Imagine you pick up a new hobby for yourself after work, and let’s say it’s a manicure. You buy the kit and work hard at making your nails look good and presentable. Some time and effort later, you feel good enough to help out your friends, whose nails are also hopeless. But first, before you …
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Power-Tripping Boss Threatens to Tell Employee’s New Boss to Revoke His Job Offer
There is an art and science to quitting a job. You can’t just do it without any tact and expect things to go smoothly. You’ve got to make strategic choices based on how important you are to the company. If you’re one of hundreds of employees doing very menial tasks, putting in your two weeks …
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People Share Signs That Somebody is a Loser
I’m going to share something that probably won’t surprise you guys: there have been times in my life when I was a loser. My most loser behavior was perhaps the year when I was obsessed with the actor Paul Dano. I had never really stanned an actor to the point where I was watching all …
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26-Year Employee Gets Laid off Years Before Retirement Because he Can’t Uproot to a New State
When you’re young, it’s so easy to get a new job, move to a new city, and start a new life. Well, it’s not necessarily «easy,» but when you don’t have a family, a partner, a mortgage, or a lot of possessions, the choice to move somewhere for a job gets a lot simpler. Getting …
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New Boss Forces Employees to «Sign Out» Before Going to the Restroom
One of my least favorite things about high school was asking to go to the bathroom. I didn’t have a problem with the principle of asking for permission, but every teacher had a different policy for it. During the first week of school, I had to make a restroom cheat sheet because I had eight …
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Company Forces Remote Worker to go Back to the Office Despite Their Success With Working From Home, Causes Employee of 27 Years to Quit
It’s wild how much the introduction of remote work into most office jobs changed the world. These days, you’d be hard-pressed to find a company in NYC that doesn’t implement some work-from-home element, with most jobs having a hybrid model. The 3-day in-person workweek is ubiquitous. I was still in college in 2020 and 2021 …
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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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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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‘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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‘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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