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10+ Workers who got fired on the spot: 'When I opened that email, my jaw dropped'

Remy Millisky

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Micromanager puts employee on PIP for doing her job instead of letting her boss do it for her

Ben Weiss

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24-year-old refuses to switch desks with entitled coworker, she forces manager to intervene: 'I picked it first!'

Ben Weiss

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20+ Employees who made big mistakes on the job: '[She] printed 500 copies of her gas bill on the company printer'

Remy Millisky

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Coworker refuses to give guy $1 for the office vending machine after guy spent thousands driving them to work for 2 years: 'I’ve probably spent well over $1,500 in gas over the past 2 years for [them]''

Brad Dickson

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Coworker plagiarizes teammate's work for major project and presents it as her own, tries to get them to do her work even after being called out: 'Rachel had basically copied my work and presented it as her own'

Brad Dickson

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'Stop laughing at me': Man mistaken for employee by furious customer tries to satisfy her demands he be ‘fired’ by calling his manager

Eleonora Bader

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'My request fell on deaf ears': Employees ignore ticketing system, IT team refuse to help with locating files in response

Eleonora Bader

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‘Guess I’ll delete everything': Employee retires and deletes all of client's files, company doesn't have a backup

Eleonora Bader

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'That's my job, get lost': Manager tries to pin $1 million machine malfunction on new hire who whips out documentation proving otherwise, effectively getting him fired instead

Eleonora Bader

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'I gave her a big sweet smile': Grandma demands a refund because she filled up the memory on her 3 month phone, manager tells her to ‘get out’

Eleonora Bader

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Hotel worker fired for using multiple guests' credit card information: '[His] manager just exploded in anger'

Ben Weiss

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30+ Workers who love their jobs share why: 'It's all about the people and the management'

Brad Dickson

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'Cut my hours? Enjoy the fraud charges': Employer gets boss fired and charged for cutting their hours

Brad Dickson

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‘You need to pay me now’: Contractor gets paid for 600 days of work in advance after writing a script to auto-complete 6000 reports in one day following boss's demands

Eleonora Bader

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'Drop everything now': Manager's micromanaging demand backfires after he interrupts an employee who is busy working on CEO's task

Eleonora Bader

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