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10+ ridiculous reasons why employees took their sick days: 'I got shampoo in my eyes!'

Ben Weiss

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Coworker gets banned from break room coffee machine after trying to make oatmeal in it and refusing to contribute to supplies: 'Danielle is no longer permitted to use this machine'

Brad Dickson

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HR phone call leaks rumors of mass layoffs, all employees retaliate by not working, HR forced to do damage control: 'They'll still sit around and wonder why nobody wants to work anymore'

Ben Weiss

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‘You don't want me on call? You won't be able to call me’: IT worker tired of years of unpaid emergency duty while colleagues bank €500 monthly, gets instant promotion after vanishing for a weekend by switching numbers and cutting landlines

Etai Eshet

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UPDATE: Manager schedules meeting with employee during her PTO, reprimands her when she doesn't show up: 'Her boss called to chastise her for it while we were on vacation'

Ben Weiss

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CEO tries to take employee's personal office chair because it's nicer than his, employee keeps it in the back of his car where everyone coming to the office can see it: 'I'm 100% certain they thought I was just going to give in and let him have my chair'

Brad Dickson

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Grocery store employee fired after one trial shift, then reprimanded for not showing up to their next shift: 'I didn't know I was scheduled!'

Ben Weiss

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Entitled manager tells employees to "wake up when the store opens" to see if they need coverage: 'You can control what we do at work, but not when we're home'

Remy Millisky

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Utah office worker catches her boss and another manager gossiping about her, confronts them, and discovers her supervisor has been using her teammate as his personal complaint hotline: ‘ I walked in and said, "Thanks guys. I heard all of that"’

Etai Eshet

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Manufacturing engineer gets blamed for product failures, complies with orders to shut down key tests he warned against, and calmly watches failure rates skyrocket: ‘This was a terrible idea, so I argued against it’

Etai Eshet

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UPDATE: AI program permanently deletes business's database of 1,100+ companies without permission, tells CEO: 'I destroyed months of your work in seconds'

Remy Millisky

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Senior executive abruptly fired after he tried to transfer employee to his department just to assert his authority: 'I’ve asked Head Office to transfer you to my site. Then I’ll see how you refuse me'

Ben Weiss

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Print shop boss demands large print job start 'this instant' when preparation is incomplete, has to be redone, and costs the company a lot of money: 'Job was late, we lost any profit we were looking forward to through overnight delivery, reprint, etc.'

Brad Dickson

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20+ Retail employees who got to ban customers from the store: 'Best day of work I have ever had'

Remy Millisky

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25+ Employees whose coworkers are driving them up the wall: 'It was easily the worst shift I ever had'

Remy Millisky

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'I requested 2 Saturdays off 2 months in advance. Both requests were denied outright': Employee can't get PTO request approved for her own wedding because of petty manager's vendetta

Ben Weiss

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