tales-from-the-workplace

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’

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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

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Employee gets boss fired by successfully taking care of a last-minute product shipment to Europe that boss had neglected: ‘He had no one else to blame for his mess-ups’

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Overworked employee refuses to take over coworker's tasks after he leaves work early one too many times, boss gets involved: ‘I already have my own workload’

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Employee refuses to translate coworker's personal documents after she finds out they speak a second language, coworker complains to manager: ‘She showed up at my desk with papers’ 

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Company rescinds candidate's job offer after claiming they don't have the qualifications, only to reach out two years later to offer them the same job: ‘The audacity…’

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Company promises accommodation for new hire during training out of state, then refuses to provide it after they signed, forcing the employee to quit: ‘They lied to get me on board’

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Industrial warehouse employees find out boss sold their workplace fridge, they demand a new one, but he refuses: ‘He sold something the whole team uses, with no replacement’

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Boss clones employee's voice with text-to-speech software, then creates a recording of them saying positive things about the job, employee reports her: ‘I was NOT okay with it’

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Store manager demands employee organize products by specific planogram, leading employee to take all their popular items off the shelves: ‘Stop being a helicopter manager’

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Employee refuses to reply to boss's texts during their day off, purposely turns their phone off to avoid the endless calls, leading to a workplace dispute: ‘What's the point of time off?’

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IT demands employee submit a separate ticket to get access to each folder they need, leading employee to submit hundreds of tickets within an hour until they give in: ‘Stop winding up IT’

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CEO demands to be CC'd on every email sent within the company, only for their inbox to be flooded when HR sends a personalized email to every employee: ‘They caused their own email apocalypse’

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Manager favors one team over the other, refuses any request of employees from “Team B”, leading employees to resign in the pettiest way possible: ‘In a single month, 4 left’

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Employee finds out boss looks at their browsing history at work, they purposely search for other jobs, leading boss to offer them a raise when he sees the search: ‘I left it there’

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Boss demands lab employees provide testing reports earlier in the day, they warn him that the data won't be complete, his insistence leads to more work for him: ‘He can't figure it out’

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