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Hospital worker accepts higher-level position with a $2 raise at their employer of 2 years, but the pay is missing from their first paycheck, then HR contacts them saying the offer was a mistake: 'The new rate would actually be LOWER than my previous pay'

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Corporate employee wants to quit his job and finally travel but feels guilty and scared: ‘Sometimes I see myself as a robot and I need to remember that I can break free from the programming. Does anyone relate?’

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Employee refuses to share the first harvest with coworkers after 3 years of doing the workplace gardening without their help: ‘We get the first dibs’

Do we have to rebrand our lives now? Boundaries between work and personal life have become diffuse, to say the least.

‘Everyone is acting like this is cute and wholesome. I don’t want to do it’: Company asks employees to submit a video of their home-office setup for publicity

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Restaurant owners cut hardworking employees hours down from 48 hours a week to 32 hours a week so their lazy nephews can work more, get angry when he gets a 2nd job on the weekends

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The thing is, we’re right in the middle of a profound change, so I don't think we can expect everything to be settled and working soon. We still have many things to adjust and change. At first, companies wer

‘If this building blew up in flames it would still be a far second to the least hectic day at my old job’: Ex-marketing employee resigns and gets a ‘simple office job’ to get away from stress

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Boss continually contacts employee after work hours with non-emergency asks: 'I'm muting her number going forward'

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Company gets rid of evening security guard, then demands last employee to leave to take care of closing duties, employee refuses: ‘I'm leaving at 5 from now on’

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Boss's assistant demands employee stop over-documenting, employee proves they followed her exact instructions, boss takes employee's side: ‘She is getting what she asked for’

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'It all started when...': Pour a dash of these laughs into your morning meme coffee for extra energy

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This teacher worked as an adult educator under their supervisor for a year. They became increasingly frustrated with their supervisor's repeated criticism of their attempts to improve lesson plans. This improvement included migrating the teaching materials to a new platform. But their supervisor insisted on using the outdated platform.

6-year-veteran teacher adapts lesson plans for their students' benefit, quits when a supervisor reprimands them for it in front of the entire 60-student class: 'My boss then starts berating me and saying the students aren't appreciative of what we do'

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Two coworkers, one of whom keeps telling the other, in no uncertain terms, that she stinks. LIterally.

Coworker accuses employee of smelling bad, despite her doctor telling her that she doesn't have a smell: 'I take great pains to NOT smell.'

At this point, we should create a LinkedIn dictionary I’ve been saying this for the longest time: I think employers might have good intentions when titling their job offers like this, such as trying to make potential workers feel more important, but the problem is, nobody understands what they’re applying for anymore,

‘A job title should tell people what your job is. If it needs an entire paragraph to translate it into plain English, then it has failed as a title’: Employee reflects on LinkedIn’s cryptic titles for completely normal jobs

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Employee quits job after finding out their direct report was making more than them: ‘I brought it up to management and was brushed off’

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Is it delusional to want work conditions to change in this day and age? If we received a reward for hard work, most of us would most certainly make the effort, but in most cases, that’s definitely not the case.

‘They effectively have negative incentive to work. They’ll only be punished for work’: Reflections on why Gen Z has gone the minimum effort route

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Manager cancels employee's 2 week vacation a day before it was due to start, employee considers quitting: 'I gave notice 6 months ago'