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Force majeure This is the typical discordance that emerges when we think about a problem by looking at the bigger picture rather than its every detail. We’d like to think that upper management takes every part of the company into consideration when they make big decisions like laying people off, but sometimes they don’t, and they

Upper management fires 4 employees from the same team without letting their manager know beforehand: ‘Had I been asked I could have pointed leadership to the actual underperformer on my team’

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‘Your job is not to coach people’: Boss tells front desk employee to stop helping customers with their mistakes, regrets it when chaos ensues with incorrectly filed forms

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It’s time to RTO It’s hard to think it’s all for the best when you just signed the lease on an apartment 45 minutes away from the office you now have to return to. Some things we can’t predict, and

Company announces RTO immediately after employee signs a lease on an apartment 45 minutes away from the office: ‘My manager knew I was moving, I told him directly, he said nothing. HR knew, I updated my address in the system’

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College student advisor decides to leave after 1 year being overworked and underappreciated by her boss and her ‘flying monkey’ subordinate: ‘I literally broke down and cried at my desk’

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Boss rejects employee's PTO request after not being able to find replacement for over 5 months, employee decides to quit altogether: ‘Not my problem’

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Retail manager yells at employee in front of customers for trying to explain to her how to change a price in the system: ‘You completely threw me under the bus’

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Fortune 500 company fires worker over a rigged survey metric that's nearly impossible to pass: ‘Apparently the world’s leading financial tech company couldn’t afford to keep me around anymore’

Was it fate or pure luck? The way the OP narrates the story is a bit messy, but to me, it’s profoundly revealing. It confesses a desire to be rescued from his position without necessarily having t

Underperforming employee covers another position when the worker goes on leave and turns out to be much better at it; another employee wonders if he was also hired for the wrong job: 'There's no analytics-person-goes-on-leave accident coming to rescue me'

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Fantasy job search. This employee should’ve gotten a job in acting; the way he pulled a performance and everybody believed it. I’ve exaggerated things on my curriculum when I was young, not to the extent of lying, but there were some exaggerations here and there, and I still didn’t get hired!

Employee lies on his resume and gets hired at a high-paying IT company, and now struggles with his day-to-day and fears yearly evaluation: 'My buddy basically taught me everything I know and helped me learn as I go'

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'I've never worked there, lady': Harris Teeter manager, Christie, calls a job applicant months after she declined the job offer to yell at her for not showing up to a shift

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‘I genuinely feel like I’m watching a real-life Mean Girls spinoff play out in real time’: Employee notices his colleagues are constantly aggressively gossiping about everyone else, and they are also doing it to each other

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‘Started a new job today and the red flags are flying’: New hire spends day one with no equipment, a delayed iPad, and broken IT logins, then gets brushed off when she raises concerns

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'Daily reminder, your boss doesn’t care about you': Boss snubs employee who went above and beyond for a year, denying her a raise, piling on micromanagement, and forgetting her name

Company shuts off the AC at 3 pm to save money, forcing employees to buy desk fans, until they discover management floor is exempt: ‘Their floor was freezing’

Company shuts off the AC at 3 pm to save money, forcing employees to buy desk fans, until they discover management floor is exempt: ‘Their floor was freezing’

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Employee discovers her CEO hired her toxic ex-friend as her direct manager, and put her in charge of training her new boss: ‘I feel trapped. It was the CEO's decision’

I’ve read this kind of story many times from different angles, but something seems to happen around the quiet workers, or the quiet team members in general. I think it gets especially difficult in places like work because there are many employees, and managers often can’t keep track of everyone. The ones who get noticed are the ones who make themselves noticeable

Manager realizes he is losing a very valuable employee only after she leaves and asks for recommendations to identify “quiet performers” before they walk out: ‘Is it just asking better questions, or is there something structural that actually works?’