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‘Am I missing something?’: Coworker refuses to communicate with employee unless it's in person or over the phone, even though it's integral to their jobs to keep a paper trail of records

Lana DeGaetano

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'I couldn’t take “no” for an answer': Determined job candidate emails the CEO's private email address after getting rejected from a position, gets hired as a result

Jesse Kessenheimer

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Quiet employee get mocked at work for giving off 'background character energy,' so they expose the office rumormonger with a spicy piece of workplace gossip: 'The whole room went quiet. He froze'

Jesse Kessenheimer

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‘If he gets a third [warning] he could be fired’: Unrelenting coworker badgers man for his secret homemade hot sauce recipe, to the point where the two cannot be assigned to work on the same projects

Lana DeGaetano

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'The last guard got fired for refusing': Security guard files report against management and leaves mid-shift, after being denied a radio and ordered to stand in unsafe position, only to be falsely accused of “abandoning post” by management when he refuses

Emma Saven

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A Midday Lunch of 27 Brown-Bagged Funnies to Get You Through the Workday (October 6, 2025)

Jesse Kessenheimer

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Karen threatens to get a call center employee fired because they won't refund $1.50, but after 15 minutes of getting yelled at, the employee just hangs up on her: ‘This call is no longer productive’

Jesse Kessenheimer

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‘[That was] money I needed’: Top saleswoman refuses to accept her manager's empty promises after they cut everyone's hours in half, quitting for a better-paying job that values their employees

Jesse Kessenheimer

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Irksome colleague uses the office coffee station as his personal ‘TED Talk’ summary stage: ‘He goes into detail like he is trying to recite the transcript’

Lana DeGaetano

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Belittled coworker creates a slideshow calling out their teammate, compiling screenshots of their in-office microaggressions to present to the entire department: ‘The receipts were literally on the projector’

Jesse Kessenheimer

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A Midday Lunch of 25+ Brown-Bagged Funnies to Get You Through the Workday (September 29, 2025)

Jesse Kessenheimer

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Experienced employee revokes their job candidacy after 6 months of interviewing with the same company, calling out their flawed system before accepting a higher paying job: 'So much time had been wasted'

Jesse Kessenheimer

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'A delightful shot at revenge': Employee gets back at worker who suddenly quit, leaving them short-staffed

Remy Millisky

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'[He's] rocking the boat': Temp manager meddles with the payroll system by forcing employees to do time sheets after hours, nobody gets paid on time for weeks, so he's fired

Jesse Kessenheimer

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A Midday Lunch of 26 Brown-Bagged Funnies to Get You Through the Workday (September 22, 2025)

Jesse Kessenheimer

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'A string of cheese was still hanging from my mouth to the plate': 18+ Servers share their most unhinged, jaw-dropping workplace stories

Jesse Kessenheimer

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