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Employee pressured to keep working after not receiving compensation for 2 pay cycles, maliciously complies with boss's orders: 'The work I perform reflects the pay you provide'

Ben Weiss

Update: Job candidate holds his ground after recruiter tries to cheat him out of the proper salary range: 'The number I gave [you] is my minimum'

Ben Weiss

19-year-old woman shares experiencing a two-hour-long assessment for a first-round job interview for a minimum wage role, all applicants under 30 are asked to leave: 'The first task was to rank items by importance for surviving on a desert island'

Brad Dickson

‘That's when they started panicking’: Overworked employee secretly scores new job with a 50% pay raise, then quits, leaving higher-ups to put out the fires they've created

Lana DeGaetano

Restaurant rewards nepo-hire for working one 13-hour shift, ignores employee who does it every day: 'Once I took an extra day off and was immediately labeled as "Mr. Lazy"'

JR Atkinson

'Shared rooms, meals 'light', and none of it counts as work hours': 27-year-old tech employee refuses to go on mandatory team retreat, manager excludes him from work project afterwards

Ally Perry

'We’re basically family through your husband’s job': Woman demands coworker’s wife waive her $1,800 fee and film her wedding for free, videographer refuses so she reports husband to HR after she no-shows at the wedding

Isabella Penn

29-year-old employee refuses to train 31-year-old coworker "Becky" after she discovers Becky tried to get her written up: 'I don't owe her mentorship after she tried to sabotage me!'

Ben Weiss

A Coffee-Break’s Worth of Work Funnies if You Need a Mid-Afternoon Pick-Me-Up

Lana DeGaetano

Exterminator needs access through homeowner’s yard to treat neighbor’s house, repeatedly no-shows until she revokes permission to enter her property: 'I had to take off work both times'

Isabella Penn

31-year-old self-employed carpenter offers to help pay for his girlfriend's grad school tuition until she mocks his blue collar career: 'She feels her education makes her better'

Jesse Kessenheimer

How Gen Z are Rewriting the Corporate Jargon Lexicon

Jesse Kessenheimer

Indispensable employee uses a company blunder to negotiate a 30% raise after they fire an entire support department: 'I'm using this to twist their arm'

Jesse Kessenheimer

Former employers claims ex-employee owes them 20 PTO hours despite previously claiming they'd cover it: 'He can come and get it'

JR Atkinson

'Isn't it courtesy?': Manager demands resigning employee give more than 3 weeks notice, she decides to give 0

Ally Perry

“We're all burnt out. You just have to push through it”’: Manager weaponizes exceptional employee's tears during an unwarranted poor performance review and tells them it's a "growth moment’

Lana DeGaetano