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It was about time. You know what they say: when a product is free, it’s because you are the product, or something like that. We’ve enjoyed LLMs very much up to this point, and while we were enjoying them, we also helped them learn how to fix the logical and ethical problems that arose in the process.

Anthropic launches new model that imperceptibly watermarks texts made with their Language Models: ‘The load-bearing question is, how would anyone know if it was watermarked?’

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Company demands employee fix coworker’s mistakes after he does a bad job, but refuses to pay for the extra work, employee responds: ‘I don't have to take on his workload for free’

Giuliana Tiscioni

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After coworker refuses to stop taking employee's office chair, employee forces him to stop by swapping the chair with a broken one: ‘He hasn’t touched it since’

Judging by what this employee said, I don’t see any reason why he thinks he is being monitored, but I see reasons to think he is overreacting. Frequent or recurring 1-on-1s are totally normal, and might be a part of ‘office culture ’.

Employee is alarmed due to coworker arranging a recurrent 1 on 1 meeting with him: ‘I feel uncomfortable like I'm being monitored because I did something wrong. Is this normal or is this weird?’

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Boss blocks employee from all workplace channels after receiving their resignation letter and notice, employee stops coming to work: ‘Too bad I'm a coward’

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Manager denies 2 PTO requests, claiming the employees submitted them too late, employees refuse to work in response: ‘Consider it your resignation’

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Boss hints that coworker is about to be fired, coworker is racked with guilt wondering if they should say something: 'She just bought a new home'

Job candidate attends interview, accidentally receives internal company feedback: 'Why would we hire someone who would be the worst person in the company?'

Job candidate attends interview, accidentally receives internal company feedback: 'Why would we hire someone who would be the worst person in the company?'

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Boss chews out employee for not inviting their coworkers to their birthday brunch: 'Haha are you joking'

Stressed-out mom works at the office on Fridays, even though she used to be able to work from home on Fridays.

Fully remote childless boss demands hybrid employee RTO full-time, despite having a child she needs to pick up from school early: 'That’s your problem to figure out. Your child doesn’t work for the company, you do.'

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Employee copies and sends company documents to competitors after company fires him and demands that he train his replacement before leaving: ‘He brought a USB drive’

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Boss asked employee to falsify invoices to make the department seem more profitable, so he created a hardware problem in his last 2 weeks: 'A week later, this old director started contacting me demanding I finish a project I had "committed to".'

Idaho Employee Demands to Be Paid for Unexplained Mandatory Meeting With Boss Following Missed Shift

‘You’re Getting Fired Bro’: Idaho Employee Demands to Be Paid for Unexplained Mandatory Meeting With Boss Following Missed Shift—Online Community Tells Him He Is About to Be Fired, but It All Works Out When He Receives a Phone Call 40 Mins Before

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Job candidate attends 4 person interview, director demands to know which interview they would least like as a manager: 'I thought she misspoke'

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The classical ‘Petty employee turned CEO’ story that never occurs At some point in our careers, we’ve all had that one coworker

Employee asks for tips on how to deal with a coworker who constantly reports everyone else’s slip-ups: ‘They turn every little thing into a investigation, escalations and somehow remember every mistake you’ve made’

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Man arrives to a job interview 7 minutes early but leaves after he’s made to wait almost half an hour to be interviewed: ‘When it got to around 27 minutes, I decided my time was more important than that’