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'Why am I expected to go above and beyond at $20/hour?': Pharmacy manager punishes hourly workers with no PTO for not contributing to profit

JR Atkinson

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Manager continually schedules meetings at 4:45 pm on Fridays, employee wonders if it's a power move: 'It took 45 minutes'

JR Atkinson

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Boss increases salaried employees hours from 9-5 to 7-5 after team goes from 5 employees to 2 employees: 'Is that a red flag?'

Emmy Pratt

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‘Um, no. You decided to be petty, so I’ll be gone in 2 days’: Boss backtracks and begs employee to work through his two weeks’ notice after telling him to leave in 2 days

Etai Eshet

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New work rule doubles employee's commute time home, refuses to let them leave 15 minutes early to avoid this: 'Are we being unreasonable?'

JR Atkinson

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Boss demands employee show up 1 hour earlier unpaid, sends an AI-generated message to motivate them: 'You have the potential to do great things'

JR Atkinson

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Boss pressures employee to sell candy to fundraise for the office: 'They told me I wasn't being a team player'

JR Atkinson

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Employee refuses to charge coworkers for the free candy bowl he's stocked for years, office committee blames him for taking profits away from its snack fundraiser: 'You're not being a team player'

Celeste Mello

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‘How firing me backfired for my boss’: Textile company tries to dodge severance by dragging out a firing, but boss's own delays and paperwork mistakes force him to pay two months of unworked salary plus full severance and a 10% penalty.

Etai Eshet

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Manager asks employee to clock them in 30 minutes before they arrive, ices them out when employee refuses: 'I'm not risking my job for someone else'

JR Atkinson

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VP orders a full-time return to office, so employees fully comply by continuing to WFH because their contracts have officially designated their home as their office for the past 6 years

Etai Eshet

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Office work-life memes so we can laugh through the stress of daily life

María Cetra

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Job candidate finds a California company falsely listing him as a “Senior Advisor” in its sales materials, using his photo, résumé, and a quote he never gave without permission

Etai Eshet

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Toxic startup manager becomes direct report of employee they used to victimize 15 years prior: 'Karma really is a boomerang'

JR Atkinson

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After posting an anonymous Glassdoor review about a toxic workplace, former employee receives legal warning demanding its removal and threat of an industry blacklist

Etai Eshet

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Employee discovers coworker faked a family emergency to get paid leave, and after weeks of covering his workload, finds proof he's actually on vacation in Bali: ‘The stress has been immense’

Cata Holmes

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