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Team lead quits on the spot after upper management reprimands him for giving employees 5 out of 5 on their performance reviews: 'You quite literally will never be good enough in their eyes, by design'

Ben Weiss

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Manager ignores employee's resignation letter for 3 weeks, employee decides not to remind her: 'I don't care if she's left in a bind'

Ben Weiss

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Manager forces fast food employee to work while sick, employee goes over manager's head: 'Let's see what YOUR boss has to say'

Ben Weiss

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Employee requests to WFH one day a week for childcare purposes only to be denied by fully remote HR manager: '[This] is 100% about control!'

Ben Weiss

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Job candidate hangs up on interviewer mid-sentence after a train wreck phone interview: ‘Clowns hire other clowns, and the whole place turns into a circus’

Lana DeGaetano

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'No matter how long he stays after this, his salary is frozen and won't increase again': Coworker receives "final" raise after 12 years at his company, immediately submits resignation and uses new salary to get a better job offer

Ben Weiss

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'We can't go home early anymore?': Part-time employee teams up with decent manager to maliciously comply with upper management's new scheduling rule by discreetly adjusting the lengths of the team's shifts

Ben Weiss

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‘Hey, I tried to help’: Blue collar guy ends up managing his old workplace frenemy, so he promotes him to a higher position where he can ‘shine’ and where the work is loathsome

Elna McHilderson

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'[He] got chewed out for that for sure': FAA facility manager gets humbled after his rule forbidding airplane techs from talking to the clients gets him on a ‘Performance Improvement Plan’

Elna McHilderson

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‘I politely declined’: Guy who quit 3-years prior gets a call from HR offering him a $5,000 re-join bonus and $300 more a month, turns out management drove the company to the ground

Elna McHilderson

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'I REFUSE to work if I’m not getting paid': Overworked employee goes part time, leaving entitled coworkers to fend for themselves

Elna McHilderson

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'It all started when...': Pour a dash of these laughs into your morning coffee to energize you for the work week ahead (November 29, 2025)

Elna McHilderson

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Guy gets last laugh after being fired as ‘non-essential,’ 6-weeks later that company implodes and he has a new job with a 20% pay raise: 'It's a great feeling.'

Elna McHilderson

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Hardworking intern gets told by management that they are not in “a position to agree or disagree,” so they quit: 'The red flags were the craziest I've ever experienced.'

Elna McHilderson

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'It all started when...': Pour a dash of these laughs into your morning coffee to energize you for the work week ahead (November 22, 2025)

Elna McHilderson

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Woman unemployed for 4 months finally lands her dream job and uproots her life for it, 3-weeks in she gets fired after inexplicably failing her background check: ‘If they don't [explain], I will hire a labor lawyer.'

Elna McHilderson

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