workplace-stories

'It's super unprofessional': Boss asks for help with employee's disruptive daily habit

Remy Millisky

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Nurses are denied OT but then find a loophole to infuriate their micromanager: 'Don't want to pay me 7 minutes of overtime? Mmmkay, pay me an hour'

Ben Weiss

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Employee automates boss's job and boss's boss's job and gets them both fired: 'I automated all her tasks and the CEO fired her'

Brad Dickson

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Fast food worker's hours cut after violating company policy despite manager's mistakes: '[I] threw my manager under the bus'

Ben Weiss

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'I was the one who actually did a lot of the work': New lieutenant embarrasses incompetent boss during important meeting after doing the bulk of the work

Ben Weiss

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Customer refuses to pay for oil change, demands mechanic put old oil back in: 'His truck might last another year at best'

Brad Dickson

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'I forwarded boss's own email back to them': Boss tells employee not to cover for two coworkers to avoid giving him another raise, backfires when both coworkers are out

Ben Weiss

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‘I have never heard of this policy’: Boss freezes employee's pay after he returns from vacation but 'fails to report back to work', leading to a dispute when he is not paid for weeks

Bar Mor Hazut

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Awful boss gets comeuppance after employee writes essay to entire staff about his poor management: 'My toxic work environment has just worn me down'

Ben Weiss

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'Instead of quitting...people started eating donuts in front of management and being fired on the spot': 20+ Ultra petty reasons people got fired from their jobs

Remy Millisky

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Boss makes employee get doctor's note, doctor gives them even more time off: 'Now he’s paying me 4 days, 32 hours. He can’t refuse a second of it'

Brad Dickson

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‘I don't care about your rules’: Karen gets banned from charity shop after she dumps her trash at their doorstep and screams at manager after they refuse to accept it as donations

Bar Mor Hazut

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Job candidate rejects recruiter's request for free, unpaid work during interview process: 'I was asked to produce a full list of tasks for [free]'

Ben Weiss

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'You want a phone call EVERY time? Will do!': Employee puts in tons of overtime to maliciously comply with micromanager's demands, gets him fired

Ben Weiss

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'I had to train myself': New hire tasked with huge project, boss refuses to let up on deadlines until new hire quits

Remy Millisky

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Employee gets buried in busywork when boss sees their clean desk, going forward they pretend to be busy with decoy files and folders: 'I learned my lesson'

Brad Dickson

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