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A Midday Lunch of 23 Brown-Bagged Funnies to Get You Through the Workday (September 8, 2025)

Jesse Kessenheimer

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‘You see what’s happening, right?’: 31-year-old professional calls out a totalitarian manager's workplace retaliation in front of HR, then she quits on the spot and reports him to the California Employment Bureau too

Jesse Kessenheimer

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Coworkers dress like it's 1996 to get back at the new manager's dress code mandate, showing up in increasingly formal garb to make a point: ‘The office was a time capsule by Wednesday’

Jesse Kessenheimer

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'Cool, I’ll just stand here then': Nitpicky retail manager tells their 18-year-old part-time employee not to touch anything without permission, so the teen maliciously complies by doing nothing at work

Jesse Kessenheimer

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A Midday Lunch of 20+ Brown-Bagged Funnies to Get You Through the Workday

Jesse Kessenheimer

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'I'm naming names': Interviewee gets completely roasted during a “mean girl”-style job interview, then reports the snobby interviewers to their HR department

Jesse Kessenheimer

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'Stop texting me after 9pm': 41-year-old businesswoman asserts her power over an entitled CEO after he crosses a line of professionalism, she gets legal involved and puts him in his place

Jesse Kessenheimer

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‘Do they want to blackmail the new hires?': Guy walks out of a job interview after only 2 questions, dodging a shady employer because of a sinking gut feeling

Jesse Kessenheimer

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Worker in his 50s tells 26-year-old coworker that she's "overreacting" to his term of endearment: 'What your coworker is doing is embarrassing'

Remy Millisky

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Nanny asks for a $5 raise after working with a family for 2 years, then she burns a bridge when the parents counteroffer with a pay cut: 'Mom thinks she's being savvy'

Jesse Kessenheimer

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'My dish was half the price of the others': Coworkers splurge on a $400 work dinner, then guilt-trip their frugal colleague into splitting the bill evenly; they stands their ground and refuse

Jesse Kessenheimer

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Laboratory technician refuses to continue picking up the slack of his deadweight lab partner, so he quits and leaves management with the lazy employee they favored for months: ‘No more breaking my back’

Jesse Kessenheimer

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Micromanager bans personal phones at his IT team's desks, but his attempt at control backfires when there's a server crash at 4:45 PM on Friday: 'I was just following policy to avoid a write-up'

Jesse Kessenheimer

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‘Good riddance!’: Homesteader selling property tries to work with entitled buyers, but agreement falls through, potential owners still fraudulently use that address as their own

Elna McHilderson

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Smug retail employee thwarts their competing coworker's every attempt to secure PTO until their colleague snaps and threatens to quit: 'I am so DONE'

Jesse Kessenheimer

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After being told to "smile more", 21-year-old retail worker responds with an over-the-top, unsettling 'smile-mode', which catches on with coworkers, driving out the customers: 'He didn’t bring it up again'

Emma Saven

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