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Boss bans jeans on Fridays and enforces business attire, entire team maliciously complies: 'All 15 of us [wore] hideous outfits, but all meeting the business attire dress code'

Boss bans jeans on Fridays and enforces business attire, entire team maliciously complies: 'All 15 of us [wore] hideous outfits, but all meeting the business attire dress code'

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Employee refuses HR's pleas to train their work replacement after being fired from their job: ‘I laughed in their faces’

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‘Tell it to me straight, I have to look for another job, don’t I?’: Bossy coworker becomes actual boss, starts with fake encouragement but quickly turns pushy and controlling

‘Tell it to me straight, I have to look for another job, don’t I?’: Bossy coworker becomes actual boss, starts with fake encouragement but quickly turns pushy and controlling

‘Resignation can be rejected???’: 20+ advice for handling the silliness of “needing” approval to quit your job

‘Resignation can be rejected???’: 20+ advice for handling the silliness of “needing” approval to quit your job

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‘Sure, I'll think outside the box’: Corporate employee is fed up with workplace jargon, so he takes his boss's advice literally during an important client presentation

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‘Because you are the poors’: Curious employee wonders why Elon Musk can run multiple companies remotely but they can’t have multiple remote jobs

‘Because you are the poors’: Curious employee wonders why Elon Musk can run multiple companies remotely but they can’t have multiple remote jobs

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‘He made me take a personality test’: Employees discuss the moment they realized their managers were bizarrely toxic

CEO enforces 'chaotic' works structure, employee's better alternative is rejected, everyone jumps ship: 'This isn't working out'

CEO enforces 'chaotic' work structure, employee's better alternative is rejected, everyone jumps ship: 'This isn't working out'

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'The new company changed my salary to $60k': New owners halve manager's salary after taking over the company, tells manager to stop being dramatic when they complain

Management bans an employee from being friends with her coworkers, then complains she isn’t friendly enough with the new hires: ‘I've been called yesterday with 2 managers and the CEO. Needless to say I fell off my chair’

Management bans an employee from being friends with her coworkers, then complains she isn’t friendly enough with the new hires: ‘I've been called yesterday with 2 managers and the CEO. Needless to say I fell off my chair’

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Manager schedules ‘mandatory’ staff meeting during the day, night shift employee shows up in sleepwear to send him a message: ’[It] cut into my sleep schedule’

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Employee gets fired on his birthday after just 6 months, charges company $450 for them to retrieve their equipment: 'Just to be petty'

Employee gets fired on his birthday after just 6 months, charges company $450 for them to retrieve their equipment: 'Just to be petty'

Employee gets offered a promotion but is told they'll have to ‘work hard’ to prove themselves, employee decides to firmly decline instead: 'I'm not interested in the slightest'

Employee gets offered a promotion but is told they'll have to ‘work hard’ to prove themselves, employee decides to firmly decline instead: 'I'm not interested in the slightest'

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Work colleague helps himself to coworker's daily homemade lunch, finally gets called out on his gluttony by another coworker and loses it: ‘[He] got extremely red’

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Boss demands IT engineer write "more words" on ticket resolutions, they begin writing a novel hidden in the reports: 'You're averaging well over a 1000 characters per ticket, keep it up!'

New boss enforces 1000 character minimum per task, employee complies by writing gibberish: 'I've noticed that the size of your comments has gone up last month [...] keep it up!'

New boss enforces 1000 character minimum per task, employee complies by writing gibberish: 'I've noticed that the size of your comments has gone up last month [...] keep it up!'

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Architect reprimanded for making daughter’s birthday invitation on work laptop, so she refused to use personal phone for on-site job photos, forcing boss to buy her company Samsung and pay for entire second trip to the site: 'I doubled all the expenses'

Architect reprimanded for making daughter’s birthday invitation on work laptop, so she refused to use personal phone for on-site job photos, forcing boss to buy her company Samsung and pay for entire second trip to the site: 'I doubled all the expenses'

Employee gets fired 2 weeks after her wedding because her company doesn't want to add her spouse to her insurance: 'Friday morning, my performance was fantastic, I was getting praised, how would I suddenly be fired for my performance on Monday afternoon?'

Employee gets fired 2 weeks after her wedding because her company doesn't want to add her spouse to her insurance: 'Friday morning, my performance was fantastic, I was getting praised, how would I suddenly be fired for my performance on Monday afternoon?'

CEO demands to be CC'd on every email sent within the company, only for their inbox to be flooded when HR sends a personalized email to every employee: ‘They caused their own email apocalypse’

CEO demands to be CC'd on every email sent within the company, only for their inbox to be flooded when HR sends a personalized email to every employee: ‘They caused their own email apocalypse’

21-year-old employee avoids boss's demands to shovel snow: 'I had already planned not to go... because it wasn't my job'

21-year-old employee avoids boss's demands to shovel snow: 'I had already planned not to go... because it wasn't my job'

Brother moves every 6 months at most, always expects free help, and finally gets refused when his sibling chooses not to play free mover for hire: ‘Every time he moves, he expects me to help pack, carry heavy furniture, and drive the rental truck.’

Brother moves every 6 months at most, always expects free help, and finally gets refused when his sibling chooses not to play free mover for hire: ‘Every time he moves, he expects me to help pack, carry heavy furniture, and drive the rental truck.’

Management forced employee to stick to 8:00-16:00 "core hours” and pre-approved OT, she complies, proving that her new schedule harms work-flow and production: 'Flexibility would no longer be available'

Management forced employee to stick to 8:00-16:00 "core hours” and pre-approved OT, she complies, proving that her new schedule harms work-flow and production: 'Flexibility would no longer be available'

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