work stories

Coworker ends carpool deal after colleague keeps buying food instead of paying the agreed $50 gas money for the hour-long daily commutes: 'Find someone else to take you to work tomorrow'

Celeste Mello

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Worker quits underpaid position only to spend months training and supporting her replacement anyway: 'I've done more than enough'

Cata Holmes

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Manager demands employees track every minute of non-billable work, then panics when one worker logs coffee breaks, printer jams, and Windows updates: 'Use common sense'

Cata Holmes

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Employee Resigns After HR Reprimands Him For Excessive PTO Despite Taking the Same Time Off Every Year

Ben Weiss

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Manager refuses to spend $50 on external software, insisting engineer waste company resources developing a platform in-house: 'This project was costing the company roughly $4,000 in billing hours'

Ben Weiss

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Employee Sparks Backlash After Giving Two Weeks Notice While on PTO

Ben Weiss

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Employee Accepts New Job and Gives Notice, Then Comes Back Begging for Old Job After New Company Rescinds Offer

Ben Weiss

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Fast food employee told by manager to stay out of the kitchen, employee follows her orders, denying service to customers: 'I’m sorry, I would get that for you but I’m not allowed back there right now'

Ben Weiss

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Front desk agent stops assisting ungrateful coworker, Eric, until hotel manager takes note of Eric's incompetence: '[He] kept taking credit for closing tasks'

Ben Weiss

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Engineer returns to the office for a 40% pay raise after years of remote work, opening up a discussion about what really drives job satisfaction: ‘The extra money doesn't even feel real’

Celeste Mello

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Boston-based employee's remote status revoked, forced to come into a WeWork twice a week with no one from his company on site: 'No one from my team is within 500 miles!'

Ben Weiss

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Employee resigns, boss tries to cheap out by offering $20 less per hour than what he's worth to keep him on as a contractor: 'Their offer was not acceptable'

Ben Weiss

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Workplace friendship starts to fade after coworker gets promoted and begins acting like the boss he used to complain about: ‘I don’t recognize him anymore’

Celeste Mello

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‘Two can play that game’: Traveling employee triples the cost of their work trips after being denied a £20 expense over petty technicalities

Jesse Kessenheimer

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Service Industry Employees Explain How You Can Uncover Tip Theft in the Workplace

Cata Holmes

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Employee tells coworkers how much his raise was, despite manager asking them to keep it private: ‘[Colleague] is making $14000 less than I am’

Lana DeGaetano

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