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24-year-old handles difficult customer, gets upset when 49-year-old coworker accidentally sends her critical text: 'She should have handled that'

Ally Perry

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Employee resents contributing to office gifts in workplace with high turnover, looks for a way to avoid it: 'I've contributed to over 10 birthdays'

Ally Perry

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'My boss stole my gift money': Manager collects money from employee to give to sick coworker, they return having never received anything

JR Atkinson

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Carpooler demands coworkers clock out early so she can attend son's medical appointment, gets offended when they make alternative travel arrangements: 'No way our managers would let us leave 45 minutes early for someone else’s child'

Ally Perry

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Corporate client makes businessman work 2 months of unpaid overtime, pay large invoice he sends by mistake 1 year later: 'The worst working experience of my life'

Ally Perry

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CEO announces company exceeded revenue goals by 40% and had its most profitable year, refuses to give employees more than a 2% raise: 'That doesn't even cover inflation.'

Emmy Pratt

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HR tries to discipline employee for missing a meeting they weren't invited to, double down when their mistake is revealed: 'What do they want me to do? Telepathically sense meetings?'

JR Atkinson

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Boss adds new job responsibilities that weren't in the job description every week, tells employee she should be grateful when she pushes back: 'I’m watching coworkers burn out left and right from the same creeping scope expansion.'

Emmy Pratt

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HR hounds woman on maternity leave to complete trainings, boss constantly reminds them not to bother her: 'Your current management just threw you under the bus instead of taking 5 seconds to check the email chain'

JR Atkinson

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Employee quits their job 1.5 hours before his whole team is laid off with severance: 'If you ever know you’re getting let go, don’t resign'

JR Atkinson

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Job lies about 6-week out-of-state training process to get employee to onboard, won't cover travel expenses and only gives $20 for food: 'I will most likely have to quit my job over this'

JR Atkinson

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Boss tells employee they 'lack passion' for not answering Slack messages at 10 PM: 'I make $19/hr [...] for a company that sells industrial cleaning supplies'

JR Atkinson

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Employee pushes back when boss insists he host him, wife, child, and dog for weeklong work trip: 'I haven't gotten a raise in four years'

Ally Perry

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Unlikeable team lead insists all colleagues join mandatory monthly happy hour, gets humbled by state laws: 'People were terrified they would lose their jobs'

Ally Perry

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Manager discovers that the new hire is an employee from his previous company whom he fired for lying on his resume: 'The higher-ups are aware of the situation and don't seem too concerned about it.'

Emmy Pratt

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1-year-old says first word to mom's coworker when she leaves the room, she wonders if she should tell her: 'It might be nothing'

Ally Perry

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