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Micromanager bans personal phones at his IT team's desks, but his attempt at control backfires when there's a server crash at 4:45 PM on Friday: 'I was just following policy to avoid a write-up'

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Smug retail employee thwarts their competing coworker's every attempt to secure PTO until their colleague snaps and threatens to quit: 'I am so DONE'

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‘I got paid for doing nothing’: Micromanagers tell a funeral home receptionist to stop answering the phone, then chew them out when they follow orders, end up alienating their hardest worker

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Single mom requests PTO for her daughter's 1st birthday months in advance, then gets guilt-tripped by her coworker who wants that day off for a last-minute vacation: 'Jenna refuses any compromises'

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'Sharon finally cracked': Coworkers unite against a thermostat tyrant in the office by wearing arctic snow gear at their desks because the AC is too cold

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Coworker refuses every invitation for after-work social hangs, then throws a fit when she starts getting excluded: 'Jess it's just common sense, grow up'

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'Let the place burn': Warehouse worker refuses to fix a malfunctioning machine after his protocol-obsessed supervisor forbids employees from touching equipment outside of their job description; machine bursts into flames

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'Everything will be late': Boss denies a salaried employee's work-from-home request, so they refuses to work after hours or answer any work-related calls after 5:00 PM; derails operations

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'I want to work, keep my head down, and go home': Pushy coworker gets reported to HR after a reserved new employee protects their privacy

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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

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Incompetent CEO blames an employee for their screw up, so the employee pulls the receipts exonerating themselves from fault; CEO goes on "sabbatical": 'Funny how that works'

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Employee fakes pregnancy to get 3 weeks of PTO after using up their annual vacation alotment; gets away with it: 'She photoshopped a sonogram'

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Grocery store assistant manager gets his boss fired after catching him stealing $200 from the children's hospital donation collection box; gets promoted: ‘I pulled the footage’

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'Petty? Maybe. Deserved? 100%': Credit-hogging coworker gets what she deserves when a hardworking colleague deliberately sabotages a presentation for the executives

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'He fumbles, repeats himself, and starts sweating’: CEO steals sole credit for his employee's work, then he gets burned in an international meeting when she refuses to help him answer questions about ‘his program’

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Guy ‘fakes it until he makes it' after getting unexpectedly fired; ends up getting a career-making job offer as a result of an elaborate bluff: ‘I just played along until it worked’

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