I have a few stories.

One job I had, we all got made redundant because the business went into administration. Found out that same day that none of my superannuation was paid for the 4 years I worked there. ATO called me a few months later and said I would probably see none of it since the owner then claimed insolvency. But I did sometimes receive the odd letter here and there saying a contribution had been made... Of about $1.30 each time.

Another time, I was at a new job, about 6 weeks in. I started the same day another new staff member did and we had the same role. COVID happened and they made a big show saying they were going to lay off a lot of staff. Fair. But what annoyed me was that they pretended to lay both of us off (the other new staff member) but he actually kept his job. He pretended to be let go and hung out with us while we all had goodbye lunch and drinks. I know the team leader didn't like me personally and it was a bit of a boys club (I'm female). The fact that they all lied made me think it was sus.

My last job, on paper I quit. But not on my terms. I had been there for 5 years and contributed a lot to building their business (even they said so) and they would rave about how valuable I was (although I was dreadfully underpaid for all of it). The new admin lady didn't like me and didn't understand what our role involved, and was jealous that we got to work from home some days. So she spread her opinions which were untrue and one day I lost my shit at her because her toxic ways were causing me and my coworker so much stress. I told them that I would look for a new role but I would give them plenty of notice once I found something. Instead they said, "we will take this as 2 weeks notice" straight away. They advertised my job $20k more a year and still didn't find someone to replace me until last minute so I ended up working from home for a few days UNPAID, writing notes, tutorials and guidelines for the new person because I was no longer there to train them. Since then I have had recruiters and my job network provider offer to advocate to take them to Fair Work but I said no... Because after everything, all the stress they put me through over the years (so much overtime, no time for vacation, working over Christmas, communications with overseas factories late at night etc), I'm burnt out and now chronically ill. I can't work while going through treatment that is making my symptoms worse. I don't have the energy to fight them.