Satisfying Times Workers Stood Up to Their Horrible Bosses

Everyone has their breaking point. There’s only so much BS you can take from a terrible boss before exploding into a confetti of expletives and insults you’ve been fantasizing about saying every day for months. Not all of us have the guts to stand up to our bosses (we still have to pay the bills …
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Upper Management’s Plan to Make Employees Feel Stupid Backfires Big Time

Everyone knows that the so-called managerial class is the best at failing upwards. In many cases, it is a manager’s mediocrity that allows them to climb the latter, not their intelligence. That’s why it’s extra funny when upper management actually believes they’re smarter than everyone else and therefore deserve their inflated salaries. One particular HR …
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Power-Tripping Boss Expects Employees to Stay at Work During Unpaid Lunch Break

Employment is pretty simple. An employer is supposed to compensate a worker for their time. When said worker is off the clock, they can do whatever the hell they want with their time. You either pay someone for their time or you dismiss them from their duties. Demanding that people stay at work while they’re …
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Elders Express Gratitude to Gen Y In Refreshingly Wholesome ‘Boomer Vs. Millennial’ Moment

A Baby Boomer defending Millennials?? I never thought I’d see the day. Yes, you read that right. A 58-year-old human resources worker recently made a post in r/antiwork in which they expressed their gratitude to Generation Y in one short and sweet paragraph. Although one thoughtful Reddit post isn’t going to make inflation and debt …
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Shady Boss Tries to Get Away With Wage Theft, Worker Hits Him With Perfect Response

Some bosses seem to really go out of their way to be complete a-holes. What’s the point of cheating an already underpaid employee out of £20? At that point it’s not just about money—it’s about exploiting your position of power to take advantage of people just because you can, and that’s pretty twisted. One redditor …
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Boss Threatens to Fire Worker for Being Sick

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but Covid is not over. Sure, we may have adapted as a species, but people are still getting sick, and they’re still contagious. One redditor’s boss threatened their employee with termination after they called in sick with Covid, claiming that they don’t have any «time off or …
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Boss Prohibits Employees From Adjusting A/C In Unbearably Hot Workplace, Thread Offers Lots of Clever Advice

Lately, workers have been taking to social media to expose certain e-commerce behemoths for providing horribly dangerous working conditions. Some of the more disturbing posts include pictures of room temperature thermometers giving readings in the hundreds. You’d think that other companies would take this current moment as a cue to do better, but unfortunately this …
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Employee Promoted Without a Raise, Exploits Loophole To Get Pay Bump Anyway

If you get promoted without a wage increase, is it really a promotion? Or is it just extra work? Sure, the promotion might come with a better title, but a cool job title doesn’t exactly pay tomorrow’s bills. When redditor u/InterestedObserver20 was told by their employer that their new promotion didn’t come with a pay …
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Awful Boss Tricks Employee Into Thinking They’re Getting Free Dinner, Takes Entire Bill Out of Paycheck

When you work a shitty minimum wage job at a place like Papa John’s, you should at least get to eat for free. Redditor u/limearitaa wasn’t even expecting a free meal from their boss when they came in to Papa John’s on their night off. Just the regular discount. When OP’s boss told them to …
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Boss Calls Employee ‘Privileged’ and ‘Lazy’ for ‘Only’ Working 60 Hours Per Week

Why is it so hard for some bosses to treat their employees like human beings? There are about 112 waking hours in a week (assuming the average adult gets 8 hours of sleep per night). That means, if you work a full time job, you only have 72 precious hours of free time. If you …
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