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'Not worth it': New employee misled during onboarding process after prior commitments were not honored, confronts recruiter

Ben Weiss

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'[He] had to be repeatedly sent home to shower and change': 15 bosses tell all about their worst employees

Ben Weiss

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'I had someone quit because they couldn't find parking': 20+ Managers share the silliest reasons their employees have quit on the spot

Jesse Kessenheimer

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'Supervisor [...] fired her staff for obeying the rules': Receptionist follows boss's rules, refuses to make coffee for salesman, gets fired but asked to stay until replacement starts

Ben Weiss

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'Not sure why he didn't get fired': 10+ times coworkers messed up majorly and got away with it

Ben Weiss

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'No one at the top is returning my calls': Job revokes employee's work from home accommodations despite medical issues, learns they're trying to get him to quit

Ben Weiss

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'I've been doing hers last': Employee gets even with grudge-holding coworker who keeps sabotaging her by being too careful

Ben Weiss

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'Well it's mine and I got it for my stuff': Teacher calls out annoying coworker for hogging her own personal mini-fridge

Ben Weiss

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'She was employed there for 45 minutes': Boss accidentally loses tarantula-loving new hire after breaking her only request

Remy Millisky

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'The factory chief laughed in my face': Irreplaceable employee creates a program to aid factory operations, gets fired and takes his intellectual property with him

Jesse Kessenheimer

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'I [...] thought it would be more fun to comply': Supervisor insists on making employees submit requests for mandatory training programs, employee maliciously complies

Ben Weiss

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'I'll never be someone's backup plan': Job candidate gets rejected, they come crawling back begging to her a week later, she rejects them

Ben Weiss

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'I walked out and three people followed me': Guy rage quits during the interview process after being asked to work night shifts for free

Ben Weiss

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'Boss picked up on my quiet quitting': Employee responds to tone-deaf lecture from boss about quiet quitting by actually quitting

Ben Weiss

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'You've got work, you know': Boss shames employee for taking off work for her husband's surprise trip despite working overtime

Ben Weiss

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'They found out she interviewed for another job': Boss forces employee to resign just because they took an interview elsewhere

Ben Weiss

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