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Employee creates program for managing personal workload, refuses to let management share it with entire department: 'There's no offer of extra pay, promotion, or formal recognition'

Ally Perry

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Employee is only given 2 hours of tasks per day, boss chews them out for spending the rest of it on their phone: 'Okay, then give me more stuff to do?'

JR Atkinson

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Government employee makes $33 an hour, manager insists it should be $10 instead: 'The department head makes $130k a year'

Ally Perry

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Employee leaves corporate job to accept dream startup role, wants to leave after 3 months: 'I feel like I'm wasting time'

Ally Perry

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Business owner ghosts job candidate after discovering she's a close friend's girlfriend, only to be confronted by friend when he finds out: ‘That's uprofessional’

Bar Mor Hazut

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Every time employee takes a PTO day they still end up 40 hours/week to cover it, nullifying the PTO: 'I should've worked 24 hours but I worked double that'

JR Atkinson

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Employee expects promotion with performance review, upper management randomly select him as needing improvement: 'I have had an amazing year'

Ally Perry

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Lana DeGaetano

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Company installs productivity tracking software that screenshots employees computers every 10 minutes, claims they can't afford yearly raises anymore: 'I've been at this place for 4 years and every year its the same story.'

Emmy Pratt

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Job applicant gets rejected for role, faces criticism for being try-hard in HR interview feedback: 'Our team values authenticity'

Ally Perry

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New Vogue editor Chloe Malle's awkward moment with Anna Wintour reveals so much about Millennial vs. Boomer work dynamics: 'This is why boomers don't retire'

JR Atkinson

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Boss promises promotion to employee for 6 months, rug pulls them at the last minute: 'I fee so used also because I worked so hard and delivered way beyond my targets'

JR Atkinson

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Managers demand employee take on second job for $2 extra an hour, claim she'll be fired if she refuses: 'Do I have a leg to stand on?'

Ally Perry

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Blue-collar employee quits on the spot after being talked over and offered a lowball raise, is the 11th person to quit in 8 months: ‘I finally cut him off and told him I was quitting.’

Elna McHilderson

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Boss denies raise to $15/hr worker, immediately starts criticizing them when they ask: 'They forced you out. They were calling your bluff'

JR Atkinson

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Employees share how to secure work-from-home jobs that only require 3 hours of work per day: 'Have subject matter expertise.'

Emmy Pratt

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