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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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High-achiever "quiet quits" and gets a job in a different area of the company with better pay when manager ignores their repeated warnings about impending issues, watches as the disaster happens exactly as they predicted: 'My new job is a piece of cake'

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'I want the paperwork! Yes, all of it!': Employee maliciously complies with new colleague's request, promptly receives 1,500 pages of documents when she only needed 3

'I want the paperwork! Yes, all of it!': Employee maliciously complies with new colleague's request, promptly receives 1,500 pages of documents when she only needed 3

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Factory worker starts 30 minutes later when "bean counter" says he isn't going to be paid for that time to save on costs, company loses money instead when the entire production line is forced to shut down because he's not there: 'I don't work for free'

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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

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

Homeseller forbids current tenants from answering questions about the property to prospective buyers, despite knowing the house is not up to code: ‘You are not permitted to interfere’

Homeseller forbids current tenants from answering questions about the property to prospective buyers, despite knowing the house is not up to code: ‘You are not permitted to interfere’

Job candidate sends pointed email to HR over company's hiring process, gets a scathingly unprofessional response from the CEO

Job candidate sends pointed email to HR over company's hiring process, gets a scathingly unprofessional response from the CEO

Neighbor demands woman pay half of a $5000 composite fence that “matches her yard” to replace one damaged panel

Neighbor demands woman pay half of a $5000 composite fence that “matches her yard” to replace one damaged panel

Boss admits she intentionally gave one employee extra work to test how they cope, while her coworker, Sue, slacks and leaves them handling whole project alone

Boss admits she intentionally gave one employee extra work to test how they cope, while her coworker, Sue, slacks and leaves them handling whole project alone

Manufacturer helps client with urgent order by supplying differently specced parts at client's agreement, client still makes official complaint because the parts weren't to normal specification, manufacturer delays their orders thereafter in retaliation

Manufacturer helps client with urgent order by supplying differently specced parts at client's agreement, client still makes official complaint because the parts weren't to normal specification, manufacturer delays their orders thereafter in retaliation

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