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A young confident employee wearing a sweater stands in the hallway at the office after asking for a lofty raise

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.'

A tired employee rubs his forehead with his hand while sitting at a computer and being surrounded by multiple screens

Employee works 60 hour weeks only for promotion to go to director's brother-in-law, fears getting fired when he reduces hours down to 40: 'I increased productivity by 3x'

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A coffee shop worker smiles as she hands a customer a paper bag over the counter

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?'

A burnt out employee sitting at the desk after coming back from three weeks of vacation

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.'

A mom looks at her laptop and holds her cellphone while a young child sits beside her

Employee leaves at 2 PM daily to pick up kids from school, manager complains they only work 5 hours a day: 'There wasn't much indication of willingness to change'

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Company refuses to give a temp employee a raise, despite promoting him to a role that requires the workload of a full-time employee: 'I'm making minimum wage.'

A smug boss sits at his desk, hoping that his former employee will come crawling back to him after he laid her off two weeks before Christmas

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.'

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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 giving presentation in conference room an hour after she was told to start said presentation

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.'

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Manager hesitates when HR orders termination of older employee who clocks in and out from home: 'I know she knows it's wrong'

Close up of the open mouth of a burping woman

Employee considers confronting coworker who burps every 15 minutes: 'She does always say excuse me after but it’s just a bit nasty.'

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The Best Relatable Work Memes This Week

A boss and an unqualified employee writing on a white board at work

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.'

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Recruiters laugh at prospective employee while interviewing them: 'So what do you think this position actually does all day? Do you understand it?'

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Close up of somebody holding a camera above a table and in front of somebody else

Hotel underpays photographer by half, she undercuts their revenue by 70%: 'We decided to talk to the customers'

A businessman in a suit shakes hands with another person

High performing employee gets job offer, weighs up resigning the day he receives $10000 bonus: 'I earned that'

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Manager hesitates to criticize high-performing employee who refuses to document work: 'The rest of the team is stuck'

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18-year-old refuses to invite his stepmom to his high school graduation because she locked him in a room when he was 6: 'She just doesn't know how to act.'

18-year-old refuses to invite his stepmom to his high school graduation because she locked him in a room when he was 6: 'She just doesn't know how to act.'

19-year-old finds out the girl who made his school years miserable is his half-sister, and his dad wants them to bond and have a relationship

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Warehouse employee reports safety issue, company changes his job title without telling him: 'I never signed anything, never got a new offer letter, and nobody told me this was a formal change'

Warehouse employee reports safety issue, company changes his job title without telling him: 'I never signed anything, never got a new offer letter, and nobody told me this was a formal change'

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