*Surprised Pikachu face*

At least they dodged a bullet

Breaking news: employees want more money

What is it with companies that refuse to pay their workers an adequate salary and yet somehow still wonder why their employee turnover rate is absolute garbage? Surely it's not hard to understand that constantly rehiring and training new talent is a waste of time, money, and resources? When one redditor inquired about their company's subpar salary compared to competitors, the CEO literally laughed out loud and told their employees that if they find a better job, they'd better take it. Well that…

'Normalize saying "no" and hanging up'

Absolutely disgraceful.

There's no shortage of people who strut around like the whole universe revolves around them, and those people are mad annoying (especially if you work in the service industry). But it can be pretty hilarious when someone is entitled to their own detriment, or when choosing beggars get taxed extra for their rudeness. For example, when I used to bartend back in the day, I enjoyed being generous to customers for no reason. It felt good to improve some random stranger's day with a free drink or sma…

Do you ever think about all the infrastructure that holds society together and wonder what Big Industry looks like behind the scenes? Turns out every trade has its idiots who somehow got to run the show and hire their idiot friends and relatives to do dangerous and critical jobs. According to one redditor's lengthy (and captivating) tale of malicious compliance, the energy sector is no exception. I don't know who needs to hear this, but you probably shouldn't fire the only person who knows how…

Do you pay an engineer for pressing buttons or do you pay an engineer for knowing which buttons to press? Definitely the latter, and some people learn that the hard way, like the sleazy customer in u/AwkLemon 's epic r/ProRevenge story. They thought they could get away with tricking a professional problem-solver into doing a day of free labor . They thought wrong.

Don't you just love it when horrible bosses accidentally out themselves by being total a-holes on public forums? When u/ cupofteaf found out that their past workplace had shut down for good, they found some screenshottable gold right up r/ antiwork's alley. It was a negative, one-star review criticizing the restaurant for its bad hygiene practices and poor working conditions. The restaurant owner replied to the review with an angry rant full of empty threats and terrible grammar. Needless to sa…

"This profession is toxic"

Employment is pretty simple. An employer is supposed to compensate a worker for their time. When said worker is off the clock, they can do whatever the hell they want with their time. You either pay someone for their time or you dismiss them from their duties. Demanding that people stay at work while they're off the clock? Not to get all hyperbolic, but that lowkey sounds like slavery to me.

Incompetent managers are still at large

Mean girls never grow up

Having a stupid boss usually means your work life is going to be much harder than it should be. But in one redditors case, having an incompetent boss really paid off. $900 per hour to be exact.

It's insulting enough to get paid the bare minimum for a job that demands most of your time. But a company that literally steals wages from their employees ? That's just vile. When redditor u/overworked-american asked for owed wages from their former employer , they were shocked when the head of the company not only rejected their request, but justified the denial by essentially explaining that it wouldn't be fair to all the other employees the company had ripped off in the past.