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Manufacturer helps client with urgent order by supplying differently specced parts at client's agreement, client still makes official complaint because the parts weren't to normal specification, manufacturer delays their orders thereafter in retaliation

Brad Dickson

Job candidate sends pointed email to HR over company's hiring process, gets a scathingly unprofessional response from the CEO

Brad Dickson

Employee realizes how miserable they are in their current role after being appointed temporarily to another team: 'I wasn't waking up dreading the day [anymore]'

Brad Dickson

Manager repeatedly ignores developer's warning, resulting in $228k of incorrect transactions: 'The system did exactly what it was told to do'

Brad Dickson

Job candidate asked to work entire day for free instead of sitting their scheduled interview, they stand their ground and walk: 'They expected me to work 6 hours for free before even telling me the salary'

Brad Dickson

Corporate management refuses to use 1 of 3 allocated "storm days" to shut down the facility despite 1 foot of snowfall, forcing employees to use their own PTO instead: 'The VP started the email with "Happy Tuesday!!"'

Brad Dickson

Employee realizes that they have taken less PTO since the company instituted "unlimited" policy due to the implied threat from HR: 'It's just this weird psychological thing where you feel like youre being watched or judged'

Brad Dickson

Micromanaging Warehouse Supervisor tells employee to start "documenting everything," they comply and use their paperwork to save themselves from being scapegoated: 'I started writing down every single thing'

Brad Dickson

Boss demands employee respond only to ticketed requests that follow the process "no exceptions," employee complies and ignores boss's urgent messages: 'I stopped answering his Slack messages'

Brad Dickson

Boss demands that employees remain at their desks and tell him what they're doing every time they get up, they comply and message him so often that he is forced to reverse the order: 'Last week I sent him 9 messages in one day'

Brad Dickson

Employee turns the tables, uses micromanaging boss's own reports to trick her and expose her hypocrisy in her criticism of his work: 'I found the folder online and used her past work verbatim'

Brad Dickson

Employee blindsided by manager and HR after demanding "accountability" from their manager over their mishandling of scheduling and workplace accommodations: 'They threatened to fire me if I expressed myself “that way” again'

Brad Dickson

Every time employee takes a PTO day they still end up 40 hours/week to cover it, nullifying the PTO: 'I should've worked 24 hours but I worked double that'

JR Atkinson

Manager gets a day of overtime pay for answering employee text when HR refuses to acknowledge their work-life boundaries, HR tries to get them fired, they counter with their own warning: '[If] they wanted to punish me for it, they could see me in court'

Brad Dickson

Restraint in the face of temptation is an important skill for professionals: 10+ employees share why it is important not to burn bridges through their own experiences

Brad Dickson

Employee learns that employer is hiring at $18k more than what they're earning for the same job, prompting a defensive response from their manager: 'Someone walking in off the street with zero knowledge of our systems is worth 15k more than me?'

Brad Dickson