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Gaming company tacitly refuses to hire employees over 35 years old, lays off workers after a certain age: 'The hiring manager openly told me that the candidate I wanted to hire was too old (she was 46)'

JR Atkinson

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Manager expects employee making $75K to take over her late coworker's job, refuses to give her a raise despite the role being worth a $100K salary: 'I’m starting to feel deeply resentful.'

Emmy Pratt

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Company hosts 'mandatory' party on New Year's Eve, expects employees to drop everything: 'A company party on New Year’s Eve isn’t generous it’s intrusive'

JR Atkinson

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Manager expects employee to use her personal computer for work because the company's laptops are slow: 'Apparently, half my coworkers are using their own equipment because the company refuses to upgrade.'

Emmy Pratt

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Manager fires 27-year-old in company restructure, gets upset when he refuses to train 23-year-old replacement paid $15k less: 'I'm standing up for myself'

Ally Perry

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Manufacturing manager refuses to allow his employee to bring her 7-year-old daughter to work: 'I do not want the liability.'

Emmy Pratt

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Office worker asks work from home boyfriend to contribute to chores during the workday, gets annoyed when he waits until after work: 'It's still getting done'

Ally Perry

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Employee drives 2 hours into office to find that nobody else is there, coworkers didn't tell them not to come in: 'Even the newer staff knew not to come in, but nobody is answering'

JR Atkinson

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Coworker asks employee if she can smell her baby's head at an office party, employee happily obliges: 'Apparently, infants' heads smell good, and I just found out yesterday!'

Emmy Pratt

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71-year-old manager refuses to retire, leaving 36-year-old employee of 5 years with no room to get a promotion: 'What am I supposed to do? Just wait until I’m 40 for my first promotion?'

Emmy Pratt

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Manager calls out employee for using phone while on lunchbreak in company cafeteria: 'That's not a professional look'

Ally Perry

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Workplace writes up employees for every time they call out of a shift, no matter how far in advance: 'In an industry that's hemorrhaging workforce, these threats seem pretty silly'

JR Atkinson

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Coworkers refuse to tell employee making $20/hr how much they make, are afraid it will embarrass them: 'Then they give me this like disgusted look like, "oh..."'

JR Atkinson

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The Best Relatable Work Memes This Week

Ally Perry

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Loyal employee is denied PTO request for their birthday, rewards it instead to employee who asked for it verbally because it's 'tradition': 'She had multiple weekends off [...] but my request was denied'

JR Atkinson

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Employee leaves office at 5 PM instead of staying late after his boss denies his PTO requests, gets reprimanded for not being a team player: 'I've been here 4 years and never called out once.'

Emmy Pratt

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