HR is infamous for its strange and often frustratingly rigid ways. Their job is to serve the company, which is fair, as that's what they're getting paid to do. On the other hand, they can overlook employee's complaints in the process, or enforce petty rules that nobody really cares about. For instance, what's wrong with an employee giving their coworkers bagels? Apparently, this HR lady did not appreciate being 'one-upped', although it's hard to understand how exactly she felt inferior in the s…

New jobs can be as exciting as they are challenging, but when you enter as a new manager, and you have a hotshot complex, this can be disastrous for a company and its employees. This boss in particular, who we'll call Steve, made especially unreasonable demands on his employees, essentially alienating them. Steve demanded that his employees come to an unnecessary in-person meeting out of state, on extremely short notice. Because it was so unreasonable, the employees knew what they had to do. Th…

The unspoken rule that it's against company policy to have fun is not always so unspoken… One man completed 4 years of contract work to the US Army in Germany, and at the end of said contract, was homeless as he and his family waited for their household goods to arrive back in the States. The company authorized a rate for the hotel he would stay at in the following thirty days. He figured out budget-wise what he could and couldn't do, and took his family to visit EuroDisney in Paris, staying in…