boss

'I told her if it's that important, pay me overtime': Marketing employee refuses to work unpaid overtime, boss tries to guilt-trip him with the “we’re family” approach, he stands up to her, but is abruptly fired days later by HR for "cultural fit issues"

Emma Saven

Comments

Employee demands to be fired after company shifts from fully remote work to 3 days from the new office, boss agrees: 'I will not work a single day from this box'

Bar Mor Hazut

Comments

Engineer files HR report after her male boss expects her to handle admin tasks mid-presentation because: ‘Come on, it's not that hard. Women are naturally better at this stuff anyway’

Etai Eshet

Comments

‘Good luck Scott Kelly’: Girl at a Jonas Brothers concert sees bored guy reviewing a resume on his phone, posts video and now has big brands like Instacart, PUMA, and even the Jonas Brothers themselves endorsing him

Elna McHilderson

Comments

Immature boss starts playing petulant games with his employee, assigning her no work for days because she expressed a need for rest once: ‘She's been removed from their Slack channel’

Lana DeGaetano

Comments

Employee gets offered another job with higher pay, leaves new job after only two weeks, manager gets offended: ‘I laughed and explained what I was offered’

Bar Mor Hazut

Comments

CEO asks IT intern to use their own car to move company property against policy, intern has him brush up on the company handbook: ‘If anything gets damaged I am toast’

Lana DeGaetano

Comments

Business owner finds out they hired the ex of their biggest client as the new designer, client demands they fire him: 'My business feels like a reality show'

Bar Mor Hazut

Comments

15+ Employees who defied their bosses and still didn't get fired: 'Manager... wakes me up and sends me home. Didn't get fired'

Remy Millisky

Comments

‘"I don’t care what you think, you do what I tell you to do"’: COO asks sales employee to lie to clients about their exit from the company so they don't disrupt any business relationships

Lana DeGaetano

Comments

'I was now the person holding a bag of sugar and a pile of IOUs': Office worker quits organizing monthly birthday funds after losing about $120 covering late or missing payments, igniting office drama over "ruining a nice tradition"

Emma Saven

Comments

'It all started when...': Pour a dash of these laughs into your morning coffee to energize you for the work week ahead (November 15, 2025)

Elna McHilderson

Comments

‘I feel really disrespected. I’ve already gone above and beyond what was required of me’: Boss begs preschool teacher to stay past her contract, using guilt and emotional pleas while offering barely any extra reward

Etai Eshet

Comments

'Now he's hinting that my performance slipped because I'm 'too comfortable'': Remote worker moves abroad to Portugal, doesn't realize that his boss is setting up a paper trail to fire him

Jesse Kessenheimer

Comments

15+ Employees who couldn't make it 1 day without getting fired: 'They hired me but never told me, so I was fired'

Remy Millisky

Comments

Team working 50 hours per week all quit at the same time: 'If there's anything we can do to keep you, let me know'

Remy Millisky

Comments