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Manager docks 10% off model employee's performance review bonus because he doesn't want to be friends with his coworkers: ‘I just want to do my work [in] peace’

Lana DeGaetano

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Boss bans jeans on Fridays and enforces business attire, entire team maliciously complies: 'All 15 of us [wore] hideous outfits, but all meeting the business attire dress code'

Ben Weiss

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Employee refuses HR's pleas to train their work replacement after being fired from their job: ‘I laughed in their faces’

Lana DeGaetano

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‘He made me take a personality test’: Employees discuss the moment they realized their managers were bizarrely toxic

Lana DeGaetano

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CEO enforces 'chaotic' work structure, employee's better alternative is rejected, everyone jumps ship: 'This isn't working out'

Ben Weiss

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Employee gets fired on his birthday after just 6 months, charges company $450 for them to retrieve their equipment: 'Just to be petty'

Ben Weiss

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Work colleague helps himself to coworker's daily homemade lunch, finally gets called out on his gluttony by another coworker and loses it: ‘[He] got extremely red’

Lana DeGaetano

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New boss enforces 1000 character minimum per task, employee complies by writing gibberish: 'I've noticed that the size of your comments has gone up last month [...] keep it up!'

Ben Weiss

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25 Employees who are driving their coworkers to madness: 'She is manually deleting... 180,000 emails'

Remy Millisky

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'Who do you think you're hiring?': Candidate shares over-the-top application for bartending job in rural area

Ben Weiss

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‘"I need to escalate this right now"’: Entitled customer boldly tries to return a stove he purchased 12 years ago, call center employee adamantly refuses to oblige

Lana DeGaetano

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'I work to live, I don't live to work': 20 ways people messed up their job interviews

Ben Weiss

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20+ employees discuss their top reasons for leaving a job: ‘Quit before you become ashes from burnout’

Lana DeGaetano

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Entitled boss refuses to give employee full-time hours, employee lands a better job and boss loses it: ‘[She said] "I must prioritize her"’

Lana DeGaetano

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'My company is stealing $20,000 from me': Employee denied the same pay as coworkers with the same job by new boss, begins retaliation

Ben Weiss

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Boss won't let employee leave work early to pick up kid from school, employee resigns unceremoniously: 'That's going to cost him $1500'

Ben Weiss

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