toxic-workplace

Retail worker ridiculed for wearing personal jacket at work, he gets even by following the employee handbook: 'My jacket isn’t corporate approved? Neither are any of the other ones here!'

Ben Weiss

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Manager instructs staff to maliciously comply with difficult client by only following their vague instructions word for word, prompting backlash: 'Why are your employees being so unhelpful?'

Ben Weiss

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Project manager conspires to make coworker look bad in front of management, coworker turns the tables around on her: '[Penny] hasn't tried that trick again with me'

Ben Weiss

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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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Employee gets fired and replaced by younger, cheaper new hire, she lasts 3 weeks at the company: 'Now the company’s back to square one, scrambling to rehire'

Ben Weiss

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24-year-old manager informs boss that they've scheduled a surgery to repair their torn meniscus, boss is ‘furious’ and tries to guilt-trip them: ‘I have been struggling bad’

Lana DeGaetano

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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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New IT manager tries to "fix" working hours to accommodate different time zones, backfires majorly as employees point out labor law violations: 'Turns out the manager made a mistake here'

Ben Weiss

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Underpaid employee scores $170k job offer elsewhere, then recruits 6 other colleagues to leave their stingy company high and dry: ‘The feeling of vindication is unreal’

Lana DeGaetano

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48-year-old coworker mocks employee for reading a children's book, employee cries on cue to get him in trouble: 'Maybe keep your opinions to yourself sometimes'

Ben Weiss

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Employee calls out coworker for stealing her ideas in company-wide meeting, brings receipts: 'Amy's face went from triumphant to pale to comically flustered in under 30 seconds'

Ben Weiss

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10+ Unwritten rules employees shared about their workplace environments: 'Speak to the boss as if you were talking to a young child'

Ben Weiss

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Entitled friend demands a cut of her friend's $500 referral work bonus: ‘I laughed it off and didn’t think she was being serious’

Lana DeGaetano

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‘I’m furious. I’m disgusted I work for this company’: Boss offers employee a $1 promotional raise, then hires someone in the employee's current role before he accepts the offer

Lana DeGaetano

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New HR Lady cancels beloved company traditions and starts firing people publicly, ends up getting fired the same way 'All other employees [were] watching and some of them [were] clapping'

Ben Weiss

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‘And just like that, the tables have completely turned’: Underpaid and overworked employee lands a unicorn job offer and resigns from their current role, boss loses it

Lana DeGaetano

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