Office

Hospital receptionist, Rachel, allows her distant coworker, Laura, to call her "Amelia" for over a year after failing to correct her early on, now finding it too awkward to fix when Laura moves to her department: 'I didn't have the heart to tell her'

Emma Saven

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New micromanager enforces strict office hours, employees comply leaving West Coast clients scrambling: 'Management said we had to work 8am - 5pm (ET). So we did!'

Ben Weiss

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After years of overworking, employee starts setting boundaries and gets surprised with 15% raise: 'For years I was the office try-hard'

Isabella Penn

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Warehouse workers comply with a strict hair-length policy of "can't touch the collar", by wearing increasingly absurd wigs, forcing management to eventually drop the rule: 'The wigs became more and more ridiculous'

Emma Saven

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Boss refuses to let employee use vacation days from overtime all at once, employee complies and gives himself a 4-day work week for the rest of the year: 'My boss wasn't particularly happy'

Ben Weiss

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‘"You can pay the heat bill then"’: Coworker turns on office heat in the peak of the summer and employee opens the window to stay cool, but the coworker continues to complain despite having a heating pad and space heater

Lana DeGaetano

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'She’s mastered the optics game': Coworker treats office like "theater show", always taking credit for coworkers' work and verbalizing how great she is, causing office tension when managers undeservingly applaud her

Emma Saven

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32 Work Posts for Employees Who’ve Perfected Looking Busy While Doing Nothing

Isabella Penn

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Supervisor refuses to let employee enter their shared office to take their bag at the end of the day, employee enters anyway, leading to an office dispute: ‘I have the right to access my own belongings’

Bar Mor Hazut

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‘I'm just kind of flabbergasted’: Office receptionist pretends to answer calls instead of actually answering them, partaking in fake conversations to look busy

Lana DeGaetano

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'I want the paperwork! Yes, all of it!': Employee maliciously complies with new colleague's request, promptly receives 1,500 pages of documents when she only needed 3

Ben Weiss

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15+ Employees who were baffled by their coworkers: 'Day 1... she refused to shake my hand'

Remy Millisky

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'He doesn't have a clue what he's doing': 20+ Employees whose coworkers are driving them crazy

Remy Millisky

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CEO kept moving employee’s personal chair to his desk every morning, so employee quietly ended the fight by storing it in his car: '[He] said it wasn't right I had a nicer chair than he did'

Isabella Penn

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On-call employee reprimanded for her work clothing, even though her boss's wife wears the same outfits to the office: 'She complains to her husband about me needing to cover up'

Emma Saven

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15+ Job candidates whose mid-interview mistakes cost them the job: 'I could barely contain my laughter'

Remy Millisky

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