PTO

Optional PTO donation program leads to tension after employee refuses to donate his hours to coworker he barely knows: 'My boss pulled me aside and said it looks bad'

Isabella Penn

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Employee refuses to donate his PTO to a stranger in the office regardless of judgement from HR, colleagues, and his boss: 'I don't know Jennifer, maybe said hi twice'

Jesse Kessenheimer

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Entitled coworker pressures employee to give up vacation day for her wedding, employee refuses, prompting backlash: 'I said I didn't want to do that!'

Ben Weiss

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HR yells at employee for asking about fake bonus, accuses him of recording on his Meta glasses, he calmly shuts them down, and his boss ends up apologizing: ‘This "bonus" wasn't extra money, it was just my salary’

Etai Eshet

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Boss preaches family values, then rejects an employee's PTO to attend a relative's wedding, so when the boss begs them take on 2x the workload, the employee refuses: ‘My loyalty is officially at zero'

Jesse Kessenheimer

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Boss won't stop calling employee on approved PTO, claiming they're needed for client emergency, employee blocks him in response: ‘He messaged me on Facebook asking me to call’

Bar Mor Hazut

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Employee with plenty of accrued PTO asks for one unpaid day off, but her boss denies it and invents fake rules to justify it: ‘I went by HR again, and they confirmed she’s wrong and the info she’s been telling me is not true’

Etai Eshet

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30-year-old employee can't get off work for Christmas, forces entire family to celebrate another day, causing fierce backlash from sister: 'Why is my job suddenly not as important as [hers] is?'

Ben Weiss

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‘I wish you good luck and Merry Christmas. “Click!”': Entitled cat lady demands groomer trim her cat's claws during her holiday vacation, groomer professionally hangs up on her

Elna McHilderson

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21 Christmas-Inspired Work Memes to Get You Through the Last Few Days Until Break

Isabella Penn

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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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Coworker calls in sick to "recover" from her concert the night before, forcing employee to work without a break for a 12 hour shift: 'She was telling everyone she would fake call in sick, and still got away with it!'

Ben Weiss

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HR pressures employee returning from 3 years of medical leave to input all of their time-off requests once they return to work, then gets mad when they use all 75 accrued days: ‘Still makes me smile like a maniac’

Lana DeGaetano

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Boss forces manager to require that his assistant join team meetings during his vacation: '[We] need to attend meetings for free on our days off'

Ben Weiss

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'I'm trying to enjoy my hard-earned PTO': Resort Karen dethroned by another vacationer after leaving the best pool umbrella unattended for 7 hours despite claiming it at 6 AM; gets taught a lesson

Jesse Kessenheimer

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