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Manager ignores employee's written requests, then blames everyone else for work mistakes, leading employee to confront him in front of client: ‘I stopped letting vague instructions become my responsibility’

I felt really identified with this story because I’ve had to deal with this issue multiple times in my life. I don’t mean with my body odor, lol; I mean with being very sensitive to smells in general. Of course, this story is not about one person’s sensitivity to smell, because everyone could smell it, but it does touch on a

Employee gets laid off due to extreme body odor: ‘I genuinely felt bad for him. He had only just started the job and hadn’t really had the chance to show what he could contribute. You could tell he felt embarrassed and ashamed’

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'Quitting and not regretting it': Coffee shop manager takes employee off schedule after claiming they're not “excited to work”, employee resigns immediately

'Quitting and not regretting it': Coffee shop manager takes employee off schedule after claiming they're not “excited to work”, employee resigns immediately

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IT employees get kicked out of their office to accommodate shiny new marketing lead, they get revenge by leaving the office without AC for the whole summer: ‘He never thought to call maintenance about the temperature’

Giuliana Tiscioni

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HR suspends an employee and asks him to leave for playing a joke on coworker, but forgets to notify boss and other departments: ‘My phone [was] called over and over’

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‘It’s the same move every time’: Peer Executive Assistant keeps making up rules she has no authority over, then blames the chaos she caused on the colleague she's undermining

At first, I thought I was going to read about something terrible a coworker had done to harm her teammates, but it turned out to be much less harmful than I expected, and it ended up revealing more about the teammate who wants revenge than about the lying coworker. To me, in normal customer service jobs where you are no

Woman lies straight into coworker's face, leaving him questioning how to get back at her: ‘I just sat there like “uhum”, and tried not to roll my eyes’

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‘Why are people this miserable and pathetic?’: Entitled customer yells at a customer service agent for something he couldn’t possibly have influence over

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Employee stops working hard after manager complains they are taking too long to finish tasks, realizes that's the key to becoming a “good" worker: ‘I'm officially done trying’

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"Big profits, no raises, but hey here's some stale pizza and a generic thank you email": Company posts record profits, denies raises and throws a mandatory pizza party instead

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Employee's new boss wants to swap his earned department head role with a coworker's, calling it a "fair chance" that feels a lot like a demotion

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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

Giuliana Tiscioni

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’

Giuliana Tiscioni

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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’