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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%

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Company refuses to raise employee's salary after 2 years despite junior colleague earning 20% more

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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'

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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'

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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'

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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'

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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'

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Boss messages employee at 8 PM, laughs when employee says their contract says 9-5: 'You disregarded your own boundaries by replying to him'

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Boss promises promotion to employee for 6 months, rug pulls them at the last minute: 'I fee so used also because I worked so hard and delivered way beyond my targets'

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UPDATE: Boss tells employee to 'stick to their contract' after denying them a raise, then complains they're not doing extra: 'I'm about to reply with a screenshot'

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Boss bombards mostly-remote employee with 5 AM screenshot demanding 5 days/week in the office: 'It's an hour drive from home'

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Employee learns all their coworkers were hired at $20/hr when he was hired at $18/hr with more experience, confronts his boss about it: 'I have 7 years experience in related fields'

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Manager says 'there's nothing wrong with walking' to restaurant worker in a blizzard, claims that's no reason to miss work: 'She lives 3 miles away'

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Single mom uses PTO days for when her child's daycare is closed, boss calls her out for her request: 'Every month, there's at least one of my 5 coworkers that have taken a vacation'

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Design job requires employees to clock out to use the bathroom and refuses to heat the office, doesn't understand why they're losing workers: 'Is it too soon to walk out?'

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