Never underestimate your employer's ability to let you down. Picture this: your annual review is coming up. You're coming on five years at a company without a meaningful promotion or raise despite always receiving encouraging and positive feedback. You have made it known over the past several months that you really would like something meaningful this time around. Finally, the day has arrived. You walk into the meeting and your boss immediately thanks you for all of your hard work. He says he h…

Bad bosses can't have their cake and eat it too!

Imagine putting in four years at a company and expecting a glowing performance review, only to learn that instead, you are being demoted and your salary will be cut in half effective immediately. The justification, of course, was not exactly specific either. In fact, the employee's tasks and responsibilities had not exactly changed month after a month in the “new” position. Of course, the boss found silly and meaningless synonyms to replace the Redditor's former job description to make it seem…

There is nothing worse than a problematic boss taking over and ruining a system that was working well, but on the other end of the spectrum, there is nothing better than calling that boss out on their flawed leadership. This thread was posted by a nurse who ensured that her exit interview at the hospital would be put to good use. Instead of leavings all her complaints unresolved, she took the opportunity to call out her former director to HR about how all the changes were counterproductive, une…

Who doesn't love proving everyone wrong? This employee was told to adjust his reports a certain way by the VP of his company and despite warning him of the potentially serious repercussions of this kind of reporting, he maliciously complied. Thankfully, there was no world in which the Redditor was going to be taking the fall when the company's revenue inevitably dropped because the people who ultimately signed the reports were the VP and his boss. So when that day finally arrived, the employee…

This delusional father-in-law seems to think every young person is entitled, but in the end, it was his entitlement that kept him from getting a job. Imagine helping set your father-in-law up with a job interview at your partner's company and then having to explain his extreme level of disrespect to the other employees at said company. Well, that's exactly what happened to this Redditor after her father-in-law started badmouthing the CFO to his interviewer and then to the CFO's face directly la…

Let this story serve as a friendly reminder that it really is not worth it to take on someone else's job responsibilities on top our own duties. The first big reason is that if something goes awry, you will likely be blamed despite the fact that you were just trying to provide additional support. Secondly, you will also be taken for granted, and soon enough, your boss will be expecting you to handle those responsibilities on the day-to-day without any promotion or increased salary. Sure, some f…

There is nothing worse than being caught in the middle of a toxic workplace dynamic. This manager had to constantly deal with a temperamental and disrespectful VP who routinely made matters all the more difficult for the manager's team of designers. The last straw came when the VP delayed a project for so long that the design team had to put together an entire marketing strategy for a prospective client in less than a week. When the day for the meeting finally arrived, the VP decided to disinvi…

There is an art to knocking a job interview out of the park, and many folks do not know how to master that art… especially at first. When you're just starting out and applying for your very first job, it's difficult not to feel like you're walking in with no idea what to expect. Sure, everyone says that it's best to be relaxed, confident, and in touch with yourself, but what if the best parts of you are still wildly unprofessional? That's what these folks figured out during the job interviews t…

This dude may have found the ideal work environment. Perhaps this is one of the advantages of working for such a big company because occasionally, things fall through the cracks. That seems to be the case for this employee , who was hired six months ago by a woman whose position was subsequently eliminated right before the employee started. Well, he ended up in a reclusive office that no one ever went to and where he was completely left alone. Furthermore, he was given no tasks to complete. At…

The best part of having friends in different industries is that they can share knowledge with you that most folks are completely unaware of… This can be useful whether or not you have an interest in that particular industry. For instance, based on these responses in this Reddit thread, I surprisingly learned information about refrigerator models that I will take with me the next time I need one. Sharing industry secrets can be more of a selfless act than a shady one. If there are simpler soluti…

Talk about a way to turn your few remaining loyal employees against you! This boss decided that the best way to respond to a mass quitting was to send a hostile message to the remaining folks on her team enforcing new strict policies. Those policies were that if anyone decided to leave, they needed to put in three months' notice before doing so. First of all, this boss must be foolish because she simply cannot enforce that when it comes to at-will employment. Second of all, what she should be d…

Hanging out with coworkers outside of work hours is always a strange experience at first. Some people get along in a work environment, and it doesn't take until meeting up in real life for you to realize that the two of you just don't gel outside of work hours. This employee discovered a bit too late that his coworker was not just a strange person to hang out with outside of work, but it turns out they're a Karen. Sometimes you really don't know these things until you see someone ordering food…

Servers should get an additional 20% tip every time a customer asks a self-explanatory question. It turns out people are just as ignorant in restaurants as you would think. This collection of questions real servers were asked by entitled customers just goes to show that thinking before speaking is a lost art. Instead, people are asking questions like why the menu did not properly state that the risotto had rice in it. People are asking what the difference is between a 6-ounce steak and a 12-oun…

Imagine putting a toxic work experience behind you and thinking you've completely moved on until the opportunity to get your boss back conveniently arises. Sure, you may have transitioned to bigger and better things in life, but you cannot help but admit that you still harbor a little resentment from those horrid years you endured under such problematic leadership. This Redditor put in her notice after her bosses accused her of doing zero work despite all the evidence proving otherwise (meanwhi…

Anyone working in a customer-facing position should get the medal of freedom for keeping their cool despite having to confront numerous Karen customers per day. However, as you'll see with some of these stories , sometimes keeping your cool is impossible to help these customers out, calm them down, or even just get them off the phone. One of these call center stories sparked a core embarrassing story from back in my intern days. My job that summer involved answering and returning phone calls co…