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Entire staff maliciously complies with the controlling manager's demands to follow exact contract hours, leaving mid-meeting at exactly 4:30, getting her fired after complaining to HR: 'She sends meeting invite for 4.30 pm, everyone rejects it'

Emma Saven

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'HR keeps telling her to hang in there': After leadership change at small non-profit, employee faced policy-defying demands from a new supervisor, and was placed on a PIP despite documenting compliance, HR refuses to intervene following complaints

Emma Saven

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‘I chose honesty’: Web designer admits he accidentally led the client down the wrong path, ends up saving them money and making $5,000 more

Elna McHilderson

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Coffee shop employees create list of "favorite" and "not-so-favorite" regulars: 'I would have LOVED a board like this'

Remy Millisky

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'Dude shows up with a clipboard and an attitude': Builder fed up with inexperienced supervisor Derek's tedious new rules, so they purposely drop productivity rates by 75%, ensuring he is transferred to another site

Emma Saven

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'It all started when...': Pour a dash of these laughs into your morning coffee to energize you for the workday ahead (August 19, 2025)

Elna McHilderson

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‘Our social media accounts are our private accounts’: Obsessive coworker demands all colleagues accept her Facebook friend requests, then cyberstalks them to the point of being blocked

Lana DeGaetano

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'She said "I forgot that I worked here"': Employees reveal the most unusual excuses they've ever heard from someone calling off work

Lana DeGaetano

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Coworker pressures teammates to buy lunch for the entire team, using birthdays and special occasions as an excuse to get free food: ‘At first, we thought it was just her being friendly’

Bar Mor Hazut

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23-year-old employee demands that 24-year-old coworker pays for her parking ticket because she said they could park there: 'She was lying!'

Ben Weiss

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"‘I have no interest"’: Manager's new elderly employee refuses to complete his job duties simply because he doesn't want to do them, upper management fails to re-train or fire him

Lana DeGaetano

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Manager threatens to write up employee if they don't call their coworker next time they fail to show up for their shift, employee refuses: ‘That's not my responsibility’

Lana DeGaetano

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Supervisor refuses to let employee enter their shared office to take their bag at the end of the day, employee enters anyway, leading to an office dispute: ‘I have the right to access my own belongings’

Bar Mor Hazut

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Job hunter is reminded how much a single good deed can change someone’s day after running late to an interview and gets a ride from a kind stranger: ‘And I landed the job!’

Elna McHilderson

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Employee reports 2 remote coworkers who fail to complete their daily tasks because they're too busy babysitting their children and grandchildren, upper management threatens RTO mandate in response: ‘The company is not paying them to be a SAHM’

Lana DeGaetano

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‘The manager stood [there] in absolute disbelief.’: Employees share the craziest ways they have seen someone quit their job

Elna McHilderson

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