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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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Company refuses to give employees raises unless they have a competing offer, employee provides a fake offer letter, resulting in a $45,000 raise: ‘Don't mind if I do’

Bar Mor Hazut

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Essential employee resigns during meeting with "huge" client after being denied a raise and getting another job offer mid-meeting, client cancels contract: 'I accepted their offer, contract in my email within 5 minutes, digitally signed it within 10'

Brad Dickson

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‘The joke was on him’: Manager gets himself fired after threatening to fire an integral employee if he didn't pass a test, he passes and immediately quits

Elna McHilderson

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IT worker maliciously complies with a manager's demand to turn off critical servers during business hours, despite warning her against it, plunging the company into chaos: ‘She got dragged into a meeting with the COO and CTO that afternoon’

Emma Saven

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Underpaid employee scores $170k job offer elsewhere, then recruits 6 other colleagues to leave their stingy company high and dry: ‘The feeling of vindication is unreal’

Lana DeGaetano

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