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‘"You can pay the heat bill then"’: Coworker turns on office heat in the peak of the summer and employee opens the window to stay cool, but the coworker continues to complain despite having a heating pad and space heater

Lana DeGaetano

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‘[My] "Coming out of your introvert shell" moment’: Quiet 51-year-old employee finally let's the office ‘Karen’ have it when she yells about parking, gets her fired 2 complaints later

Elna McHilderson

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Coworker convinces clueless new boss to give her a fellow teacher's job because it pays $1.5k more, can't handle it: 'She's getting my 1.5K stipend now, but I no longer have to deal with extra meetings, extra parent phone calls, miscommunication, etc.'

Brad Dickson

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‘"You knew I could hear you, right?" and he said "Huh?"’: Coworker Darron accidentally answers call on Truck Bluetooth, trashes colleague without knowing she can hear him

Etai Eshet

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‘I get to watch her struggle worse than I did in it’: Fellow teacher grabs leadership role from a colleague, then learns she can’t handle the parents and spreadsheets it involves

Etai Eshet

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‘This isn't company policy...’: Employee happily resigns from job due to ‘toxic company culture’ and boss demands to know sensitive details about their next role, even though no other coworkers faced the same fate

Lana DeGaetano

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‘"I'm not sure about him… I think he's like, a video gamer"’: Job applicant finds out he isn't hired because the hiring team profiled him as a ‘video gamer’, all thanks to an Otter.AI meeting transcription

Lana DeGaetano

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'She’s mastered the optics game': Coworker treats office like "theater show", always taking credit for coworkers' work and verbalizing how great she is, causing office tension when managers undeservingly applaud her

Emma Saven

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15+ Job interviews full of red flags: 'The manager... showed me YouTube videos for like 30 minutes'

Remy Millisky

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Boss refuses to acknowledge employee's two-week notice, refusing to discuss it further and acting like they aren't leaving: 'She's still assigning me projects for next month. Still scheduling me for meetings three weeks out'

Brad Dickson

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'[I] got fired 4 hours into my first day': Entitled coworker gets new warehouse employee fired for working too slowly even though it was his first day

Ben Weiss

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‘HR hung up on me’: After being fired, HR director contacts ex-employee asking to hire them as a contractor, only to be appalled when they ask for a pay rate 5x their former salary

Bar Mor Hazut

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'I don’t like them either, the difference is, I don’t feel the need to pretend': Coworkers are baffled when employee refuses to socialize with them during lunch break, despite them repeatedly insulting her behind her back

Emma Saven

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‘Do they want to blackmail the new hires?': Guy walks out of a job interview after only 2 questions, dodging a shady employer because of a sinking gut feeling

Jesse Kessenheimer

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‘I actually got to see a "shocked Pikachu" face’: Employee expected to get a $20k raise is actually offered $6k and told to “just quit” if he's unhappy, so he does and finds a higher paying job

Elna McHilderson

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New micromanager demands "detailed" daily reports, IT technician drowns them with every unnecessary detail about their day: 'By Friday, my “daily report” was 87 pages long. Times New Roman, size 11, single-spaced'

Brad Dickson

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