funny work stories

Employee spends $500 of his own money to throw coworker's going-away party, cancels the event because no one paid him back in time

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Employee gets caught pretending to look busy with no actual work, now has a meeting scheduled with upper management about "role clarity"

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Boss enforces "clean desk policy," throws away everything on employees' desks after 6:00 PM: '[My] colleague had a framed photo of her kids taken three times in the same week'

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Employee CC's entire 40-person team on every email per his manager's request, clogging everyone's inbox: 'I was just following the policy he set'

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New hire shows up to an empty office with no one to train him, ends up collecting a paycheck for 7 months before someone notices

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Employee caught on camera clipping his toenails during management meeting: 'I forgot I had my work camera on'

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Manager schedules daily check-ins during employee's lunch break, employee insists on cooking during the meeting anyway: 'I made a full grilled cheese on my little desk griddle'

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Employee demands 10% raise because he's bilingual, even though his second language is Welsh: 'The manager then told me that the policy meant Spanish'

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Graphic designer complies with client's vague demands to make his logo more "noticeable" by submitting pitch deck with 80% increased size

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Employee gets caught after building an app to track how many times his coworkers say "circling back" in meetings

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Manager reprimands employee for texting at the office instead of looking busy: 'Okay, then give me more stuff to do!'

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Employee changes strategy to "show, not tell" his boss that his ideas are terrible: 'I didn't have to say a word. He saw the error himself'

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Management removes automatic login access for widely used tool, employee maliciously complies until they restore access: 'It took about an hour before they sent us the login info'

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Employee forced to pass messages between two coworkers who refused to talk to each other, then he starts trolling them both: 'I started making up messages to give each of them on behalf of the other'

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Employee gets moved to another department after 17 years, refuses to train his unqualified replacement: 'He keeps asking me how to do his job'

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HR panics after employee walks into the office wearing auto-recording smart glasses: 'Nobody knows what the policy is because the policy doesn't exist'

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