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'Get all of the documentation you can about this': Retail job asks employees to use the bathroom only on their pre-determined breaks

JR Atkinson

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Employee gets no coverage for long weekends off, is expected to cover for colleagues taking 2-3 weeks off at once

JR Atkinson

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Company replaces kind, respectful manager with a micromanaging AI-obsessed manager: 'I was planning to be at this company long term, but I'm already looking for new work.'

Emmy Pratt

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Work investigates employee for leaving the country during sick leave because of their email timestamps: 'You're 100% going to get fired'

JR Atkinson

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Manager interrupts with a message every time employee is on a call: 'It took me a while to realize it was intentional'

JR Atkinson

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Company charges $40 for company gear, forbids workers from wearing it on the job

JR Atkinson

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Manager catches employee working 2 full-time remote jobs at the same time: 'Apparently he took 2 weeks PTO when starting out, and then went right back to work the other job'

JR Atkinson

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Employee is let go after 11 years with no severance: 'Why is this underhandedness tolerated?'

JR Atkinson

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Fast food worker finds out about their first shift 30 minutes after it starts, manager berates them for not knowing: 'Well, I'm simply not in town today'

JR Atkinson

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Retail worker gives 2 week's notice, boss chews them out for not giving advance notice of the notice: 'Essentially she wanted a 1 month notice'

JR Atkinson

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Boss approves employee's email asking client for a raise, backtracks and chews them out when client denies it, cuts their salary by 30%

JR Atkinson

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Employee is 9 days into new job when she feels like she's being conned, boss is completely absent: 'After hours requests, weekend requests, 10pm requests, 5am requests'

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Coworkers snoop through colleague's private social media just to screenshot and send to manager: 'She sent them a selfie I took at home and put on my Instagram story'

JR Atkinson

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Coworker pressures colleague to us AI tool to write simple 2-sentence email, colleague pushes back: 'It would take about ten seconds to write myself'

JR Atkinson

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Boss asks remote employee to drive over 3 hours to the office with less than 24 hours warning: 'I said no, then he basically begged me'

JR Atkinson

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Remote employee quits, boss forces them to travel across the country and stay 3 months to finish their work: 'No is a complete sentence'

JR Atkinson

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