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Electrical Engineering graduate decides to pursue her PhD despite parents' demands that she get a job to pay their bills so they could retire: ‘I can’t single-handedly support the family’

Bar Mor Hazut

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Boss hints that coworker is about to be fired, coworker is racked with guilt wondering if they should say something: 'She just bought a new home'

JR Atkinson

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Boss ambushes employee with a PIP, employee retaliates by resigning the next day

JR Atkinson

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Fully remote childless boss demands hybrid employee RTO full-time, despite having a child she needs to pick up from school early: 'That’s your problem to figure out. Your child doesn’t work for the company, you do.'

Emmy Pratt

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Company forbids laid-off employee from entering the office to return his work laptop because he brought his 2-year-old son with him: ' There was no one at home to take care of him.'

Emmy Pratt

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Employee is laid off with 7 months severance days before they were going to quit: 'You hit the jackpot'

JR Atkinson

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Employee turns off his work phone during his PTO time, and you won't guess what his boss did! He said that he was being unprofessional by setting up that boundary, now he wonders if he needs a new job

María Cetra

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Boss chews out employee for not inviting their coworkers to their birthday brunch: 'Haha are you joking'

JR Atkinson

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Employee is alarmed due to coworker arranging a recurrent 1 on 1 meeting with him: ‘I feel uncomfortable like I'm being monitored because I did something wrong. Is this normal or is this weird?’

Olivia Arocena

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Employee gets called out for agreeing to give a reference for former manager, then giving a bad yet honest review to the hiring manager: ‘You should have declined’

Bar Mor Hazut

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Bakery worker gets scolded for checking her phone for 30 seconds during 6-hour trial shift despite manager saying it was allowed, quits after boss belittles her: ‘We’re not children here’

Cata Holmes

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Employee Claims He ‘Can’t Trust’ New Coworker Because She Pushes Back on His Instructions

JR Atkinson

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Business Owner Threatens to Assign Volunteers to Work His Private Event on a Saturday if His Employees Don't Willingly Volunteer: 'We Don't Work Saturdays.'

Emmy Pratt

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Employee accidentally joins boss's private HR call about them: 'Am I going to get fired?'

JR Atkinson

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Man arrives to a job interview 7 minutes early but leaves after he’s made to wait almost half an hour to be interviewed: ‘When it got to around 27 minutes, I decided my time was more important than that’

Olivia Arocena

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Employee asks for tips on how to deal with a coworker who constantly reports everyone else’s slip-ups: ‘They turn every little thing into a investigation, escalations and somehow remember every mistake you’ve made’

Olivia Arocena

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