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A young businesswoman smiles, holding a laptop under one arm and putting her hand in her pocket with the other, as her colleagues sit behind her out of focus

Coworkers spend 6 weeks competing for management position, company hires external candidate instead: 'We're trying to recalibrate'

An overly confident young employee strolls into a meeting to ask his boss for a 50% raise.

Gen Z employee demands a 50% raise after 1 year of work, requests meeting with CEO after his manager says no: 'He informed me that he deserves a $41K bump.'

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Cashier walks off the job after new manager fires assistant manager of 2 years with no explanation: 'It's not a group discussion it's a corporate decision'

An employee standing at a front desk, thinking about something as she uses a tablet

Front desk intern declines to extend 10 month contract, manager complains as 6 interns quit before her: 'We are throwing away a great opportunity'

A female hospitality worker smiles while holding a clipboard behind a counter with a coffee machine behind her

Customer gives restaurant worker $5000 tip, manager demands they split it between every employee: 'Am I selfish to want to object?'

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Male and female businesspeople sit at opposite ends of a couch shaking hands, a laptop on the coffee table in front of them

Job seeker ghosts hiring manager for role that pays $30k more, she becomes his boss 3 years later: 'I am no longer interested in working here'

Exhausted engineer works much later than he would like to at his stressful job.

Software engineer working 70 hours a week quits after his manager berates him for not working at 7 PM on a Saturday: 'My parents think I lost my mind, but for the first time in a long time, my chest feels light.'

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Retail employee takes home customer's wallet, gets angry when coworker tells management: 'He planned to return it personally'

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A young man works his first day at his new job at the gas station.

Gas station boss only schedules 2 brand new employees for a shift, throws a fit when they have to close down the station for 30 minutes due to an error they couldn't fix: 'It was just me and her, no manager, no experienced employee in sight'

Top-performer stares down her coworker, who is not doing the same level of work as she is.

Toxic employee makes coworkers cry and rolls her eyes during meetings, manager can't fire her because she hits 150% of her targets: 'She says [her coworkers] are too sensitive.'

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Company won't allow remote employee to relocate 1 mile away within their city: 'You’ve been shown the warning signs'

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Company fires the best manager for standing up for his team, asks his team to give the company honest feedback: 'They stress honesty and open communication, but those things got their top employee fired.'

A young fast-food employee checks her phone after waking up to find that her boss has called her 10+ times throughout the night.

Fast-food worker wakes up to 11 missed calls from her boss asking her to come in 1 hour early: 'This was all at 9 AM!'

A woman sitting on a bench in a cemetery, holding an open umbrella above her head in one hand and red carnations in the other

Employee attends funeral of husband's grandma who she knew for 35 years, manager claims she doesn't count for bereavement leave: 'She encouraged me to go to the funeral'

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Employee goofs off at work, hoping he won't get fired and forced to do a job that actually requires him to give it his all.

Employee quiet quits at his cushy $100K office job for 3.5 years before his managers noticed: 'They say that I'm not making any progress in my career.'

A male supermarket employee stocks bakery shelves

Manager fires supermarket employee for refusing to clean other department, faces $40,000 in losses: 'It's not what I was hired for'