Professional At Work

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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Veteran employee of 3 years finds out they're paid 25% less than the new hire, internet discusses the importance of salary transparency and company-hopping: ‘Knowledge is power’

Lana DeGaetano

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Boss and coworker have a loud ‘introvert bash session’ and trash-talk friends for refusing to play a card game: ‘Tell me you don’t respect boundaries without telling me you don’t respect boundaries’

Lana DeGaetano

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Hardworking employee receives lower bonus than employee they hired and trained, proving 2.5 years of labor means absolutely nothing: ‘I’m just extremely disappointed’

Lana DeGaetano

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‘Good worker quits, it signals to others it's time’: 15 Employees discuss times they or their coworkers quit and started mass exoduses

Lana DeGaetano

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Restaurant employee is ostracized after speaking up about the manager's newborn baby being in the kitchen during working hours: ‘Holy OSHA violation’

Lana DeGaetano

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‘I have to watch her get paid to do nothing’: Animal shelter employee is fed up with slacker coworker who refuses to pick up after cats and dogs

Lana DeGaetano

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‘Some weird favoritism’: Troublemaking, under-qualified coworker is chosen for promotion over star employee, employee is then forced to quit her job after workplace retaliation

Lana DeGaetano

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Working student spends $200+ on groceries and rides on entitled coworker who repeatedly asks for favors without offering to pay them back: ‘I'm literally losing health insurance tending to him’

Lana DeGaetano

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Employee keeps doing entitled coworker's work, gets even by keeping her from taking her break: 'She's just itching to run out of here, but she can't leave'

Ben Weiss

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Boss advises hourly employee to avoid working overtime, but VP of the company keeps scheduling meetings with them after 5 PM: ‘It’s starting to get to me’

Lana DeGaetano

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Entitled coworker rejects job candidate because she's a fan of Stark Trek: 'She made the mistake of mentioning her hobbies during [the] interview'

Ben Weiss

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Employee resigns, boss notifies him two years later that he has been fired for not showing up to work: 'Your employment [...] is being terminated for job abandonment'

Ben Weiss

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Employee refuses to split referral bonus with entitled friend after they land them an opportunity for a promotional role, only to find out the company doesn't offer internal candidacy bonuses: ‘She called me "greedy"’

Lana DeGaetano

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‘I think I’m going to need a lawyer’: Higher-ups force employee next in line for a promotion to take time off after an injury, then call them ‘unreliable’ despite requesting they be put on FMLA leave

Lana DeGaetano

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Micromanaging boss takes issue with employee's process, employee maliciously complies by offloading all calls and scanning duties to boss: 'I am not her secretary'

Ben Weiss

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