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I’m going to throw my most superstitious take out there: Life always presents you with an opportunity to perform some degree of petty revenge on someone who wronged you in the past. It works like this: you have a fall out with somebody; at first you’re very angry, and as time goes by, you begin to le

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’

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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’

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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”

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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]'

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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

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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

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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’

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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

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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

Sometimes a person doesn’t know how to express admiration. Complimenting somebody might be the most difficult thing for some people, and they end up bullying you in a naive way that doesn’t cease to be annoying. It starts getting weird when it becomes a habit, and you are forced to discuss a topic time a

Man keeps making strange comments at coworker after he told him he goes to the gym: ‘It’s literally every time he walks by he says some weird remark’

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Coworker brings nothing to company potluck, packs several containers with everyone else’s food to take home, then grabs the cookies too, prompting a colleague to call him out: 'He didn’t want to cook after his shift'

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This is a skill we all need to acquire. Haven’t we all had a coworker who gossiped a little too much? Or who got us into trouble? I’ve had coworkers I trusted deeply who turned out to be really disloyal, and work is a place where you spend a lot of your time, so it shouldn’t be a place full of conflict. Personall

‘What's one office habit that makes you trust a coworker almost instantly?’: People share their tips on how to befriend coworkers wisely to avoid unnecessary conflict in the workplace

I don’t get it; this would be a total fantasy for me. We’re talking about a fully paid week of labour, in which we don’t have to work at all, and you get to prepare

Manager waived off employee’s notice period, and she got offended: ‘She had planned her farewells and was spending the last few days socialising with co-workers, etc. Additionally, she said that she is feeling like she is being let go’

It seems like bosses don’t even care to pretend that they are nice and friendly anymore. Once you sign the contract, they start acting crazy and inventing all sorts of demands as if you couldn’t turn around, resign, and walk away. Honestly, what they do is up to them, because they’re ruining their own chance

‘We already have plenty of work for you now, and if you don't start now, it will pile up for you’ : Future boss starts changing dates and plans imediately after employee signed contract

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Working is already hard enough; we don’t need angry coworkers on top of it. Imagine being so impatient and entitled that you yell at someone for not understanding how to properly do a job ON THEIR FIRST DAY. When I clicked on this story, I was like, how can you be so weak as to resign after just one day? But

‘Come on, man, do I really have to show you again?’: Employee considers quitting after only 1 day of work at a meat market with an ill-tempered coworker

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'Firing someone in front of their mother': Employee refuses a meeting with manager after realizing she is getting fired, then decides to invite her mom as "support person"