terrible coworkers

Employee gets moved to another department after 17 years, refuses to train his unqualified replacement: 'He keeps asking me how to do his job'

Ben Weiss

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Employee comes down with the flu and requests to leave their shift early, manager approves but coworker refuses to let them go: ‘"I'm not missing out on my break!"’

Lana DeGaetano

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Employee gets even with entitled coworker by stealing her pizza and wings after she discarded everyone's lunches the week before: 'I don't feel bad and I would do it again'

Ben Weiss

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Colleague insists visiting employee leave their car unlocked because there's ‘no crime’ down South, employee refuses: ‘I couldn't take the chance’

Lana DeGaetano

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Employee refuses to buy Girl Scout cookies from coworker's daughter because she's gluten-free, he then turns her entire team against her: 'It's not really about the cookies!'

Ben Weiss

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Try-hard coworker constantly one-ups employee in workplace group chat: ‘Honestly feels forced’

Lana DeGaetano

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Woman tries to take credit for a volunteer's work at a non-profit, so they let her fail miserably in an important presentation: ‘The most peaceful payback I've had in years’

Lana DeGaetano

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Coworker demands company accommodate her schedule for parenting, but chooses late hours to avoid her child and complains about missing time with them: '[She's] an absolute nightmare of a person'

Etai Eshet

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Coworker replies all all 3000-employee company-wide emails with pointless “thanks” and “noted” messages, flooding inboxes, making whole office slowly lose it: ‘During lunch yesterday I got three separate reply-all emails from her within 20 minutes’

Etai Eshet

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UPDATE: “[She] stole my position and now I get to watch her struggle worse than I did in it”: Teacher loses leadership role to a colleague who now has trouble with the same demands and responsibilities

Etai Eshet

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15+ Employees whose coworkers are driving them up the wall: 'He doesn't get my social cues of when I want to end a conversation'

Remy Millisky

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High school night-shift custodian snaps at a phone-obsessed coworker, Bill, then worries she crossed a line by judging his personal life, talking about his younger sister: ‘I'm starting to think I should have kept my mouth shut’

Etai Eshet

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Nepo-baby coworker tries to override her dad’s approval of a 3 PM leave to work from home arrangement with a colleague but gets shut down by her boss-father: ‘He told me it has nothing to do with her, she has no authority’

Etai Eshet

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Arrogant coworker takes credit for project, demands a promotion and gets fired instead: 'Sometimes the trash takes itself out!'

Ben Weiss

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SpEd Teacher treats para as personal assistant and substitute, quits when told to stop, and explodes online when the school accepts her resignation: ‘she had them run errands all over the school when they were supposed to be helping the students’

Etai Eshet

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Chronically unreliable coworker calls her colleague mid‑vacation, demanding a ride home from work, and gets blocked immediately: ‘She wanted my sister to drop everything, drive all the way to work, pick her up, and take her home!’

Etai Eshet

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