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Coworker constantly expects employee to cover for her lateness, manager starts getting suspicious: 'I panicked'

Ally Perry

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College student applies for graduate job, company demands he complete 40 hour assignment for application: 'I thought I was crushing it'

Ally Perry

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Company lays off entire department in one fell swoop with no notice: 'We were basically scapegoated'

JR Atkinson

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Manager hesitates to criticize high-performing employee who refuses to document work: 'The rest of the team is stuck'

Ally Perry

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Manager walks in on direct reports whispering and gossiping about her: 'They tensed up, looked guilty, and immediately changed the subject.'

Emmy Pratt

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CEO berates employee over their facial expression during company meeting

JR Atkinson

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Warehouse employee reports safety issue, company changes his job title without telling him: 'I never signed anything, never got a new offer letter, and nobody told me this was a formal change'

Ally Perry

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Employee gets second job offer with $150k salary, manager wife argues it's a 'lack of integrity' to take it: 'She had to fire someone'

Ally Perry

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Gym employee gets fired by coworker, manager tells him he doesn't know why he was fired: 'We're going in a different direction'

Ally Perry

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Out-of-work employee secures college teaching job, accidentally gets paid 3x normal salary: 'I was thrilled'

Ally Perry

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60-year-old employee defies 33-year-old manager in refusal to return to office 2 days a week: 'She argues everyone is overwhelmed'

Ally Perry

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Coworkers invite other coworker to Friday lunch, disinvite him when he won't stop complaining: 'People stopped enjoying the lunches'

Ally Perry

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Restaurant employee forgets to request time off for proposal, gets annoyed when coworkers won't swap shifts with him: 'He ended up proposing in the parking lot'

Ally Perry

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Job-seeker goes through 4 interviews only to learn they were never a real candidate in the first place: 'I was a prop in their internal politics'

JR Atkinson

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Boss texts employee the day before to come in at 10 AM on mother's day despite previously saying 4:30 PM: 'I now have commitments in the morning'

JR Atkinson

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HR department admits they receive 2000 job applications for one position, and don't look at any of them: 'AI sorts through them, and then they just go based off intuition.'

Emmy Pratt

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