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Scapegoated IT admin gets blamed when client's employee retires and accidentally deletes their entire database: 'Welp, I'm retired now! Guess I'll delete everything'

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17-year-old student and fast food worker told by boss to find coverage so that they can study for finals, they get their useless brother hired to cover for them: 'My boss went ballistic and sent me a brigade of texts blaming me for costing him money'

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18-year-old working his first job at ice cream shop is fired after 20-year-old manager changes the rules about PTO when he was already on leave, gives customers free icecream: 'I gave him 4 weeks' notice that I wouldn't be here for those 3 days'

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Dealership wants guy to drive 350 miles to pick up replacement vehicle after known fault in his new car, when customer gets upset service rep intentionally sidelines the exchange before quitting: 'I sent his case over with the wrong file, then I quit'

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Employee discovers that they're doing the majority of the work for their team, boss refuses to intervene and distribute the workload: 'Started tracking my workload out of curiosity. Turns out I’m handling roughly 70% of what our team produces.'

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Boss fires employee's dad, karma strikes years later when the boss comes to the company the employee is now managing looking for work: 'The look of panic in his eyes set in'

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Client tells graphic designer to stop "pestering" them about the project, panics 3 weeks later when they forget and their sidelined project has made no progress: 'We’ll reply when we’re ready'

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IT guy gets promoted by arriving late at 9 and leaving at 2 to attend a sites they can't access after their warnings about the ineffective process are ignored: 'You want me in 3 places at once? You got it!'

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Employee told he is going to lose all of his leave by the end of the year, takes it all at once, leaving projects struggling to be completed: 'Use all your PTO before December 31 or lose it? Alright, don't mind if I do, even if the project burns...'

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18-year-old café employee told by her new shift lead to stop talking, stops talking entirely, forcing the lead to backtrack: 'You’re not paid to talk, you’re paid to work'

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Boss questions employee's work ethic when they work from home for one day despite working their previously agreed upon WFH days from the office: 'You want me to honor my in-office-days? Okay, but you'll be forced to honor my WFH-days'

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Employee 4 months into their new job loses 2 days of PTO over an 18 minute lunch break disagreement: '[Boss] told me I took time off on company time and there would be discipline to follow'

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18-year-old worker told not to come in at all if she's late for work, turns around and goes home: 'Instead of rushing in, I turned around and went home'

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Boss takes 15 minutes off construction worker's pay when he was 1 minute late, his refusal to work sparks chain reaction with other staff: 'I'm not getting paid until 6:15 so I'm not doing any work until 6:15. I enjoy what I do but I don't do it for free'

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Marketing demands review of all technical documents, programmer creates a fake protocol to mess with them: '[It was] called the "TP Protocol." [I]t could be implemented as a 2 or 3-layer network, each layer called a "ply"'

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18-year-old receptionist told by boss to "stick strictly to your job description" complies : 'It was absolute chaos by the end of the day'

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35-year-old daughter dumbfounded by her aging father's demand that she take her 9-year-old half-brother on vacation to France with her family and own 8 and 4-year-old children: 'We wanted the trip to be just us and our kids'

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Fired employee refuses to help former employer after being let go, despite the concern that refusing would affect their payout: ‘Am I obligated to help?’

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Entitled mother sabotages daughter’s brand-new wedding dress with red wine to force her into wearing vintage gown, daughter bans her from the wedding: ‘[She said she was] "saving" me from a mistake’

Bridesmaid stands her ground and walks away from sister’s wedding after refusing $150 mandatory makeup artist due to cost and allergies: ‘My eyes can’t handle it’

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