bad bosses

Boss asks employee to pick up her keys at another office off the clock, refuses to admit it's wage theft: 'No, I am not her personal assistant'

JR Atkinson

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HR hounds woman on maternity leave to complete trainings, boss constantly reminds them not to bother her: 'Your current management just threw you under the bus instead of taking 5 seconds to check the email chain'

JR Atkinson

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Employee quits their job 1.5 hours before his whole team is laid off with severance: 'If you ever know you’re getting let go, don’t resign'

JR Atkinson

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Job lies about 6-week out-of-state training process to get employee to onboard, won't cover travel expenses and only gives $20 for food: 'I will most likely have to quit my job over this'

JR Atkinson

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Boss tells employee they 'lack passion' for not answering Slack messages at 10 PM: 'I make $19/hr [...] for a company that sells industrial cleaning supplies'

JR Atkinson

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Boss sends pre-8AM, AI-written email asking employees to come in during a blizzard: 'The multi-car pileup in the untreated parking lot entrance was a nice welcome'

JR Atkinson

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Boss reprimands employee for taking their 30-minute lunch break, tells them they're 'lucky to have a job' making $16/hr: 'Done being grateful for crumbs'

JR Atkinson

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24-year-old coworker withholds $10/month for employee 'social fund' after fund manager refuses to show where the money is going: 'He’s lashing out because you’re about to end his gravy train'

JR Atkinson

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Boss reprimands employee for clocking in 5 minutes before their shift, calls it 'unauthorized overtime': 'What makes it even dumber is they constantly complain that we don’t show up early enough'

JR Atkinson

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Hiring manager calls night-shift worker in the middle of sleeping at 12pm: 'I know they’re going to show me the same job vacancy I didn’t accept before because of too low wage'

JR Atkinson

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After giving 2-weeks notice, boss demands employee tell them where they're going: 'She's asking to try and blacklist you at the new company'

JR Atkinson

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Employee calls coworker's handwriting 'hostile,' complains she feels 'unsafe' reading labels he wrote: 'Last week I got called to HR'

JR Atkinson

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'I was rejected for the job I currently have': Job-seeker is passed over for a job, only to be hired 4 months later because 1st hire couldn't 'handle it'

JR Atkinson

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Company tells worker to drive coworker to the airport after their 3-week trip: 'I don’t want to be known as the guy who takes people to the airport'

JR Atkinson

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Company fires employee for no reason, immediately hounds them to return equipment within 24 hours: 'Are they trying to intimidate me?'

JR Atkinson

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22-year-old employee refuses to respond to work messages after 8 PM because her boss got angry she didn't respond to his message at 11:40 PM: 'He said I should stay on top of communication if I want to grow.'

Emmy Pratt

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