Company Enforces Same Punishment Regardless of Lateness, Employee Takes Their Sweet Time

Managers (especially new ones) usually come up with ridiculous rules without considering human behavior and basic cause and effect. If you enforce the same punishment for someone who shows up 5 minutes late to work as someone who arrives 3 hours late to work, do you really think this will prevent general lateness? No, more …
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People Who Quit Their Jobs On The First Day Share Their ‘I’m Outta Here’ Moments

It seems like it’s relatively uncommon for people to quit after their first day of work. You spend so much time applying to jobs, and once you finally get one, you want to stay for at least a while to feel the thing out. Usually, the first few days at a new job are the …
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Sober Woman Gets Fired After Coworker Snoops Through Her Phone And Finds Recovery Apps

It’s so important that people at your job don’t know everything about you. Even if you like your coworkers and have a solid bond, there are some things you shouldn’t tell them. Even if you think they have good intentions, they could use aspects of your personal life against you in the workplace. You never …
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Incompetent Employer Forces Technician to Work in Call Center, Gets Hit With OSHA Violations

A lot of jobs come with responsibilities that they weren’t really advertised with. For example, many corporations have a sneaky way of introducing meetings where valuable hours of staring at spreadsheets should be. That said, this switcheroo is far more messed up when somebody is forced to do something completely different to what they are …
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Couple Gets Fired Two Days After Their Wedding Because Groom Made a Complaint About a Supervisor Mocking His Disability

Working with your partner is a unique situation that not many couples find themselves in. More often than not, if couples do work together, it’s because they met at work. Much like living with your partner, things can get a little awkward if you split while you’re working at the same place. Luckily, this is …
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Employee and Customer Team Up to Give Homeless Man Pizza, Employee Gets Quiet-Fired as a Result

We’ve all worked jobs we had a particular distaste for, a place we dreaded stepping foot in, a manager’s call we were apprehensive about getting. OP was working at a pizza place at the ripe old age of 18, earning $8.50 an hour, dealing with customers who were an absolute nightmare, and answering to a …
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‘This Is Your New Job’: Boss Demands Employee Babysit Her Child During Work Shifts for Free

Management tends to have some pretty bold, audacious requests, or should we say rather ‘demands’. In this case, OP was working as a receptionist at a chiropractic clinic. Her boss went on personal leave for a few months, saying she had family issues that she needed to take care of. After said issues were taken …
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‘We’re short-staffed, so you can’t quit’: Boss demands new hire work unpaid overtime due to being short-staffed, leading to quiet quitting

New hires are like the runt of the litter; small, without confidence, and in need of some extra assistance. Bosses often underestimate new hires, under the assumption that they should be grateful to have a job, and should want to contribute and ‘take one for the team’ until they reach emotional burnout. In this case, …
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‘I quit the company’: Employee breaks employment contract; boss refuses to pay them wages amounting to $10,000 as a result

Our circumstances often change, as life throws all kinds of hurdles at us, varying in their severity. In this case, OP was working as a medical professional, and their spouse got a new job in another state, meaning that OP would have to move with them. According to OP’s boss, they were breaking their employment …
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‘Childcare is expensive’: Entitled Woman Expects Sister to Postpone Paid Parental Leave Until Her Own Delivery to Avoid Babysitter Expenses

They say blood is thicker than water but does that mean allowing your family to walk all over you? Didn’t think so. We don’t know about you ladies, but there’s nothing we can’t stand more than entitled family members. Don’t get us wrong, entitled people, in general, make our blood boil to the bone, but …
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