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Employee steals coworker’s idea and gets praised by boss, but flops and misses tight deadlines when original idea-owner refuses to help: 'She says were a team and should help each other'

Isabella Penn

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'I requested 2 Saturdays off 2 months in advance. Both requests were denied outright': Employee can't get PTO request approved for her own wedding because of petty manager's vendetta

Ben Weiss

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Job candidate roasts panel interviewers to their faces, accidentally impresses CEO and gets the job: 'One guy blinked so hard I thought he rebooted'

Isabella Penn

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Employee told they're not allowed to work from home, when they're asked to finish something urgently on the weekend they remind management of "the policy": 'I will get to it on Monday whenever I have the opportunity. Everything will be late'

Brad Dickson

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CEO kept moving employee’s personal chair to his desk every morning, so employee quietly ended the fight by storing it in his car: '[He] said it wasn't right I had a nicer chair than he did'

Isabella Penn

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Competitive coworker tries to get engineer fired, ends up getting fired himself: ''[He's] trying to play games with my career!'

Ben Weiss

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Entitled coworker switches shifts with 26-year-old server without his approval, assuming he's free because he is single: 'You don't have anything else to do anyway!'

Ben Weiss

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Employee comes in to the office when they are sick at their boss's demand, boss soon regrets it: 'Boss said no working from home'

Brad Dickson

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Employee invites boyfriend to her work trip and asks him to cover the expenses until she gets reimbursed, only to refuse to pay him back: ‘You promised to repay me and didn't’

Bar Mor Hazut

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'Stop calling me 'mom' in the office': Coworker's lets his 6-year-old daughter bombard his colleague with affection in the workplace, so she takes parenting lessons into her own hands to set boundaries

Jesse Kessenheimer

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Fast food worker fired by manager for throwing his half-filled soda away, gets immediately reinstated by his manager's boss: 'He asked why I was back since he fired me'

Ben Weiss

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‘She’s taken it upon herself to treat every package like it’s her business’: Receptionist continually opens employees' packages and tapes them back together to cover her tracks, so the employees report her to HR and she gets off with a slap on the wrist

Lana DeGaetano

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Employee is fired after being placed on a PIP and being given the cold shoulder immediately following medical leave : 'HR is not your friend. Learned that the hard way...'

Brad Dickson

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Boss denies employee's vacation when they don't get it in writing, employee gets back at boss: 'I fail to understand how that is my problem'

Remy Millisky

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Former employee confesses to receiving over $80,000 in overpayment after he quit 1.4 years ago: '[I'm] still receiving the same bi-weekly pay [...] as if I still work there!'

Ben Weiss

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‘HR said it doesn't matter’: Nursing home employer forces employee to falsely ‘clock out’ for breaks they aren't taking in an already severely understaffed environment

Lana DeGaetano

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