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22-year-old retail employee gets her friend and coworker fired when her friend lies to their manager about a "family emergency" to go to a party and tells the manager she will cover their shift: 'My manager called me and asked me why I wasn't at work'

Brad Dickson

'I requested a 25 cent raise and they said it wasn't in the budget': 15+ Workers who quit their jobs for great reasons

Remy Millisky

Company fires 40 employees at once via a slide show, leaving them to scramble wondering why: 'We got bought by a tech giant and it turned into a cult'

JR Atkinson

Boss refuses to approve any PTO requests, employee finds a way around it in the company handbook, resulting in office chaos when more employees follow suit: ‘Thank you, legal team’

Bar Mor Hazut

New employee gets fired after only a week at the job, gets told by boss that their accountant claims they can't afford to pay him: ‘I thought it was my saving grace’

Bar Mor Hazut

Nurse quits job after boss demands she works on Christmas since she “has no family to celebrate with”, despite already approving her time off: ‘People with children are given priority’

Bar Mor Hazut

20+ Employees who worked with unprofessional coworkers: 'Project manager... [paid] $19,000 worth of overnight shipping charges'

Remy Millisky

'Could’ve been a link in my calendar': Remote employee drives 2 hours to the office to attend a 'mandatory' briefing, then pays $12 for parking for a meeting that gets canceled at the last minute

Jesse Kessenheimer

Company's AI payroll tool decides one employee shouldn't be paid that month, tells them to wait for the next one: 'So now I'm sitting here debugging code while worrying if I'll be able to afford my lunches until this is fixed'

JR Atkinson

Manager forbids use of 'use it or lose it' PTO, employee finds loophole to take vacation time: 'Two hours every morning next week, two hours every afternoon the week after, a random Friday 3 to 5 to watch a plumber'

Ally Perry

Man waits 5 years to get car repaired, demands $2,600 plus additional $1,200 from coworker who hit his car: 'I finally got HR involved'

Remy Millisky

'My contractor coworker quit with 10 seconds' notice': Boss gleefully brags about firing contractors with no notice, contractor quits mid-project

Remy Millisky

Employee uses obscure employee handbook loophole to take PTO when their boss forbids them from taking it before it expires: 'PTO requests not explicitly denied [...] within 48 business hours are [...] approved.”'

Brad Dickson

'I've landed 5 interviews in the past 6 weeks': Job applicant cold calls company HR departments, claims he was asked to schedule an interview without applying

Ally Perry

Boss demands employees follow protocol by the book, only to have the entire office shut down after discovering “the book” hasn't been updated in a decade: ‘Nobody noticed because nobody followed it’

Bar Mor Hazut

33-year-old coworker uses fake project as an excuse to get out of work, scheme lasts for months: 'Tom had made the whole thing up to justify missing deadlines'

Ben Weiss