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Micromanager enforces 14-hour Zoom call to monitor employees, entire team quits to work for their competitor: 'The company closed'

Ben Weiss

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UPDATE: Over-employed worker gets fired from 3 jobs at the same time: 'After a year, I finally got caught'

Remy Millisky

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A Midday Lunch of 23 Brown-Bagged Funnies to Get You Through the Workday (September 8, 2025)

Jesse Kessenheimer

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‘You see what’s happening, right?’: 31-year-old professional calls out a totalitarian manager's workplace retaliation in front of HR, then she quits on the spot and reports him to the California Employment Bureau too

Jesse Kessenheimer

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New micromanager enforces strict office hours, employees comply leaving West Coast clients scrambling: 'Management said we had to work 8am - 5pm (ET). So we did!'

Ben Weiss

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Coworkers dress like it's 1996 to get back at the new manager's dress code mandate, showing up in increasingly formal garb to make a point: ‘The office was a time capsule by Wednesday’

Jesse Kessenheimer

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Receptionist in her 50s gets fired and replaced by AI system she trained: 'She literally trained the thing that replaced her'

Remy Millisky

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After years of overworking, employee starts setting boundaries and gets surprised with 15% raise: 'For years I was the office try-hard'

Isabella Penn

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'I will take any little win': Micromanaging boss orders employee to scrutinize and reduce freelancer's billable hours, accidentally gets them more money

Isabella Penn

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New CEO tells the team they have to work 8-5, causing problems with clients in another timezone: 'The policy was lifted within 2 weeks when our West Coast clients couldn't get in touch with us'

Brad Dickson

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Employee suggests all staff gather their financial contributions before purchasing a joint farewell gift for their boss, so no one is expected to contribute an amount they're not comfortable with: ‘Maybe my coworkers think I’m being cheap or stingy’

Lana DeGaetano

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A Coffee-Break’s Worth of Work Funnies if You Need a Mid-Afternoon Pick-Me-Up

Lana DeGaetano

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'It all started when...': Pour a dash of these laughs into your morning coffee to energize you for the workweek ahead (September 6, 2025)

Elna McHilderson

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'I was nice enough…': Entitled guy insults employee in German thinking he wouldn't understand, employee calls him out and leaves him “a human trout gasping for air”

Elna McHilderson

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‘She goes through my calendar hoping she [can] find things to “manage”’: Manager insists employee fakes their productivity for the sake of seeming ‘professional’, but employee hypothesizes that their manager isn't as productive as she seems

Lana DeGaetano

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‘The bank's call center manager personally called me’: Bank freezes man’s account for over a month due to clerk’s error, ignores his calls, so he floods their social media with complaints and they come running

Etai Eshet

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