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Employee fakes pregnancy to get 3 weeks of PTO after using up their annual vacation alotment; gets away with it: 'She photoshopped a sonogram'

Jesse Kessenheimer

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Social media manager buries micromanaging boss in approval requests and business starts to suffer, owner steps in and gives manager more control and a raise: 'The problem is she takes forever to respond'

Isabella Penn

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Worker who always comes to work 20 to 30 minutes early is late to work once, prompting reprimand from their boss, the next time they're late they show up 2.5 hours late instead: 'Same penalty for being 6 minutes late as for being 3 hours late? Ok boss'

Brad Dickson

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‘Now I sell by myself and make tons more money’: Friends try to hijack a homemade ice cream business by eating the inventory, inviting freeloaders, and cutting out the owner, forcing the real entrepreneur to take everything and leave

Etai Eshet

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Customer tries to use employee’s tip jar to pay for her order, refuses to leave and starts hassling other shoppers for handouts: ‘I have to follow the law. It doesn't matter if you're a Hollywood actor, a politician, [or] someone without housing’

Etai Eshet

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Boss fires employee but refuses to give them their final paycheck, employee files a formal complaint, forcing boss to reply: ‘Considering my kindness letting you go, very disappointed in you’

Bar Mor Hazut

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Employee quits job without notice after accepting a job offer, leading current CEO to reach out to their new job to complain: ‘He called to tell them I didn't put in a notice’

Bar Mor Hazut

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25+ Workers who were baffled by modern technology: 'He picked up the mouse and started to use it like a TV remote'

Remy Millisky

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Manager blocks employee from getting a promotion, driving them to quit their job, years later same manager applies to a position in employee's new company: ‘I got her interview canceled’

Bar Mor Hazut

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Retail worker’s attempt to resign turns into a game of cat and mouse as her boss ignores and keeps calling her in for shifts she’s already quit: ‘I make it clear I’m resigning, not taking leave, she tells me to “let her know when I'm ready to come back”’

Etai Eshet

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'Whole spreadsheets, proposals, pitch decks, gone': Toxic boss continually deletes employees' work to 'test' their 'adaptability' under pressure

Lana DeGaetano

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'I'm not walking up 17 flights of stairs': Delivery driver confronts customer who orders more than 224 water bottles to 17-story walk-up apartment

Remy Millisky

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New coworker demands that things are done "by the book" forcing the manager to remove flexible working agreements with the staff and making everything worse for everyone: 'Rules are Rules and they are there for a reason'

Brad Dickson

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'The guy who cost the company $3 million dollars': 20+ Employees who made colossal mistakes at work

Remy Millisky

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Employer demands new hires finance their own travel expenses for a 2-week training out of state, leading employee to reconsider accepting the job: ‘I guess that’s the catch’

Bar Mor Hazut

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‘Tina always acted like the simplest parts of the job were beneath her’: Dental office assistant Tina hides supplies to avoid work, pushing her coworker to stop covering for her, leading to Tina’s dramatic departure

Etai Eshet

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