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Co-owner of a 35% profit margin family business tells a trusted employee she wants to cut all staff pay 40% to minimum wage and absorb their tips

Etai Eshet

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Company installs tracking software that checks employees' mouse movements to determine productivity, until one employee proves the system is faulty: ‘He told me to wiggle my mouse’

Bar Mor Hazut

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Employee gets offer from rival company, decides to take the job, until current company gets word of it and demands employee stay: ‘Please be joking'

Bar Mor Hazut

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Nursing home receptionist quits and walks out after being repeatedly blamed for patients wandering out of unsecured doors, and her boss asks her to come back to do “one last thing”

Etai Eshet

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'Asynchronous' boss continually pings employee all day, gets offended when they take more than 5 seconds to respond

JR Atkinson

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Factory employee endures demanding manager for 2 years, writes exposé email to company and walks out 2 weeks before new job: ' She has a spreadsheet of all of the mistakes employees have made'

Ally Perry

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Boss leaves every day at 2pm because of her 'kids,' despite not allowing colleagues to do the same

JR Atkinson

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Woman loses a job offer after her former manager, who volunteered to be her reference, flags burnout concerns to the hiring company

Etai Eshet

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Job candidate denies job offer after they sit through an interview without being asked a single question by the hiring manager: ‘He told me to be quiet’

Bar Mor Hazut

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Employee demands whole office works harder, manager pleads for her to calm down: 'She was calling me on her day off'

Ally Perry

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Manager asks employee with a 101-degree fever to come into work, demands a doctor's note if he misses more than 2 days of work: 'The age of "get well soon" has officially ended.'

Emmy Pratt

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Ohio woman resigns from her medical billing job and discovers her former manager is telling clients she was fired for misconduct involving patient accounts: ‘I don’t want this rumor to damage my new job before I even start’

Etai Eshet

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Company cancels a 25-year-old’s signed contract extension, leaves him unemployed with a new lease to pay, pushing him to sue for everything he can

Etai Eshet

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Company owner demands employees fill out anonymous survey about work, only to turn it into a public loyalty test: ‘Everyone in the room realized this was a test’

Bar Mor Hazut

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Boss holds emergency meeting with all 100 staff demanding that responders to "anonymous" company survey reveal themselves on the spot, turning the ordeal into a humiliation ritual: '​The room was silent except for one new girl who raised her hand'

Brad Dickson

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HR sends out automated email warning employee their 'engagement score' has dropped 7 points, fails to realize he was working on a deep-work project

JR Atkinson

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