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Employee gets promoted over more qualified but "difficult" coworker: 'I know he thinks I'm an empty suit [...] and he's completely right'

Law firm partner opens coworker’s blinds daily to shame his messy desk, gets publicly humbled by an unflattering photo plastered all over the office

Law firm partner opens coworker’s blinds daily to shame his messy desk, gets publicly humbled by an unflattering photo plastered all over the office: 'I decided that petty revenge was the best option'

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Store supervisor demands employee keep working beyond closing time to “show commitment to the company”, employee refuses, leaving supervisor to handle customers alone: ‘My shift has ended’

Store supervisor demands employee keep working beyond closing time to “show commitment to the company”, employee refuses, leaving supervisor to handle customers alone: ‘My shift has ended’

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‘Kara's smile froze': 32-year-old woman proudly shuts down pretentious 20-something-year-old coworker who keeps pretending like she doesn't remember her name

Elna McHilderson

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15+ Coworkers who packed bizarre lunches: 'My coworker is at it again'

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Entitled employee refuses to complete her assignments, claims she's too busy, coworker gets her fired by proving she had nothing to do: ‘She was caught lying to our boss’

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UPDATE: 56-year-old shares Google Doc of complaints about mid-20s receptionist, gets fired: 'She manifested her own downfall'

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Coworker demands company accommodate her schedule for parenting, but chooses late hours to avoid her child and complains about missing time with them: '[She's] an absolute nightmare of a person'

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Optional PTO donation program leads to tension after employee refuses to donate his hours to coworker he barely knows

Optional PTO donation program leads to tension after employee refuses to donate his hours to coworker he barely knows: 'My boss pulled me aside and said it looks bad'

Man tricks coworker into helping him paint his house

Man gets tricked by coworker to drive two hours to his house after work to help him paint: 'He said please don't make dumb excuses'

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Manager ignores employee's resignation letter for 3 weeks, employee decides not to remind her: 'I don't care if she's left in a bind'

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Coworker replies all all 3000-employee company-wide emails with pointless “thanks” and “noted” messages, flooding inboxes, making whole office slowly lose it: ‘During lunch yesterday I got three separate reply-all emails from her within 20 minutes’

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UPDATE: “[She] stole my position and now I get to watch her struggle worse than I did in it”: Teacher loses leadership role to a colleague who now has trouble with the same demands and responsibilities

Work food thief stops stealing after worker does this

Office lunch thief stops stealing after employee makes leftovers too annoying to take: 'Instead of one box of food I split it into six or seven little ones'

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High school night-shift custodian snaps at a phone-obsessed coworker, Bill, then worries she crossed a line by judging his personal life, talking about his younger sister: ‘I'm starting to think I should have kept my mouth shut’

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Senior engineer outsmarts an arrogant new hire when the newbie tries to play office politics, shattering his misplaced corporte confidence: 'He quit out of embarrassment'

Jesse Kessenheimer

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Hardworking 16-year-old won’t give his dad weekly $50 he saves up from his first job, encouraging him to build his own career: ‘He has been getting overly invested into my job and things [revolve] around my work life'

Hardworking 16-year-old won’t give his dad weekly $50 he saves up from his first job, encouraging him to build his own career: ‘He has been getting overly invested into my job and things [revolve] around my work life'

Stay-at-home mom continues cooking homemade meals every day for a full house to save money despite her picky brother-in-law’s demands for special meals: 'I can’t really afford making main courses that are entirely meat'

Stay-at-home mom continues cooking homemade meals every day for a full house to save money despite her picky brother-in-law’s demands for special meals: 'I can’t really afford making main courses that are entirely meat'

Landlord restricts laundry room to 9am-6pm and sells a "$40 VIP pass" for after-hours use, residents refuse to comply: ‘Those hours are exactly when most people in the building are actually at work’

Landlord restricts laundry room to 9am-6pm and sells a "$40 VIP pass" for after-hours use, residents refuse to comply: ‘Those hours are exactly when most people in the building are actually at work’

Remote worker stops answering his older coworker's calls after being phoned 5-6 times daily, including during flights and customer dinners

Remote worker stops answering his older coworker's calls after being phoned 5-6 times daily, including during flights and customer dinners

Engineer returns to the office for a 40% pay raise after years of remote work, opening up a discussion about what really drives job satisfaction: ‘The extra money doesn't even feel real’

Engineer returns to the office for a 40% pay raise after years of remote work, opening up a discussion about what really drives job satisfaction: ‘The extra money doesn't even feel real’

Resident assumes their neighbor will volunteer as an unpaid dog sitter because they work from home, but the busy remote worker proves them wrong: ‘[She] got offended when I said no’

Resident assumes their neighbor will volunteer as an unpaid dog sitter because they work from home, but the busy remote worker proves them wrong: ‘[She] got offended when I said no’

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