workplace-stories

Boss refuses to approve employee's day off without a formal request, employee complies by ‘formally requesting’ time off for every weekend in the foreseeable future: ‘I'm so done’

Bar Mor Hazut

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Employees get back at boss for years of workplace mistreatment by sabotaging company's chances to win a prestigious award: ‘They never really recovered after that’

Bar Mor Hazut

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Micromanager enforces new clocking-in rule requiring employees to send four selfies per day: 'It feels unnecessary and uncomfortable'

Ben Weiss

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Boss considers sending "unprofessional" reply to entitled care worker: 'She wants to be paid for time she didn't work'

Remy Millisky

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Boss revokes honeymoon PTO planned a year in advance and offers employee to quit when they refuse to cancel

Etai Eshet

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Employee sabotages toxic boss's favorite chili cook-off competition, purchases chili from a popular food chain and wins by a landslide: ‘The look on his face was absolutely priceless’

Lana DeGaetano

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Office lunch thief eats birthday cake meant for employee's daughter, employee loses it: 'Your boss ate the cake'

Ben Weiss

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Pregnant employee gets even with nosy coworkers, effectively offloading work and starting maternity leave early: 'I'm due tomorrow but they say it could take a while'

Ben Weiss

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Workplace allocates 40 annual hours of sick time, forcing employee to work through illness or get fired after they use half of their time by January 4th: 'I’m down to 16 hours of sick time for the next year'

Etai Eshet

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Hardworking employee discovers supervisors got 11k bonus while he settled for expiring, one-time, in-store discount: ‘$11,000 to do nothing? How does that make sense??’

Etai Eshet

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Employee finds his job posting online, goes to HR and gets boss fired: 'Maybe you aren't a good fit here'

Ben Weiss

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Employees cost employer coveted award by submitting unlimited anonymous responses to corporate survey: 'The company never really recovered from that point onward'

Brad Dickson

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Employees refuse to cover manager's shift after she breaks her arm, leading manager to take away future shifts from employees who refuse her demands: ‘I assume you don't need money’

Bar Mor Hazut

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‘I don't believe in PTO’: Disgruntled employees reflect on the worst things their toxic bosses have said to them on the clock

Lana DeGaetano

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20+ Employees who kept their jobs after making huge mistakes: 'She should have been fired right then and there'

Remy Millisky

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Employer replaces all vacation day benefits with a one-time pay increase of $0.80/hour: 'This is a "full staff quits on the spot" level of egregiousness'

Ben Weiss

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