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This was my exact reaction. I have to conclude this is a troll - I still think so based on the wording and such.

My counter-example, however, was a grocery store I worked in in college where the manager wouldn't give the weekend off to one of the hardest-working, friendly shelf-stockers to attend his father's funeral. I was there. It really happened. He quit on the spot. I was right next them in this interaction. It was so enraging I wanted to quit out of moral-support, but I did not.

This sort of interaction is absolutely unfathomable in my current professional environment. Whenever I feel injustice, or underappreciated, I frequently remind myself of those times to appreciate what I have today.

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  I have to conclude this is a troll

It could be a troll, or it could be the author herself, chasing clicks and trying to sell her book.

I can even imagine how someone would rationalize it: "I don't have any good questions this week, but I can think of a type of situation that does happen. What's the harm? Nobody will ever find out, and I can use it teach a useful lesson about management"

>I can even imagine how someone would rationalize it

But you make it sound like a big deal. Like it would be a shocking scandal or lead to lawsuits. Who do you think polices advice columns?

Ann Landers was a pen name for multiple people. People used to joke about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dear_Prudence_(advice_column) being 90% fake (I never read it, or Slate, on a regular basis, so it's only hearsay).

I had a job stocking shelves at Target once. I quit after a couple of days, because it was too stressful and nobody explained anything to me. I had been hospitalized some weeks before and was adjusting to my new psych meds, but I wasn't crazy enough to share my problems and ask for accommodations.

It ruined my life, because everybody wanted to know why I left my last job and required contact information for my previous manager, and I didn't know what to put down. Nobody wants to hire a job-hopper! Then after a month or so I couldn't explain why I had a gap on my resume, and I realized I would never be employed again, which is why I became despondent and drank myself to death.

...the first paragraph is 100% true.

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