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Most of the top posts have very similar construction: Employee: I can't come in today for a very good reason. Boss (rudely): You have to come in or you're fir

• smt88 5y ago
  Why do you think this doesn't happen often enough to fill a subreddit? There are billions of workers around the world, tens of millions using reddit.
  • idontwantthis 5y ago
    Above comment is being charitable. I think real people have the exchange above and should be proud. The 1000+ upvote ones are long, overly personal explanations of why they can’t come in that make the boss look extra evil, but also sound fake as hell. If someone just quits good on them, but that text exchange is not going to draw enough eyeballs.
    • LordDragonfang 5y ago
      >long, overly personal explanations of why they can’t come in I mean, the OP post already alludes to the issue with american labor where you're pressured to do something like fake a death in the family to justify taking a day off of what should be a totally replaceable hourly shift. Hourly wage labour jobs are pressured to give those overly personal explanations to get managers to respect any request for time off and it's just seen as the norm.
  • npteljes 5y ago
    Of course there's a subreddit for this: /r/nothingeverhappens/ But to be serious, I don't personally believe the stories, because I just can't know. Sometimes entirely plausible stories get debunked as fake, other times wild ones turn out to be true. I'm not committed to call them all fake, but we really just can't know.
  • ProjectArcturis 5y ago
    Not saying it's never real, just saying that the content that rises to the top there is extremely formulaic.
• wahnfrieden 5y ago
  guess why it resonates with so many people