"He screamed, I mean screamed, ‘You agreed to work on this project weeks ago!’ I repeated his words verbatim."

These people have quit their jobs… and they have some really good reasons for that big decision! Up next, read about the exact opposite scenarios: these employees were fired on day one, for reasons like, “They are literally chasing a beaver around in their golf cart .”

This person's boss seems way too obsessed with what she's doing in her spare time. More specifically, her boss just cannot let her take any time off without bugging her constantly! Some managers are so obsessed with keeping their workplace running that they start treating the workers like they're robots instead of human beings. Robots never need a break, but humans do. Robots have no feelings, but people can be bothered by incessant demands from their bosses . That's why many companies provide…

Always be careful how you speak with someone! Let this story serve as a friendly reminder to never assume you are better than anyone, especially at a networking event where that other person could very well have been the key to a job opportunity. This actress , who was clearly suffering from main character syndrome (like many people in show business), was at a networking event and had been talking endlessly about herself to a stranger. She was giving the energy of wanting to speak to someone “m…

In this world, there are two kinds of people: those who get their kicks from being the teacher's favorite and those who could care less about how they appear in the classroom. The story below is of a frustrated employee. The original poster (OP) was required to attend a training session with his colleagues. Even though OP had already completed a course that was identical to what his bosses mandated, he nevertheless eagerly participated. That being said, despite his regular attendance, he made a…

The reality of the hiring process meeting expectations takes place on both sides. The entire process has such a ridiculously excessive performative requirement that there's no way either party can live up to all of the gassing up they've been doing. There is sure to be more time spent completing monotonous tasks than the interviewer implied, with also less room for growth and creative freedom than you might have been led to believe you would receive. Similarly, your employer might come to find…

It's always baffling when customers don't check the price of the items in their shopping cart before arriving at checkout. Or better yet, why wouldn't this customer check how much money she had on hand before leaving her home and picking up $800 worth of merchandise at the store? In addition to what ultimately transpired when this entitled customer showed up at checkout, she also managed to spend over seven hours in the store picking up items to add to her cart. This is not only strange and que…

"What I'm getting from her [is] that I am being selfish and I should wait for everyone book theirs before mine."

Nothing breaks familiar bonds between once close-knit coworkers, who have bonded through commiserative mutual suffering at the hands of a toxic employer like the eventuality of one of them leaving. As the realization dawns that they're going to have to continue on in the world while their coworker is freed, stress sets in, and the toxic atmosphere takes hold. Then they collectively turn on the leaving coworker, partly out of jealousy at their newfound liberation and partly because turning on th…

Overhearing your coworker gossiping about how long you'll likely stay at the company on your very first day does not exactly inspire confidence. For many people out there, an incident like that on day one will inevitably make you feel like your days are numbered. However, for this new hire, it made her grow a thicker skin. This employee wound up staying at the company longer than the Karen coworker who claimed she would last only three months. In fact, the employee stayed there for more than tw…

What would your boss do if they found out you read books in your spare time? It's a pretty harmless item to have around the workplace, right? Many bosses would assume you brought that book to read during your commute or your lunch break. I'm sure many would prefer that to employees being on their phones anyway! But this person's boss found some books laying around the office, and she took that personally. This person's supervisor sounds like both a snoop and a micromanager. She went and searche…

Clearly, this company has a management issue, but this employee will be the last person to complain about it. He has found himself in the unique situation of having three different bosses from three separate departments. These departments have very little crossover, which helps the employee immensely when he claims that he has been overwhelmed with tasks and responsibilities from other departments. This is how he has managed to avoid getting any work from all three of his supervisors. Instead,…

Being fired from your job on day one should earn you some type of medal. It's a very special achievement after all. When managers are training a new employee, they expect them to mess up basically every task for a while. But you can't chock up everything to being unaware or untrained. Some things, like employees who can't focus on the job or those who berate the customers, have to go ASAP. Up next, read about a couple of the “worst lawyers ever," who got lazy when drafting a retirement document…

There's always a bigger fish… No matter how big or small you are, you can almost take solace in the fact that there's always going to be someone bigger or better than you at something and will soon come to take your place. This is a real worry to the big fish out there who are desperate to maintain their status as top dogfish. In this way, sometimes being the smallest fish is beneficial because all the other fish are so much larger than you that they consider you to not be a threat or even wort…

Requiring your employees to clock in at exactly their scheduled start time each day is guaranteed to add some extra stress into their lives. It's not as if most employees are trying to be late. Most of them are stuck in traffic or caught on a train that won't move. They rush into work as fast as they can—they might even sprint to make it!—but if they're even two or five minutes late , their boss is still going to be annoyed. All that rushing around to try to make it on time, and the boss still…

Freelance workers deserve better. Despite not being salaried and not having benefits, most of these workers are forced to deal with a nebulous set of expectations that can at times be more intrusive. For instance, freelance workers may not have a set number of hours, but that does not mean that they have to be subjected to constant emails, calls, and texts from their supervisors during off hours. For some reason, the work-life boundaries for freelance workers always seem to be more nonexistent…