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Boss scolds 29-year-old employee for being too direct in emails: 'The emails were literally things like: “Hi, can you send the updated file when you get a chance?”'

Emmy Pratt

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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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Pushover boss refuses to fire toxic employee even as they acknowledge their failure: 'It seems like poor performance and bad behavior are actually being rewarded here'

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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Employee doing the work of 2 people asks company for a $40K raise: 'It would cost the company $120K to hire another employee to do my previous job.'

Emmy Pratt

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Boss demands lowest-paid employee spend $100 on lunch for customer, she worries she won't get paid back: 'Is it not etiquette to pick up the check?'

Ally Perry

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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.'

Emmy Pratt

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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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Boss lays off employee 2 weeks before Christmas, asks her to do unpaid work for him 2 months later 'as a friend': 'The only other employee, his wife, left him and the business.'

Emmy Pratt

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Employee leaves job of 5 years with no fanfare, regrets spending years in a toxic environment: 'I left like a ghost'

JR Atkinson

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Boss asks employee at 8 AM to make a presentation for the whole company at 9 AM: 'He is the same guy that passed me over for a promotion.'

Emmy Pratt

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Employee makes half-joke about asking for 'allowance' when boss calls them family, boss retaliates and buries him under projects: 'It was clearly tongue in cheek'

JR Atkinson

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The Best Relatable Work Memes This Week

Ally Perry

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Job seeker steals roommate's portfolio to land a new job, roommate tells their new boss the work was stolen: 'They rescinded her offer within 2 hours.'

Emmy Pratt

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Unqualified employee pretends to do job for 8 months, fears she'll get caught when her boss asks her to lead a meeting: 'I've been surviving entirely on confident nodding.'

Emmy Pratt

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Boss reprimands employee for leaving at 5:10 when his hours are 8:30-5: 'It's the worst work culture I've ever encountered'

JR Atkinson

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