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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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College student waitress pays for her older coworker's $20 Uber to get home from work; coworker keeps asking her for more money: 'She's a young single parent and shares a car with her boyfriend.'

Emmy Pratt

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'It all started when memes...': Pour a dash of these laughs into your morning coffee for extra energy (August 18, 2026)

Elna McHilderson

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Worker lands job at employer’s main competitor after being fired when CEO’s decision to use his personal notebook as an official work manual backfires because new unskilled workers can’t follow the handwritten notes

Etai Eshet

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After coworker refuses to stop taking employee's office chair, employee forces him to stop by swapping the chair with a broken one: ‘He hasn’t touched it since’

Bar Mor Hazut

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Employee gets reprimanded for ending their shift as soon as it ends, but nothing happens when other employees start their shift late every day: 'Am I wrong for thinking the real problem is the people who are always coming in late'.

María Cetra

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COO replaces a professional employee with a less qualified friend of his, then cuts his salary, and finally fires him for trying to warn leadership about the mistake and speaking up

Etai Eshet

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Boss hints that coworker is about to be fired, coworker is racked with guilt wondering if they should say something: 'She just bought a new home'

JR Atkinson

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Warehouse employee tries to blame 22-year-old coworker for missing $1,200 in equipment, only for security footage to expose his months-long stealing scheme: 'He’d been selling them.'

Cata Holmes

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Boss chews out employee for not inviting their coworkers to their birthday brunch: 'Haha are you joking'

JR Atkinson

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Coworker eats all cookies intended for a team of 10, employee who brought them bakes more, then the coworker does it again: 'He didn't even thank me'

Brad Dickson

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57-year-old Executive assistant catches her boss getting cozy with a young woman from logistics, lies when his wife asks if anything abnormal is happening, deciding silence is safer than risking her job

Etai Eshet

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Manager tries to gaslight a robotic developer into doing 3 jobs for 1 salary by manipulating the job description, pushing him to start job hunting: ‘[He] is deliberately misquoting and cherry-picking my contract’

Etai Eshet

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