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Boss faces dilemma when bad employee asks for reference: 'They do the bare minimum'

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Boss demands employee alter clients' invoices to falsely overcharge them, employee refuses, reports boss, and quits job: ‘He assumed I was morally bent in his favor’

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Employee gets fired for poor performance, demands non-manager gives her reference: 'I am not sure I would be the best fit'

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Payroll department employee notices coworker gets a raise by mistake and doesn’t alert anyone: ‘HR discovered the mistake. They are correcting future paychecks and want to recover the overpaid amount over the next year. The coworker is obv devastated’

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Manager debates whether to fire his hardest-working employee because he nonetheless underperforms: ‘When deals fall through or a customer leaves us he seeks constant re-validation that he did all he could’

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Employee leaves job of 4 years for new role, the position gets eliminated 3 days before his start date: 'Now I'm unemployed with rent due in 3 weeks'

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Company mandates weekly 15-minute "gratitude circles": 'I told my manager privately that I think the whole thing is counterproductive'

I’m going to throw my most superstitious take out there: Life always presents you with an opportunity to perform some degree of petty revenge on someone who wronged you in the past. It works like this: you have a fall out with somebody; at first you’re very angry, and as time goes by, you begin to le

Employee gets the chance to perform a petty revenge on ex-coworke and takes it: ‘Things fell apart when our office manager flipped a switch and suddenly hated some of us and split half the team onto her side’

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Employee refuses to cover for coworker who always takes long lunches, coworker blames employee when she gets in trouble for it with boss: ‘[You] should have warned me’

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‘It would really help if you could knock this out before you leave’: Employee consistently gets assigned urgent work 5 minutes before he leaves and is left wondering if he is expected to accept it to be seen as a “team player”

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Employee sets boundaries after their manager keeps assigning them with “urgent task” at 4:45 pm, when his work hours end at 5 pm: ‘Last week I finally said that I couldn't stay and would complete it first thing in the morning.’

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'It all started when...': Pour a dash of these laughs into your morning coffee for extra energy (August 4, 2026)

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Pet store employee starts locking her work locker after one coworker helps herself to her perfume, only for another colleague to publicly accuse her of thinking they are thieves: '[You] don’t trust any of [us]'

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Factory machine operator quits job after boss denies him a pay raise, leaving the company with no qualified operators: ‘They effectively lost thousands’

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Manager charged $718 in hotel expenses on his employee's card in April, he still won't pay them back months later in August: He told me he'd pay me back the next morning as soon as accounting fixed the issue. That was April 27'

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'I pulled out the records': Employee records every conversation with coworker to prove she lied to HR about their “condescending” interactions