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Employee Promised Their Mom a Thanksgiving Visit After Working the Holiday the Last Two Years, Then a Coworker Asked Them to Swap Shifts So She Could Spend Thanksgiving With Her Kids—Their Boss Refuses to Intervene

Brad Dickson

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10 Habits of Good Managers That Employees Want to Have

Ally Perry

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Prospective employee is rejected because they didn't agree to the job before seeing the final offer: 'The wanted me to give up on all negotiating'

JR Atkinson

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Coworker constantly takes credit for colleague's work, colleague starts leaving easter eggs in their notes: 'I embedded a completely fake bullet point right in the middle'

JR Atkinson

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Newark Airport self-checkout demands 18% tip even though no employee is working: 'He had to click out of it'

JR Atkinson

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Experienced employee told by boss to "just delegate" their work to an unqualified junior staffer, which has left them feeling vulnerable and like their boss wants to replace them: 'Meanwhile, the boss keeps talking about "improving AI adoption"'

Brad Dickson

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Employee is fired via group chat in front of coworkers as a fear tactic: 'He just put her on blast in front of the whole company'

JR Atkinson

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CEO Fires Marketing Employee “On the Spot” for Standing Their Ground Against Impossible Targets: 'He expected organic traffic to increase by 45% in 4 weeks'

Brad Dickson

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Malicious Coworker Keeps Taking Credit for Other People’s Work: ‘By the third time, I started keeping copies of everything I sent’

Olivia Arocena

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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'

JR Atkinson

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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.'

Emmy Pratt

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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’

Bar Mor Hazut

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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'

JR Atkinson

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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'

JR Atkinson

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