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‘Oh my gosh, what a trick’: Management job candidate walks out mid-interview after finding out mid-way through the role is actually entry-level customer support

Etai Eshet

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Manager demands employee charge customers 75 cents for tap water, employee makes sure customers know boss is responsible forcing him to face the customers himself: 'My boss acted like he'd invented modern economics'

Brad Dickson

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Young worker, early 20s, quits family-owned landscaping job when the 70-year-old owner of the company, whom he has never met, begins sending him scathing emails with false claims: 'Needless to say I quit the next day'

Brad Dickson

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Employee triples workplace productivity, but her boss still complains about her leaving early a few times, pushing her to deliberately work slower instead of making the company more money

Etai Eshet

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‘I don’t get paid enough for this, I feel like putting in my 2 weeks’: Security guard pushed to quit after boss demands he drive a new coworker home after every shift, adding an unpaid hour to his commute

Etai Eshet

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Boss demands 16-hour days and weekend work, the employee quits and is thrown by their boss's reaction to their resignation: 'She has us work 12, 14, 16 hour days, weekends, and wishes we could work holidays'

Brad Dickson

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UPDATE: ‘She decided she doesn’t like me. She has said this directly’: Coworker keeps reporting a 2-month new hire as hostile, formally filing a complaint about an audible sigh, and complaining to their boss for no reason

Etai Eshet

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New manager targets respected senior technical specialist and threatens him with a PIP, completes more tasks in 2 days than the boss did in 6 weeks before management intervenes: 'I did it over 20 times faster than him'

Brad Dickson

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Senior accountant fired unceremoniously despite 6 years of dedicated service and the fact that she had endured a personal crisis 3 weeks earlier, company replaces her with junior staff member: 'They literally fired someone who had no performance issues'

Brad Dickson

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Manager demands warehouse employee follow closing checklist to the letter, they comply getting overtime and making the manager late to leave: 'By the time I finished everything, we were almost an hour past closing time'

Brad Dickson

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Manager's unreasonable response startles convenience store employee after they close the store when facing 16-hour shifts alone after coworkers' no-show and manager fails to respond: 'Why is it always my fault for not wanting to work 16 hours'

Brad Dickson

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Man with 17 years of experience, an MBA, and a solid track record gets used as a human calendar for 11 months after being hired for strategic partnerships

Etai Eshet

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55-year-old Gen X dad reacts with disappointment when his 26-year-old daughter tells him she is reducing her work schedule from 6 days a week to 5 days a week and 40 hours: 'In his eyes, wanting 1 extra day to breathe is equivalent to laziness'

Brad Dickson

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Woman refuses to vouch for a coworker, Dana, who got her in trouble with their manager, and now the whole office thinks she's the problem: “She told our manager that a report I sent had “major formatting issues”’

Etai Eshet

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‘I'm disgusted. Is this even legal??’: Australian woman discovers her manager has been secretly screenshotting and saving cropped images of her face during video calls for six months

Etai Eshet

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Remote employee concerned when new ownership pushes Return-to-Office mandate under a new CEO, pushing higher productivity and always-online culture: 'Our past CEO just jumped ship to let the rest of us drown'

Brad Dickson

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