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29 Work Posts to Distract You from Performance Review Season

Isabella Penn

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Years after a turbulent firing, former employee’s warning to HR leads company to cut major partnership with nonprofit that let her go: 'I did not spare any details'

Isabella Penn

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Coworker demands friendly employee give her cash after she locks her credit card, employee refuses, coworker calls them out on social media: ‘I stopped speaking to her’

Bar Mor Hazut

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Boss demands employee stop sitting on the floor of their private office to relieve their back pain, claiming it's against company policy, employee demands proof: ‘Show me the rulebook’

Bar Mor Hazut

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Service worker laid off in July gets a message from their boss asking them to return to their old job: 'Thanksgiving week was a disaster because they didn't have enough people on to handle the crowds'

Brad Dickson

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‘I'll keep my mouth shut’: Boss demands employee stay silent during project presentation, trying to take credit for employee's work, VP puts boss in her place

Bar Mor Hazut

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HR disciplines employee for missing mandatory meeting, only to discover they forgot to invite them in the first place: ‘Do you want me to telepathically sense meetings?’

Bar Mor Hazut

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‘I thought he was joking…’: Mediocre tech who's worked for the company for 3 years preaches about flat earth to the new manager of 2 months, gets fired

Elna McHilderson

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Manager lets go valued server at diner, then begs for her to come back after disastrous Thanksgiving week at the restaurant: 'I do not want to back'

Ben Weiss

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‘Hey, I tried to help’: Blue collar guy ends up managing his old workplace frenemy, so he promotes him to a higher position where he can ‘shine’ and where the work is loathsome

Elna McHilderson

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AI-loving boss insists that employee uses Chat-GPT to assemble company's monthly report, employee complies and submits absolute gibberish to upper management: 'The result was entirely and completely useless'

Ben Weiss

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Employee discovers consultant's push to get her fired, she proves her value to the company by taking a 2-week vacation and leaving everyone scrambling: 'I came back on Monday with a $10,000 raise'

Ben Weiss

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Coworker sets ultimatum and demands pizza from employer after she misses office pizza party, resigns when they refuse to oblige: 'She quit because of pizza'

Brad Dickson

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'We shouldn't be talking about our wages': Employee exchanges fiery emails with HR after manager reprimands him for discussing his salary with his coworkers

Ben Weiss

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'[He] got chewed out for that for sure': FAA facility manager gets humbled after his rule forbidding airplane techs from talking to the clients gets him on a ‘Performance Improvement Plan’

Elna McHilderson

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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 (December 6, 2025)

Elna McHilderson

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