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'[He] just wanted to see how many free burgers he could eat before getting canned': 20+ People who couldn't make it through a single day of work before getting fired

Remy Millisky

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‘If you think you can find a loophole, think again’: Software developer maliciously complies with new boss’s strict 9-5 hours, team productivity tanks

Ben Weiss

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‘I haven’t gotten a raise in years': Employee discovers inexperienced new hire is offered the same salary as him, gets told to stop comparing himself to others

Bar Mor Hazut

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'I literally did everything that was written on the rules': Postal worker gets petty revenge on boss who keeps disciplining them

Remy Millisky

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Boss makes team work extra weekend shift, Data Analyst makes sure he's there: 'You also need to be there for the sign-off'

Brad Dickson

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'As I handed her the coffee I told her I quit': Manager demands that employee makes her coffee at the end of every shift, employee finally snaps

Ben Weiss

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'Double malicious compliance': Two supervisors tell airport valet not to listen to each other

Remy Millisky

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Boss makes employee cancel vacation, employee's girlfriend confronts boss: 'I then demanded my boyfriend's boss [refund] me every penny'

Ben Weiss

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'You break it, you buy it': Staff member demands parents pay for damaged items at local pet shop after son ruins store

Sienna Varady

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'Boss wouldn't pay [for] two months after she fired me': Former employee calls out disorganized ex-boss for never getting her final paycheck

Ben Weiss

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‘Customers like you pay extra’: Hair salon owner chargers demanding woman double after she arrived four hours late to her appointment and complained about the service

Bar Mor Hazut

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IT worker told to take a demotion

Brad Dickson

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'It's a family secret... Karen didn't take it well': Chocolate chip cookie conundrum divides office in two

Remy Millisky

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Employee gets suspended for no reason, stinks up work truck before quitting: 'Before I returned the truck, I release 6 stinky air fresher tags in it'

Ben Weiss

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Boss gets fired, blames employees and bombards coworkers' phones with accusatory messages: 'He called me 28 times in the span of an hour'

Isabella Penn

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Employee uses their manager's own incompetence to end their career: 'My show of assertion crumbled the empire of fear'

Brad Dickson

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