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Supervisor demands analyst complete report unpaid on a Saturday, analyst logs in just to CC the VP of the company in his reply—supervisor gets reprimanded, analyst gets 3 hours pay: 'After that, no one ever tried calling me outside of working hours'

Work remotely but do it from the office? Remote jobs have their lights and shadows. Some days you don’t even get out of your pajamas, and you end up feeling like a giant slug. Some days you stop so many times

Boss Demands RTO Then Hosts a Google Meet With Everyone Sitting Right Next To Each Other: ‘We spent forty-five minutes talking to each other through microphones while making awkward peripheral eye contact across our plastic desk dividers’

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Where did the habit of having reasonable aspirations go? Some of us only want jobs that pay a normal amount of money and let us check out and go chill at our homes without worrying about anything work-related for the rest of the day. Some of us want to be clerks, cas

Employers Don’t Seem To Hire Normal People With Normal Aspirations Anymore: ‘In a market this crowded, going "above and beyond" has literally become the norm’

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Manager marks 1 minute late as a 'no call no show,' consistently asks for 30 minutes of unpaid labor

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Employee takes advantage of coworker changing his chair because it's broken, so he fixes it and keeps it, as it's better than the one he had: 'Then [he] brings back my original chair and says “hey man, thanks for fixing it. You can have yours back now.”

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Manager complains when new employee walks out 20 minutes into shift: 'You were fired as an employer'

Manager complains when new employee walks out 20 minutes into shift: 'You were fired as an employer'

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HR implements dress code for fully remote employees, demands 'business casual' in virtual meetings: ‘Do they think this will magically make us more productive?’

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'I hit her with a Gen-Z stare': Boss walks up to employee who's juggling multiple projects and says they're 'not doing enough'

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New employee is forced to spend $53 on a surprise birthday party for a mean coworker, when she asks the others to pitch in, no one does: “I hate that this was pushed into me”

Giuliana Tiscioni

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Guest demands explanation for hotel booking another guest in "her" room after she checked out 2 days earlier: ‘Really don’t know what to reply to such nonsense’

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Leadership forces all employees back to the office, only to have them Zoom each other from their desks: ‘I should have stayed in my sweatpants at home’

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'It all started when memes...': Pour a dash of these laughs into your morning coffee for extra energy (August 18, 2026)

Elna McHilderson

It was about time. You know what they say: when a product is free, it’s because you are the product, or something like that. We’ve enjoyed LLMs very much up to this point, and while we were enjoying them, we also helped them learn how to fix the logical and ethical problems that arose in the process.

Anthropic launches new model that imperceptibly watermarks texts made with their Language Models: ‘The load-bearing question is, how would anyone know if it was watermarked?’

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Company demands employee fix coworker’s mistakes after he does a bad job, but refuses to pay for the extra work, employee responds: ‘I don't have to take on his workload for free’

Giuliana Tiscioni

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After coworker refuses to stop taking employee's office chair, employee forces him to stop by swapping the chair with a broken one: ‘He hasn’t touched it since’

Judging by what this employee said, I don’t see any reason why he thinks he is being monitored, but I see reasons to think he is overreacting. Frequent or recurring 1-on-1s are totally normal, and might be a part of ‘office culture ’.

Employee is alarmed due to coworker arranging a recurrent 1 on 1 meeting with him: ‘I feel uncomfortable like I'm being monitored because I did something wrong. Is this normal or is this weird?’