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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'

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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'

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“Hope you have a lonely weekend”: 25 work email typos that will haunt the senders forever

'Hope you have a lonely weekend': 25 work email typos that will haunt the senders forever

Melissa Knudson

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New hire refuses to comply with CEO's demand for a full return to the office after signing as remote employee: ‘I fell for a total bait and switch’

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Employee asks her coworker to stop washing his hands because she's sensitive to the scent of the office soap: 'Does that mean she's not washing her hands?'

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The employee left his office at 5:00 on the dot, much to his boss's chagrin.

Boss harasses employee for leaving work at 5 PM exactly, claims he's leaving earlier than 5 PM according to her watch: 'It's just breaking my spirit.'

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HR implements dress code for fully remote employees, demands 'business casual' in virtual meetings: ‘Do they think this will magically make us more productive?’

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New employee is forced to spend $53 on a surprise birthday party for a mean coworker, when she asks the others to pitch in, no one does: “I hate that this was pushed into me”

Giuliana Tiscioni

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Leadership forces all employees back to the office, only to have them Zoom each other from their desks: ‘I should have stayed in my sweatpants at home’

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Company demands employee fix coworker’s mistakes after he does a bad job, but refuses to pay for the extra work, employee responds: ‘I don't have to take on his workload for free’

Giuliana Tiscioni

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Relentless coworker demands employee move out of “her seat” in break room, despite knowing there are no assigned seats, employee firmly refuses: ‘You don't own it’

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A remote employee making $75K does his stress-free job in the comfort of his living room.

Remote employee making $75K considers rejecting a senior job offer where he'd make $105K: 'It's 5 days in the office, a 45-minute commute, and obviously comes with a lot more responsibility.'

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Employee refuses to cover for coworker who always takes long lunches, coworker blames employee when she gets in trouble for it with boss: ‘[You] should have warned me’

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IT employees get kicked out of their office to accommodate shiny new marketing lead, they get revenge by leaving the office without AC for the whole summer: ‘He never thought to call maintenance about the temperature’

Giuliana Tiscioni

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HR suspends an employee and asks him to leave for playing a joke on coworker, but forgets to notify boss and other departments: ‘My phone [was] called over and over’

Giuliana Tiscioni

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‘What's an unwritten office rule everyone learns the hard way?’: Employees discuss workplace habits they only got to discover because of a mistake they made.