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'You'll never lock your office': Fired employee gets back at boss by hiding the keys to his office on their last day of the job

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Employee with 20 years of experience takes new job, gets fired after 30 days: 'Zero feedback, zero expectations, almost no communication from my boss'

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Manager bans employee from using the bathroom whenever another coworker is on lunch break, even when there are plenty of other workers available to cover the floor: ‘They told me I had to wait’

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Employee gets offered a job by biggest client with a 35% raise but doesn’t know how to proceed to avoid problems: ‘Do I keep this completely to myself until there is an actual offer?’

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Employee brings 5-year-old daughter to work, forcing coworker to confront her when daughter keeps disturbing their work: ‘I don't think I should be responsible for entertaining someone else's child’

Melissa Knudson

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Startup employee resigns after being denied a raise, company falls apart without them: ‘Many bigger clients are upset with service and want to leave’

Melissa Knudson

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California technician pushes back after company demands he install a tracking app on his personal phone that monitors his location even when he's at home: ‘Who refuses to install it will be taken off the schedule’

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Remote employee hired to work from home faces impossible ultimatum when company demands they move 220 miles away in 14 days, or lose their job: ‘This feels like a blatant backdoor layoff’

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Manager doesn't want to put good employee on a performance plan just for one mistake, instead, he changes the approach: 'About a month in, the same director who wanted the PIP started asking me why the employee's performance had improved so much'

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Company demands employees come on a weekend to pack and move the entire office instead of hiring movers: ‘No overtime, just pizza afterwards’

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Manager writes up kitchen worker for changing out of uniform after the AC breaks and the kitchen hits 97ºF: ‘We follow the uniform policy’

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Company hires 5 different managers for 1 employee, only 1 of the managers actually contributes any value: 'Why do companies keep employing these people?'

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Company mandates return to office, employee receives warning for working from home when they have 40 desks for 60 people: 'The expectation is that you find a solution in real time'

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Employee decides to quit job instead of training new hire who makes $22k more than them: ‘After my boss claimed promotions were budget frozen’

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Manager refuses to pay for employee's quality certification that's required for the job: ‘Tell them I'm not paying’

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Company offers employee double their salary to move into their hotel for 6 months, employee hesitates to accept: ‘They don’t want to give me a management title’