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32-year-old employee spends $100 of her own money on Halloween candy for an office Halloween party, refuses to donate the leftover candy to another department: '30 year old fighting over candy is so funny'

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Employee gets 15% raise once he stops working 24/7 and only works from 9-5: 'Now that I've stopped trying so hard, suddenly I'm promotion material? Corporate logic makes zero sense.'

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25-year-old waitress tips herself $10 on a $17 order, gets fired after customer tells her manager: 'The waitress who took my order gave me a refund'

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School forces teachers to pay $30 for soda machine, birthday parties, and greeting cards: 'I don't drink soda and they forgot my birthday the first week of school.'

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Hiring manager rejects Stanford graduate because she got a B in a high school class: 'This candidate has a fairly impressive career even as a new college graduate and ticks every single other box'

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Sensitive employee gets angry at her coworker for constantly swearing because of her sheltered upbringing: 'I don’t feel like I should have to sit there and take it'

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Wedding venue employee witnesses 4 grooms forget to edit out the AI intro of their AI-generated wedding vows: 'Please don't read the part out loud where the bot goes: "Okay! How's this?"'

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HR boss rejects one candidate for being 2 minutes early to the interview instead of 5 minutes, rejects another for wearing brown shoes with a black belt: 'These people had better qualifications than our current team.'

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Job interviewer asks job candidate his favorite drink, candidate says 'water' and refuses to elaborate: 'C'mon, you can do better than that'

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Employee brings her crying baby to the office, coworker tells HR, and immediately regrets it: 'What if she isn't supposed to have the baby with her? Did I just tell on her? Should I have tried to resolve this myself?'

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Foolish teacher accuses her coworker of stealing books from his classroom library because he's reading them during his lunch break: 'You shouldn't have to be told that stealing is wrong'

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Lawyer yells at 8-year-old kid for running around the office and slamming door, his mom refuses to apologize or punish him: 'This morning apparently I’m the talk of their office'

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Employee notices payroll error, HR insists that $26.38 an hour is a 10% raise from $26.35 an hour: 'If your HR department can’t do simple math, you might want to think about working somewhere else'

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'Fix this or we all walk': Duplicitous hotel managers deny holiday pay they previously approved

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38 and 40-year-old get disinherited for spending $300k of father's money, get offended when sibling won't share her inheritance with them: 'I was the one who was there for him'

38 and 40-year-old get disinherited for spending $300k of father's money, get offended when sibling won't share her inheritance with them: 'I was the one who was there for him'

Data analyst refuses to answer work messages outside of working hours, coworker 7 hours ahead protests when she won't respond to 'urgent' problem at 9 PM: 'On a random Tuesday I counted 47 notifications after 6 PM'

Data analyst refuses to answer work messages outside of working hours, coworker 7 hours ahead protests when she won't respond to 'urgent' problem at 9 PM: 'On a random Tuesday I counted 47 notifications after 6 PM'

HR department demands woman lead morale-boosting company "culture initiative", protests when she refuses: 'Someone said I have good vibes because I bring muffins sometimes'

HR department demands woman lead morale-boosting company "culture initiative", protests when she refuses: 'Someone said I have good vibes because I bring muffins sometimes'

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Family pressures single 50-year-old woman into cooking Thanksgiving dinner for 20 relatives all by herself: 'They’re just dumping it on me because I don’t have kids and they assume I have endless time and money.'

Family pressures single 50-year-old woman into cooking Thanksgiving dinner for 20 relatives all by herself: 'They’re just dumping it on me because I don’t have kids and they assume I have endless time and money.'

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