If you do your job too well, you're simply going to make everyone else look bad by comparison. Instead of earning yourself the praise you deserve, you actually just wind up putting a target on your back while everyone quietly wishes you'd just disappear and stop making all of their jobs harder by setting the bar so high. Usually, your boss won't just come right out and tell you to stop working so hard or being so competent, saying the quiet part out loud would only make them and the team look w…

This coworker has a weird fixation. For some strange reason, he cannot stop thinking about his coworker's college degree. And he isn't just thinking about it: he's been constantly bugging them about it. Up next, check out some really awkward reasons people gave for breaking up with their significant others, like one person who “ said they needed to ‘focus on their plants .’”

Always be careful with the words you say at work, folks! This micromanager was so annoyed by his employee wearing headphones in the office simply because he had to call his nice twice on one occasion. Talk about a power trip! In this day and age, nearly everyone wears headphones in offices to focus. Plus, the employee's line of work never involves serious or dangerous circumstances that would require him not to wear headphones. So when the boss told the employee he never wanted to see him weari…

Ruthless commands never inspire loyalty in an office environment

In every industry, there are things that folks outside of said industry would not necessarily want to know about. For instance, if you're eating at a restaurant and you learn that they don't clean the kitchen nearly enough, you might never want to eat there ever again. If you work at a company and you learn that the truth behind who gets promoted and who doesn't has absolutely nothing to do with merit, you might be discouraged. But like all secrets, the truth is bound to come out, and while it…

It’s always amusing when employers seem to go out of their way to make it seem like going into the office matters to them… and then as it turns out, they don’t even have the bandwidth to monitor their so-called policies properly. Here, we have a company that kept ramping up their “return to work” policies to more and more mandatory days in the office. Now, this employee had been a hardworking member of the team for several years and had actually seen a boost in productivity with the hybrid and…

If it’s not within your job description, you should have a right to say no. This employee was not a professional painter by any means, and yet, his boss seemed to have the audacity to ask him to stay late to paint the office before the owners came to visit. Now, at the very least, he offered overtime pay, but he even suggested that the Redditor bring his wife so she could be another set of hands as well (mind you, the original poster’s wife is not an employee there). Thankfully, OP had enough c…

Nothing stirs up grocery store rage quite like the "10 items or less" lane offender. When one shopper noticed the woman in front of him breaking the rule with a cart load of items, he tried to politely call her out. But this lady wasn't having it, brushing off his remark and saying, "It's just a little longer wait." Then, her kids joined in on the chaos, running back and forth to add even more items to her pile until she had officially annoyed everyone in line, including the cashier.

It really is something to marvel at how managers can repeatedly forget the importance of a human touch when it comes to dealing with clients. Hokey business theory and overconfidence are no match for good relationships and experience at your side. Yet, time and time again, new managers come marching on the scene, insecure about their place in their new role—maybe due to their lack of experience in the industry—overcompensating for that by making broad, sweeping changes, ignoring the pleas very…

Let this story serve as a friendly reminder that your coworkers are not required to go out of their way for you. Here, we have a selfish employee who announced their retirement six months prior to their last day on the job. She assumed that their “work bestie” would organize a going away party for them

When there's a reckless driver on the road, one's first instinct is presumably to protect oneself and to protect the others on the road. However, this Redditor deserves some props for not only doing that but also for finding a way to enact some safe yet satisfying petty revenge. Here's how he pulled it off. The reckless driver in question was also not the smartest person in the world, as he plastered his car with lots of personal details such as his name, phone, and website. That's because he's…

Check mate, Doctor!

When you've suffered through job hunting and interview processes to finally make it to the point of an offer, it's disheartening to realize that the wool has been pulled over your eyes… That there's actually been no chance at a job at all: they're just fishing to find someone desperate enough for a job that they can be properly exploited. Still, it's better than actually starting the job before the red flags start to pop up—at least marginally. This candidate reached the point of actually laugh…

The real world is nothing like school, but this person was concerned that they totally underestimated the whole industry they were working in . On the big wide world of the internet, there are some posts that gain a lot of attention and become legendary. Sometimes people tell stories that are so juicy and so well-written that the internet is just holding its collective breath, waiting for that update to come in. This is one of those times! U/biotinylated wrote this fascinating tale about their…

Don't get upset, get even! You can do this in many areas of your life, workplace included. Sometimes, though, getting even means quitting your job or leaving your boss stranded at a critical moment… and it feels so good! You'll learn in life that there's a certain type of boss who is particularly helpless, yet they still need their employees for everything. They'll demand perfection while messing everything up themselves. They want their employees to work as much as humanly possible, while they…

It's called a 9-5 for a reason!