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Manager instructs staff to maliciously comply with difficult client by only following their vague instructions word for word, prompting backlash

Manager instructs staff to maliciously comply with difficult client by only following their vague instructions word for word, prompting backlash: 'Why are your employees being so unhelpful?'

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HR intervenes after disagreement over office thermostat heats up: 'My coworker decided 72 degrees was “too cold” even though it literally feels like a sauna to the rest of us'

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Temp employee works until 3:00 AM, asks if he can finish work from home, boss refuses, sparking malicious compliance

Temp employee works until 3:00 AM, asks if he can finish work from home, boss refuses, sparking malicious compliance: 'Temps are not allowed to work from home'

New IT manager tries to "fix" working hours to accommodate different time zones, backfires majorly as employees point out labor law violations

New IT manager tries to "fix" working hours to accommodate different time zones, backfires majorly as employees point out labor law violations: 'Turns out the manager made a mistake here'

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Essential employee resigns during meeting with "huge" client after being denied a raise and getting another job offer mid-meeting, client cancels contract: 'I accepted their offer, contract in my email within 5 minutes, digitally signed it within 10'

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Boss brags to essential contractor about firing contractors without notice, essential contractor quits with 10 seconds of notice in return, leaving the company scrambling to pick up the pieces

Boss brags to essential contractor about firing contractors without notice, essential contractor quits with 10 seconds of notice in return, leaving the company scrambling to pick up the pieces: 'Hey, thanks for everything, this is my last day!'

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17-year-old worker shuts down entire ride at the theme park where they work after their boss scapegoats the team for his own mistake: 'I shut down the ride'

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New CEO tells the team they have to work 8-5, causing problems with clients in another timezone: 'The policy was lifted within 2 weeks when our West Coast clients couldn't get in touch with us'

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'My boss forces us to turn our cameras on for every meeting': Fully remote team rebels against new boss's camera mandate by using eyebrow-raising filters and backgrounds

'My boss forces us to turn our cameras on for every meeting': Fully remote team rebels against new boss's camera mandate by using eyebrow-raising filters and backgrounds

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Retail boss tells assistant manager that "everyone's replaceable" when they ask for their first raise in 3 years, business struggles after they quit: 'Turns out, he was wrong'

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Outside hire production manager declares 'No Overtime! No exceptions!' production stalls costing the company $120k: '[He] lasted about 3 months [after that]'

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Coworker convinces clueless new boss to give her a fellow teacher's job because it pays $1.5k more, can't handle it: 'She's getting my 1.5K stipend now, but I no longer have to deal with extra meetings, extra parent phone calls, miscommunication, etc.'

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Boss refuses to acknowledge employee's two-week notice, refusing to discuss it further and acting like they aren't leaving: 'She's still assigning me projects for next month. Still scheduling me for meetings three weeks out'

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New micromanager demands "detailed" daily reports, IT technician drowns them with every unnecessary detail about their day: 'By Friday, my “daily report” was 87 pages long. Times New Roman, size 11, single-spaced'

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Self-confident new boss threatens to fire employee, employee fires him instead, getting old managers involved: 'He was stripped of the team leader's role in customer support and was begging not to be let go'

22-year-old employee teams up with 30 coworkers to enact payback on micromanager for making them log every detail of every task: 'Data [was] lost in a heap of unusable data'

22-year-old employee teams up with 30 coworkers to enact payback on micromanager for making them log every detail of every task: 'Data [was] lost in a heap of unusable data'

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10 Managers who were surprised when their best employees quit on the spot: 'A guy left on his 15-minute break... and just never came back'

10 Managers who were surprised when their best employees quit on the spot: 'A guy left on his 15-minute break... and just never came back'

STEM PhD graduate fired via email just two months in for asking to be paid on time after repeated salary delays, and refusing to be blamed for everything: ‘He was the boss, HR, everything, I couldn't do much’

STEM PhD graduate fired via email just two months in for asking to be paid on time after repeated salary delays, and refusing to be blamed for everything: ‘He was the boss, HR, everything, I couldn't do much’

VP demands employee inform coworker about her termination "by noon", despite coworker being on approved medical leave and set to have surgery that day, VP claims to be unaware of her leave: 'It would look like we're retaliating for her taking leave'

VP demands employee inform coworker about her termination "by noon", despite coworker being on approved medical leave and set to have surgery that day, VP claims to be unaware of her leave: 'It would look like we're retaliating for her taking leave'

Entitled roommate blames $12 internet bill increase on other tenants having too many tabs open and using Google too much: 'This man genuinely believed the wifi company charges per Google search like some kind of data utility meter'

Entitled roommate blames $12 internet bill increase on other tenants having too many tabs open and using Google too much: 'This man genuinely believed the wifi company charges per Google search like some kind of data utility meter'

‘Hey, I tried to help’: Blue collar guy ends up managing his old workplace frenemy, so he promotes him to a higher position where he can ‘shine’ and where the work is loathsome

‘Hey, I tried to help’: Blue collar guy ends up managing his old workplace frenemy, so he promotes him to a higher position where he can ‘shine’ and where the work is loathsome

Band teacher tells music students they’re hopeless, so students rickroll entire school concert to get payback: 'That was one concert for the history books'

Band teacher tells music students they’re hopeless, so students rickroll entire school concert to get payback: 'That was one concert for the history books'

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