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'It all started when...': Pour a dash of these laughs into your morning coffee to energize you for the work week ahead (November 8, 2025)

Elna McHilderson

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Boss brings donuts to the office as a reward to the employees, only to get upset when one employee eats a whole donut: ‘He started cutting them all in half’

Bar Mor Hazut

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CEO of 7-month start-up takes only company credit card to Bali, refuses to make remote purchases or approve expenses while away, blocking software renewals, buying new hire’s laptop, and event catering for the month: 'Said he's busy and to figure it out'

Emma Saven

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‘I got her fired’: Employee refuses to cover for coworker's shift, so coworker lies to boss about finding a cover, gets fired when no one arrives at work

Bar Mor Hazut

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Hiring manager demands candidate send a “thank-you video” to the team after their interview, candidate refuses: ‘That’s one way to filter out people with dignity’

Bar Mor Hazut

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‘I am not free labor’: Data analyst gets voluntold to be the new unpaid “morale lead” for HR's office's culture-boosting protocol, but she refuses because she was never asked

Jesse Kessenheimer

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Senior designer quits over 6 years of denied raises, refuses boss's demand to train less-experienced replacement when discovering she's earning $20K more than her salary for the same job: 'Willing to pay new employee significantly more than a loyal one'

Emma Saven

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Company denies data analyst raise after he automates 70% of daily tasks with Python, boss orders him to stop, as it's making his coworkers “look bad”, he later discovers they hired someone else for the same automation role: 'Paying 20k more than I make'

Emma Saven

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‘I struggled to keep from smiling on the call': Remote employee offered an 8-month severance package just days before quitting when their company initiates a return-to-office mandate

Jesse Kessenheimer

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Top performing sales employee caught scamming the internal employee rewards system, pocketing an extra $20 that costs them their job: 'Internal theft is internal theft'

Jesse Kessenheimer

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New 22-year-old hire forced to work the front desk at luxury hotel on his first day after coworkers assigned to train him failed to show up: 'I feel so bad for the young man'

Ben Weiss

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22-year-old retail employee gets her friend and coworker fired when her friend lies to their manager about a "family emergency" to go to a party and tells the manager she will cover their shift: 'My manager called me and asked me why I wasn't at work'

Brad Dickson

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Boss refuses to approve any PTO requests, employee finds a way around it in the company handbook, resulting in office chaos when more employees follow suit: ‘Thank you, legal team’

Bar Mor Hazut

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New employee gets fired after only a week at the job, gets told by boss that their accountant claims they can't afford to pay him: ‘I thought it was my saving grace’

Bar Mor Hazut

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Nurse quits job after boss demands she works on Christmas since she “has no family to celebrate with”, despite already approving her time off: ‘People with children are given priority’

Bar Mor Hazut

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Overworked employee overhears bosses gossip about remote workers, sparking office discourse: 'They're the ones actually doing the work'

Ben Weiss

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