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HR reprimands warehouse workers for talking while forcing them to do pointless team-building games: ‘Hooray. I can't wait to have my numbers dip because of bean bag toss day, then get asked why’

Etai Eshet

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Boss scolds IT worker for Teams status changing to “Away,” so the worker automates it to stay green forever, and spends afternoons hiking while getting praised for dedication

Etai Eshet

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Detached manager shocked employees fear they would lose their jobs after temps got axed, pay raises got denied, and AI started replacing people: ‘She was stunned I swear, managers live in another world’

Etai Eshet

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Boss demands employee alter clients' invoices to falsely overcharge them, employee refuses, reports boss, and quits job: ‘He assumed I was morally bent in his favor’

Bar Mor Hazut

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Payroll department employee notices coworker gets a raise by mistake and doesn’t alert anyone: ‘HR discovered the mistake. They are correcting future paychecks and want to recover the overpaid amount over the next year. The coworker is obv devastated’

Olivia Arocena

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Manager debates whether to fire his hardest-working employee because he nonetheless underperforms: ‘When deals fall through or a customer leaves us he seeks constant re-validation that he did all he could’

Olivia Arocena

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Company mandates weekly 15-minute "gratitude circles": 'I told my manager privately that I think the whole thing is counterproductive'

JR Atkinson

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Employee gets the chance to perform a petty revenge on ex-coworke and takes it: ‘Things fell apart when our office manager flipped a switch and suddenly hated some of us and split half the team onto her side’

Olivia Arocena

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Employee refuses to cover for coworker who always takes long lunches, coworker blames employee when she gets in trouble for it with boss: ‘[You] should have warned me’

Bar Mor Hazut

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‘It would really help if you could knock this out before you leave’: Employee consistently gets assigned urgent work 5 minutes before he leaves and is left wondering if he is expected to accept it to be seen as a “team player”

Olivia Arocena

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Pet store employee starts locking her work locker after one coworker helps herself to her perfume, only for another colleague to publicly accuse her of thinking they are thieves: '[You] don’t trust any of [us]'

Celeste Mello

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Boss forced to admit they need employee more than the employee needs them after a firm “no” to overtime, then tries to save face by publicly reprimanding and issuing vague warnings

Etai Eshet

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Job candidate gets rejected after 4 interview rounds, then 5 days later HR calls admitting they messed up, asking to re-interview and send an offer

Etai Eshet

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Factory machine operator quits job after boss denies him a pay raise, leaving the company with no qualified operators: ‘They effectively lost thousands’

Bar Mor Hazut

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Overworked store supervisor deals with a customer attempting to buy cookies without cash by offering “the value of knowledge,” cancels the sale, and walks away to help paying customers

Etai Eshet

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‘[She] doesn’t know the new hire is actually her replacement’: CEO makes employee help hire her struggling coworker’s replacement, while that coworker has no idea she’s fired once the traveling boss returns

Etai Eshet

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