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Hardworking lawyer shows up to work hours before everyone else and still gets fired: 'The three hours early riser put in before the sun was up did not count, because no one was there to see them.'

Christiana Maimone

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Employees share over-hyped dream jobs that sound glamorous until you actually do them: 'I'm 44, a little late to start a new career... but here I am'

Isabella Penn

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Guy lands interview for dream job, practices for a week but then gets stuck with a glitchy AI robot as his interviewer: 'AI is confusing a lot of people...'

Elna McHilderson

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Boss and coworker have a loud ‘introvert bash session’ and trash-talk friends for refusing to play a card game: ‘Tell me you don’t respect boundaries without telling me you don’t respect boundaries’

Lana DeGaetano

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Mom and pop shop ignores employees concerns, exact issue ensues: 'That was my first taste of, “maybe being a manager doesn't mean you have all the answers”.'

Elna McHilderson

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‘An extreme waste of time’: Job candidate refuses to continue excessive hiring process after being forced to do 7 rounds of interviews for over 5 months

Bar Mor Hazut

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‘"You're just not the hire we want"’: Restaurant general manager berates job seeker for 10 minutes straight during second interview, job seeker calls her ‘strange’ and walks out

Lana DeGaetano

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‘We all attend church together on Sundays’: 20+ employees discuss job interviews that made them ‘run for the hills’

Lana DeGaetano

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‘Anything that keeps you there’: Employees discuss the nonsensical so-called benefits that were disguised as company ‘perks’

Lana DeGaetano

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Tech startup employee is expected to work on days they take PTO, internet discusses the fallacy of ‘unlimited’ PTO policies: ‘[It] really means no PTO’

Lana DeGaetano

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27 Intrinsically Rewarding Jobs That'll Make Burnt Out Employees Reconsider the Value of Money

Jesse Kessenheimer

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‘This feels like intentional sabotage’: Coworker pursues vendetta against fellow colleague, repeatedly deletes and takes credit for work their colleague completes

Lana DeGaetano

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Employee finds their dream job outside the ‘finance bro’ space after getting a wakeup call in the form of a cruel list of ‘mistakes’ post-interview: ‘I’m happier than I ever thought I could be'

Jesse Kessenheimer

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Job applicant accused of cheating on a test by tech hotshots, lands better job and pay by proving them wrong: ‘I saw them go from upset to delight’

Etai Eshet

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‘Is it fair?’: 17-year-old son forced to act like the parent after unemployed stepdad and pushover mom use up all of his personal savings, gives them a talking to and vows to move out

Elna McHilderson

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'We had nobody in our corner': Kids cut off contact with parents after 10 years of them being a ‘vlog family’, claiming parents had taken away their childhood

Bar Mor Hazut

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