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Employees discuss why they quit their jobs only a few days (or hours) in: ‘[I was] working 12-13 hours a day’

Lana DeGaetano

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Professional writer refuses unsolicited commission work offer from artist after being fooled before, and the artist responds with insults and accusations and gets blocked

Etai Eshet

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Coworker reports employee to HR for ‘being too quiet’ and employee pushes back on forced socialization in the workplace: ‘I prefer to keep my personal life private’

Lana DeGaetano

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Freelance employee quits after being overworked and underpaid for 8 months, 4 years later he sees they're still using his Dropbox, so he deletes everything: ‘[Everything] they've been relying on for years will be gone.'

Elna McHilderson

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Hotel guest demands full refund after informing front desk she is cutting her stay short, employee refuses when she fails to check out in time: ‘Ma'am, that's not how hotels work’

Bar Mor Hazut

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Job candidate critiques another candidate during a group-style interview: ‘I was completely derailed for the next 20 minutes’

Lana DeGaetano

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Passenger discovers airline employee stole their AirPods by using “Find My”, airline refuses to help, passenger takes matters into their own hands: ‘I blast the wearer’s ears out’

Bar Mor Hazut

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Micromanaging Warehouse Supervisor tells employee to start "documenting everything," they comply and use their paperwork to save themselves from being scapegoated: 'I started writing down every single thing'

Brad Dickson

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Manager gives employee a formal warning for following a protocol she created: ‘I wrote a detailed breakdown of every single violation’

Lana DeGaetano

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Entitled girlfriend demands to see boyfriend's work phone, he refuses: 'I have nothing to hide but... my work phone is a no-no'

Remy Millisky

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Boss demands employee respond only to ticketed requests that follow the process "no exceptions," employee complies and ignores boss's urgent messages: 'I stopped answering his Slack messages'

Brad Dickson

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Hotel guest cancels card to avoid paying cancellation fee after not showing up for reservation, clerk charges card every day until it goes through: ‘I can play the long-game’

Bar Mor Hazut

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Entitled mom pressures a coworker to give up 1 week of PTO because her vacation time is more important than their anniversary: 'She said parents should get priority'

Jesse Kessenheimer

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Lazy coworker gives employee the silent treatment after they tell their supervisor about her slacker behavior, then demands the employee take 4 of her shifts: ‘I refuse to do anything for her’

Lana DeGaetano

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Arrogant coworker gets well-deserved karma after employee decides to withhold valuable information before her important meeting: ‘This time, I stayed quiet’

Lana DeGaetano

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Boss demands that employees remain at their desks and tell him what they're doing every time they get up, they comply and message him so often that he is forced to reverse the order: 'Last week I sent him 9 messages in one day'

Brad Dickson

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