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Job interviewer asks 29-year-old female applicant if she has children despite the fact that asking that is illegal: 'I have been asked if I have kids every single job interview.'

Emmy Pratt

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Manager expects employee making $75K to take over her late coworker's job, refuses to give her a raise despite the role being worth a $100K salary: 'I’m starting to feel deeply resentful.'

Emmy Pratt

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Company hosts 'mandatory' party on New Year's Eve, expects employees to drop everything: 'A company party on New Year’s Eve isn’t generous it’s intrusive'

JR Atkinson

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Manufacturing manager refuses to allow his employee to bring her 7-year-old daughter to work: 'I do not want the liability.'

Emmy Pratt

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24 Employee Burnout Posts To Push You Through Your Late-Week Work Slump (January 2, 2026)

Lana DeGaetano

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Coworker asks employee if she can smell her baby's head at an office party, employee happily obliges: 'Apparently, infants' heads smell good, and I just found out yesterday!'

Emmy Pratt

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71-year-old manager refuses to retire, leaving 36-year-old employee of 5 years with no room to get a promotion: 'What am I supposed to do? Just wait until I’m 40 for my first promotion?'

Emmy Pratt

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Manager calls out employee for using phone while on lunchbreak in company cafeteria: 'That's not a professional look'

Ally Perry

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Workplace writes up employees for every time they call out of a shift, no matter how far in advance: 'In an industry that's hemorrhaging workforce, these threats seem pretty silly'

JR Atkinson

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Company sends out reminder to 'complete available tasks' during Christmas vacation: 'We appreciate that this is a busy time; any assistance that you can provide is valued'

JR Atkinson

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Job-seeker is 'fired' from a job they applied to but never received an offer for, company advertises the position with a $10k drop in salary: 'I forgot about that whole debacle, but it came back to me'

JR Atkinson

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32-year-old postal worker tells his coworker to watch his favorite holiday film 'Jingle All the Way,' turns out his coworker was living the scenario in real life: 'I was intending for a lighthearted laugh...'

Elna McHilderson

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Salesman quits underpaid job, finds new use for business cards as he waits 6 hours for exit interview: 'I had nothing to do but wait'

Ally Perry

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Coworkers quits and management refuses to find a replacement, dumps their work onto existing team with no pay bump: 'Adding another person's work to our already tough workload isn't feasible at all'

JR Atkinson

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Retail manager earns only 50 cents more than the employees they manage, despite having 15+ more responsibilities and sales being up 27%: 'Is this exploitative?'

Emmy Pratt

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Company charges employees $25 per person to attend office holiday party: 'I wonder if they are making a profit and where it goes?'

JR Atkinson

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