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'I thought everything was going OK': Worker fired for using her phone one month after starting new job

Brad Dickson

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‘I want him fired': Boss attempts to fire employee following employee's refusal to answer work calls on weekend, HR flips the script and orders boss to give employee company phone

Eleonora Bader

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'In an industry so small, your reputation is everything': Employee quits then calls out boss for refusing to pay her

Ben Weiss

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'Loyalty will make you poor': Coworker quits after getting final raise, gets competitive offer elsewhere

Ben Weiss

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‘I got my boss fired’: Boss tells employee to ‘stay in the office’, employee complies, boss gets fired as a result

Eleonora Bader

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'I need to get paid on payday': Bartender gets fired and blocked for demanding to be paid on time

Brad Dickson

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'I'm not paying that': Employee gets even with company's client following their refusal to reimburse expense report 1% over allocated budget, client loses $700

Eleonora Bader

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'Ok, Karen, she's fired. Happy now?': Karen demands girl gets fired from a place she doesn't work

Brad Dickson

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'The colleague I disliked made management': 20 reasons people quit their last job

Ben Weiss

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'Quit my job suddenly via email': Worker quits their job because of a bad boss, boss demands they come in and talk face-to-face

Brad Dickson

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‘I was denied a raise, so I called the IRS': Employee finds out boss's unemployed wife makes $60,000, contacts IRS after being denied raise

Eleonora Bader

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'We were now operating on a shoe-string budget so the manager got as much money as they could': Extreme cost saving measure causes costly pricing error

Brad Dickson

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'Your coworker is a child': Coworker accuses employee of being responsible for having to pay $4,000 for hotel room

Ben Weiss

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'My mom had to literally be the one to fire my sister': Mom gets unemployed daughter work twice, daughter gets herself fired both times

Ben Weiss

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'He would barely look at anyone after that': Worker gets micromanaging boss fired by writing fake reviews

Brad Dickson

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'We weren't doing the $25,000 when you hit 25 years': CEO gifts employees $25K for working 25 years, but employee going on 27 years there gets nothing

Ben Weiss

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