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I think this employee was very clever about how he pulled this off. Obviously, I don’t think the tactic is bulletproof, but it definitely worked for him. I also loved the figurine’s involvement and how, years later, it turned out to be a treasure for other reasons.

Man employs a very peculiar tactic involving a figurine to get both a raise and a bigger commission at work: ‘So for the next week and a half I randomly started removing things from my desk area (very whimsical) and finally that item’

Applicant Automatically Rejects Every One-Way AI Video Interview They Are Offered, Calls It a Game Changer in Job Searching

Applicant Automatically Rejects Every One-Way AI Video Interview They Are Offered, Calls It a Game Changer in Job Searching

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I admit it: I have a complex relationship with ChatGPT, and by complex, I mean I use it to think through pretty much most of my decisions. I’m a writer, so I’m used to developing ideas through text in a couple of languages. I also write short stories, and every day I write in my diary; still, today, I asked ChatGPT for help with writing a WhatsApp message.

Employee starts prompting his boss as if she were an AI chatbot to get the responses he desires and it works: 'I try different prompts in my chat to see which wording of a question will give the affirming answer I want. I then bring up my decision to her'

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Personally, if I were put in this situation, I wouldn't know what to do. What this employee did was far from perfect, but it was an honest mistake. Not everyone can plot the most perfect act of malicious compliance every time they're wronged, although I wish things worked that way.

Employee trains a very young colleague that then bosses him around: 'He had the audacity to try to yell at me and say, I will cut the files if they are correct. You need to do your job and make sure that I have the right measurements. I lost it'

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Coworker demands employee keep bringing her lunch to the office after they agreed once, employee refuses when it becomes a daily errand: ‘She's an adult who can get her own lunch’

Coworker demands employee keep bringing her lunch to the office after they agreed once, employee refuses when it becomes a daily errand: ‘She's an adult who can get her own lunch’

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New hire becomes the next victim to the office “Chatty Cathy” employee every time she goes to the bathroom, begs the internet for help: ‘She’s the sweetest… I don’t know how to stop it.'

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Job applicant deleted company website from Wikipedia after CEO showed his true colors during interview: ‘He kept me waiting an hour, hadn't read my resume, tried to get personal info’

Job applicant deleted company website from Wikipedia after CEO showed his true colors during interview: ‘He kept me waiting an hour, hadn't read my resume, tried to get personal info’

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Sometimes our managers are so spaced out that they don’t notice their employees are having an awful time working at their companies. You might even resign without another job secured and block them everywhere, and they still wouldn’t notice.

29-year-old employee leaves his job as a specialist at a small planning and design firm and his ex-boss instists on him leaving a review on a popular local job review site: 'He wanted a review? Fine. Let's comply'

‘I felt my stomach drop’: Candidate believes she lost job opportunity after discovering the interviewer is ‘good friends' with her last boss, who fired her from the job

‘I felt my stomach drop’: Candidate believes she lost job opportunity after discovering the interviewer is ‘good friends' with her last boss, who fired her from the job

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Retail employee books time off four months ahead, manager pressures them to cancel part of it after coworkers complain: ‘Think of the other people who wouldn't get it off’

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It's funny how we act around timid personalities. We project all kinds of dark character traits when, in reality, we don’t know anything about them precisely because they are so reserved. I’m glad this employee found out about her coworker’s real personality in the best way possible. Her finding out he wasn’t so evil after all wasn’t that shocking

Work "enemy" turns out to be the only one to have employee's back when he needed it, worked 6-8 extra unpaid hours for him and refuses to accept a gift in retribution: 'I approached him about it and he told me basically he was busy and not to bother him'

Sometimes being good at something doesn't guarantee people will notice it. You might be the best at what you do, but people are definitely more likely to see what's overtly shown to them.

Calm employee discovers his quiet competence made his good work invisible: 'People who get noticed are the ones who create urgency, send 14 Slack messages, act stressed, then get praised for solving the same issue they made everyone aware of'

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70-year-old employee is interviewed for a higher-paying position only for it to be given to an employee 40-years-younger: 'It’s not like I didn’t know the reason I wasn’t chosen'

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People taking the most twisted road ever to find out about something will forever fascinate me. This sounds like a spy story from a TV series, and I really hope he finds Spanish interesting for reasons other than understanding when his coworkers speak in private, because all that effort being wasted on it is ludicrous.

Spiteful employee spent two years learning spanish to hear what his coworkers were saying about him during lunch and was confused when he found out what it was: 'I wanted to crawl under my desk and evaporate.They weren't mocking me'

It’s funny how managers sometimes become these angry beasts that nobody can satisfy. The position itself might demand that of somebody. Some handle it better than others, of course, and in my opinion, the job only brings good and bad personality traits you ALREADY HAD into the light. So if you become an irrational monster, you were already one to begin with.

Angry manager states that server is expected to always arrive 30 minutes before scheduled work time and that is not considered extra-hours: '2 families needs to be sat down and I as the main server wasn’t here ”on time“ to attend them'