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Company throws team lunch to celebrate record profits, give employees $12 sandwich voucher while CEO gets $4.2 million bonus

A businessman, seen from behind, drinks from a mug and works at his laptop with a view of the city skyline

Employee starts 8 hour finance shift at 7 AM, boss reprimands him for his 'schedule and visibility': 'Most people come in around nine and leave around six'

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Company denies leave request sent in 6 months prior, claims they've run out of PTO after draining it for closure days

A woman in a white uniform ladles chocolate onto a waffle

Full-time hospitality employee demands part-time colleague covers shift so she can be with 2-year-old, gets annoyed when she refuses: 'I'm so worried my daughter is alone'

Employee eats cake during her lunch break at work.

Coworkers berate employee for leaving the office for her 30 minute lunch break: 'The way people have reacted, you'd think I started leaving for a three hour lunch.'

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Boss writes up warehouse worker for taking 2 bathroom breaks in 1 shift: 'Both under 5 minutes'

A woman holding a cup of coffee in an office hallway

Coworker constantly expects employee to cover for her lateness, manager starts getting suspicious: 'I panicked'

A man sits behind a MacBook holding a mug that says “do what you love”

College student applies for graduate job, company demands he complete 40 hour assignment for application: 'I thought I was crushing it'

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Company lays off entire department in one fell swoop with no notice: 'We were basically scapegoated'

A male employee looks over his shoulder and smiles while working on his laptop

Manager hesitates to criticize high-performing employee who refuses to document work: 'The rest of the team is stuck'

Coworkers secretly gossip about their boss while their boss is out of the room

Manager walks in on direct reports whispering and gossiping about her: 'They tensed up, looked guilty, and immediately changed the subject.'

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CEO berates employee over their facial expression during company meeting

A man wearing a hard hat looks behind him and smiles while sitting in a forklift in a warehouse

Warehouse employee reports safety issue, company changes his job title without telling him: 'I never signed anything, never got a new offer letter, and nobody told me this was a formal change'

A woman and a man sit in front of a laptop as the woman explains something

Employee gets second job offer with $150k salary, manager wife argues it's a 'lack of integrity' to take it: 'She had to fire someone'

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A man stands with crossed arms in front of pull-up bars at the gym

Gym employee gets fired by coworker, manager tells him he doesn't know why he was fired: 'We're going in a different direction'

A college teacher standing a podium looks to the side with blurred students seated in front of him

Out-of-work employee secures college teaching job, accidentally gets paid 3x normal salary: 'I was thrilled'

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Company denies leave request sent in 6 months prior, claims they've run out of PTO after draining it for closure days

Company denies leave request sent in 6 months prior, claims they've run out of PTO after draining it for closure days

Employee starts 8 hour finance shift at 7 AM, boss reprimands him for his 'schedule and visibility': 'Most people come in around nine and leave around six'

Employee starts 8 hour finance shift at 7 AM, boss reprimands him for his 'schedule and visibility': 'Most people come in around nine and leave around six'

Full-time hospitality employee demands part-time colleague covers shift so she can be with 2-year-old, gets annoyed when she refuses: 'I'm so worried my daughter is alone'

Full-time hospitality employee demands part-time colleague covers shift so she can be with 2-year-old, gets annoyed when she refuses: 'I'm so worried my daughter is alone'

Founding engineer of 30 years leaves company after new owner runs the business to the ground after 2 years: 'This arrogant owner treated brilliant engineers like disposable garbage.'

Founding engineer of 30 years leaves company after new owner runs the business to the ground after 2 years: 'This arrogant owner treated brilliant engineers like disposable garbage.'

Professor assigns students an open-book take home exam, 25% of the class don't do it: 'It’s 40% of the total grade.'

Professor assigns students an open-book take home exam, 25% of the class don't do it: 'It’s 40% of the total grade.'

College student applies for graduate job, company demands he complete 40 hour assignment for application: 'I thought I was crushing it'

College student applies for graduate job, company demands he complete 40 hour assignment for application: 'I thought I was crushing it'

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