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Manager monitors employees' electricity usage, demands they turn off lights every time they leave their offices, employee claims: ‘It's driving me crazy’

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Manager threatens to take away 2 week's pay and bonus if employee doesn't disclose the company they're leaving to work for: 'Does she really have the right to withhold money?'

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Boss charges employees $5 when they're late to the morning meeting, one employee refuses to comply: ‘So that's theft’

I’m curious whether people who have successfully managed to reduce stress actually walk among us. It seems that everyone who lives a stress-free life is so because they have stepped out of corporate life entirely

Employee Seeks Advice On How to Return to Corporate: ‘I Worked in Corporate for 6 Years and I Can't Anymore. The Sheer Sight of My Dashboard Rattles My Body With Anxiety’

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Mean manager throws away employee's drink before she finishes drinking, she retaliates by throwing away his can collection: 'We both don’t have anything'

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Company promises rewards to employees with fewest absences, leading employees to come in sick to "win": 'They put our sick days on a leaderboard'

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MI Employee, a woman in her 40s, learns her new boss has tried to have her fired, when that fails he restructures 15% of her salary into an impossible bonus and begins giving her direct report her own tasks: 'My boss had gone to our CEO to have me fired'

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Boss refuses to approve employees' overtime, yet continuesly piles work on them 10 minutes before end of day, employee decides: ‘I clock out, grab my bag, and walk’

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Unpopular opinion: AI is going to hit a peak and then fade: ‘It just disappears into the background, like electricity or wifi. Nobody says “wow, AI” anymore, the same way nobody says “wow, computer”’

Being decently petty is the best kind of petty Being petty is fun and sometimes very necessary. I always say this, but the petty card should be played only when necessary to send a contundent message that won’t land any other way, and I think this is the perfect example of that.

Employee gives 2 weeks’ notice; boss tells him he can leave in 2 days, not realizing he still had to deliver important reports: ‘They quickly emailed back and said “on second thought, you can stay for the full 2 weeks and get those reports done!”’

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Recruiter rejects 2nd best job applicant because he thinks his workplace has less structure than she'd like, helps her get a job at a better fit company

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We should cultivate the art of accepting and integrating criticism Some forms of criticism arrive at the perfect moment, with the perfect combination of words, and they finally click; something within us changes.

Woman is rejected from a job, but manager adds an extra line to the basic template that changed everything: ‘He replied in two days with two names. one of them went nowhere. the other one was a hiring manager at a company that had not posted anything yet’

So the entire office should organise itself around Maureen’s paranoia? According to this story, that’s the case. Some people are so lost in their own delusion that they will attribute any action to some secret agenda. Of course, I don’t think we should all walk on eggshells because of people like this, but in this case, I think it’s fair.

Employee gets called out by coworker who believes he only shows up on her floor to give her dirty looks: ‘Me and my partners in crime decided we are going to press this issue to the point of disruption’

Are written updates an advantage or only a different kind of bias? We have to accept that verbal meetings give more influence to those who feel comfortable raising their voice, speaking, and making themselves noticed. Those meetings primarily benefit the socially dominant. Written updates, on the other hand, are more objective, and if everyone writes them, there is no social bias.

Company finds a way to stop rewarding the loudest voice in the room and start rewarding efficiency: ‘It moved the bias from who is quickest in a room to who can describe what they did, and the second one at least correlates with having done something’

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Company mandates return to office with 2 weeks notice, half the team looks for new jobs: 'I have a 90-minute commute each way. That's 3 hours a day. 12 hours a week'

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Job cancels PTO that employee of 15 years scheduled in order to go on his honeymoon: 'Should I quit?'