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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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26-year-old quits during first week after receiving less than half of the pay he was promised: 'I received my first paycheck, and after taxes, it's just over $500'

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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'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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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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Worker in his 50s tells 26-year-old coworker that she's "overreacting" to his term of endearment: 'What your coworker is doing is embarrassing'

Remy Millisky

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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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'My colleagues are all 8am until 5:30pm. My contract is for 9 to 5pm': Employee refuses to amend his hours after HR discovers their mistake in his contract

Ben Weiss

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'I will be reporting this!': Entitled hotel concierge demands that her coworker show up 30-45 minutes early to every shift, coworker refuses and gets their manager involved

Ben Weiss

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Employee forced to train his 2 entitled replacements during final weeks after being let go, gets payback on his last day: 'Yeah, I'm not doing that'

Ben Weiss

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'Boss said I was lucky to have this job': Employee's raise gets denied outright, gets told he's "replaceable," so he puts that to the test and quits

Ben Weiss

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Employee cuts coworker off from free rides to work after she refuses to chip in for gas: ‘I've been adding almost an hour to my commute just to help her out’

Lana DeGaetano

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Two coworkers quit after being denied $100 raises, their replacement "Reggie" steals $300,000 from the company's clients: 'They got scammed'

Ben Weiss

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Out-of-touch CEO takes new hire out to lunch and insists that employee's expertise could make him a billionaire: 'His words fell flat'

Ben Weiss

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'I do all the work for him to get all the credit': Employee discovers he's leaving the company after boss announces his departure at a company-wide meeting

Ben Weiss

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Employee chastised for picking up new office supplies during lunch, maliciously complies with boss's new bogus policy: 'No work-related errands at lunchtime? OK.'

Ben Weiss

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