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A manager leans and raises her hands towards a male employee who is sitting in front of her.

Company gives new hire $54k salary after he asked for $60k, get offended when he takes a $74k job offer 3 weeks later: 'I didn't have any other offers'

Four employees sitting on the same side of a meeting table with their laptops.

Burned out tech employee moves to small company for $22k less salary, works even more hours as a result: 'It is absolute chaos'

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A man looks stressed with his hand to his mouth as he looks at some papers at the kitchen table, his wife looking over his shoulder.

Old employer demands employee pay $60k college debt for leaving job 8 months early, employee resents husband for not paying: 'She really hates her current job'

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Employee with 20 years of experience takes new job, gets fired after 30 days: 'Zero feedback, zero expectations, almost no communication from my boss'

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Boss extends new employee's probation period, so employee quits without notice after finding better job: ‘Boss threw an absolute fit’

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Florida employee accepts a new job to learn they must pay a $1000 onboarding fee and stay a full year to get it back: ‘Is it even legal to charge a fee?’

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Employee quits job after finding out their direct report was making more than them: ‘I brought it up to management and was brushed off’

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'I fell asleep at work and I’m spiraling': Office worker falls asleep at their desk, supervisor threatens to write them up

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This new hire began a new office job and thought that they'd be receiving some on-the-job training. Instead, they found themselves only with two short onboarding sessions. The two days' worth of company-values videos and tests. This continued, with no real work assigned to them and no practical instructions being given. They started trying to train themselves, searching around company files for procedure manuals. Their boss still told them to "work more" and to learn by doing.

New hire left abandoned with no training or assigned work—boss starts insisting they get more work done and "learn by doing"—they consider quitting: 'I told him that I didn't get any proper training'

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Employee that is leaving the company gets tired of the new trainee disregarding everything he says and teaches, as she doesn't believe it's important: 'The new associate said she wasn't going to follow what I was telling her because I'm not her manager.'

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Trainer tells new hire who is going to replace her at the job position that she needs to resign before her clause of staying 6 months starts: 'Should I catch on that major red flag and leave? or should I give it a try and see what happens?'

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New employee cries ten times in one night after coming home from her first day at her first job ever.

Recent graduate cries 10 times after her 1st day of working at a new job because she didn't know what to do: 'I hate that we have to slave away for 40 years for a salary.'

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Personal assistant gets fired in the first week over the phone at 11:30 a.m on a Sunday, all because she couldn't handle the boss mistreating her and making her cry: 'I’ve never been fired before, and I’m kind of [scared].'

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Night auditor gets frustrated about new trainee as he continues to ask the same questions over and over and does not think for himself, now he's worried about after training: 'When you are on your own, what are you going to do? Call me at home?'

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‘I felt my stomach drop’: Candidate believes she lost job opportunity after discovering the interviewer is ‘good friends' with her last boss, who fired her from the job

‘I felt my stomach drop’: Candidate believes she lost job opportunity after discovering the interviewer is ‘good friends' with her last boss, who fired her from the job

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Company Replaces Employee With Coworker She Trained When She Takes Maternity Leave, Give Counter Offer When She Gets New Job