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Employee gets promoted over more qualified but "difficult" coworker: 'I know he thinks I'm an empty suit [...] and he's completely right'

Store supervisor demands employee keep working beyond closing time to “show commitment to the company”, employee refuses, leaving supervisor to handle customers alone: ‘My shift has ended’

Store supervisor demands employee keep working beyond closing time to “show commitment to the company”, employee refuses, leaving supervisor to handle customers alone: ‘My shift has ended’

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Servers discuss their restaurant regulars who tip them ‘exorbitant’ amounts: ‘[Post Malone] tips more than anyone I've ever heard of’

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‘I'm desperate? I'm unemployed, broke, and trying to pay rent’: Job seeker rejected for sounding too eager, with the interviewer saying desperation is a turnoff

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Team lead quits on the spot after upper management reprimands him for giving employees 5 out of 5 on their performance reviews: 'You quite literally will never be good enough in their eyes, by design'

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'Most job postings aren’t real': HR admits to curious employee that they advertise fake jobs to keep an inventory of candidates “just in case”, leading to heavy criticism

'Most job postings aren’t real': HR admits to curious employee that they advertise fake jobs to keep an inventory of candidates “just in case”, leading to heavy criticism

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Overworked employee happily resigns and refuses to complete new tasks, against their employer's wishes: ‘This is not going to happen’

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Entitled employee refuses to complete her assignments, claims she's too busy, coworker gets her fired by proving she had nothing to do: ‘She was caught lying to our boss’

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15+ Job interviewers who rejected candidates on the spot: 'She brought her boyfriend in and the boyfriend was answering all the questions'

Boss fired employee but demands they continue working for commission, employee firmly refuses and files for unemployment instead: ‘Why would I go back?’

Boss fired employee but demands they continue working for commission, employee firmly refuses and files for unemployment instead: ‘Why would I go back?’

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Coworker demands company accommodate her schedule for parenting, but chooses late hours to avoid her child and complains about missing time with them: '[She's] an absolute nightmare of a person'

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Boss retaliates employee’s wage complaint with new rules, cameras, and strict policies aimed directly at them: ‘I gave so much of myself to this company for many years’

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Manager ignores employee's resignation letter for 3 weeks, employee decides not to remind her: 'I don't care if she's left in a bind'

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Coworker replies all all 3000-employee company-wide emails with pointless “thanks” and “noted” messages, flooding inboxes, making whole office slowly lose it: ‘During lunch yesterday I got three separate reply-all emails from her within 20 minutes’

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UPDATE: “[She] stole my position and now I get to watch her struggle worse than I did in it”: Teacher loses leadership role to a colleague who now has trouble with the same demands and responsibilities

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Entitled coworker pressures employee to give up vacation day for her wedding, employee refuses, prompting backlash: 'I said I didn't want to do that!'

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‘My apartment isn’t livable between 8am-4pm‘: California renter loses her bedroom, bathroom, and water every weekday for 2 weeks during pipe work, can't relocate to work remotely, and asks if the landlord owes compensation

‘My apartment isn’t livable between 8am-4pm‘: California renter loses her bedroom, bathroom, and water every weekday for 2 weeks during pipe work, can't relocate to work remotely, and asks if the landlord owes compensation

49-year-old designer is penalized at work for keeping his personal life private, and is fed up with corporate culture treating basic boundaries as a career-ending red flag

49-year-old designer is penalized at work for keeping his personal life private, and is fed up with corporate culture treating basic boundaries as a career-ending red flag

Employee gets fired from his dream job because took 5 holidays in his first month and wonders if there's anything he can do to reverse it: 'It’s just a bad month. But I don’t know what to do. They are saying this will be a final decision.'

Employee gets fired from his dream job because took 5 holidays in his first month and wonders if there's anything he can do to reverse it: 'It’s just a bad month. But I don’t know what to do. They are saying this will be a final decision.'

Boss demands IT tech take their lunch at only 12-1 PM when they skip it to handle a critical error, predictably, they clock out when the next emergency occurs at that time: 'He insisted I must take my 30-minute lunch from 12-1 as per company policy'

Boss demands IT tech take their lunch at only 12-1 PM when they skip it to handle a critical error, predictably, they clock out when the next emergency occurs at that time: 'He insisted I must take my 30-minute lunch from 12-1 as per company policy'

Employee gets laid off during a company "restructuring," only to find their exact job reposted online two weeks later: ‘Everything looked the same’

Employee gets laid off during a company "restructuring," only to find their exact job reposted online two weeks later: ‘Everything looked the same’

Employee loses her dream job for being ‘too eager’ after her probation period is extended to 180 days: ‘I had no write-ups, no warnings, nothing’

Employee loses her dream job for being ‘too eager’ after her probation period is extended to 180 days: ‘I had no write-ups, no warnings, nothing’

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