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Company announces 3 days in office after being fully remote for 4 years, employee spends 3+ hours commuting

JR Atkinson

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Job asks for free labor from applicant before they even interview: 'I'm dumbfounded by the audacity'

JR Atkinson

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Pennsylvania warehouse employee reports safety issue, then gets job title quietly changed by HR as punishment: 'I never signed anything'

Ben Weiss

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New barista discovers boss keeps credit card tips to himself, only gives employees cash tips, new hire confronts him: ‘I really needed the money’

Bar Mor Hazut

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Woman completes 4 rounds of interviews before learning company already chose internal hire, realizes she was only there to “validate” the promotion: ‘I was never a real candidate. I was a prop in their internal politics.’

Inés Soubrie

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Company demands employees return to the office after working remotely, one employee refuses to comply and stays home, manager responds: ‘There’s really nothing I can do’

Bar Mor Hazut

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Manager fires employee after a week on the job due to employee noticing they weren't paid for their first day at work and notifying payroll: ‘This isn't working out’

Bar Mor Hazut

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Job interviewer asks job seeker 'Sell Me a Pen' as the only question in the job interview: 'I know a guy in Tanzania who can forge it into pure gold pens for 60 cents on the dollar.'

Emmy Pratt

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Job-seeker goes through 4 interviews only to learn they were never a real candidate in the first place: 'I was a prop in their internal politics'

JR Atkinson

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Boss texts employee the day before to come in at 10 AM on mother's day despite previously saying 4:30 PM: 'I now have commitments in the morning'

JR Atkinson

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New boss discovers he has to share his office with the employees' break room, so he moves the break room to the parking lot instead: ‘Car emissions on the water cooler’

Bar Mor Hazut

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Manager accuses employee of being “too nice” to his team during performance review, leading employee to look for a new job: ‘I'm not good because my team likes me’

Bar Mor Hazut

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New manager targets respected senior technical specialist and threatens him with a PIP, completes more tasks in 2 days than the boss did in 6 weeks before management intervenes: 'I did it over 20 times faster than him'

Brad Dickson

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Employee is forced to clock 13 hours shifts with nothing to do, is left more exhausted than a hard day's work

JR Atkinson

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Manager demands warehouse employee follow closing checklist to the letter, they comply getting overtime and making the manager late to leave: 'By the time I finished everything, we were almost an hour past closing time'

Brad Dickson

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Boss sends menacing email forcing all employees into AI evaluation, threatens terminations: 'Anyone who cannot demonstrate meaningful progress after this exercise will be replaced'

JR Atkinson

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