on hold indefinitely'

Ben Weiss

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'That's it, I'm outta here': Dramatic coworker named Ginger pretends to quit 2 times to avoid work, realizes he went too far

Remy Millisky

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Boss refuses to believe her employee is sick, employee sends proof along with her resignation letter: 'Now my CEO is begging for me [to come] back'

Ben Weiss

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Coworker calls out the entire office, CC's everyone in bold resignation email: 'I've had a great time watching the walls change color slower than my career progression'

Ben Weiss

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'My coworker brought a whole rotisserie chicken... for a 9 AM meeting': Worker insists on eating entire chicken with his hands during "breakfast bonding time" meeting

Remy Millisky

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