workplace-stories

'Enjoy the end of your law career': College student pizza guy ends law student boss's career before it starts

Brad Dickson

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'[They said] I intentionally sabotaged their event': Client gets mad after touching the single button sound engineer told them not to press

Brad Dickson

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'He's being paid "too much"': Horrified worker shares how company wants to fire valuable veteran worker to cut costs

Brad Dickson

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'I wasn't playing games': Oil rig worker calls their boss's bluff and quits when they're denied the chance to go home and visit their family

Brad Dickson

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'I [...] thought it would be more fun to comply': Supervisor insists on making employees submit requests for mandatory training programs, employee maliciously complies

Ben Weiss

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'I'll never be someone's backup plan': Job candidate gets rejected, they come crawling back begging to her a week later, she rejects them

Ben Weiss

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'I dunno, I’ll have to ask my mom': 30+ Job interviewees who didn't get the job thanks to their hilariously wrong answers

Remy Millisky

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'They put little weights in [...] to make them feel more expensive': 30+ Professionals share their industry secrets

Brad Dickson

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'I walked out and three people followed me': Guy rage quits during the interview process after being asked to work night shifts for free

Ben Weiss

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'I hung up and ignored all calls from my boss': Restaurant boss asks employee to walk five miles in below zero temperatures, critiques their 'work ethic'

Remy Millisky

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'Now you expect me to give him pointers?': Worker gets passed up for promotion and asked for help by the successful candidate

Brad Dickson

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'Boss picked up on my quiet quitting': Employee responds to tone-deaf lecture from boss about quiet quitting by actually quitting

Ben Weiss

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Update: 'I wish I saw her face when she heard about the complaint': Manager leaves new hire to wait tables alone, customers call in to complain that managers were 'sitting on their phones'

Remy Millisky

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'You've got work, you know': Boss shames employee for taking off work for her husband's surprise trip despite working overtime

Ben Weiss

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'I don't need your help': Guy disregards event credential worker, falls victim to his own hubris and gets to wait

Brad Dickson

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'I'm not taking an hour off. I'm leaving. For good': Boss constantly tells employee she could be 'fired for no cause,' employee plots their escape plan

Remy Millisky

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