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Employee builds app to track how many times coworker says 'circling back' in meetings: 'Recently [he said it] 23 times in a 56 minute sync'

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Boss asks employee to cancel nonrefundable vacation because it coincides with hers: 'I calculated the fees, they are way more than a few hundred dollars'

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Retail worker gives 2 week's notice, boss chews them out for not giving advance notice of the notice: 'Essentially she wanted a 1 month notice'

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Pharmacy continually schedules worker for 11-8 and Saturday shifts despite them only being available weekday mornings: 'You need to nip this in the bud'

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Coworker calls same-level colleague 'annoying' after they refuse to do their job for them: 'I'm stuck working with someone who expects me to babysit them'

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Job-seeker turns down interview over AI screening, CEO sends a bitter reply: 'It is, quite frankly, an insult to my time'

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Boss approves employee's email asking client for a raise, backtracks and chews them out when client denies it, cuts their salary by 30%

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Company refuses to raise employee's salary after 2 years despite junior colleague earning 20% more

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'I’m not going to wake up at 8am just to make sure someone doesn’t need their shift covered that day': Coworker sets boundaries with colleagues, they call her out for not covering on her day off

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Coworkers snoop through colleague's private social media just to screenshot and send to manager: 'She sent them a selfie I took at home and put on my Instagram story'

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Coworker pressures colleague to us AI tool to write simple 2-sentence email, colleague pushes back: 'It would take about ten seconds to write myself'

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Pushover boss refuses to fire toxic employee even as they acknowledge their failure: 'It seems like poor performance and bad behavior are actually being rewarded here'

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Boss asks remote employee to drive over 3 hours to the office with less than 24 hours warning: 'I said no, then he basically begged me'

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Remote employee quits, boss forces them to travel across the country and stay 3 months to finish their work: 'No is a complete sentence'

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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 makes half-joke about asking for 'allowance' when boss calls them family, boss retaliates and buries him under projects: 'It was clearly tongue in cheek'

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