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Boss gets upset employee accepted a new job paying $28k more after waiting 7 months for a promised raise at her current company

I think this employee was very clever about how he pulled this off. Obviously, I don’t think the tactic is bulletproof, but it definitely worked for him. I also loved the figurine’s involvement and how, years later, it turned out to be a treasure for other reasons.

Man employs a very peculiar tactic involving a figurine to get both a raise and a bigger commission at work: ‘So for the next week and a half I randomly started removing things from my desk area (very whimsical) and finally that item’

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Employee returns from maternity leave to find coworker using her personalized desk despite several designated hot desks, plans to confront him: ‘Does he just work there [with photos of me and my baby] smiling at him?!’

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Co-owner Claire locks her two business partners out of their shop, hides finances, and pockets clients, pushing partners Diana and Sarah to refuse to keep paying rent: ‘We’ve told her attorney: We aren't paying’

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"It is just ABSOLUTELY insulting": Boss offers tech worker a promotion to Senior Project Lead with 20 weekly extra hours and 0 pay raise

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I admit it: I have a complex relationship with ChatGPT, and by complex, I mean I use it to think through pretty much most of my decisions. I’m a writer, so I’m used to developing ideas through text in a couple of languages. I also write short stories, and every day I write in my diary; still, today, I asked ChatGPT for help with writing a WhatsApp message.

Employee starts prompting his boss as if she were an AI chatbot to get the responses he desires and it works: 'I try different prompts in my chat to see which wording of a question will give the affirming answer I want. I then bring up my decision to her'

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Woman refuses to keep driving her boss to work after already giving her two 90-minute rides in one day and getting stuck paying the tolls with zero thanks

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Data analyst tells his boss that his clothes don’t affect his professionalism after getting lectured for wearing shorts: ‘My job is 100% back-office. I never interact with clients’

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Personally, if I were put in this situation, I wouldn't know what to do. What this employee did was far from perfect, but it was an honest mistake. Not everyone can plot the most perfect act of malicious compliance every time they're wronged, although I wish things worked that way.

Employee trains a very young colleague that then bosses him around: 'He had the audacity to try to yell at me and say, I will cut the files if they are correct. You need to do your job and make sure that I have the right measurements. I lost it'

New manager forces employee out by leaving them out of meetings and micromanaging their every move, leading employee to realize they have no choice but to quit: ‘I can't shake the feeling that this was calculated’

New manager forces employee out by leaving them out of meetings and micromanaging their every move, leading employee to realize they have no choice but to quit: ‘I can't shake the feeling that this was calculated’

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Teenage manufacturing plant trainee cuts 40 units wrong, blames his Chief Designer trainer, and gets him reprimanded after the trainer snaps back in anger: 'He thought he could boss me around'

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High-performing employee gets demoted and forced to train his new manager, he quits and refuses leadership's demands to negotiate: ‘We lost him for good’

High-performing employee gets demoted and forced to train his new manager, he quits and refuses leadership's demands to negotiate: ‘We lost him for good’

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IT employee gets reported for stealing company laptops by coworker, only for HR to discover everything was fully approved: 'HR already had all the paperwork before you even finished your report'

Sometimes our managers are so spaced out that they don’t notice their employees are having an awful time working at their companies. You might even resign without another job secured and block them everywhere, and they still wouldn’t notice.

29-year-old employee leaves his job as a specialist at a small planning and design firm and his ex-boss instists on him leaving a review on a popular local job review site: 'He wanted a review? Fine. Let's comply'

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Employee gets ignored for years, quits, then gets offered everything she asked for in a counteroffer: ‘Where was this 8 months ago?’

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Restaurant employee gets denied vacation even though she had approved time off by management, she tries to fix it, but the union rep is on vacation: 'Ever since one of my coworkers got fired, we've been working 6-day weeks and doing two people's jobs.'