Laid-off employee put on garden leave during office Secret Santa refuses to play along and send a gift: ‘I was technically still employed and being paid, but I was clearly told not to come into work’

Etai Eshet

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Job candidate blindsided when their new employer terminates them on their first day on the basis of their first day being a "trial period": 'I had accepted a full-time job at $22/hour'

Brad Dickson

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Cybersecurity startup fires intern for secretly bypassing safeguards in live production systems “to think like an attacker,” sparking debate over whether termination was too harsh: ‘letting it slide would’ve sent the wrong message about security culture’

Emma Saven

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Father stands up for 18-year-old daughter after 25 and 28-year-old stepsisters hide her passport to sabotage family vacation: 'I tried to get her to tell me where it was'

Remy Millisky

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Hallmark’s Brainrot Holiday Movies Are Keeping You From Creating New Christmas Classics

Ben Weiss

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'That's what you get for making an old lady cry': Sole mattress store employee fakes sick for 3 days before quitting after boss treats elderly customer poorly, store's forced to shut down for a week

Elna McHilderson

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Office lunch trend sparks chaos and company-wide memo: 'Please excuse me while I go destroy your lunch'

Remy Millisky

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‘But that's MY PTO’: Coworker keeps taking every holiday off using company PTO rules, refusing to trade, so colleagues team up against her, leaving her stuck working through all the breaks she claimed last year

Etai Eshet

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Healthcare employee on two-person team is fed up as coworker repeatedly requests last-minute PTO on the same days she's off, leaving her to carry the unfinished workload when she returns: 'Reviewed entire calendar of 2025 and noticed that it’s a pattern'

Emma Saven

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Employee starts arriving to work at 7:00 AM to beat his boss, only to realize he's forcing his boss to come in 1.5 hours earlier: 'The director demands all managers to arrive before the first staff member arrives'

Ben Weiss

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Clinician moves to a new clinic, maliciously complies with business casual dress code, wearing fitted chinos that cause workplace chatter, and management reverses back to scrubs: ‘I'm back in my joggers. Problem solved’

Etai Eshet

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26 Work Memes for Employees Just Trying to Survive Until 2026

Jesse Kessenheimer

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Neighbors leave hallway window wide open to keep their perishable foods fresh in an old, poorly-insulated apartment building: ‘Genuine indifference [and] arrogance’

Lana DeGaetano

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Entitled neighbor refuses to stop letting his dog out around the neighborhood unsupervised, then confronts new neighbors when they report him: ‘I'm friends with the mayor’

Bar Mor Hazut

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Small-town resident debates offering new business owner advice after he takes over their local deli and begins making renovations and changes to the beloved store, causing residents to stop shopping there: 'Now I go in, and it's empty'

Emma Saven

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28 White Elephant Gifts to Make Christmas Party Guests Scramble for a Trade

Jesse Kessenheimer

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