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Know-it-all engineer asks machinist to fabricate a technically impossible part: 'The machinist was to machine a 12-inch part down to just over 13 inches shorter than it started'

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Employer accidentally messages "difficult" candidate their plans to hire them and let them go: 'It might be in your best interest to take your candidates off the email chains in the future'

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Middle manager proposes to company owner replacing staff with AI, gets replaced himself: 'I have took his suggestions to heart and decided to automate his role'

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'You want to put how much concrete in your Civic?': Customer insists on loading 1000 lbs. of concrete into the back of their small car despite employee's warnings

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Employee asks about moving heavy boxes to a safer place, employer deflects by writing them up for dress code violation

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Worker's resignation letter to their boss sparks discussion online: 'I am taking that vacation starting now..."

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Terrible new IT supervisor is setup by their team when upper management comes to visit : 'The [supervisor] was put on 90-days' unpaid suspension, and was written up for gross insubordination'

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Job candidate told by hiring manager that they won't get the role despite being the most experienced candidate: 'I'm so sick of mind games from employers'

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Employee discovers the new hire is making more than them: 'With zero experience in this position'

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Boss makes team work extra weekend shift, Data Analyst makes sure he's there: 'You also need to be there for the sign-off'

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IT worker told to take a demotion

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Employee uses their manager's own incompetence to end their career: 'My show of assertion crumbled the empire of fear'

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Custodian walks out of job after micromanaging new boss makes impolite comments: 'You deal with it, I'm going home'

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'She was fired': Boss tries to get writer fired, they've been keeping a paper trail and flip the script

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'The next generation of employees are not entitled, they’re educated': Boss furious after trainee ditches 3-hour meeting when she learned wouldn't be paid to attend

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Hiking guide gets called out by her new boss for wearing only a sports bra, she wonders if she's wrong: 'Is it inappropriate to hike in a sports bra?'

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