toxic-workplace

'Dude straight up presented my entire deck at the meeting': Manager steals employee's presentation word-for-word and passes it off as his own, gets his comeuppance when VP finds out

JR Atkinson

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Company forces employees to re-apply for their jobs at an $8k salary cut: 'I've been there 6 years. Built entire systems, trained new staff, covered shifts constantly'

JR Atkinson

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Employee purposefully slows down productivity to show how he's carrying the team, his coworkers flip out: 'I was the mug that covered for everybody and was then doing 5 peoples jobs, [then] I decided to work at the pace of everyone else'

JR Atkinson

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Company fires 40 employees at once via a slide show, leaving them to scramble wondering why: 'We got bought by a tech giant and it turned into a cult'

JR Atkinson

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Company's AI payroll tool decides one employee shouldn't be paid that month, tells them to wait for the next one: 'So now I'm sitting here debugging code while worrying if I'll be able to afford my lunches until this is fixed'

JR Atkinson

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'Maybe if you actually checked your own emails once in a while': Boss insults employee in front of team, employee accidentally lets the truth slip

JR Atkinson

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Manager lies to boss that her employee quit while she was out sick: 'I explained that I never said that I quit, he said he already terminated my employment status.'

Emmy Pratt

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Boss's wife tries to drop off her 6-year-old at employee's house because she works from home: 'She literally showed up at my apartment building with the kid. I didn’t buzz her in.'

JR Atkinson

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Restaurant manager takes server's $100 tip, gives them $16 back: 'I asked where the rest went and she said "pooled with everyone" but I was literally the only server working that section'

JR Atkinson

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Boss doubles employee's workload with $0 pay raise after coworker quits, tells employee not to 'take it personally': 'Today is the day you quiet quit'

JR Atkinson

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Boss calls out call center employee for using the bathroom mid-shift: 'I understand but there were several calls on hold in the queue'

JR Atkinson

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Boss decreases employee's pay from $22 to $20/hr without reason, employee threatens to quit: 'Work your wage, they want less effort'

JR Atkinson

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Private school boss refuses to pay employees for months at a time, leaving those without 2nd jobs scrambling for funds: 'I had to borrow money from my parents to get through October'

JR Atkinson

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Coworker with perfume 'allergy' refuses any solutions, singles out workers she perceives to have a strong smell: 'They have also offered her an isolated area to sit in and suggested to wear masks, but she wants to continue sitting in her favorite spot'

JR Atkinson

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Boss accidentally sends out spreadsheet with entire company's salaries, employee finds out they're making $15k less than coworker with same job: 'We were hired within months of each other and have similar experience'

JR Atkinson

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'My coworker stated that minimum wage was not meant to cover all our bills and if we needed more money we needed to get a different job': Coworker calls coffee shop job 'supplemental income,' believes coworkers should all have other jobs

JR Atkinson

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