HR Department Sends Former Employee Birthday Card 3 Weeks After He Got Fired

Nothing quite says, «Happy Birthday!» like «You’re fired; I never want to see you again!» When you get fired, there’s a lot of pain and worry attached to it. You might not have a ton of money saved up during that crazy 1-6 month period of job hunting. That being said, getting canned can make …
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Overworked Junior Employee Quits Without Notice, Leaving Lazy Boss Hung Out to Dry

There comes a point in many low-level employees’ lives when they need to throw in the towel. If you’re inexperienced or don’t have a college degree, it can be easy to put up with a lot of mistreatment for a while because you know that you might not be able to find opportunities elsewhere. Even …
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Company Tries to Intimidate Ex-Employee Into Signing Non-Compete Agreement a Month After Firing Them

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but if a former boss tries to scare you into signing something after you’ve already stopped working for them, DO. NOT. SIGN. ANYTHING. Don’t even sign a damn birthday card. You owe them nothing, and they probably don’t even have any leverage against you.  u/WhitePinoy recently posted …
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HR Takes Away Employees $20K Signing Bonus, Claims It’s Been $10K The Whole Time

When you’re young, you’re constantly told never to sign anything you’ve never read in full. Contracts always have little loopholes in them, and signing a bad contract can have negative effects on your life in the long term. While that’s true, how many times have y’all fully read a contract you signed? Sure, I read …
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‘She demanded I hire her’: Manager’s old company calls to begging him to hire his useless ex-coworker to get her off their hands

Imagine having a coworker so terrible that when you get a new management role and poach the members of your old team, your old HR manager actually gets mad at you for not poaching the awful one. That’s a scenario that boggles the mind so completely it’s hard to imagine this scenario actually playing out …
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‘He dared you to call his hand; You called and raised’: Entitled employee harasses his female coworker gets bamboozled when she calls his bluff and takes him to the cleaners with HR

Working with insufferable coworkers is tantalizing on its own, but when your raunchy, abrasive colleague starts to test your patience with crude jokes and terse taunts, it’s hard not to go full vigilante on them. Especially when you’re trapped in an office environment, sharing a cubicle wall with someone who thinks they’re running a late-night …
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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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Insufferable Designer Put In His Place For Belittling Junior Coworker

Power dynamics are an inbuilt feature of any office environment. When it comes down to it, we simply wouldn’t have enough bullsh*t jobs to go around if there weren’t supervisors, managers and other such senior people that exist to micromanage and crack the whip.  Nonetheless, the work hierarchy isn’t always as clear as we might …
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Insufferable ‘Boss’ Put In His Place For Belittling Junior Coworker

Power dynamics are an inbuilt feature of any office environment. When it comes down to it, we simply wouldn’t have enough bullsh*t jobs to go around if there weren’t supervisors, managers and other such senior people that exist to micromanage and crack the whip.  Nonetheless, the work hierarchy isn’t always as clear as we might …
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Jerk ‘Boss’ Put In His Place For Belittling Junior Coworker

Power dynamics are an inbuilt feature of any office environment. When it comes down to it, we simply wouldn’t have enough bullsh*t jobs to go around if there weren’t supervisors, managers and other such senior people that exist to micromanage and crack the whip.  Nonetheless, the work hierarchy isn’t always as clear as we might …
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