workplace-stories

‘It's messed up': Employee gets pressured by family to call in sick instead of working on Christmas Eve, she refuses to risk her job in favor of a family dinner

Bar Mor Hazut

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Boss demands employees provide details about their PTO, forcing them to lie to keep their private life, private: ‘Causes me unnecessary stress’

Etai Eshet

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Update: Workplace escape room debacle pits boss against his 29-year-old employee: 'Should I have let us fail to spare his ego?'

Remy Millisky

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Guy lets ex-boss join his DnD campaign, enacts payback for making him quit: 'They got what they deserved!'

Ben Weiss

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Boss demands employee sell their sports car and buy a new truck for the company, employee firmly refuses, gets fired as a result: 'It's like asking me to sell my child'

Bar Mor Hazut

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'It's just very weird and customers aren't happy': Petty dollar store boss forces employees to pay out of pocket for supplies

Remy Millisky

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'The advertisement... almost made me quit': Electronics store worker faces off with confused customers and Karens who didn't read the fine print

Remy Millisky

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Employee quits after making boss $1.5 million and getting a paltry holiday 'bonus' as thanks: 'For Christmas he got me a $25 AMC gift card'

Ben Weiss

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IT boss insists that salaried employee has to work during vacation, employee discovers a clever way to avoid their boss: 'I won't be expected to work?'

Remy Millisky

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Employee maliciously complies after being told to take shorter breaks: 'I decided to take short breaks every five minutes'

Brad Dickson

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'Incorrect appointments were scheduled, or not even made at all': Medical office worker shares what happens when their quirkiest colleague was put in charge of patient check-outs

Remy Millisky

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Toxic boss changes company PTO policy only after employee turns in their resignation notice: ‘I only have 1.5 days according to them’

Lana DeGaetano

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'We got a $5 Starbucks gift card': 20+ employees share the worst Holiday bonuses they've received

Ben Weiss

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'It made me laugh so much I gave them an interview': 25+ Memorable resumes that made hiring managers stop in their tracks

Remy Millisky

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‘All of the staff is non-human to them’: Employee quits job working for billionaire boss, then reveals to friends and family what it feels like to work for the rich

Bar Mor Hazut

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'My boss is a literal insane person': New hire gets called into boss's office 3 weeks in with boss claiming no one likes her

Ben Weiss

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