human resources

Company accuses employee of taking excessive time off on his first day off of the entire year: 'I’ll be using all my time to handle the complex estate my grandmother left behind.'

Emmy Pratt

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HR department demands employee's personal phone, installs location tracking app on it: 'I questioned this'

Ally Perry

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HR department admits they receive 2000 job applications for one position, and don't look at any of them: 'AI sorts through them, and then they just go based off intuition.'

Emmy Pratt

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Job seeker accepts 'fully remote' job, gets told they have to be in the office 3 days a week during their induction: 'This team has been hybrid for a while now'

Ally Perry

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Company announces return to office 2 days after employee signs a lease on an apartment 45 minutes away from the office: 'I have been remote for 3 years.'

Emmy Pratt

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5 employees order desserts to the office every week, enraging their 30 coworkers who they don't share food with: 'Our coworkers constantly glare at us when eating.'

Emmy Pratt

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Boss steals employee's personal camera from his locker to take pictures for a company event: 'Our manager gave her my locker code.'

Emmy Pratt

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Company lays off hardworking employee of 12 years after boss explicitly told her she was safe from layoffs: 'No warning. No acknowledgment of 12 years.'

Emmy Pratt

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Employee requests $10k raise in line with colleagues, gets reprimanded by HR for finishing work early instead: 'I'm working Sunday at 10 PM'

Ally Perry

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HR claims they 'lost' employee's application for promotion after they hired an external nepo candidate for the job: 'Did you send it by carrier pigeon?'

JR Atkinson

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Boss schedules an HR meeting with new hire at 3:30 on a Friday: 'Is this a sign I am getting fired?'

Emmy Pratt

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HR tells employee she needs to work 2 more months following resignation despite working 3-month notice period: 'I stayed out of goodwill'

Ally Perry

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Employee notices she takes less PTO after her company adopted an unlimited PTO policy: 'In 2022, I took 13 PTO days. Last year with unlimited, I took 8.'

Emmy Pratt

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Female employee tells 5'6 male coworker that he shouldn't have children because he's too short: 'She said she doesn't understand why someone would marry a man as short as I am.'

Emmy Pratt

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Coworker reports colleague to HR for 'being too quiet,' complains they don't make enough small talk: 'So this is about me not chatting enough?'

JR Atkinson

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Company allows high-performing employees to work from home, forces everyone to return to office when underperforming employees complain: 'Because others are underperforming, we have to return to office full time.'

Emmy Pratt

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