Boss cuts pay and eliminates benefits to punish an employee who asked for more money and took medical leave, forcing them to either quit or work at a loss: ‘She just doesn't want me to be able to apply for unemployment’

The corporate world loves inventing fancy words to avoid saying simple truths. Getting fired. Laid off. Canned. These words are too honest for modern HR departments. Instead, they perform linguistic gymnastics worthy of an Olympic medal. Today's gold-winning phrase: reclassification. 

Meet today's hero, who committed two cardinal workplace sins: asking for a raise and taking disability leave. The corporate response was pure poetry. Hours? Slashed in half. Benefits? Vanished like free coffee during budget cuts. Schedule? Perfectly designed to cost more in childcare than the actual paycheck. 

The boss even threw in a special assignment - creating a training manual for the future replacement. Its like being asked to dig your own professional grave while maintaining a positive attitude. The strategy is clear: make working conditions so absurd that quitting seems like the only sane choice. This way, the company dodges unemployment claims while maintaining their stellar workplace reputation.

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