toxic-work-environment

'If you clock in at 8:01 instead of 8:00, they deduct 15 minutes': Company rounds every minute in their favor, effectively stealing hours of time from their employees

JR Atkinson

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'Why am I expected to go above and beyond at $20/hour?': Pharmacy manager punishes hourly workers with no PTO for not contributing to profit

JR Atkinson

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Manager continually schedules meetings at 4:45 pm on Fridays, employee wonders if it's a power move: 'It took 45 minutes'

JR Atkinson

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Boss pressures employee to sell candy to fundraise for the office: 'They told me I wasn't being a team player'

JR Atkinson

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Toxic startup manager becomes direct report of employee they used to victimize 15 years prior: 'Karma really is a boomerang'

JR Atkinson

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Coworker invites themselves on colleague's 1-week vacation after work trip: 'I don't particularly like the co-worker and we are not friends outside of work'

JR Atkinson

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Boss treats every PTO request like an emergency, constantly threatens to cancel employee's vacation: 'It makes planning trips difficult'

JR Atkinson

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Company rescinds job offer after a 3-month interview process when employee asks who their manager would be

JR Atkinson

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Boss constantly contacts employee for extra work after hours despite employee having grad school classes from 6pm-10pm: 'I am expected to work 24/7'

JR Atkinson

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Company forces remote employees to return to the office 5 days/week, charges them $80 for parking: 'Employees don't get any kind of discount'

JR Atkinson

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Content creator gets fired and replaced by an AI; company numbers start to go wrong, so they offer to rehire her, expecting to pay her less: ‘So they failed, learned nothing and came back expecting a discount’

Olivia Arocena

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Boss threatens to fire new employee for refusing to use their personal phone for work: 'HR is on the phone for you'

JR Atkinson

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Boss fires employee after finding out they're interviewing at other places and pays severance, doesn't realize they're already taking a new job

JR Atkinson

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Boss ambushes employee with a PIP, employee retaliates by resigning the next day

JR Atkinson

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Employee accidentally joins boss's private HR call about them: 'Am I going to get fired?'

JR Atkinson

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23-year-old employee is continually excluded from work events: 'They all just ignored you'

JR Atkinson

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