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Sometimes you have to accept defeat We can’t pull off a perfect Uno reverse every day; sometimes it goes badly. It’s better to accept defeat than to play dumb. As a society, we have forgotten that it’s noble to admit your own mistakes.

Lazy coworker routinely sleeps 5 hours of her 12-hour shift, new manager photographs her: ‘She sees the phone still in his hands, and puts two and two together. She says, "Did you just take a picture of me while I was unconscious?"’

Don’t we communicate frontally anymore? What happened to "Hi, there is something I’ve been wanting to tell you"? Honestly, though. I get that confronting someone about their perfume can be challenging, but involving HR definitely makes it MUCH worse.

Employee keeps getting reported to HR over strong fragrance and doesn’t know where it’s coming from: ‘Since then, I’ve washed all my clothes, washed my hair, and made sure to wear no scent at all’

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What goes around comes around in a different font I have a friend who always says even the smallest things require payback. Yes, he’s petty like that; he needs to get even, and I lowkey think he has a point.

Soon-to-leave employee starts intentionally rage-baiting coworkers: ‘And I encourage anyone reading to stand up for themselves and not let insecure people take their problems out on you’

People still think that working from home means you are not working I know we sometimes work in our pajamas; I know it seems like we’re chilling on the computer, but we are most definitely working. “Just on the computer” transforms cognitively demanding labor into something resembling leisure. It’s not.

Remote employee can’t stop his family from interrupting him during work hours: ‘I have tried the obvious stuff: closed door, calendar blocks, Slack status, headset, and a sign. It helps for a day or two, and then everything drifts back to how it was’

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'Is it normal for people to take a screenshot of your direct Teams message, and send it in an email to other people in the company?': Boss sends out screenshot of direct message with employee, employee wonders if it's a breach of privacy

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Sadly, sometimes your favorite coworker isn’t also your friend People disappoint us. I know this employee would’ve benefited from acting more maturely in this situation, but that wouldn’t have changed the fact that her work bestie betrayed her.

Woman told a secret to her favorite coworker, who then spread it across the office: ‘[She] constructed a lie to make me look bad, made sure she wouldn't be held accountable ("please don't tell anyone I told you"), all while acting like my friend’

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'I’m just confused': Illinois worker seeks advice after employer gives him one day to accept a schedule outside his availability or resign

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Hardware store employees leave customers mid-sale to comply with boss's strict lunch break schedule, until HR gets involved: ‘He had gotten in trouble’

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Who determines appropriate attire in the workplace? — New mother becomes the target of workplace complaint about her appearance from an anonymous coworker shortly after returning to work, despite her dressing business casual according to the dress code

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Boss forgets she approved employee's project and publicly calls them out, employee fights to prove boss is wrong: ‘I have the approval in writing’

After repeatedly watching her coworker present her ideas as his own, this employee publicly reclaimed ownership of her work and was criticized for doing so.

Coworker "Jake" steals credit for employee's project that she built from the ground up — he joined the project only 6 weeks prior, contributing just 10% of the work — she interjects to reclaim credit, the director reprimands her: 'Today I finally snapped'

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Boss Demands Employee “Stop Thinking and Follow Instructions” After Accusing Them of Working Too Slowly When Checking Orders for Errors, It Immediately Backfires When Employee Complies and Ignores Obvious Errors

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New in-office policy incentivizes coworkers to snitch on each other, ruining remote work for everyone else: 'Hall-monitoring coworkers just ruined remote work for our entire company'

Office Snitch Apocalypse Nothing is worse than a snitch at the office. Seriously, there are other ways to get what you want. How does negating a privilege for everyone else make you happier? It literally has no positive impact

Hall-monitoring coworkers ruin WFH for everyone by being petty: ‘These colleagues started going directly to my boss to ask why they "haven't seen me around much" and literally logging my office attendance’

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Not everybody has the same aspirations No, not everybody wants the same thing- shocker! Right? Some of us only want a simple job for a few hours, then go home to relax without stressing about big responsibilities.

Manager offers employee a promotion, and he turns it down: ‘[He] told me that turning down added responsibility shows a "disturbing lack of ambition and loyalty’

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Employee gets written up by his manager after he stops doing his lazy coworker’s job: ‘He said I "used to be more helpful" and that my "energy has changed." He never mentioned the coworker once’