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HR publishes leaderboard to show how much PTO each employee donated to coworker and shame those who didn't: ‘People who donated 0 had their number highlighted in red’

Bar Mor Hazut

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Customer service rep decides to quit after being publicly scolded by boss for being 10 minutes late to a weekly meeting because they stayed on a call to resolve an upset customer’s issue, takes a full-time second job instead

Etai Eshet

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46-year-old boss begs and threatens 30-year-old woman not to resign, says he trusts her more than his wife and offers a raise, then returns to his usual behavior

Etai Eshet

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Coworker asks colleague to drop them off at the airport at 4am, doesn't understand that it's not normal: 'This seems a bit extreme'

JR Atkinson

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Two-person office forced to use a fancy phone system with hold music, so workers play the owner’s son-in-law’s terrible CD as muzak, and the requirement gets dropped as soon as a VP hears it

Etai Eshet

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'It all started when the internet...': Pour a dash of these laughs into your morning coffee for extra energy (August 25, 2026)

Elna McHilderson

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Brands replace content creators with AI, when numbers tank they try to get creators back with lower pay: 'They are back in my DMs offering 40% less than what they paid me before'

JR Atkinson

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Company announces RTO, requires four in-office days, eliminates assigned desks, and tells workers to find whatever seat they can while executives keep empty private offices

Etai Eshet

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Employee noticed that a coworker was stealing products from the store where they work, she took it to management and got fired, it was the boss's nephew: 'Over the course of three years, he’d taken over $10K in unpurchased merchandise'

María Cetra

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Manager marks 1 minute late as a 'no call no show,' consistently asks for 30 minutes of unpaid labor

JR Atkinson

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Employee criticizes coworker for doing too much work on a company retreat and refusing to spend time with the team: 'Her working ruined the group dynamic for the rest of us.'

Emmy Pratt

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'I hit her with a Gen-Z stare': Boss walks up to employee who's juggling multiple projects and says they're 'not doing enough'

JR Atkinson

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'What workplace habit became normal after 2020 and isn't going away?': Employees discuss things that have completely changed, for good or bad, after 2020 and never went back to normal

María Cetra

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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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Startup boss demotes new employee in front of their coworkers with no warning: 'I haven't even been here for 2 months, but this is all getting to be a bit too much'

JR Atkinson

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Couple refuses business partner’s demand to give his wife equal shares and ownership after she originally mocked the business, offering a buyout instead: ‘We could have forced him out’

Etai Eshet

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