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‘Is this a joke?’: Micromanager demands to be notified whenever work-from-home employees step away from their desks

‘Is this a joke?’: Micromanager demands to be notified whenever work-from-home employees step away from their desks

'Either I accept it or I quit': Project director gives employee ultimatum

'Either I accept it or I quit': Project director gives employee ultimatum

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'[We're] making him think a huge ad campaign is live': Scorned marketing team dupes CEO into thinking he has his dream ad campaign

'[We're] making him think a huge ad campaign is live': Scorned marketing team dupes CEO into thinking he has his dream ad campaign

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Factory worker shares infuriating work stories from the assembly line: 'Always make sure the truck is hitched'

'Now he is getting teased at work': Lie backfires when husband tells wife not to come to business dinner

'Now he is getting teased at work': Lie backfires when husband tells wife not to come to business dinner

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'She was fired': Boss tries to get writer fired, they've been keeping a paper trail and flip the script

'By the time she'll notice, I'll be long gone': Employee quits job, micromanager demands they send onboarding documents for next hire, employee sends glitched files instead

'By the time she'll notice, I'll be long gone': Employee quits job, micromanager demands they send onboarding documents for next hire, employee sends glitched files instead

Stubborn client's refusal to use ticket system leads IT employee to ignore him completely

Stubborn client's refusal to use ticket system leads IT employee to ignore him completely

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'He wanted to see every line of code in this project': Company CTO accuses freelancer of "faking" project results

'He wanted to see every line of code in this project': Company CTO accuses freelancer of "faking" project results

Employee triumphantly claps back at bosses after sending the wrong email blast: 'Everyone minus *insert CMO and director names*, it was a pleasure!'

Employee triumphantly claps back at bosses after sending the wrong email blast: 'Everyone minus insert CMO and director names, it was a pleasure!'

'It is exactly as she wanted': Designer gives nightmare client the website design she insists on, then refuses to change design

'It is exactly as she wanted': Designer gives nightmare client the "ugly" website design she insists on, then refuses to change design

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Insecure CEO tries to force job candidate to delete review after interview gone wrong: 'We want to ask you to delete this comment'

Insecure CEO tries to force job candidate to delete review after interview gone wrong: 'We want to ask you to delete this comment'

Coworker gets final raise after 10 years at the company, resigns and gets 15% salary bump at new job: 'Loyalty will make you poor'

Coworker gets final raise after 10 years at the company, resigns and gets 15% salary bump at new job: 'Loyalty will make you poor'

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'Out of touch with reality': Customer tries to order 800 pieces of chicken and 5 sheet cakes with zero advance notice

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Hiking guide gets called out by her new boss for wearing only a sports bra, she wonders if she's wrong: 'Is it inappropriate to hike in a sports bra?'

'The guy wanted that go kart': Go kart employee stunned by oblivious customer's odd request

'The guy wanted that go-kart': Go-kart employee stunned by oblivious customer's odd request

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Employee refuses to attend a mandatory, unpaid Saturday team-building event so he can spend quality time with his child, sparking workplace conflict as his boss questions his commitment to “company culture”: ‘Saturday is my one full day with my kid’

Employee refuses to attend a mandatory, unpaid Saturday team-building event so he can spend quality time with his child, sparking workplace conflict as his boss questions his commitment to “company culture”: ‘Saturday is my one full day with my kid’

Employee uses obscure employee handbook loophole to take PTO when their boss forbids them from taking it before it expires: 'PTO requests not explicitly denied [...] within 48 business hours are [...] approved.”'

Employee uses obscure employee handbook loophole to take PTO when their boss forbids them from taking it before it expires: 'PTO requests not explicitly denied [...] within 48 business hours are [...] approved.”'

‘She quit a week later. Three others followed. All four mentioned the "family" hypocrisy’: CEO calls company family for years, denies financial help to a longtime employee after she loses her house, then criticizes her for not being “team player”

‘She quit a week later. Three others followed. All four mentioned the "family" hypocrisy’: CEO calls company family for years, denies financial help to a longtime employee after she loses her house, then criticizes her for not being “team player”

Elderly home sellers fail to disclose HOA to buyer, forcing them to pay decades of debt, leading buyer to refuse to let sellers pick up their lawnmower after the sale: ‘They want it back out of spite’

Elderly home sellers fail to disclose HOA to buyer, forcing them to pay decades of debt, leading buyer to refuse to let sellers pick up their lawnmower after the sale: ‘They want it back out of spite’

'Guess I'll take lunch then': New manager triples employees' workload, refusing to let anyone go home before everyone is done, employee uses their lunch break to "avoid" working

'Guess I'll take lunch then': New manager triples employees' workload, refusing to let anyone go home before everyone is done, employee uses their lunch break to "avoid" working

Neighboring family stores 1 of their 3 vehicles in next-door resident's driveway without their authorization, their reasoning being that it's not currently in use: ‘Street parking is free’

Neighboring family stores 1 of their 3 vehicles in next-door resident's driveway without their authorization, their reasoning being that it's not currently in use: ‘Street parking is free’

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