workplace-stories

Professional and prepared job candidate figures out their interview was really a training session for the hiring company’s fresh new recruiter: ‘I really suspect I was just used to train this girl’

Etai Eshet

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‘Less than a month in they couldn’t afford to pay me and had to let me go’: 30-year-old woman fired and left unemployed for 4 months after she accepts friend’s offer to leave her steady years-long workplace and come work with her

Etai Eshet

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Employee gets accused of 'slacking off' and gets assigned manager's tasks to fill time, he finds a way to automate every task, resulting in manager getting fired: 'He had nothing to do'

Bar Mor Hazut

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'How she got hired, I have no idea': 15+ coworkers who got fired almost instantly

Ben Weiss

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20+ Unforgettably bad job interviews: 'Interviewed someone who... technically wasn't allowed to be in the building'

Remy Millisky

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Boss fires employee and demands they train replacements as retaliation for PTO, the employee cleverly complies, leaving the boss begging them to come back: ‘She demanded me to get back to work and said that the firing was just a prank’

Etai Eshet

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Entitled customer tries to load 6,000 pounds of concrete onto his car despite employee's warnings, breaks car's suspension: 'It was the absolute best day I've ever had at work'

Remy Millisky

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‘It felt amazing to just waltz out’: Hair salon employee quits underpaying job on the spot after successfully securing a better job, manager desperately tries to get him back, employee stands his ground

Bar Mor Hazut

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‘Flexible hours means your time is their time’: 20+ Seasoned employees share interview ‘red flags’ that warn them to stay away from certain companies

Lana DeGaetano

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26-year-old fresh employee complains about burnout after 4 months of work, getting first taste of being a self-sustaining adult: ‘I can’t do mental work for 8 hours in a day, I feel like I can handle like 3, 4 hours max’

Etai Eshet

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Entitled customer drops water company for competitor, then comes back begging for their far better service: '[My] boss's face turned red'

Ben Weiss

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Company expects staff to cook food for their own employee appreciation event unpaid and off the clock, so one employee calls out boss for unlawful practice

Lana DeGaetano

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Recruiter sends job-seeking employee’s CV to their current boss, leading to increased micromanagement and workplace anxiety

Etai Eshet

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Job candidate gets told to leave the interview after they ask to eat lunch in the office instead of going out with the team: ‘You didn't pass the vibe check’

Bar Mor Hazut

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Boss scraps bonuses and cuts employees' pay to build $140,000 pool pushing them to plan their swim to freedom: ‘I was praised for being the #1 earner then in the next breath said no more bonuses’

Etai Eshet

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Employee quits bad job, leaves piles of work for their impolite boss: 'I will never forget the expression of defeat in his face at the last day'

Remy Millisky

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