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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’

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’

A job interviewer holds a pen that he wants job interviewees to sell to him.

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.'

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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'

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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'

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’

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’

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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’

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’

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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'

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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

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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'

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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'

Employee goes to bed after shift got cancelled, only to wake up and find out it was rescheduled: ‘I must report to HR regarding my No Call No Show’

Employee goes to bed after their shift got cancelled, only to wake up and find out it was rescheduled without them knowing: ‘Now I must report to HR regarding my No Call No Show’

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Manager forces convenience store employee to work 14-hour shift after coverage doesn't show up: 'My manager would rather us work 16 hours than close the store'

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15-year-old employee is fired after refusing to work a 14 hour shift with no break: 'I couldn't handle working 7am-9pm my first 2 days of having a real job'

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29-year-old engineer constantly quiet-quits his job every few months, can't summon energy: 'I can perform competence indefinitely, but I can’t manufacture investment'

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Dad blames daughter of ‘not working enough’ after she switches from working 6 days a week to a mere 40-hour, 5-day schedule, she says: ‘I refuse to repeat the cycle of burnout’

Dad blames daughter of ‘not working enough’ after she switches from working 6 days a week to a mere 40-hour, 5-day schedule, she says: ‘I refuse to repeat the cycle of burnout’

Boss forbids employee from leaving their desk, refusing to let them work from other locations in the office, employee confronts him: ‘I'm so fed up’

Boss forbids employee from leaving their desk, refusing to let them work from other locations in the office, employee confronts him: ‘I'm so fed up’