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'He has no idea why [he's been] singled out': Office jockey gets payback against the workplace killjoy by making a generous contribution

Working with the same handful of people every day really makes you think about your social circle. Your coworkers are not necessarily ‘friends’ because you don't choose to hang out with them, but you certainly don't want to be making enemies in the cubicle next door either. In the workplace, employees walk a fine line between professional relationships and their personal lives– however, there's always that one coworker who doesn't know the difference.
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Employee accidentally sends a steamy love letter to their boss instead of their girlfriend in a classic Valentine's Day mixup: 'I accidentally confessed my undying love'

The first, most embarrassing moment in every kid's life usually happens around middle school. You know, that moment that someone finds out about your crush and reveals it to the entire class? It's the first time your cheeks burn, your stomach drops, and you ever wish you could disappear into the floor. For those of us with a bleeding heart and a knack for making blunders in our love life, that feeling becomes all too familiar, but for the star of our next story, the searing shame of wearing his…
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Prospective employee withdraws his job application after being forced to take a bizarre personality test: 'Needless to say, the results are completely inaccurate'

'You just know that they were sitting around the corporate round table with those stupid grins, patting themselves on the back, remarking, "What a great idea!"'
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'I couldn't let her talk to me like that': Overworked employee calls their boss's bluff, quitting 10 seconds after being called 'replaceable'

After an 80-hour work week with nothing to show for it but bags under your eyes and a dusty, unchanged salary check, overworked employees can start to unravel, like the worker in our next story.
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'Keep your mouth shut to the people willing to even work there': Employee rage quits and reports his company to OSHA after getting written up for breaking arbitrary ‘rules'

When faced with the dilemma of health and safety concerns in the workplace, employees have to look out for each other– because their boss certainly isn't.
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Indignant interviewer turns on a new recruit who didn't even want the job in the first place: 'Like they weren't the ones who contacted YOU'

When you're applying for jobs, usually the hiring pipeline is pretty straightforward: You apply, they interview you, and then you're hired! However, in the era of online headhunters and recruitment sites, things can get a little topsy-turvy in the hiring department, especially when recruiters have no idea what they're doing.
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'Time to jump ship': After his restaurant manager quits, business owner baffles his servers with an out-of-pocket request

Like the ecosystem of a live petri dish, there is a delicate balance of growth and decay in a restaurant. Servers, bartenders, line cookers, and managers all exist in equilibrium and when one player falls off the board, the whole system collapses. That much is clear in our next story– After a restaurant manager quit, the entire restaurant's social biome started to crumble.
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'I crashed her computer 3x that day': Delivery driver gets digital revenge on a micromanaging boss by flooding her inbox with 100's of updates

Special requests are rarely taken seriously. When you're getting a haircut, asking for menu substitutions at the restaurant, or when you're begging the DJ to play your favorite song, it seems like you're talking to a brick wall. However, if you're a micromanaging boss with a particularly petty employee, you sometimes get exactly what you asked for…
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38 Spitfire Memes to Send to Your Favorite Coworker

Relatable work memes to scroll on company time
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Worker Saves the Life of a Stranger on Their Commute, Ends Up Getting Fired for Being 1 Hour Late to Work

Folks like to stick to themselves on their commute– especially if you take public transit. But when there's an emergency and a person's life is at risk, the “first responders” always end up being the calloused strangers that we're accustomed to ignoring.
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'Now they know they're about to lose me': Corporate employee ruffles feathers in the office by changing his employment status to 'Open to Work'

Back in the early days of the Internet, you could log in to your social media page and change your 'status' to send an update or message to your following. Like communications during the Cold War, these status changes were often misunderstood, inflamed, or just downright passive-aggressive, which is why in 2024, very few social platforms still haveOG statuses...
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Employee's PTO Revoked After a Jealous Boss Claims He's 'Never Taken [a Vacation] That Long, Why Should You?'

To avoid giving employees actual real benefits, a lot of big companies have adopted the notion of ‘unlimited PTO’. After numerous studies have shown that employees with unlimited days off actually take fewer vacations, every CEO and supervisor within 1,000 leagues jumped on the bandwagon.
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'Stop being a drama queen': Loyal employee gets accused of stealing $40 from the register, hostile manager gaslights them

A server's credibility is a fragile, yet desperately important thing to maintain if you're a restaurant manager. You wouldn't want to scare off the last of the good ones over a feeble hunch… right? Well, that's exactly what one hot-headed manager did in our next story.
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'Jackpot. Say nothing, get a lawyer': Man gets snubbed after multiple interviews when management blatantly admits he doesn't fit their gender requirements

Interviewing is exhausting. You update your resume 14 times, change your cover letters, and rewrite your personal statement more times than you can count before you're even offered an interview. It may be a sweet moment when you score your first call-back, but your job search has only just begun.
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'I've made the company $12,000,000': Star employee asks for a $20k raise after driving millions in sales, she quits after her boss spits in her face

Loyalty isn't a trait that's rewarded on your resume. That's because it's become a corporate science to congratulate the company's workers with hundreds of gold stars and pizza parties, only to scoff when a star employee asks for a bigger slice of the pie.
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'They think they're too good to do a menial job': New hire gets belittled for her inexperience then retaliates by making tenured specialists do their own dirty work

So you think this job is beneath you?
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