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CEO boasts about record profits then announces slashing everyone's 401K matches in the same conference call: 'We just had the best year ever thanks to YOU!'

CEO boasts about record profits, then announces slashing everyone's 401k matches in the same conference call: 'We just had the best year ever thanks to YOU!'

'What are you going to do, fire me?': After employee hands in their notice, micromanager forces them to fire other coworkers out of spite, employee refuses to comply

'What are you going to do, fire me?': After employee hands in their notice, micromanager forces them to fire other coworkers out of spite, employee refuses to comply

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Micromanager enforces strict tracking of team's work days, all 30 employees maliciously comply by submitting extra detailed breakdown: '[The] data is lost in a heap of unusable data'

Micromanager enforces strict tracking of team's work days, all 30 employees maliciously comply by submitting extra detailed breakdown: '[The] data is lost in a heap of unusable data'

Employee flips the script on micromanager's 'constructive criticism', prompting a humbling retraction

Employee flips the script on micromanager's 'constructive criticism', prompting a humbling retraction

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Manager told to stay and finish report works 20 hours and gets the next day off and a huge payout: 'Stay until it's done'

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Fast food worker warned never to talk back to supervisor again, malicious compliance ensues: '[But] I promised that I would never talk back to [you]'

Fast food worker warned never to talk back to supervisor again, malicious compliance ensues: '[But] I promised that I would never talk back to [you]'

retail employee is subjected to chaos when management reverses staff roles, clueless supervisors find out for themselves that their ideas are better on paper than in practice

‘Short staffed? No problem’: Management implements major changes to tourist attraction employee roles, chaos ensues when staff is unaware of standard procedures

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'Turn my service off, RIGHT NOW... Ok.': Customer demands their service be disconnected immediately, customer service rep complies

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'You do nothing for anyone except yourself': Manager loses it after employee refuses to cover his shift in unhinged text messages

'You do nothing for anyone except yourself': Manager loses it after employee refuses to cover his shift in unhinged text messages

'Dracula voices at [the] drive thru': 20+ People who got fired from their jobs

'Dracula voices at [the] drive thru': 20+ People who got fired from their jobs

'Staff... mutually agreed to give this person exactly what they asked for': Micromanager creates strict new rules for employees, sparking a "great resignation"

'Staff... mutually agreed to give this person exactly what they asked for': Micromanager creates strict new rules for employees, sparking a "great resignation"

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'Won't fix your buggy software? Fine, pay our bills': Company scrambles after realizing they're being constantly overbooked by an app

'Won't fix your buggy software? Fine, pay our bills': Company scrambles after realizing they're being constantly overbooked by an app

'You want a large pizza with everything? Ok': Entitled customer gets exactly what she asked for after vague delivery instructions

'You want a large pizza with everything? Ok': Entitled customer gets exactly what she asked for after vague delivery instructions

entitled manager wrongfully terminates coffee shop employee, expects them to work their last shift without compensation

‘You're clearly not a barista’: Coffee shop employee's job is terminated by toxic manager, is still expected to finish her busy last shift without compensation

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'He was blowing up my phone on nights and weekends': Boss refuses to stop contacting employee outside of work hours, coworkers side with the boss

'He was blowing up my phone on nights and weekends': Boss refuses to stop contacting employee outside of work hours, coworkers side with the boss

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Employee gets even with micromanaging boss by giving debt collectors his new contact details after years of receiving their calls: '[I] provided his current number to update their database'

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Homeowner asks elderly neighbors to stop parking in his driveway, they refuse and tell him he's being "too rigid": '[They] suddenly started to use my driveway, first for a couple of hours and by now they are just straight up occupying it'

Homeowner asks elderly neighbors to stop parking in his driveway, they refuse and tell him he's being "too rigid": '[They] suddenly started to use my driveway, first for a couple of hours and by now they are just straight up occupying it'

‘It makes me feel like I'm in The Truman Show’: Neighbor continually mows 6 feet of new homeowner's front lawn and attaches deer-repelling mechanisms to their shrubbery, failing to adhere to the clear property line

‘It makes me feel like I'm in The Truman Show’: Neighbor continually mows 6 feet of new homeowner's front lawn and attaches deer-repelling mechanisms to their shrubbery, failing to adhere to the clear property line

25-year-old employee gets written up by supervisor for not coming into work during his approved time off: ‘It’s not your job to make sure that your supervisor does her job’

25-year-old employee gets written up by supervisor for not coming into work during his approved time off: ‘It’s not your job to make sure that your supervisor does her job’

‘You can thank your insubordination for this!’: Boss responds to mass quitting by enforcing that employees give three months’ notice, employees rebel

‘You can thank your insubordination for this!’: Boss responds to mass quitting by enforcing that employees give three months’ notice, employees rebel

Neighbor repeatedly claims woman’s patio, forcing her to document his stubborn chair invasions and finally report him to the landlord: ‘I moved his chair three more times, but he kept moving it back’

Neighbor repeatedly claims woman’s patio, forcing her to document his stubborn chair invasions and finally report him to the landlord: ‘I moved his chair three more times, but he kept moving it back’

Four siblings inherit a $700k rental home, but the youngest brother unilaterally evicts the 16-year tenant, who then maliciously complies with a court order that costs them $150k: 'His 3 siblings split the proceeds and he got nothing'

Four siblings inherit a $700k rental home, but the youngest brother unilaterally evicts the 16-year tenant, who then maliciously complies with a court order that costs them $150k: 'His 3 siblings split the proceeds and he got nothing'

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