Office

Doctor refuses to rehire sister at family practice after $40k billing mistake, parents insist she stays: 'We had to write off the balances for all the patients we saw'

Isabella Penn

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IT worker maliciously complies with a manager's demand to turn off critical servers during business hours, despite warning her against it, plunging the company into chaos: ‘She got dragged into a meeting with the COO and CTO that afternoon’

Emma Saven

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Landlord doubles the rent with less than 30 days notice, tenants get even by giving him a taste of his own medicine: 'We never even gave him the keys back'

Ben Weiss

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'I had a boss who expected me to lay out his lunch': Employees share the most absurd rules they had to follow at work

Isabella Penn

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25 Relatable Work Posts for When You’ve Already Checked Out by Monday Morning

Isabella Penn

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32-year-old man falls for coworker, begins secretly dating her to avoid hurting another coworker who she rejected, who lashes out when he discovers their relationship, claiming he’s in love with her: ‘He said I was a terrible person for doing this to him.

Emma Saven

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Company forces employees to work from the office full-time, leading employees to stop replying to messages after hours despite manager's demands: ‘You get exactly what you ask for'

Bar Mor Hazut

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'I saw red': Employee thinks it’s coworker's responsibility to buy coffee for the office even though it's supplied for free, coworker finally shuts it down with brutal honesty

Isabella Penn

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Manager forgets to collect office key from employee after firing them, demands employee return to give it back, they refuse: ‘You can change the locks'

Bar Mor Hazut

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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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