overworked-employees

“We're all burnt out. You just have to push through it”’: Manager weaponizes exceptional employee's tears during an unwarranted poor performance review and tells them it's a "growth moment’

Lana DeGaetano

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Employee quits job after two years of devoted work, only to be told by manager their three-week notice isn't enough: ‘Now they’re not getting any notice’

Bar Mor Hazut

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Manager asks employee over text message to join meetings and assist with "knowledge transfer" after firing them: 'Are you available to jump on a call?'

Brad Dickson

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20-year-old kitchen worker tells her 40-year-old coworker that she's not surprised his wife divorced him over his online gaming obsession, sparks disagreement dividing the workplace: 'She wanted him to spend time with her instead of playing video games'

Brad Dickson

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Senior mechanical engineer dismisses junior's correct analysis, costing the company tens of thousands of dollars: 'Maybe next time you’ll check my math before calling me useless'

Ben Weiss

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Manager accidentally screen shares payroll information during a team meeting: ‘I discovered I am one of the lowest paid employees!'

Ben Weiss

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20+ Coworker Memes To Share With Your Favorite Colleague From Across the Office

Lana DeGaetano

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58-year-old essential employee gets laid off 1 year before retiring, entire team quits out of loyalty, HR begs them to come back for double their original pay: 'I'll come back for 13 weeks'

Brad Dickson

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Micromanager enforces new "performance tracking policy" forcing employees to prioritize phone calls over emails, creating major backlog of work: 'And just like that, [the] policy quietly vanished'

Ben Weiss

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Engineer passed over for promotion for their own direct reports, instead up-skills himself on the job, uses those skills to land a better job with 3x the pay: 'I developed skills on the company dime that got me a >100% raise at another company'

Brad Dickson

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Manager demands construction workers stop using shortcuts to keep an efficient workflow, leading to a backlog in orders when they follow her rules: ‘Hope you’ve got time to wait’

Bar Mor Hazut

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Boss schedules meeting with HR to discuss employee's attitude after they say "no" to increased workload for the first time ever in 2 years: 'So now we have a meeting scheduled with HR to talk about it'

Brad Dickson

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Boss tells key client that go-to employee has left the company, employee quits for real when they find out: 'My supervisor told a high-end client that I was quitting. That was a lie, and I was gone for a week.'

Brad Dickson

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39-year-old administrative assistant refuses to cover lunch for entitled coworker, confronts her in the office: '[Theresa,] I'm not your bank and I’m not responsible for feeding you'

Ben Weiss

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Boss demands 24/7 "urgent" access to employee, interrupting the employee's evenings and weekends with tasks that could have waited: 'If I’m not answering emails at 10PM, I’ll wake up to passive aggressive messages'

Brad Dickson

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Temp employee works until 3:00 AM, asks if he can finish work from home, boss refuses, sparking malicious compliance: 'Temps are not allowed to work from home'

Ben Weiss

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