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Boss tries to stall and not pay after tricking employee to agree to a bonus instead of a raise: 'I agreed to no salary increase, in exchange for receiving a large bonus in late summer'

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Micromanager demands workers track all actions, they drown him in endless data: 'The real data was also there, but it was practically unusable'

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Employee gets marked down despite following written process after their boss doesn't reply for 30 minutes: 'I'm gonna end up getting myself fired'

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'A new hire got a promotion over me. I'm lost as what to do': Employee gets passed over for promotion because they're too valuable in their current role

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Customer refuses to accept quote estimate, complains when developer refuses to haggle and instead rejects their business:'You don't wanna pay the estimate, that's fine ma'am enjoy your day'

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New manager faces resistence from older subordinates who refuse to recognize their promotion: 'The employee responds to any form of feedback as a personal attack'

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Work cancels employee's shift 10 minutes before their shift was supposed to start, they quit: 'I've had enough'

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Employer deducts last year's bonus from pay after worker gives notice: 'Company just deducted last years bonus out of my last paycheck after quitting...'

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Remote software engineer completes their work in 25 hours with 30% above average productivity, wonders if they're wrong for not for doing so: 'I average 200-250 tickets a month'

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Manager told to stay and finish report works 20 hours and gets the next day off and a huge payout: 'Stay until it's done'

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'Turn my service off, RIGHT NOW... Ok.': Customer demands their service be disconnected immediately, customer service rep complies

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Employee gets even with micromanaging boss by giving debt collectors his new contact details after years of receiving their calls: '[I] provided his current number to update their database'

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'You think you know more than me?': A/V Technician puts bassist in his place

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'Fine. I'm out': Jealous professor demands student stop helping other members of staff saying that they're "too involved," student backs off causing havoc

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'[The company] will be charged at $20000 annually': IT guy forced to work from an office where they can't work as part of their company's "Return to Office" strategy, stalling productivity and incurring massive expenses

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Boss shows up in new Cybertruck before announcing no one is getting paid: 'He [made] us all go outside into the parking lot'

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