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Boss denies 25-year veteran employee’s fully prepared PTO request, blocking their vacation despite having plenty of accrued time off

Etai Eshet

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Employee realizes how miserable they are in their current role after being appointed temporarily to another team: 'I wasn't waking up dreading the day [anymore]'

Brad Dickson

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Employee acts like her manager’s director, constantly second-guesses completed work, and creates fake emergencies: ‘She is constantly acting like we are not doing our jobs’

Etai Eshet

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Retired manager comes back 1 day after heartfelt retirement party, leaving employees feeling tricked out of their money emotions and patience with management

Etai Eshet

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Manager repeatedly ignores developer's warning, resulting in $228k of incorrect transactions: 'The system did exactly what it was told to do'

Brad Dickson

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Employees discuss why they quit their jobs only a few days (or hours) in: ‘[I was] working 12-13 hours a day’

Lana DeGaetano

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Fired employee wins $17K after former law firm employer refuses to pay his earned commissions: ‘They thought they could rip me off $4k and turned into substantially more’

Etai Eshet

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Disgruntled employees discuss the fallacy that is unlimited PTO: ‘It's only unlimited PTO on paper’

Lana DeGaetano

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Boss calls employee he fired on Christmas, asking for unpaid weekend help as a favor "as a friend” after his wife and only other worker quit, but the former employee refuses

Etai Eshet

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Game designer at small indie studio gets excluded and disrespected by three coworkers who ignore him during meetings, dismiss his ideas, and refuse to collaborate professionally

Etai Eshet

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Job applicant meets hiring manager who was his firing manager 2 years ago, and manages to get job offer nonetheless: ‘Walked into a final round interview and the hiring manager was the person who fired me two years ago’

Etai Eshet

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HR insists remote employees be "visibly active" all day, employee maliciously complies

Remy Millisky

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Colleague insists employee take the fall for their oversight, employee refuses: ‘I just refused to lie’

Lana DeGaetano

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Corporate management refuses to use 1 of 3 allocated "storm days" to shut down the facility despite 1 foot of snowfall, forcing employees to use their own PTO instead: 'The VP started the email with "Happy Tuesday!!"'

Brad Dickson

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Employee realizes that they have taken less PTO since the company instituted "unlimited" policy due to the implied threat from HR: 'It's just this weird psychological thing where you feel like youre being watched or judged'

Brad Dickson

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Company spends $263,000 a year on engineering team’s daily meeting instead of letting them work: ‘Decisions made during standup: zero’

Etai Eshet

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