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‘Told to put money in her pockets at the expense of my degree’: Full-time college student asks boss for Saturdays off for school purposes, boss refuses despite student's reliability

Lana DeGaetano

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New boss enforces strict 12:00 lunch time, rule immediately backfires as customers are abandoned: 'It was a complete mess'

Ben Weiss

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Employee saves her company from signing a deal with shady business after overhearing them conspire in another language: 'Do not scheme people and talk about it in another language, they might understand it'

Ben Weiss

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Employee challenges power-tripping CEO by denying him coffee at company workshop: 'We can't have coffee? You can't have coffee!'

Ben Weiss

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‘She kept calling me a liar’: Employee coming off of 12-hour shift rejects coworker's last-minute plea for shift coverage, coworker bombards her with a lengthy, audacious text message

Lana DeGaetano

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17-year-old gets fired for not personally calling in sick after her trip to the ER: 'Her mother and grandmother both call in on her behalf. Still gets fired'

Ben Weiss

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Manager scolds employee for leaving his desk to use the restroom, employee drives her crazy by messaging her constantly: 'I made sure to let her know every time I left my desk'

Ben Weiss

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New Corporate VP fires crucial team members, engineers maliciously comply with new policies, leading to financial mess: 'All the [employees] who were let go were rehired'

Ben Weiss

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Engineer asked to take over coworker's job, gets denied a $40k raise, quits and costs the company $500k: 'Know your worth'

Ben Weiss

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Corporate manager gets fired for calling out shady business practices, ex-boss reaches out for help 6 months later: 'Assistance needed!'

Ben Weiss

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‘I’ve probably spent well over $1500 in gas over the past two years’: Colleague stops giving coworker free rides to work after coworker refuses to lend them $1 at the office vending machine

Lana DeGaetano

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Fired employee gets payback by deleting thousands of hours of work after discovering his team was still using his folder: 'This is my drive and my work'

Ben Weiss

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30-year-old refuses to trade vacation days with 35-year-old coworker for her family trip: 'Just because I don’t have kids doesn’t mean my time off is any less valuable'

Ben Weiss

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Three overworked coworkers quit within days of each other, company tanks, CEO gets desperate: 'What's is going to take to keep you?'

Ben Weiss

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HR begs employees to donate their vacation days to coworker on medical leave: 'Nah. My PTO is my PTO'

Ben Weiss

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‘We each got a bobble head of one of the executives’: 20+ Employees share the worst bonuses they've received from their jobs

Lana DeGaetano

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