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Airline coordinator gets previously approved PTO revoked by new boss due to staff shortage, hands in his resignation the next day: 'Maybe this time he finds someone to cover my flights'

Ben Weiss

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Boss tells employee to be grateful she has a job after reprimanding her for taking her 30-minute unpaid lunch break, forcing her to make a hard decision about the future of her employment: '[I] sent out 5 applications during my lunch break today'

Brad Dickson

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Employee recommends ‘Stranger Things’ to their arrogant colleague, who then berates them because the show ‘traumatized’ her: ‘Her bad moods would dominate the workplace’

Lana DeGaetano

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‘The room went silent’: Backstabbing office employee drops the ball on a project, then throws their colleague under the bus, so the coworker reveals the truth in a company meeting

Jesse Kessenheimer

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Supervisor demands employees file help tickets for everything, employees maliciously comply by refusing to accept verbal requests: 'Enjoy waiting for your own approvals'

Remy Millisky

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Employee cautiously convinced to give colleague a single ride home regrets it when she immediately turns to demanding rides at her own convenience like a personal chauffeur: 'From that day on, she started acting like I was her personal ride'

Brad Dickson

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'I REFUSE to work if I’m not getting paid': Overworked employee goes part time, leaving entitled coworkers to fend for themselves

Elna McHilderson

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Boss dates secretary and fast-tracks her promotion into power, sidelining his longest-serving worker’s career: ‘My career has stagnated while she gets all the good projects’

Etai Eshet

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Warehouse worker reports safety violations to OSHA, only to then get written up for having an "attitude" problem: 'They make you the problem instead of actually fixing the problem'

Ben Weiss

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Person finally lands a job interview after 2 months of unemployment, ends up laughing in their faces after hearing the farcically exploitative proposition: ‘[They're] Glassdoor rating is 2.1…’

Elna McHilderson

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Work-from-home employee rebels after boss starts tracking mouse and keyboard activity: 'Remote work was supposed to be about trust and flexibility'

Ben Weiss

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Retail manager gets put on blast for passive-aggressive note to "new" employees: 'I am no longer accepting the bare minimum... do the job you're paid for, or you will be promoted to customer!'

Remy Millisky

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Employee gets fired with no warning the day their vacation was set to begin, gets a string of frantic messages not even 24 hours later about returning their equipment after they've already left home: 'I cannot get over how insensitive it feels'

Brad Dickson

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27-year-old receptionist calls out 35-year-old coworker for clocking in and then disappearing to put on makeup for an hour every day: 'Meanwhile I'm answering three phone lines [and] checking in patients'

Ben Weiss

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Boss tries to push construction engineer to apply for demotion to lower-level lower-pay position when their contract ends, claiming he’s not invested enough: ‘I don't live for my projects. And I don't see how that's a bad thing’

Etai Eshet

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‘He started to yell he doesn’t need money’: Customer tries to return a 2/3 eaten dish as “inedible,” refuses a refund on principle, then comes back a week later to quietly ask for the money he refused

Etai Eshet

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