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New employee monitors boss's schedule, asking for confidential information and requesting to join meetings with higher-ups, boss left baffled: ‘It's not something I’m willing to discuss’

Bar Mor Hazut

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‘Laughing through his anger’: Restaurant host gets written up for ‘abandoning’ post to aid with a car crash, convinces manager to fire him, celebrates

Elna McHilderson

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Karen threatens to get a call center employee fired because they won't refund $1.50, but after 15 minutes of getting yelled at, the employee just hangs up on her: ‘This call is no longer productive’

Jesse Kessenheimer

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‘Am I crazy for thinking this is basic hygiene??’: Colleague touches all the bagels in her office breakfast spread with her bare hands, then refers to a coworker as ‘mom’ when they object to her unhygienic behavior

Lana DeGaetano

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Children's Museum employee gets fired after insisting on better treatment for fish: 'It is not your place to give me advice'

Remy Millisky

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'Suddenly they could rework the timeline': Manager demands team work unpaid overtime for a long-standing deadline, employees all respond by calling in ‘sick’, forcing manager to backtrack the timeline’s so-called ‘urgency’

Emma Saven

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HR intervenes after disagreement over office thermostat heats up: 'My coworker decided 72 degrees was “too cold” even though it literally feels like a sauna to the rest of us'

Brad Dickson

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‘[That was] money I needed’: Top saleswoman refuses to accept her manager's empty promises after they cut everyone's hours in half, quitting for a better-paying job that values their employees

Jesse Kessenheimer

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Irksome colleague uses the office coffee station as his personal ‘TED Talk’ summary stage: ‘He goes into detail like he is trying to recite the transcript’

Lana DeGaetano

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24-year-old manager informs boss that they've scheduled a surgery to repair their torn meniscus, boss is ‘furious’ and tries to guilt-trip them: ‘I have been struggling bad’

Lana DeGaetano

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Boss demands 24/7 "urgent" access to employee, interrupting the employee's evenings and weekends with tasks that could have waited: 'If I’m not answering emails at 10PM, I’ll wake up to passive aggressive messages'

Brad Dickson

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‘Guy looked for a second at me then waved me off and said to get lost’: Entitled gym goer waves off fitness trainer who tries to enforce phone rules during his workout, gets caught lying about talking to his doctor, and is sent to talk loudly elsewhere

Etai Eshet

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UPDATE: Executive directors accidentally send job candidate private meeting video discussing her job interview: 'Do I just pretend I didn't see the recap?'

Remy Millisky

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‘I put in my notice. I finish my work and MORE, and apparently I don't look busy??? I wonder what else they think of me’: Employee quits after manager embarrasses her for not looking busy enough, despite doing extra work

Etai Eshet

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Belittled coworker creates a slideshow calling out their teammate, compiling screenshots of their in-office microaggressions to present to the entire department: ‘The receipts were literally on the projector’

Jesse Kessenheimer

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Entitled woman guilt-trips coworkers into giving her free food and perks, claiming she is a struggling single mom, coworker left furious when discovering she's actually living a luxurious lifestyle: 'Everyone else is buying her 'poor me' act'

Emma Saven

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