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I admit it: I have a complex relationship with ChatGPT, and by complex, I mean I use it to think through pretty much most of my decisions. I’m a writer, so I’m used to developing ideas through text in a couple of languages. I also write short stories, and every day I write in my diary; still, today, I asked ChatGPT for help with writing a WhatsApp message.

Employee starts prompting his boss as if she were an AI chatbot to get the responses he desires and it works: 'I try different prompts in my chat to see which wording of a question will give the affirming answer I want. I then bring up my decision to her'

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'It’s so easy to pad my “work” with stuff from my other unofficial supervisor': Employee stumbles into remote work job with two supervisors, finds the perfect way to work less

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College student is forced to do group project alone without help from partners, gets rewarded by professor when he discovers who did all the work: ‘I got an A, and strangely, they stopped talking to me’

Personally, if I were put in this situation, I wouldn't know what to do. What this employee did was far from perfect, but it was an honest mistake. Not everyone can plot the most perfect act of malicious compliance every time they're wronged, although I wish things worked that way.

Employee trains a very young colleague that then bosses him around: 'He had the audacity to try to yell at me and say, I will cut the files if they are correct. You need to do your job and make sure that I have the right measurements. I lost it'

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'I'm so tired of extroversion being the ideal and introversion being so misunderstood': Boss forces introverted employee to spend their lunch break at communal table instead of reading quietly

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23-year-old works from home while living with parents, protests when they interrupt her work day: 'I am out of energy'

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Boss drops 'no beach policy' during job interview: 'They don't like people wandering off on breaks'

Coworker demands employee keep bringing her lunch to the office after they agreed once, employee refuses when it becomes a daily errand: ‘She's an adult who can get her own lunch’

Coworker demands employee keep bringing her lunch to the office after they agreed once, employee refuses when it becomes a daily errand: ‘She's an adult who can get her own lunch’

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Job applicant deleted company website from Wikipedia after CEO showed his true colors during interview: ‘He kept me waiting an hour, hadn't read my resume, tried to get personal info’

Job applicant deleted company website from Wikipedia after CEO showed his true colors during interview: ‘He kept me waiting an hour, hadn't read my resume, tried to get personal info’

Sometimes our managers are so spaced out that they don’t notice their employees are having an awful time working at their companies. You might even resign without another job secured and block them everywhere, and they still wouldn’t notice.

29-year-old employee leaves his job as a specialist at a small planning and design firm and his ex-boss instists on him leaving a review on a popular local job review site: 'He wanted a review? Fine. Let's comply'

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New hire becomes the next victim to the office “Chatty Cathy” employee every time she goes to the bathroom, begs the internet for help: ‘She’s the sweetest… I don’t know how to stop it.'

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After renting fields to neighbor, landowner is forced to plow down neighbor's corn fields following his refusal to harvest them in time: ‘The rental agreement expired’

After renting fields to neighbor, landowner is forced to plow down neighbor's corn fields following his refusal to harvest them in time: ‘The rental agreement expired’

‘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

Sometimes being good at something doesn't guarantee people will notice it. You might be the best at what you do, but people are definitely more likely to see what's overtly shown to them.

Calm employee discovers his quiet competence made his good work invisible: 'People who get noticed are the ones who create urgency, send 14 Slack messages, act stressed, then get praised for solving the same issue they made everyone aware of'

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Employee logs off at 5pm in the midst of a critical issue that would take 20 minutes to handle, leaving coworkers scrambling: 'There was no overtime approved'

It's funny how we act around timid personalities. We project all kinds of dark character traits when, in reality, we don’t know anything about them precisely because they are so reserved. I’m glad this employee found out about her coworker’s real personality in the best way possible. Her finding out he wasn’t so evil after all wasn’t that shocking

Work "enemy" turns out to be the only one to have employee's back when he needed it, worked 6-8 extra unpaid hours for him and refuses to accept a gift in retribution: 'I approached him about it and he told me basically he was busy and not to bother him'