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Is this a process HR initiated or some obscure managerial tactic?  Something about this story is fishy. The timing is just off. Everything was going well, and he was receiving very good feedback until he asked for a raise, and suddenly a lot of ‘anonymous negative reviews’ started coming up out of the blue.  In an ideal world, the employee could contact HR, and they would protect him or at

Well-reviewed employee is suddenly put on a PIP after asking for a raise: ‘If stepping back wasn't possible, why offer it? And if they simply want me gone, why not fire me?’

Everything was normal until they offered to pay her less  This story’s continuity was completely normal at first. A company fires an employee (or all of them), replaces them with a bot, and then everything starts going wrong, and they come back looking to rehire the emplo

Content creator gets fired and replaced by an AI; company numbers start to go wrong, so they offer to rehire her, expecting to pay her less: ‘So they failed, learned nothing and came back expecting a discount’

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'Does anyone else feel weird about being too efficient at their job?': Employee finishes day's work in 3 hours, wonders what they should do for the rest of the 5

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Brands replace content creators with AI, when numbers tank they try to get creators back with lower pay: 'They are back in my DMs offering 40% less than what they paid me before'

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Dad Refuses to Pay for Daughter’s College After Discovering She Wants to Study a Creative Field, Mom and Daughter Stand Up to Him

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Virginia Couple Move to Alaska for Wife's New Job, She Gets Fired After One Month of Working: 'We are out over $10,000 from this move and have absolutely nothing now to show for it.'

The employee who redefined showing up early  I have read this story a couple of times, and I still can’t decide whether this is a great way to start your day or a terrible one. He posted it on the /tifu subreddit, and I mean, he did, but it kinda worked in his favour?

Employee shows up 9.5 hours early to his shift after mind-altering power nap: ’Yeah… I’m going back home. Clearly I’ve done enough for today’

Everything offline is cool right now  This is so true. I mean, I got my job online, but that’s beside the point. Most of the jobs I got in my entire life were found outside the internet. And it’s not because the internet didn’t exist

Employee shows proof of why you should stop applying for jobs online: ‘Luck? Maybe idk but it worked for me. I think this approach is worth a try’

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Manager marks 1 minute late as a 'no call no show,' consistently asks for 30 minutes of unpaid labor

Work remotely but do it from the office?  Remote jobs have their lights and shadows. Some days you don’t even get out of your pajamas, and you end up feeling like a giant slug. Some days you stop so many times

Boss Demands RTO Then Hosts a Google Meet With Everyone Sitting Right Next To Each Other: ‘We spent forty-five minutes talking to each other through microphones while making awkward peripheral eye contact across our plastic desk dividers’

Where did the habit of having reasonable aspirations go?  Some of us only want jobs that pay a normal amount of money and let us check out and go chill at our homes without worrying about anything work-related for the rest of the day. Some of us want to be clerks, cas

Employers Don’t Seem To Hire Normal People With Normal Aspirations Anymore: ‘In a market this crowded, going "above and beyond" has literally become the norm’

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'I hit her with a Gen-Z stare': Boss walks up to employee who's juggling multiple projects and says they're 'not doing enough'

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HR implements dress code for fully remote employees, demands 'business casual' in virtual meetings: ‘Do they think this will magically make us more productive?’

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Guest discovers he missed his hotel booking by a full year, proceeds to blame hotel for his mistake and demand a room anyway: ‘That's not how anything works’

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Workplace charges employees $8 every time they forget their security badge: 'I would never turn it back in'

A college student who works as a waitress in a restaurant.

College student waitress pays for her older coworker's $20 Uber to get home from work; coworker keeps asking her for more money: 'She's a young single parent and shares a car with her boyfriend.'