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CEO asks IT intern to use their own car to move company property against policy, intern has him brush up on the company handbook: ‘If anything gets damaged I am toast’

Lana DeGaetano

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Employee starts new job in 4 days while their clingy, ‘helpless’ coworker will be left to their own devices: ‘I've almost made myself insane from trying to help her’

Lana DeGaetano

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15+ Employees share how they use corporate jargon to slight their deserving colleagues: ‘Govern yourself accordingly’

Lana DeGaetano

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Remote worker hired, then told she has to come in 3 days a week despite stipulations in her contract, HR ignores her dispute: 'My team is spread across states anyway!'

Ben Weiss

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'Easiest 175k I ever made': 20+ Employees who got paid to goof off all day

Remy Millisky

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Boss takes full credit for tech employee's presentation, employee goes to VP before boss's performance review: 'Guess who didn't get credit for strategic contributions?'

Ben Weiss

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HR forgets to approve employee's work-from-home requests, employee stops coming in with no consequences: 'Bureaucracy at its finest'

Ben Weiss

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Employee gets suspended for not standing up to greet the CEO when he visited the office, he quits after returning to work: 'This is insane'

Ben Weiss

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50-year-old tries "quiet quitting" after achieving mid-level management goals, ends up quadrupling net worth: 'Focus on [the] minimum amount of work [and] delegate everything you possibly can'

Ben Weiss

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Man waits 5 years to get car repaired, demands $2,600 plus additional $1,200 from coworker who hit his car: 'I finally got HR involved'

Remy Millisky

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33-year-old coworker uses fake project as an excuse to get out of work, scheme lasts for months: 'Tom had made the whole thing up to justify missing deadlines'

Ben Weiss

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Entitled coworker keeps volunteering employee for extra work, she finally confronts him: 'Oh, Sarah can take that, she’s great with client calls!'

Ben Weiss

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Bosses demand remote-work employees return to office, make them share seats and desks: 'Our group was allocated 70% of the desks we need'

Remy Millisky

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Micromanager implements new policy requiring employees to notify management whenever they leave their desks, team maliciously complies by spamming micromanager's inbox: '[Their] mailbox was so full that even important emails were overlooked'

Ben Weiss

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Coworker insists employee knit something for her free of charge but they refuse, their boss suggests they stop knitting in the office to fend her off: ‘Stupid entitled tantrum’

Lana DeGaetano

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Annoying coworker organizes outdoor "team building" activity on a Saturday to impress management, event falls apart: 'It poured all day'

Ben Weiss

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