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Boss demands electrician apprentice, who makes $15 an hour, work for free to pay off mistake

Remy Millisky

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Miami hedge fund partner who set the tone for a party-hard workplace culture reported an employee to HR over a harmless doodle of his coworker and dragged it out for two weeks

Etai Eshet

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Company policy forces employee to book a flight for himself and the boss that's 5 extra hours just to save $250, airline upgrades employee but not boss, policy gets changed by Monday: ‘Oh, the kicker…’

Elna McHilderson

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Manager finds her employees' secret group chat, reads everything they said behind her back: ‘Let's invite her, maybe we can get free lunch’

Bar Mor Hazut

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Coworkers spend 6 weeks competing for management position, company hires external candidate instead: 'We're trying to recalibrate'

Ally Perry

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Coworker Carrie ruins her team manager’s laid-back honor system by crying bias to HR, forcing a department-wide crackdown that tanked morale and drove people to quit

Etai Eshet

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Boss refuses to turn on the office AC during heat wave, employees sneak into his office and hide his personal fan to force him to change his mind: ‘He eventually joined us’

Bar Mor Hazut

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College sends employee to mandatory retraining months before his retirement, falsely claiming he failed a phishing test he never took

Etai Eshet

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Resigning employee refuses to sign a “separation agreement,” demanding $5,000 per negative online post, and her firm threatens to withhold $2,200 in earned PTO if she doesn’t comply

Etai Eshet

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Boss continually calls employee outside of work hours, schedules 30 minute meetings after the workday is over: 'I’ve received calls from him at 1am before'

JR Atkinson

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Front desk intern declines to extend 10 month contract, manager complains as 6 interns quit before her: 'We are throwing away a great opportunity'

Ally Perry

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Company lays off hardworking employee of 12 years after boss explicitly told her she was safe from layoffs: 'No warning. No acknowledgment of 12 years.'

Emmy Pratt

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Worker feels guilty for not checking Slack at work, snaps out of it and realizes they've been conditioned

JR Atkinson

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Employee blames consistent lateness on childcare, gets upset when they get fired for their timekeeping: 'They rolled in at 10:15 AM because of a morning emergency'

Ally Perry

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Employee gets suspended from work after they ask to have HR present during a meeting with boss: ‘I'm assuming I'm fired and HR won't listen to me’

Bar Mor Hazut

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Remote worker stops answering his older coworker's calls after being phoned 5-6 times daily, including during flights and customer dinners

Etai Eshet

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