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Security job only schedules worker 2 days/week at $15/hr, forbids them from taking any other jobs: 'In case someone calls off last minute'

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Employee considers quitting during week 1 of new job making 3x their previous salary because of disorganization: 'Is this a joke?'

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Movie theater manager demands workers have availability 24/7, sees school as only valid conflict: 'I DO NOT accept you not being able to work a day because you want the day off to rest'

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Janitor quits their job on the spot after boss halved their hours without telling them: 'I am stunned than no one talked to you'

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Manager interrupts with a message every time employee is on a call: 'It took me a while to realize it was intentional'

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Company 'owns' employee's LinkedIn for the duration of their job: 'They have full access to my account including posts, comments, reactions, DMs, and all done by them, for their brand, using my name and my face'

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Annoying coworker continually pushes colleague to strive for higher position, it backfires: 'This place will fall apart without me'

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Manager catches employee working 2 full-time remote jobs at the same time: 'Apparently he took 2 weeks PTO when starting out, and then went right back to work the other job'

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Fast food worker finds out about their first shift 30 minutes after it starts, manager berates them for not knowing: 'Well, I'm simply not in town today'

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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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Coworkers compete for the same management position, one instantly freezes the other out: 'She’s been ice cold and goes out of her way to avoid interacting with me'

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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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'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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