Imagine trading your day off, working a 10-hour shift, and canceling a vital appointment to help your boss's friend out — only to have your boss throw it back in your face by telling you how “embarrassed” he was that you weren't able to make it to a location, an hour away, at 7 am.

I smell nepotism!

Stupid problems necessitate even stupider solutions. In this scenario, a little bit of stupid creativity delivered the desired result and ushered in a positive change. Sometimes you have to be the change that you want to see in the world. This guy wanted his breaks, the boss told him he needed to smoke, so he devised a way to “smoke." Sounds like a win-win here, and even better that it was all taken in stride and prompted a laugh from the boss. I previously worked in an office where I was one o…

Putting up posters in a break room also requires ZERO TALENT.

All is fair in love and war, and —if you're not willing to play by the rules — don't expect anyone else to either. This salesman was confronted with the dawning, horrible truth that he was going to be cheated out of his hard-earned commission when the company he had just begun working for started making excuses about why they weren't able to pay him out. The company had foolishly set a commission structure with an aggressive exponential curve; when the salesmen joined and blew all previous sale…

“Update: I quit my job at Enterprise…"

There's no way this is legal.

There really are very few jobs that are as soul-draining, and where you are treated as poorly, as retail. Even if that list is short, one job that might just manage to qualify is that of a retail security guard. It's even more thankless, and more looked down upon than retail itself; sure, you don't have to complete the same repetitive tasks as the retail workers do, but that repetitiveness is usually replaced with nothing. Nothing, that is, except the increased abuse from both clientele and ret…

There's nothing more satisfying than watching the slow-motion train-wreck implosion of a deserving person destroying themself. This micromanaging boss was manipulated into doing exactly that when they tried to pick apart their own work, somehow without even recognizing that it was their own. As commenters have pointed out, doing shift work where the schedule was made by a different person every week would be absolutely maddening. There would be zero consistency with when you were scheduled, and…

Do unto others as you would have them do unto you —at least in some situations. It doesn't take one long to come up with multiple instances where following this ethos to the letter would create some incredibly unfortunate situations. Well, when this guy was demoted and forced to work for a “micromanaging sociopath,” he decided to demote his workplace and automated his job with an AI; the work was still being done —but he didn't have to do it. Honestly, this still sounds like a win-win situation…

Does this horrible boss seriously think this NDA is enforceable?

No one likes a bossy coworker!

There's something infuriating about a manager who doesn't trust you enough to let a little “give and take” slide. Keep scrolling with those eyes to see the screenshots, comments, reactions, and responses below.

This small business owner gave their newly-promoted manager a choice of a demotion or termination after the manager failed to report for a shift that they were supposed to be running. The manager's failure to notify of their absence and subsequent lack of communication meant that the business was not opened on time and remained closed until after the owner was notified three hours later. This thread was posted to Reddit's r/AITA (Am I the A**hole) subreddit by Reddit user and business owner, u/…

A tech CEO reported firing two engineers who were caught working a second full-time job in this LinkedIn post that went viral.

Maintaining a work-life balance can feel nearly impossible