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Union electrician spitefully applies to low-wage jobs requiring expert skills to waste unjust employers' time in interviews

Employee is put on PIP after refusing to join a 10 PM work call, tries to understand if they're getting fired: ‘Is this a genuine improvement plan?’

Employee is put on PIP after refusing to join a 10 PM work call, tries to understand if they're getting fired: ‘Is this a genuine improvement plan?’

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Top employee quits job and starts his own business after boss refuses to give him a raise, he thrives in the new business while old boss struggles: ‘What a fool’

Top employee quits job and starts his own business after boss refuses to give him a raise, he thrives in the new business while old boss struggles: ‘What a fool’

Entitled boss keeps yelling at employees for using her personal mug, one employee decides to take it on their last day at the job: ‘She spent days trying to find the mug’

Entitled boss keeps yelling at employees for using her personal mug, one employee decides to take it on their last day at the job: ‘She spent days trying to find the mug’

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Boss fires employee and goes on a 3-week cruise, leaving retirement community with no one to cover weekends: ‘We’re 3 people in my department - my boss, Brian, and me. My boss just fired Brian and left’

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Employee lies about getting married to quit, but his boss makes him work from home instead, forcing him to juggle 3 jobs and wear a disguise near the office: ‘I told my boss I moved cities’

I wonder if this loophole is, in fact, a loophole or if she will eventually be kicked out because of this. It should be allowed to be a little mischievous, but also, if it were allowed, it would probably lose its whole point. Let’s walk through this story first and later derive our own conclusions from it.

Call-center employee finds a loophole that starts making her job a lot easier: ‘I had just had a customer before this one who got a call and had to go... which gave me the bright idea'

UPDATE: New employee decides to quit job after finding out they were hired to do a 3-person job that has nothing to do with their own role

UPDATE: New employee decides to quit job after finding out they were hired to do a 3-person job that has nothing to do with their own role

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Admin accidentally prints an entire office's salaries and leaves copies on every desk, turning a normal workday into 8 hours of silent resentment

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Airport worker spends months warning about a flawed process, gets dismissed, takes one day off, and watches everything fall apart exactly as predicted while a new employee gets blamed

HR accidentally sends entire company the results of employees' engagement survey, leading all employees to read through the unfiltered feedback: ‘There were very pointed remarks about management’

HR accidentally sends entire company the results of employees' engagement survey, leading all employees to read through the unfiltered feedback: ‘There were very pointed remarks about management’

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‘My coworker honestly doesn't know why she was let go’: Temp worker tanks every chance at a permanent position and is genuinely shocked she’s not getting hired

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Company hires $15K “culture consultant” who recommends everything employees already said, then presents it back to them as a leadership breakthrough: 'I'm not even angry anymore I'm just tired'

Employee quits job after getting verbal offer from another company, only to then be told the position got frozen and discover they hired someone else: ‘I don't know what to do’

Employee quits job after getting verbal offer from another company, only to then be told the position got frozen and discover they hired someone else: ‘I don't know what to do’

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Boss demands employee 'evaluate' whether leading people is for him after getting too emotional in a meeting, employee is left wondering if he still has time to flip the script: 'Everything doesn’t scream trust. We have lost this trust in you.'

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Overworked employee doing a 3-person job solo gets denied PTO for a two-day vacation after her company laid off the rest of the department and never replaced anyone