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Boss fires employee and demands they train replacements as retaliation for PTO, the employee cleverly complies, leaving the boss begging them to come back: ‘She demanded me to get back to work and said that the firing was just a prank’

Etai Eshet

'Bringing my work laptop is out of the question': Company asks worker if they can be 'reachable' during PTO days, employee shuts them down

JR Atkinson

Entitled customer tries to load 6,000 pounds of concrete onto his car despite employee's warnings, breaks car's suspension: 'It was the absolute best day I've ever had at work'

Remy Millisky

‘Flexible hours means your time is their time’: 20+ Seasoned employees share interview ‘red flags’ that warn them to stay away from certain companies

Lana DeGaetano

'Don't try to stiff a small business': Local laundromat owner holds a client's order hostage when they try to bail on their $1,700 weekly invoice

Jesse Kessenheimer

26-year-old fresh employee complains about burnout after 4 months of work, getting first taste of being a self-sustaining adult: ‘I can’t do mental work for 8 hours in a day, I feel like I can handle like 3, 4 hours max’

Etai Eshet

Company expects staff to cook food for their own employee appreciation event unpaid and off the clock, so one employee calls out boss for unlawful practice

Lana DeGaetano

Recruiter sends job-seeking employee’s CV to their current boss, leading to increased micromanagement and workplace anxiety

Etai Eshet

'Sorry, it’s 5:00. Let’s pick this up tomorrow': Employee ditches work every day at 5:01, maliciously complying with an over-disciplined manager's shortsighted scheduling demands

Jesse Kessenheimer

Boss scraps bonuses and cuts employees' pay to build $140,000 pool pushing them to plan their swim to freedom: ‘I was praised for being the #1 earner then in the next breath said no more bonuses’

Etai Eshet

Employee quits bad job, leaves piles of work for their impolite boss: 'I will never forget the expression of defeat in his face at the last day'

Remy Millisky

'I got fired just for going to the bathroom': New hire gets unjustly clocked out during shift for taking a 30-minute bathroom break

Ben Weiss

Micromanager makes entire team log every single task, employee complies, causing tasks to take forever: 'The result? It was chaos'

Ben Weiss

Woman finds out she’s not part of the boys’ club when her all-male team plans a Cabo getaway without her, leaving her to process their expense reports and her own exclusion: ‘ I thought I was a part of their team, but it’s now clear that I’m not’

Etai Eshet

Boss fires 22-year-old employee from first job after only six months, pushing her to question her career path: ‘All that hard work just to end up back in square one’

Etai Eshet

Tax associate gets suspended for refusing to come in on day off, punishment backfires for his prideful boss: 'The real revenge was accepting my suspension'

Ben Weiss