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Manager's obsessive cost-cutting initiatives cost the company more money when double-sided printing policy causes problems with important client: 'All printing must be double-sided—no exceptions'

Brad Dickson

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Client demands a meeting with remote employee despite it being midnight their time, employee complies, then sets up the call at 12 AM client's time: ‘I used his words against him’

Bar Mor Hazut

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Employee laid-off by new owners gets even via remote access, uninstalling personal software: 'You should've been nicer when you laid me off'

Brad Dickson

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Fortune 25 CEO takes 1.5 hour Zoom call on a 6 AM flight, passenger claims he refused to use headphones and spoke with an ‘I'm the eldest boy’ level of volume: ‘Is this okay?’

Lana DeGaetano

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'It was ultimately one of the main reasons I ended up quitting': Former employees expose juicy company secrets they couldn’t share before their NDAs expired

Isabella Penn

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'Steal my lunch? Lose your job': Hangry senior manager catches lunch thieves on camera stealing his meal and fires them immediately

Jesse Kessenheimer

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Machine operator forced to adhere to strict new schedule by new management stalling line and costing plant millions in production: 'I got the new boss off my back and he got reamed'

Brad Dickson

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‘She didn’t even see me as a person’: Server gives her two week notice after entitled boss expects her to get back to work when she faints on the job

Lana DeGaetano

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'Malicious compliance... was easy for me. I just stopped talking': Team of scientists falls into disaray after one scientist refuses to speak following feedback from their boss

Remy Millisky

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Employee is passed up on a promotion but is expected to transfer all of his work and ideas to colleague who landed the position: ‘Higher-ups didn't want my ideas in the first place’

Lana DeGaetano

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‘You’re next': Clumsy C-level executive steamrolls their all-star employee, motivating them to quit, leaving a desperate manager to ‘save a sinking ship’

Jesse Kessenheimer

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Manager tells employee to "get a better offer" after denying them a raise, they do and quit instead: 'Get a better job offer and we'll talk'

Brad Dickson

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'No calls and I can't leave the floor? Okay': Video store employee abandons boss in broken elevator after she insists they follow rules without exception

Remy Millisky

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Employee finds out a coworker is living in a tent and spreads the information around the office, coworker teaches him a valuable lesson in response: ‘Don't dish it out if you can't take it’

Bar Mor Hazut

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26-year-old woman accuses 28-year-old coworker of abandoning and "excluding" her when he refuses to give her a ride to dinner: 'I think she's a bit pretentious to be honest'

Brad Dickson

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'I'm tired of his lack of commitment': Retired man gives family business to struggling son, then fires him for entitled behavior and takes it back

Isabella Penn

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