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‘The room went silent’: Backstabbing office employee drops the ball on a project, then throws their colleague under the bus, so the coworker reveals the truth in a company meeting

Jesse Kessenheimer

Supervisor demands employees file help tickets for everything, employees maliciously comply by refusing to accept verbal requests: 'Enjoy waiting for your own approvals'

Supervisor demands employees file help tickets for everything, employees maliciously comply by refusing to accept verbal requests: 'Enjoy waiting for your own approvals'

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Employee cautiously convinced to give colleague a single ride home regrets it when she immediately turns to demanding rides at her own convenience like a personal chauffeur: 'From that day on, she started acting like I was her personal ride'

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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

Boss dates secretary and fast-tracks her promotion into power, sidelining his longest-serving worker’s career: ‘My career has stagnated while she gets all the good projects’

Boss dates secretary and fast-tracks her promotion into power, sidelining his longest-serving worker’s career: ‘My career has stagnated while she gets all the good projects’

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Warehouse worker reports safety violations to OSHA, only to then get written up for having an "attitude" problem: 'They make you the problem instead of actually fixing the problem'

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Person finally lands a job interview after 2 months of unemployment, ends up laughing in their faces after hearing the farcically exploitative proposition: ‘[They're] Glassdoor rating is 2.1…’

Elna McHilderson

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Work-from-home employee rebels after boss starts tracking mouse and keyboard activity: 'Remote work was supposed to be about trust and flexibility'

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Retail manager gets put on blast for passive-aggressive note to "new" employees: 'I am no longer accepting the bare minimum... do the job you're paid for, or you will be promoted to customer!'

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Employee gets fired with no warning the day their vacation was set to begin, gets a string of frantic messages not even 24 hours later about returning their equipment after they've already left home: 'I cannot get over how insensitive it feels'

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27-year-old receptionist calls out 35-year-old coworker for clocking in and then disappearing to put on makeup for an hour every day: 'Meanwhile I'm answering three phone lines [and] checking in patients'

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Boss tries to push construction engineer to apply for demotion to lower-level lower-pay position when their contract ends, claiming he’s not invested enough: ‘I don't live for my projects. And I don't see how that's a bad thing’

Boss tries to push construction engineer to apply for demotion to lower-level lower-pay position when their contract ends, claiming he’s not invested enough: ‘I don't live for my projects. And I don't see how that's a bad thing’

‘He started to yell he doesn’t need money’: Customer tries to return a 2/3 eaten dish as “inedible,” refuses a refund on principle, then comes back a week later to quietly ask for the money he refused

‘He started to yell he doesn’t need money’: Customer tries to return a 2/3 eaten dish as “inedible,” refuses a refund on principle, then comes back a week later to quietly ask for the money he refused

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'My manager was shocked!': Employee quits engineering job after company's "cost of living" increase kept him at minimum wage

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Operations worker secretly audits the shared snack cabinet, ends up catching coworker stealing half the snacks each week

Operations worker secretly audits the shared snack cabinet, ends up catching coworker stealing half the snacks each week: 'I've never respected anyone more'

15+ Groups of employees who all quit at the same time: 'Over half the team quit within a month'

15+ Groups of employees who all quit at the same time: 'Over half the team quit within a month'

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Worker finally resigns after a five-year promotion stall, only for the company to offer the immediate role they claimed didn’t exist: 'Your loyalty should be to yourself, not to a company that won't hesitate to string you along'

Worker finally resigns after a five-year promotion stall, only for the company to offer the immediate role they claimed didn’t exist: 'Your loyalty should be to yourself, not to a company that won't hesitate to string you along'

Manager assigns "urgent" task at 4:50 PM, employee refuses to work past 5:00 PM: 'Why couldn't this be assigned earlier in the day?'

Manager assigns "urgent" task at 4:50 PM, employee refuses to work past 5:00 PM: 'Why couldn't this be assigned earlier in the day?'

Overworked employee refuses to keep spending Saturdays doing unpaid fake “volunteer” projects that secretly aim at benefiting her boss’s friends and family, causing tension at work: 'These Saturdays are “optional” but everyone knows they really aren't'

Overworked employee refuses to keep spending Saturdays doing unpaid fake “volunteer” projects that secretly aim at benefiting her boss’s friends and family, causing tension at work: 'These Saturdays are “optional” but everyone knows they really aren't'

'I'm not a computer person': IT department refuses to walk incompetent employees through basic tech issues, claiming it's 2025

'I'm not a computer person': IT department refuses to walk incompetent employees through basic tech issues, claiming it's 2025

'I don't need the money': Pre-retired man re-enters the workforce as an IT worker for "purpose" reasons, but quickly becomes fed up with corporate drama, wants to tell young boss he needs autonomy and flexibility

'I don't need the money': Pre-retired man re-enters the workforce as an IT worker for "purpose" reasons, but quickly becomes fed up with corporate drama, wants to tell young boss he needs autonomy and flexibility

10 and 12-year-old siblings get even with dad who won't let them cook unsupervised: '[We] went to the kitchen to watch what he was going to do'

10 and 12-year-old siblings get even with dad who won't let them cook unsupervised: '[We] went to the kitchen to watch what he was going to do'

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