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Employee is laid off with no severance, then asked to complete a work project for free: 'I had asked for 6 weeks of severance, but they refused'

JR Atkinson

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Company mandates weekly 15-minute "gratitude circles": 'I told my manager privately that I think the whole thing is counterproductive'

JR Atkinson

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Employee refuses to cover for coworker who always takes long lunches, coworker blames employee when she gets in trouble for it with boss: ‘[You] should have warned me’

Bar Mor Hazut

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Boss forced to admit they need employee more than the employee needs them after a firm “no” to overtime, then tries to save face by publicly reprimanding and issuing vague warnings

Etai Eshet

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Job candidate gets rejected after 4 interview rounds, then 5 days later HR calls admitting they messed up, asking to re-interview and send an offer

Etai Eshet

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Factory machine operator quits job after boss denies him a pay raise, leaving the company with no qualified operators: ‘They effectively lost thousands’

Bar Mor Hazut

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Bosses accidentally include employee on email thread about her: 'They keep referring to me as “the girl”'

JR Atkinson

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Recent graduate cries 10 times after her 1st day of working at a new job because she didn't know what to do: 'I hate that we have to slave away for 40 years for a salary.'

Emmy Pratt

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‘[She] doesn’t know the new hire is actually her replacement’: CEO makes employee help hire her struggling coworker’s replacement, while that coworker has no idea she’s fired once the traveling boss returns

Etai Eshet

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Who are really the quiet quitters? Bosses discusses how is like to manage a group of remote workers, the good, the bad: ‘the quiet quitters aren’t the ones who everyone assumes’

María Cetra

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Workplace replaces lunch break with mandatory 'lunch and learn' where employees present on their work

JR Atkinson

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Job applicant attends interview, interviewer asks her no questions: 'I genuinely froze'

Ally Perry

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The unnecessary workplace rules that nobody actually follows: 'She hides in the bathroom, so she can be on her phone'

JR Atkinson

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20-year-old yells at 64-year-old assembly line coworker for disrespecting her on the job: 'She told my team lead that I was “intentionally causing her to panic"'

JR Atkinson

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'A 31-minute lunch means you leave office at 7:00pm': Workplace demands 1 hour of unpaid work for every minute exceeding 30-minute lunch break

JR Atkinson

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Employee brings homemade cupcakes to the office, coworker sends a passive aggressive message when she doesn't get one

JR Atkinson

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