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Overworked store supervisor deals with a customer attempting to buy cookies without cash by offering “the value of knowledge,” cancels the sale, and walks away to help paying customers

Etai Eshet

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‘[She] doesn’t know the new hire is actually her replacement’: CEO makes employee help hire her struggling coworker’s replacement, while that coworker has no idea she’s fired once the traveling boss returns

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27 Skills That Are No Longer Relevant in Today’s World and Workplaces, Shared by Workers Who Were Really Good at Them

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Employee starts booking approved leave for weekends 2 weeks in advance, exactly as HR policy requires, forcing management to finally give notice before scheduling Saturday shifts

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Legal assistant refuses to apologize for pushing back when a coworker demands she drop a client mid-call and then skipping an unpaid Saturday event

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‘It’s the same move every time’: Peer Executive Assistant keeps making up rules she has no authority over, then blames the chaos she caused on the colleague she's undermining

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"Big profits, no raises, but hey here's some stale pizza and a generic thank you email": Company posts record profits, denies raises and throws a mandatory pizza party instead

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Employee's new boss wants to swap his earned department head role with a coworker's, calling it a "fair chance" that feels a lot like a demotion

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Fortune 500 company fires worker over a rigged survey metric that's nearly impossible to pass: ‘Apparently the world’s leading financial tech company couldn’t afford to keep me around anymore’

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'I've never worked there, lady': Harris Teeter manager, Christie, calls a job applicant months after she declined the job offer to yell at her for not showing up to a shift

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‘Started a new job today and the red flags are flying’: New hire spends day one with no equipment, a delayed iPad, and broken IT logins, then gets brushed off when she raises concerns

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'Daily reminder, your boss doesn’t care about you': Boss snubs employee who went above and beyond for a year, denying her a raise, piling on micromanagement, and forgetting her name

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Employee discovers her CEO hired her toxic ex-friend as her direct manager, and put her in charge of training her new boss: ‘I feel trapped. It was the CEO's decision’

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Boss gets upset employee accepted a new job paying $28k more after waiting 7 months for a promised raise at her current company

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Co-owner Claire locks her two business partners out of their shop, hides finances, and pockets clients, pushing partners Diana and Sarah to refuse to keep paying rent: ‘We’ve told her attorney: We aren't paying’

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"It is just ABSOLUTELY insulting": Boss offers tech worker a promotion to Senior Project Lead with 20 weekly extra hours and 0 pay raise

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