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'I couldn’t take “no” for an answer': Determined job candidate emails the CEO's private email address after getting rejected from a position, gets hired as a result

Jesse Kessenheimer

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'You guys are so stingy': Employee treats birthday celebrations like it's her personal buffet, coworkers start quietly ordering food amongst themselves without inviting her

Isabella Penn

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'I literally couldn't get a single word out': 22-year-old college graduate freezes during job interview, prompting hiring manager to walk out

Ben Weiss

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58-year-old essential employee gets laid off 1 year before retiring, entire team quits out of loyalty, HR begs them to come back for double their original pay: 'I'll come back for 13 weeks'

Brad Dickson

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'They owe me a lot of money': Former bar manager still had remote access to venue’s lighting, used it to prank owners who never paid him

Isabella Penn

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Micromanager enforces new "performance tracking policy" forcing employees to prioritize phone calls over emails, creating major backlog of work: 'And just like that, [the] policy quietly vanished'

Ben Weiss

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31-year-old pregnant coworker Sarah tries to take a front parking spot from a colleague with a knee problem, leading to office drama and HR intervention: ‘I felt guilty, but I stood my ground’

Etai Eshet

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Lawyer submits 75 case files full of mistakes in 1 day to get back at bosses: 'No matter what they did, their system didn't work'

Remy Millisky

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Engineer passed over for promotion for their own direct reports, instead up-skills himself on the job, uses those skills to land a better job with 3x the pay: 'I developed skills on the company dime that got me a >100% raise at another company'

Brad Dickson

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‘I’m just trying to survive the last few days until I’m officially gone’: Woman quits her retail store job, sending her manager into a rage spiral and making her last days tense

Etai Eshet

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'I've made significant progress on my reading lol': Employee ends up getting hours of leisure time after entitled supervisor forces her to change her work schedule

Elna McHilderson

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‘No one's allowed to wear deodorant, let alone perfume’: Coworker claims they are ‘sensitive’ to smells and calls out employee for washing their hands with the scented office hand soap

Lana DeGaetano

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HR gives employee ultimatum, forcing him to get a doctor's note that day, opts for malicious compliance: 'I gave YEARS of loyal service and they're going to get their karma very soon'

Ben Weiss

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Update: Customer complains about worker's glasses, boss sends employee home without pay

Remy Millisky

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58-year-old employee gets let go, the rest of the department leaves, HR begs for employee to come back 4 months later: 'That's not going to work for me'

Ben Weiss

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‘I’m the one keeping kids safe:’ 36-year-old woman leaves her corporate boyfriend at 2 am after he belittles her for being a beloved school bus driver

Elna McHilderson

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