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Ex-Employee Uses Fake Reference Check to Catch Their Former Boss Tarnishing Their Name to Potential Hiring Companies

Bar Mor Hazut

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Candidate spends 6 weeks and 4 interview rounds as top pick for a role that was frozen two months before he even applied, nobody told recruiting: ‘[The] role was frozen before I even applied.’

Inés Soubrie

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Boss making half a million dollars salary complains about flight costs, refuses to fly economy

JR Atkinson

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Company installs tracking software that checks employees' mouse movements to determine productivity, until one employee proves the system is faulty: ‘He told me to wiggle my mouse’

Bar Mor Hazut

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Employee gets offer from rival company, decides to take the job, until current company gets word of it and demands employee stay: ‘Please be joking'

Bar Mor Hazut

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Candidate shares salary expectations on startup screening call, recruiter laughs and says "that's cute," she hangs up immediately and gets a better offer days later: ‘I said “I don't think we're aligned, thanks for your time" and hit leave.'

Inés Soubrie

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Employee leaves job for a startup in August, returns to his old job after realizing the startup owners were inept and clueless: 'They wanted me to handle everything for the income of only 1 person.'

Emmy Pratt

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Boss demands Marketing Coordinator work from the office alone while all other employees are working from home: 'I asked if I could go to work from home and she has just ghosted me.'

Emmy Pratt

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'Asynchronous' boss continually pings employee all day, gets offended when they take more than 5 seconds to respond

JR Atkinson

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Job candidate refuses to have Zoom interview recorded after recruiter won't turn her camera on: 'If cameras are required, both should have it turned on'

Ben Weiss

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Texas employee changes LinkedIn status to "Open to Work," now seeks legal protection after boss treats his social media post as a resignation letter

Ben Weiss

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23-year-old considers leaving $100K job for a 2 year program where he'll make 50K for 5 years after he graduates: '[The 2nd] option sounds like a scam.'

Emmy Pratt

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Boss leaves every day at 2pm because of her 'kids,' despite not allowing colleagues to do the same

JR Atkinson

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Job candidate denies job offer after they sit through an interview without being asked a single question by the hiring manager: ‘He told me to be quiet’

Bar Mor Hazut

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Coworker continually mispronounces coworker Xavier's name, refuses to learn the correct pronounciation

JR Atkinson

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Company mandates 'anonymous' survey, turns their answers into a public loyalty test: 'The room was silent'

JR Atkinson

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