Boss Gets Roasted for Attempting to Forbid Workers From Requesting Days Off

There’s nothing worse than a boss who is both arrogant and incompetent. When u/stashu_‘s boss realized that making the shift schedule five hours before the start day proved to be a difficult task when employees had their pre-approved days off coming up, he didn’t acknowledge or accept the consequences of his own failures as a …
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‘I quit; my coworkers followed suit’: Employee quits after being denied vacation request, a domino effect of employees quitting ensues

Upper management glosses over the fact that it has been proven, time and time again, that micromanaging employees results in more problems than it solves. In this case, OP was working at a company for over 10 years, overseeing about 30 employees. The upper management in OP’s company micromanaged its employees, ignored mental health issues, …
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Boss Demotes Employee & Cuts Pay Without Changing Duties, Employee Sabotages Company by Quitting

Some employers think they can get away with anything. The arrogance can be positively obscene. Exploitative bosses literally be like: «we want you to do more work at a higher quality for less pay.» What do bosses expect when they treat their employees like brainless little minions? In one redditor’s case, their boss’ antics transformed …
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Company Promises Permanent Work-From-Home Option Then Threatens to Fire Anyone Who Won’t Return to Office

The WFH debate has been a big one since workplaces started opening up their offices again. Although the lockdown was a difficult time for millions of people, it also required many workers to work from home for the first time, which provided them with the opportunity to use their time differently. A certain type of …
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Worker Gets Fired for Not Being Able to Attend ‘Cleaning Party’ on 2 Hours’ Notice

There’s no shortage of screenshots of infuriating text messages from the worst bosses ever featured on r/antiwork, but one example recently shared by u/L3wdMegumin has a little extra dose of WTF. The text exchange begins with OP’s boss seemingly blaming their android phone for the fact that OP wasn’t added to an important work-related group …
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Employee’s Blunt Answers to HR Survey Hits Home for Many Workers

Anyone who’s worked at a company that has many useless tiers built into its management hierarchy has probably had to fill out one of those work surveys at some point in their career. You know what I’m talking about—those end-of-quarter questionnaires that are supposed to measure employee motivation and performance through a series of low-effort …
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Shady CEO Lures Applicant Into Laborious Job They Didn’t Sign Up For, Threatens Not to Pay for Hours Worked

Don’t you just love it when shady bosses put their threats and bully tactics in writing? In u/Jeonkise5‘s case, after their potential new employer did a bait-and-switch on them and tried to lure them into a job they didn’t apply for, OP had experienced too many red flags for one day and decided to opt …
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Worker Quits & Takes Department With Them After CEO Laughs at Criticism About Subpar Salary

What is it with companies that refuse to pay their workers an adequate salary and yet somehow still wonder why their employee turnover rate is absolute garbage? Surely it’s not hard to understand that constantly rehiring and training new talent is a waste of time, money, and resources? When one redditor inquired about their company’s …
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Shady Managers Steal Thousands of Dollars in Gift Cards From Their Employees

Not only did this redditor’s managers outsource their employees’ Christmas bonuses to their vendors, they had the nerve to keep thousands of dollars in gift cards for themselves, some of which were meant for specific employees. u/ythemassman outed their horrible bosses on r/antiwork—keep scrolling for the whole infuriating story. 

Jerk Boss Fires the Only Worker Who Can Operate Special Machine to Cover for Dude Who Keeps Breaking It

Do you ever think about all the infrastructure that holds society together and wonder what Big Industry looks like behind the scenes? Turns out every trade has its idiots who somehow got to run the show and hire their idiot friends and relatives to do dangerous and critical jobs. According to one redditor’s lengthy (and …
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