workplace-stories

'I sank the company boat': 20 employees share their most egregious errors on the job

Ben Weiss

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Experienced employee discovers younger coworkers are getting paid 70% more than him, decides to disengage from the job completely instead of looking for a new one: ‘I don't see a point anymore’

Bar Mor Hazut

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Worker spreads 100 copies of boss's meeting notes company-wide: 'Folks were... refusing to do their normal duties [and] browsing Indeed during work'

Remy Millisky

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Employees refuse to throw retiring coworker's goodbye party, despite working together for over 20 years, coworker leaves company feeling disgraced: ‘I cried on my way home from work'

Bar Mor Hazut

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Kitchen manager accrues 25+ hours of PTO, boss denies request and refuses to let hours roll over into 2025: 'It's use it or lose it'

Ben Weiss

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Boss refuses to pay new hire for training period, leading employee to accuse boss of going against the law, only to get fired on the spot: ‘She told me to hand in my uniform’

Bar Mor Hazut

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Client refuses to pay and keeps ‘forgetting’ invoices, forcing freelancer to send blitz email barrage to get what’s owed: ‘Oh, I thought you needed them resent’

Etai Eshet

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Employee forced to use his car for trips, boss won’t pay for repairs, cue malicious compliance: ‘Since they won’t provide me with a car, […] I would no longer go to the meetings'

Ben Weiss

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Company executives receive $65k Christmas bonus while non-executives cash in on a $25 Starbucks gift card, causing disgruntled employee to seek employment elsewhere

Lana DeGaetano

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Employee automates task, making everyone’s jobs easier, boss takes credit for her work: ‘You probably didn’t even know how to turn on your computer when we found you’

Ben Weiss

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20+ Quitting employees who left their jobs as quickly as possible: 'No call no show for me'

Remy Millisky

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‘‘It looked like I'd typed entire sentences in Wingdings’: Coworker tries to sabotage employee's weekly report, HR gets involved when edits to the document reveal she's the culprit

Lana DeGaetano

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20 unprofessional answers no one should give in a job interview: 'I am very good with people because I am myself a person'

Ben Weiss

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10+ employees who got their incompetent bosses fired: 'A week later, I got a new title and a 35% raise'

Ben Weiss

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'He pick[ed] up his car with a forklift': 15+ Fired employees who gave their bosses good reasons to let them go

Remy Millisky

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Insurance company denies phone claim over strict policy until customer reminds them it will only cost them more: 'So how likely is it that a cracked screen could lead to water damage?'

Brad Dickson

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