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‘Leaving was the best thing I did’: Employer of 3 years hires new employee at $30k higher than experienced worker, they quit

It’s no secret that a lot of employers in as many industries allocate more budget to hiring than they do to staff retention. This is a bit silly when you consider that large organizations will go on to spend tens of thousands of dollars on recruiting, onboarding, and training processes—in addition to value lost due […]

Experienced worker gets passed over for promotion after her manager witnesses how she speaks to new hires: ‘I was fuming. I hate it when people type like that on social media’

This management-aspiring worker earned herself the label over her treatment of her fellow workers when her manager observed how she was talking to the new staff in a frustrated and demeaning tone, complete with clapping between every word she was saying as if she was living in some sort of meme. Her manager recounted the […]

Customer service rep gets paid to play video games after management’s misguided instructions leave them without any work: ‘For 5 days, I sat in my spare bedroom/office playing video games, all while logged in’

If you do your job too well, you’re simply going to make everyone else look bad by comparison. Instead of earning yourself the praise you deserve, you actually just wind up putting a target on your back while everyone quietly wishes you’d just disappear and stop making all of their jobs harder by setting the […]

‘I was hired and fired within the span of 3 hours’: New employee fired three hours after being hired and shown around the company’s offices

The interview process is a long and arduous one for both sides, really, and the last thing anyone wants is for their time to be wasted after such a long process. The relief that comes after simultaneously finally securing a role or finally having someone to fill an empty position on the team is understated, […]

Slothful coworker demands employee’s bonus claiming that she deserves it more, gets 3-week suspension: ‘[She] is going around the office calling me “selfish” and “greedy”’

This employee secured a bonus for their performance from his employer, which he had worked tirelessly for over the last period. Meanwhile, his coworker had been wasting much of her time on their phone, turning in her work late, and just generally being a deadweight in the office. When the coworker learned the employee had […]

‘Manager wanted me to arrive 30 minutes early to get ready before clocking in’: Manager demands worker arrive 30 minutes before their shift is set to start to begin working

Almost certainly, at some point, those working shift work, or in other jobs where timesheets need to be kept, have been told by some manager not to “bother” reporting time that they worked over their shift because it’s “inconvenient” for them to report it. Sometimes, this comes in the form of being told that it […]

Manager’s obsessive cost-cutting initiatives cost the company more money when double-sided printing policy causes problems with important client: ‘All printing must be double-sided—no exceptions’

A double-edged sword cuts both ways, and you could probably get a paper cut from a double-sided print job, too. Cutting costs might seem like a good idea, but really, you’re probably just going to slice right through other important things like customer satisfaction and, by extension, your company’s profit. After all, as the old […]