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Employee is written up as 'no call no show' even though they were not notified of the shift change: 'I don’t think my personal phone should be a job requirement'

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The most unhinged Dine-and-Dash stories of the week: ‘One of the ladies grabbed a Tupperware out of her purse’

Melissa Knudson

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37-year-old puts his high-school crush down as a reference when applying to her job, even though they hadn't seen each other in 22 years: 'He had an unhealthy obsession with me.'

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Boss Puts Employee on Commission Pay After Deciding They Make Too Much Money, Employee Refuses to Work: ‘I don't get paid to answer the phone’

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Boss continually pings employee during the weekends without offering overtime: 'My weekends feel like they don’t belong to me anymore'

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Customer in gas station calls company policies 'childish', so the cashier manages to give it back to the guy, making him call himself 'childish': 'Jeez, some people are dumb'

Giuliana Tiscioni

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Company charges $18 for 'free' employee appreciation lunch without warning: 'I just find it ridiculous that a company can turn a thank you into something you owe them for'

This entire AI debate has become a battle over Intellectual Identity and style The AI vs. SI debate has made us question what it means to be human, to write like a human, or to work as a human. Once bots and agents took over our jobs or significantly changed the way we do them, we started wondering what we bring to the table.

Man Reflects on Andrej Karpathy's Predictions About How Knowing How to Use AI Will Divide Society: ‘Give it 5 years. How many of those 80% will still be congratulating themselves for being too wise and righteous to use AI?’

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Coworker keeps stealing ergonomic chair from another employee until she breaks it, owner decides to lock it to the desk: 'It’s a chair I bought with my own money'

Giuliana Tiscioni

A mom smiles as she works from home on her laptop, her young daughter standing beside her.

Mom turns down promotion with 30% raise to spend more time with 3-year-old, frets about making the right decision: 'I promised I wouldn't be a ghost in her childhood'

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Employee discovers coworker is tracking everyone's workplace activity on a spreadsheet: ‘What time they usually leave, what time they get coffee, who they talk to…’

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A hotel manager tells staff to attribute delays to unexpected demand instead of deliberate understaffing

Hotel staff reports constant understaffing, which is causing high check-in wait times and issues with impatient guests—the manager has a solution: 'My manager pulled me aside and told me to change "understaffed" to "unexpected high guest volume"'

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Recruiter forbids unemployed people from applying to their job posting: 'These companies get the talent they deserve.'

It’s not that corporate workers are exaggerating; it’s that we have several conflicting ways to measure suffering. Why is sitting in an office sipping your favourite coffee, answering emails, and filling endless Excel sheets while alienated from the product of your work considered the epitome of modern work-related suffering,

‘I honestly don't get why corporate work is often treated as uniquely awful compared to every other form of labor’: Employee reflects on whether we’ve exaggerated how bad corporate jobs are

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'You'll never lock your office': Fired employee gets back at boss by hiding the keys to his office on their last day of the job

This employee not only experiences her coworker’s attitude as annoying, but also as a threat to the boundaries of her identity There is a difference between borrowing something from you and claiming a relationship with you that you haven't consented to. If, let’s say, a coworker buys the same top as you, that’d be inoffensive imitation;

[She] said, 'I want to be you'. She corrected herself: "No, I want to be like you”’ Woman rants about a coworker who seems way too interested in her