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‘This isn't company policy...’: Employee happily resigns from job due to ‘toxic company culture’ and boss demands to know sensitive details about their next role, even though no other coworkers faced the same fate

Lana DeGaetano

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‘"I'm not sure about him… I think he's like, a video gamer"’: Job applicant finds out he isn't hired because the hiring team profiled him as a ‘video gamer’, all thanks to an Otter.AI meeting transcription

Lana DeGaetano

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Boss refuses to acknowledge employee's two-week notice, refusing to discuss it further and acting like they aren't leaving: 'She's still assigning me projects for next month. Still scheduling me for meetings three weeks out'

Brad Dickson

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'[I] got fired 4 hours into my first day': Entitled coworker gets new warehouse employee fired for working too slowly even though it was his first day

Ben Weiss

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‘HR hung up on me’: After being fired, HR director contacts ex-employee asking to hire them as a contractor, only to be appalled when they ask for a pay rate 5x their former salary

Bar Mor Hazut

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'I don’t like them either, the difference is, I don’t feel the need to pretend': Coworkers are baffled when employee refuses to socialize with them during lunch break, despite them repeatedly insulting her behind her back

Emma Saven

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'I can already tell this won't be a good fit': Job seeker gets into heated back-and-forth with hiring manager for requiring him to do extra unpaid work, candidate contacts hiring manager's boss

Ben Weiss

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New micromanager demands "detailed" daily reports, IT technician drowns them with every unnecessary detail about their day: 'By Friday, my “daily report” was 87 pages long. Times New Roman, size 11, single-spaced'

Brad Dickson

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20+ Entitled job candidates who did not impress the hiring managers: 'The world does not revolve around your ideal schedule'

Remy Millisky

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'My colleagues are all 8am until 5:30pm. My contract is for 9 to 5pm': Employee refuses to amend his hours after HR discovers their mistake in his contract

Ben Weiss

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Self-confident new boss threatens to fire employee, employee fires him instead, getting old managers involved: 'He was stripped of the team leader's role in customer support and was begging not to be let go'

Brad Dickson

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Entitled hotel guest demands a room on the top floor, concierge tells her none are available, customer loses it: 'She then leaves a 1 star review'

Ben Weiss

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Retail worker takes district manager’s corporate cliches literally and shows up in CEO cosplay after being told to dress for the job she wants: ‘She asked my manager about it and he just shrugged and said "She's dressing for the job she wants"’

Etai Eshet

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Employee forced to train his 2 entitled replacements during final weeks after being let go, gets payback on his last day: 'Yeah, I'm not doing that'

Ben Weiss

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‘My coworkers aren't happy they didn't let her go over all of this’: Healthcare worker files an HR complaint against a 22-year-old coworker for creating a hostile environment, and the company responds with a demotion

Etai Eshet

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‘Nightmare boss finally terminated’: Tantrum-throwing assistant manager finally gets canned after he pops a bag of hot food next to his coworkers, hardworking employee lands a promotion as a result

Lana DeGaetano

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