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'The majority of the staff quit within months': Boss tries to make employees start work 20 minutes early, workers retaliate and make a pact to arrive early every shift and hang out together in their cars

Isabella Penn

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'I made the mistake of assuming he was telling the truth': Boss tells employee he'll drive her home from work before a snowstorm hit, ends up ghosting her and left her stranded

Isabella Penn

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'Enjoy litigation and demotion': Employee gets back at former boss for stealing his ideas and firing him, eventually takes over boss's new company and demotes him

Ben Weiss

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'My 100% WFH job turned into a 100% office job': Worker hired in remote role finds themself forced to come into an office

Brad Dickson

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'It's amazing what can be done when the CEO gets involved': Frustrated customer floods company execs with emails to get them to fix their computer

Remy Millisky

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'Our turnover rate is through the roof': Entitled boss mocks employee for taking first day off in 10 months, gets instant karma when half of his employees quit

Isabella Penn

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'I was just accused of stealing water': 20+ Mindless managers who leveled wild accusations against their employees

Remy Millisky

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Nightmare Jobs That Made Workers Throw in the Towel Mid Shift

JR Atkinson

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'No one is above the rules': 'Rags to riches' CEO fires VP who broke the single rule that every employee must follow

Remy Millisky

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'I didn’t check my emails for seven weeks': Boss pressures employee to 'stay on top of things' during his paternity leave, employee puts his foot down

Ben Weiss

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'[I] and the entire waiting staff walked out': 20+ Workers share stories of quitting their job mid shift

Brad Dickson

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'I won't be in today and I won't be back': Restaurant worker quits 20 mins after the start of their shift with explosive text message to boss

Brad Dickson

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'What time does the internet close?': 40+ Clueless customers who had ridiculous questions to ask their local retail workers

Remy Millisky

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'It was an email I would NEVER send': Coworker signs intern's name on unprofessional email, intern speaks to boss, coworker gets fired

Ben Weiss

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'I parked in their space... somebody else got jealous and tattled to HR': IT worker conspires with their boss to snag a good parking spot through malicious compliance

Remy Millisky

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'No OT without manager approval': Worker uses OT policy to his advantage, leaves mid-shift once he hits 40 hours to go to the movies

Ben Weiss

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