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‘I’ve been with this company for 20 years and this is how they’re doing me’: New managers try to force 20-year employee to quit after a department merger, piling on extra work and inventing dress code and shoe violations

Etai Eshet

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Hiring manager demands candidate send a “thank-you video” to the team after their interview, candidate refuses: ‘That’s one way to filter out people with dignity’

Bar Mor Hazut

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Senior designer quits over 6 years of denied raises, refuses boss's demand to train less-experienced replacement when discovering she's earning $20K more than her salary for the same job: 'Willing to pay new employee significantly more than a loyal one'

Emma Saven

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CEO of 7-month start-up takes only company credit card to Bali, refuses to make remote purchases or approve expenses while away, blocking software renewals, buying new hire’s laptop, and event catering for the month: 'Said he's busy and to figure it out'

Emma Saven

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Client demands bank manager after teller claims she can't withdraw more money due to daily limit, waits hours to be told the same thing by manager: ‘I can't help you’

Bar Mor Hazut

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22-year-old retail employee gets her friend and coworker fired when her friend lies to their manager about a "family emergency" to go to a party and tells the manager she will cover their shift: 'My manager called me and asked me why I wasn't at work'

Brad Dickson

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15 Managers who fired employees for making huge mistakes: 'We know what you've been stealing!'

Remy Millisky

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Employee purposefully slows down productivity to show how he's carrying the team, his coworkers flip out: 'I was the mug that covered for everybody and was then doing 5 peoples jobs, [then] I decided to work at the pace of everyone else'

JR Atkinson

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50-year-old tries "quiet quitting" after achieving mid-level management goals, ends up quadrupling net worth: 'Focus on [the] minimum amount of work [and] delegate everything you possibly can'

Ben Weiss

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Entitled coworker works remotely for 2 years following her maternity leave, then demands that another employee give back her old office when RTO is instituted: ‘She became agitated’

Lana DeGaetano

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MRI technician leaves patient in the middle of a scan to go on a bike ride, the first of many instances of malpractice: ‘This didn't even get him fired’

Lana DeGaetano

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'Dude straight up presented my entire deck at the meeting': Manager steals employee's presentation word-for-word and passes it off as his own, gets his comeuppance when VP finds out

JR Atkinson

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Coworker is caught stealing 2 gallons of milk from the office kitchen, uncovering a string of behavior from multiple office thieves: ‘Doing their Costco run at work’

Lana DeGaetano

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Employee gets suspended for not standing up to greet the CEO when he visited the office, he quits after returning to work: 'This is insane'

Ben Weiss

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Bank's new employee repeatedly parks in the bank president’s reserved spot, enters his office without permission, and complains about how he's so entitled, despite every coworker claiming he's a great guy: 'We’re all confused when he complains about him'

Emma Saven

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New employee gets fired after only a week at the job, gets told by boss that their accountant claims they can't afford to pay him: ‘I thought it was my saving grace’

Bar Mor Hazut

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