Horrible Bosses

'It got so bad that the upper management started an intimidation campaign': Employee gets written up for being transparent about sick time, so he trains 150+ coworkers to exploit the system

Isabella Penn

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Boss keeps calling employee by the wrong name, even giving a promotion to this nonexistent person: '[HR] had to inform my boss that such a person doesn’t exist'

Ben Weiss

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New American boss tries to cut British-based employee's "excessive" PTO, HR sides with employee: 'I have referred this to HR because I think this isn't right'

Ben Weiss

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Manager informs employees that they won't receive their pooled tips and she's donating them to a struggling coworker instead: ‘I don't know how to react’

Lana DeGaetano

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Entitled boss forces overworked employee to pause payroll and prioritize new report, maliciously complies, delaying payroll for the entire company: 'You could almost see the steam coming out of his ears'

Ben Weiss

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'She just lied to us all to try to keep us all on her good side': 10 Employees who worked for toxic bosses

Remy Millisky

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‘He's calling in sick, he's sick’: Boss insists manager's team member is lying about his illness when he calls out sick, is hilariously proven wrong

Lana DeGaetano

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Employee quits after getting written up for being 2 minutes late after covering 3 people's jobs for 6 months: 'I got a formal write-up'

Brad Dickson

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'Don’t want me start before 8:00? Fine!': Micromanaging boss refuses to let employee clock in before 8:00 AM, employee maliciously complies to prove a point

Ben Weiss

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‘I was told my time doesn't matter... So I quit’: Employee leaves company after new boss revokes her pre-approved vacation to visit her soldier husband, just so she can take vacation instead

Lana DeGaetano

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‘They fired the Cash Cow’: Carpet cleaning company axes its top phone upseller, who turns every $99 call into a multi-hundred-dollar deal for years over sick leave, leaving owners to watch profits tank

Etai Eshet

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Overworked employee starts leaving right at 5pm making their boss think that they've suddenly got better at their job and have "stepped up their game": 'I got a raise after I started leaving exactly at 5pm'

Brad Dickson

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HR green lights employee's April Fool's prank in the office bathroom, employee is subsequently fired for it: ‘[HR] even told me what washroom to put it in’

Lana DeGaetano

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'You want me to log every minute? Sure thing, boss!': Micromanager enforces new time-tracking to policy to "optimize productivity," team maliciously complies to prove productivity would plummet

Ben Weiss

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‘Game on’: Arrogant boss tries to micromanage high-performing employee into quitting, fails miserably

Lana DeGaetano

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Coworker throws a fit and delivers a mini TED Talk on teamwork after being politely refused help with a task she was perfectly capable of doing herself: ‘I told her that nothing would have happened to her too if she wrote it’

Etai Eshet

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