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Manager refuses to assign warehouse worker an assistant to help with heavy lifting, leading worker to spend the entire shift with their arms crossed: ‘I didn’t move an inch’

Bar Mor Hazut

Boss forces employee to work overtime to complete a project, only to fire him the next day without providing compensation, employee withholds the passwords to access the project in response: ‘I walked out’

Bar Mor Hazut

Woman abruptly fired after being pressured to stay up until 2 am to finish a project, she withholds company passwords in retaliation: “No two weeks, no severance pay”

Briana Viser

Boss demands fired employee return their uniform despite employee paying hundreds of dollars for them, employee returns them covered in cat fur as payback: ‘You didn't say they had to be clean’

Bar Mor Hazut

Nurse refuses to cover unreliable coworker's shift because she won't cover their Valentine's Day shift in return, coworker is fired as a result: ‘I said no chance’

Lana DeGaetano

Employee requests a raise, boss rejects raise and says he should quit now so they can replace him as quickly as possible: 'It would be most efficient to fill your current role now instead of playing a guessing game'

Emmy Pratt

Coworker brings friends out to party on company boat, finds a loophole and gets promoted instead: ‘Showed me how truly dysfunctional the entire department was’

Elna McHilderson

Retail employee gets co-worker fired for being lazy and then quits, manager gets stuck with $200 bill: ‘The best part? [The co-worker] brought her mom in the next day...'

Elna McHilderson

Employee attempts to sabotage coworker's promotion by taking important files from their desk, coworker finds out, secretly records him in the act to show HR: 'I got proof'

Bar Mor Hazut

Grocery store boss flips out on employee, employee surprises him with 2 days notice: '[He] couldn't understand why'

Remy Millisky

‘So we're all a family, huh?’: Employee calls out company president for revised holiday PTO policy, is let go from the company 2 weeks later

Lana DeGaetano

'I laugh a little, thinking he’s joking’: Employee scheduled to work at 8 AM clocks in at 8:01 AM, gets fired over being one single minute late

Elna McHilderson

Guy doesn't support a friend in need, so friend gets him fired: 'I don't feel very bad… they clearly have a lot of money to fall back on.'

Elna McHilderson

20+ IT workers discuss how they would respond to unrealistic demands from the CEO: ‘That choice is a couple of pay grades too high for me to make’

Bar Mor Hazut

‘He’s just mad': Employee writes an anonymous Reddit post about an unruly guest, manager who gets bashed in the comments finds it and fires him

Elna McHilderson

‘Sharing a win!’: Employees share their ‘low-energy, give-nothing-personal-away' techniques in dealing with a toxic manager

Elna McHilderson