Office

Restaurant manager humiliates employee by printing complaint email sent by customer after food takes too long: ‘Feels incredibly dumb to blame me for ticket times being slow’

Melissa Knudson

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Coworker keeps stealing ergonomic chair from another employee until she breaks it, owner decides to lock it to the desk: 'It’s a chair I bought with my own money'

Giuliana Tiscioni

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Employee gets pushed out of company after being “too honest” about manager on HR survey: ‘The email said all responses would be anonymised ’

Melissa Knudson

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'You'll never lock your office': Fired employee gets back at boss by hiding the keys to his office on their last day of the job

Bar Mor Hazut

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Employee brings 5-year-old daughter to work, forcing coworker to confront her when daughter keeps disturbing their work: ‘I don't think I should be responsible for entertaining someone else's child’

Melissa Knudson

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Startup employee resigns after being denied a raise, company falls apart without them: ‘Many bigger clients are upset with service and want to leave’

Melissa Knudson

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Company demands employees come on a weekend to pack and move the entire office instead of hiring movers: ‘No overtime, just pizza afterwards’

Bar Mor Hazut

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Employee complies with manager's bad instruction, then manager comes back to consult with employee about what to do when his instructions don't work out

Giuliana Tiscioni

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Small business employee struggles with new AI-obsessed manager, considers quitting when job gets too confusing: ‘He does not want to spend the money on compliant software, so I’m at a loss’

Melissa Knudson

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Manager aproves employee's PTO, insists that he be on line anyway, and gives the employee the cold shoulder when he sets the boundary: 'That's how it works here'

Giuliana Tiscioni

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Overworked executive assistant finally resigns after 15 years of work to search for a new path: 'No regret. Just relief'

Giuliana Tiscioni

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Boss gives longtime employee a fake promotion to ‘keep him around’, gives zero work for 6 weeks: ‘I’m sitting in an empty office with a fake job and a real paycheck'

Cata Holmes

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'Noises include various buzzer noises instead of yes or no': Office employee expresses bafflement at 'funny noises' made by Gen Z coworkers

Ally Perry

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Mom of 2 offers to babysit her friend's kids full time, only to have her friend tell her she needs to cut down her paycheck to half: 'I would have never agreed to this'

Giuliana Tiscioni

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Employee refuses to charge coworkers for the free candy bowl he's stocked for years, office committee blames him for taking profits away from its snack fundraiser: 'You're not being a team player'

Celeste Mello

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CTO enforces rule stating employees should only work if they're at their office desks, they all comply, resulting in client crisis during the weekend: ‘Nobody was working'

Bar Mor Hazut

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