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A demanding boss forces employees to collaborate, without giving them any time to do so.

Boss demands more collaboration between employees while scheduling 6 hours of back-to-back meetings every day: 'When exactly is the "collaboration" supposed to happen?'

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Restaurant employee forgets to request time off for proposal, gets annoyed when coworkers won't swap shifts with him: 'He ended up proposing in the parking lot'

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Employee takes 8 brownies from communal tray, coworker considers stopping baking for the office

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Job-seeker goes through 4 interviews only to learn they were never a real candidate in the first place: 'I was a prop in their internal politics'

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Boss texts employee the day before to come in at 10 AM on mother's day despite previously saying 4:30 PM: 'I now have commitments in the morning'

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Management lay off employee, expect him to train coworker taking his place: 'They are putting him in a position to fail'

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Boss accuses employee of job hopping for leaving $55K job for a $78K job after 2 years: 'We’re a family and loyalty looks better on a resume.'

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Employee hands in notice, manager demands she write 100 page technical manual in her last 10 days: 'I have spent seven years building these processes'

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Boss cheers and claps after employee puts her 2-week notice in: 'She has been one of the worst, if not the worst, bosses I have ever worked for.'

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Boss sends menacing email forcing all employees into AI evaluation, threatens terminations: 'Anyone who cannot demonstrate meaningful progress after this exercise will be replaced'

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Manager forces convenience store employee to work 14-hour shift after coverage doesn't show up: 'My manager would rather us work 16 hours than close the store'

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29-year-old engineer constantly quiet-quits his job every few months, can't summon energy: 'I can perform competence indefinitely, but I can’t manufacture investment'

Clerk talking on the phone at work, after having spent most of the workday talking to her coworkers about everything under the sun.

65-year-old clerk constantly talks all throughout the workday, interrupts coworker when she tries to get a word in: 'She never calls off and never shuts up or stops complaining.'

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High performing employee flattens team morale, manager struggles to address it: 'They're creating tension'

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Intern on $80k bosses around coworkers, manager considers intervention: 'She talks down to people'

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Boss sends prank email firing employee on April 31st, a date that does not exist: 'What a terrible joke in this economy lol'