‘We are professionals and that is what’s expected of us’: Horrible Boss Demands Employees Work 60+ Hours Per Week

You can only work so many hours every week before you crack. While some think 40 hours a week is a back-breaking amount of working hours, others must tolerate 50-60 hours of weekly work to stay afloat financially. In my opinion, that’s when you start getting a bit loopy. If you’re working nearly every day …
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Boss Screams At Employee And Makes Her Cry, Can’t Understand Why He Gets Fired

Some people refuse to accept that they’re in the wrong. They can get signal after signal from other people that they’re making multiple wrong moves, but they won’t take the hint. The dude in question is one of those people.  This Canadian man wrote about his woes in a subreddit for seeking legal advice. His …
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People Discuss The Best Way to Call off From Work

There are some jobs you can’t help but call out from sometimes. Sure, sometimes you’re actually sick, but you know as well as I do that you’re not always telling the gospel truth when calling in with a story about a mystery illness. In college, I was addicted to calling off from my security guard …
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HR Karen Calls Coworker ‘Dumb Blonde’ in Front of Her Boss Despite Being HR

I have never been discriminated against on the ground of being blonde. A blessed bottle of bleach touched my scalp for the first time when I was twenty, and I’ve been addicted ever since. Being blonde has gotten me nothing but compliments and a couple of wild assumptions that it’s natural, which is absurd considering …
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Boss Accuses Employee of ‘Quiet Quitting’ Because He Only Works 40 Hours a Week

«Quiet quitting» is one of those phrases that wiggled into our vernacular seemingly overnight. By some accounts, quiet quitting is when employees slack off at their jobs while quietly waiting to get fired. Workers don’t quiet quit because they’re lazy. They do it to fight burnout when they have to immediately go from one job …
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Dude Gets Fired For ‘Time Theft’ After Taking Two Smoke Breaks Per 12-Hour Shift

I could not handle having a job where you sit around and do nothing all day. I know many workers dream of having one of these «fake jobs» that only requires you to do a couple of hours of actual work per day, but they aren’t all they’re cracked up to be. Unfortunately, one of …
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Video Store Worker Exploits Genius Sales Loophole, For Charity

This story takes you way back to the days of the video rental store. Filled to the ceiling with hundreds of VCR tapes, those places always had the musky scent of frequently-handled greasy plastic cases, dust, and old cigarette smoke, embedded in the bright-patterned carpet since the 80s.  Before mail-in subscription services like Netflix killed …
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Worker Quits After Greedy Company Denies Them a Promised Raise, Costs Company a $3 Million Client

There’s something to be said here about following through on promises. When this company promised this worker a raise a year ago and then refused to follow through, all they were doing was stacking dominos that were ready to fall. It doesn’t take that much effort to follow through on promises so it’s hard to …
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