A lot of things changed because of the pandemic—especially work life. Covid seems to have made a lot of workers’ relationships with their bosses a whole lot weirder. Before the pandemic, if you started feeling feverish at work (especially in a workplace where you’re in close contact with others), you would go home to recover …
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CEO Doesn’t Invite Engineers to Company Party, so They Throw a Bigger One and Expense It
When the head of a company treats some of their employees with respect and others like garbage, do they expect those undervalued workers to just take it? When one CEO prohibited all the hard-working engineers at the company from attending their massive customer appreciation party (that all the sales employees were invited to, by the …
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Boss Berates Deli Worker for Not Serving Karen Minutes Before Closing, Employees Maliciously Comply
This humble redditor’s tale of retail hell has it all—the entitled Karen who makes demands minutes before closing and leaves a nasty review when she doesn’t get her way. The unreasonable boss who expects the employee to do the work of ten people but chews them out if they log even 15 minutes of overtime. …
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Entitled Employer Expects Employee to Run Work Errands During Lunch & Still Have Time to Eat
One day at work, redditor u/unitedstatesofLABIA wasn’t feeling super hungry, so they agreed to help their boss with a few errands. Big mistake. It’s easy to let these things slide in the moment, but the consequences of letting bosses cross boundaries—like using lunch breaks for work-related errands—can come back to bite you in the long …
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Shady Company Tries to Steal Employee’s Paycheck Back With ‘Payroll Reversal’ After It’s Deposited
The one thing people expect from their employers is to be compensated for their work in a timely manner. Can you imagine what would happen if, after purchasing something in a store, you reached into the cash register to take your money back? Or what if you turned in your rent and then cancelled the …
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Weird Recruiter Requests Tour of Interviewee’s Room During Virtual Meeting
Imagine if, in the middle of a job interview, your potential future employer demanded that you open up your bag and reveal its contents? That would feel like a bizarre invasion of privacy, wouldn’t it? Well that’s basically what a recruiter did to redditor u/nuestl during a virtual job interview—the recruiter asked OP to give …
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Entitled Boss Refuses to Let Worker Take Time Off for Honeymoon, Shoots Self in the Foot
Working 40 hours a week for years is nearly impossible without respect and reasonable benefits. Everyone who works deserves a reasonable amount of time off, especially for important life events, like getting married or having a child. When redditor u/WhoSc3w3dDaP00ch requested time off for their honeymoon nearly two months in advance, their deadbeat manager (who …
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Secret Shoppers & Retail Workers Reveal the Infuriating Truth About Covert Employee Evaluations
If retail work wasn’t hellish enough, it turns out that even providing good customer service can get you reprimanded by the bosses. One troubled redditor recently shared their experience working as a mystery shopper to r/antiwork, which spurred a lively thread of many other stories from former mystery shoppers and retail workers. The thread reveals …
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Greedy Landlord Tries To Exploit Tenant for Free Labor, Gets Owned Instead
Slumlords are exploitative by nature, and in this lucky redditor’s case, not very smart. After u/nopanicprepper experienced a series of plumbing issues in their home, they notified their absentee landlord, who refused to pay for any repairs. Instead, the landlord «allowed» OP to do the repairs since OP was an engineer. (How generous.) OP maliciously …
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Boss Throws Temper Tantrum After Employee Quits, Royally Screws Himself Over
Bitterly firing an employee right after they hand in their two weeks notice is probably the least professional thing a boss can do in that situation, and that’s exactly what happened to redditor u/Brilliant-Parking359, whose boss ended up screwing himself over by sacking his employee out of anger right after they quit. u/Brilliant-Parking359 still had …
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