‘I want extra pay for extra responsibilities’: Employee turns down a ‘promotion’ then gets punished when he tells a stuck-up newbie manager he wants more pay for more work

We all work so that we can get that bag of cash every couple weeks. Weirdly enough though, it seems like the C-level employees and upper management seem to think that their employees go to work for other reasons, like socialization and the occasional pizza party. But it’s an accepted norm that when you’re offered…

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‘I want extra pay for extra responsibilities’: Employee turns down a ‘promotion’ then gets punished when he tells a stuck-up newbie manager he wants more pay for more work

We all work so that we can get that bag of cash every couple weeks. Weirdly enough though, it seems like the C-level employees and upper management seem to think that their employees go to work for other reasons, like socialization and the occasional pizza party. But it’s an accepted norm that when you’re offered…

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‘Karen has left her car overnight on… 585 separate occasions’: College dorm employee who thinks they’re ‘above the rules’ forced to issue themself a $70 fine, gets expensive pay back on colleague

One of the least-liked staff members at this college dorm was thrilled to point out when other people broke the rules. Then, when it was her own fault she broke the rules, she backpedaled.  Even if you strive to have a gossip-free and peaceful workplace, people like the Karen in this story make it hard…

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‘He had 400 hogs delivered to what, at this point, was one of the busiest roads in town’: Farmer gets revenge on developer and city government who won’t pay him a fair price for his land

The bustling pace of urban life is often seen as an affront to those who have only known the relative peace of pastoral living. The two lifestyles are presented as opposite sides of the same coin, with neither capable of existing with the other—on account of the fact that the encroaching bounds of metropolitan life…

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‘My tenant did over $50,000 in damages’: Guy gives an atrocious tenant a good referral after her future landlord gets snarky on the phone with him

There’s a fragile balance of power when renters hand over a check to their landlord every month. Landlords need that money to come in and tenants need to live somewhere, so there’s a predictable symbiosis in their relationship. Usually landlords are the ones with the bad rep, thwarting their power over a renter’s desperation, but…

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