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Guy responds politely to job rejection email, ends up scoring an interview in a positive turn of events: “Life is strange’

Lana DeGaetano

'My emails become unnoticed by the manager': Manager claims employee isn't doing enough work because their work gets lost under coworker's mountains of updates

JR Atkinson

Boss agrees to let employee work from home after 3 PM daily, boss's daughter gets annoyed when she challenges her on it: 'She has no authority'

Ally Perry

Manager excludes new hire from Friday pizza meeting until she has worked for 90 days, gets annoyed when she tells department head: 'Now there's no more pizza meetings'

Ally Perry

Senior engineer outsmarts an arrogant new hire when the newbie tries to play office politics, shattering his misplaced corporte confidence: 'He quit out of embarrassment'

Jesse Kessenheimer

Arrogant coworker takes credit for project, demands a promotion and gets fired instead: 'Sometimes the trash takes itself out!'

Ben Weiss

Employee begs for 3rd shift in interview process, is given all 1st shift while giving newbie 3rd: 'I already have a commute 45 min to an hour and in that rush hour it takes me almost 2 hours to get there'

JR Atkinson

Wealthy siblings try to pressure their older sister into surpassing her budget for group trip to Europe, she refuses to budge: ‘They all felt that they were subsidizing me’

Lana DeGaetano

Company lays off minimum-wage worker but still expects them to come in every day, doesn't provide severance: 'I am the only licensed person that can perform the specific type of services'

JR Atkinson

Company demands former employee pay back $5000 for training program after he resigns, docks salary if he refuses : 'This demand was never agreed upon'

Ally Perry

'I guess I'm a cat person now': One unexpected workday rescue transformed a lifelong dog person into a devoted cat pawrent

Sarah Brown

Boss denies employee lunch break for being 8 minutes late, employee takes break and quits: 'I clocked out and went 'to the deli''

Ally Perry

Mom, who has been unemployed since 2006, expects her son to drop out of college so he can work full-time and pay her mortgage: 'She insists it’s her house but will not contribute financially.'

Emmy Pratt

Company only allows PTO on 'sick days,' forcing employees to lie about their time off: 'That’s basically no PTO with extra steps'

JR Atkinson

Job seeker flawlessly redesigns company's app for job interview, company uses their design but refuses to hire them: 'It was 85% my work. I got a generic rejection email.'

Emmy Pratt

Boss refuses employee expenses because one receipt is over by £0.03, ends up owing £250 when they resubmit their expense sheet according to company guidelines: 'I found all the extras'

Jesse Kessenheimer