bad bosses

'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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Warehouse supervisor tells employees to use Kleenex instead of toilet paper because he forgot to order it: 'Don't mention this issue to any female so no one calls off tomorrow'

JR Atkinson

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Company sends package to wrong address, asks random recipient to print out a label and take it to UPS: 'This isn't my problem'

JR Atkinson

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Manager asks employee to stay an extra 5 minutes while clocked out, employee wonders if that's legal: 'I'm honestly pretty frustrated'

JR Atkinson

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Employees are forced to cut boiled steaks with plastic utensils at mess of an 'employee appreciation dinner': 'The worst part was: they locked us inside the building'

JR Atkinson

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Coworker takes entire boxes home of office snacks, manager locks the cabinet in response: 'Over four Tuesdays in a row the cabinet is half empty by 2 pm and [he] has a tote bag'

JR Atkinson

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Company forces employees to buy and carve their own pumpkins for mandatory after-hours competition: 'Forced camaraderie is the worst'

JR Atkinson

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'Dude straight up presented my entire deck at the meeting': Manager steals employee's presentation word-for-word and passes it off as his own, gets his comeuppance when VP finds out

JR Atkinson

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Company forces employees to re-apply for their jobs at an $8k salary cut: 'I've been there 6 years. Built entire systems, trained new staff, covered shifts constantly'

JR Atkinson

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Employee purposefully slows down productivity to show how he's carrying the team, his coworkers flip out: 'I was the mug that covered for everybody and was then doing 5 peoples jobs, [then] I decided to work at the pace of everyone else'

JR Atkinson

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Company fires 40 employees at once via a slide show, leaving them to scramble wondering why: 'We got bought by a tech giant and it turned into a cult'

JR Atkinson

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Company's AI payroll tool decides one employee shouldn't be paid that month, tells them to wait for the next one: 'So now I'm sitting here debugging code while worrying if I'll be able to afford my lunches until this is fixed'

JR Atkinson

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'Maybe if you actually checked your own emails once in a while': Boss insults employee in front of team, employee accidentally lets the truth slip

JR Atkinson

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