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Employee attends funeral of husband's grandma who she knew for 35 years, manager claims she doesn't count for bereavement leave: 'She encouraged me to go to the funeral'

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Company changes PTO policy to 5 days months after hiring worker, forces them to cancel their vacation

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A young female employee looks over her bank statements, which show she's being paid less than she was before her supposed “raise.”

Boss tells employee she's getting a raise, gives her a $12K pay cut instead: 'Every paycheck is $488 less than what it used to be.'

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Employee refuses to give up their approved PTO when office parents try to guilt trip them into accommodating spring break: 'I'm not giving up my time off just because I don't have kids'

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Boss asks employee to cancel nonrefundable vacation because it coincides with hers: 'I calculated the fees, they are way more than a few hundred dollars'

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A burnt out employee sitting at the desk after coming back from three weeks of vacation

Employee takes 3 weeks of PTO, returns to work feeling as burnt out as he did before the vacation: 'My motivation for work is basically gone.'

A woman in a hat laying on the beach while on vacation from her job, which gives her unlimited paid-time-off

Employee notices she takes less PTO after her company adopted an unlimited PTO policy: 'In 2022, I took 13 PTO days. Last year with unlimited, I took 8.'

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Job's strict PTO policy means new employee has to work September through June with no days off: 'Turns out PTO can be theoretical'

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Every time employee takes a PTO day they still end up 40 hours/week to cover it, nullifying the PTO: 'I should've worked 24 hours but I worked double that'

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Single mom uses PTO days for when her child's daycare is closed, boss calls her out for her request: 'Every month, there's at least one of my 5 coworkers that have taken a vacation'

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Employee refuses to donate his PTO hours to a coworker who he barely knows: 'Amy said that not donating is really selfish'

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Company only allows PTO on 'sick days,' forcing employees to lie about their time off: 'That’s basically no PTO with extra steps'

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Manager contacts employee's personal phone number while she's on her honeymoon, she feels her boundaries have been violated: 'I'm not trying to escalate. I just want boundaries respected'

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Manager messages employee on Facebook on their approved PTO days asking for help with a project: 'I muted both, marked them as read, and didn't reply'

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Loyal employee is denied PTO request for their birthday, rewards it instead to employee who asked for it verbally because it's 'tradition': 'She had multiple weekends off [...] but my request was denied'

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Employee leaves office at 5 PM instead of staying late after his boss denies his PTO requests, gets reprimanded for not being a team player: 'I've been here 4 years and never called out once.'

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Part time employee working from 8:30 AM to 1:30 PM refuses to come in early to help her coworkers: 'When I say early, I mean like 3 AM.'

Part time employee working from 8:30 AM to 1:30 PM refuses to come in early to help her coworkers: 'When I say early, I mean like 3 AM.'

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Boston-based company requires remote North Carolinian employee to work from a coworking space 2 days a week: 'I do the same work I do at home from a louder room with worse coffee.'

Boston-based company requires remote North Carolinian employee to work from a coworking space 2 days a week: 'I do the same work I do at home from a louder room with worse coffee.'

Manager fires supermarket employee for refusing to clean other department, faces $40,000 in losses: 'It's not what I was hired for'

Manager fires supermarket employee for refusing to clean other department, faces $40,000 in losses: 'It's not what I was hired for'

Company forces worker to commute 40 minutes 2/week just to sit in a room alone taking Zoom meetings

Company forces worker to commute 40 minutes 2/week just to sit in a room alone taking Zoom meetings

28-year-old cuts off financial support to his parents after 3 years of paying and putting his own life on hold: ‘I’ve been living paycheck to paycheck just to keep up with helping them’

28-year-old cuts off financial support to his parents after 3 years of paying and putting his own life on hold: ‘I’ve been living paycheck to paycheck just to keep up with helping them’

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