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This is what happens when your boss has a questionable ‘talent’. Very rarely do we consider that some things can be a gift to someone while at the same time being a curse to somebody else. Am I revealing too much of today’s story here? Probably, but this boss exceeded my expectations in terms of gaslighting abilities. Let's read on.

Entitled boss quietly dumps his own admin onto an employee for months on end, dismissing any kind of confrontation about it: ‘He laughed and said "Let's not make a big thing of it"'

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Employee accidentally receives coworker's $6k bonus, wonders whether they should report it or not: 'It stings but this money was never yours'

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a 30-year-old woman going to the movie theatre and eating some concessions that she bought with money she made selling some old dolls.

Coworkers criticize employee for going to the movies after work instead of donating her money to her coworker: 'I feel like I'm being watched.'

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I wonder if this loophole is, in fact, a loophole or if she will eventually be kicked out because of this. It should be allowed to be a little mischievous, but also, if it were allowed, it would probably lose its whole point. Let’s walk through this story first and later derive our own conclusions from it.

Call-center employee finds a loophole that starts making her job a lot easier: ‘I had just had a customer before this one who got a call and had to go... which gave me the bright idea'

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Employee considers resigning after $72k salary offer because they paid the previous employee $86k: 'I am extremely disappointed and feel insulted by the raise'

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Employee Uses Company Card to Buy Personal Groceries Without Anyone Noticing, Confesses After Years of Gulit

Employee Uses Company Card to Buy Personal Groceries Without Anyone Noticing, Confesses After Years of Gulit

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Candidate rejects job offer after discovering HR lied about the 90k salary, HR insists the "company benefits” are worth it: ‘I can't afford to live on that wage’

Candidate rejects job offer after discovering HR lied about the 90k salary, HR insists the "company benefits” are worth it: ‘I can't afford to live on that wage’

Very few things are more pathetic than someone trying to command an authority they don’t have, or pretending to have everything under control when they clearly don’t, but when it comes to our ridiculous bosses, we love to see it unfold. That’s the case for this Redditor, who shared a story about a very “interesting” manager, who’s also his boss’s wife.

Employee plans to leave his job without notice and refuses to train his designated successor: 'If anything remotely related to "what she does" is brought up by the employees, I tell them that they'll have to reach out to her, and I can't help them'

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Manager demands employees track every minute of non-billable work, then panics when one worker logs coffee breaks, printer jams, and Windows updates: 'Use common sense'

It's time to study the art of quiet negotiation. Somebody should teach us how to get better deals at work interviews, so we don't exclusively look for them when buying unnecessary things on the internet. This story serves the point of this particular advice, and I'm sure there are plenty of other possible outcomes using the same technique, but it's definitely worth a try.

Employee describes the subtle negotiation tactic he applied during his interview to get it: 'Usually this is where people start stuttering or trying to justify why they deserve more but I decided to try something different this time'

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Boss refuses to approve employees PTO because they laid off everyone else on their team, leaving them stranded

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Female employee starts giving feedback like male coworkers, is called out for being 'harsh': 'I'm not going back to apologizing before every sentence'

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