workplace-stories

‘Is this some kind of joke?!’: Undervalued employee demoted to workstation near restroom as an office is ‘above her pay grade’

Sienna Varady

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'Bro, you won the game': Employee let go from job that they completely self-automated for five years

Remy Millisky

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Update: 'My boss told me I was fired as an April fools joke': Boss flips out when employee won't come back to work after joke-firing

Remy Millisky

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IT employee maliciously complies to new boss's autocratic dress code: '[I wore] hi-vis polo shirts'

Brad Dickson

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‘Just go…’: Employee kicks entitled customer out after they refuse to leave at closing time

Sienna Varady

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Update: Coworker gets back at lunch thief by tossing their unlabeled boxes: ‘Did you have your name on them?’

Ben Weiss

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'I ended up making less than $500 a paycheck': Company lies about compensation to new hire, employee quits via meme

Isabella Penn

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'Do you know who my wife is?': Entitled bowler starts wrecking bowling alley, name-drops wife as he gets kicked out

Remy Millisky

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Corporate agency demands more detailed timesheets, worker charges all their bureaucratic tasks, gets time off as a result: 'They freaked out'

Brad Dickson

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'No pay, no work': CEO informs employees they will no longer get commission on sales, then increases their workload, demanding they put in extra effort during 'tough times'

Bar Mor Hazut

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Tone-deaf CEO casually brags about expensive family vacation in front of employees living paycheck-to-paycheck: '[He] drop[s] 15K…twice a year…on Disney cruises'

Ben Weiss

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'If the company's holding your car, get taxis everywhere': Boss lets employee take petty revenge on secretary who refuses to give them back their vehicle

Remy Millisky

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Worker forced to attend boring training, uses instructor's lesson against them: '[He said] I was being unreasonable'

Brad Dickson

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Boss dangles $250 gift card to employee he fired if he refers new potential employees: 'Every eligible candidate you refer [...] earns you an entry [to] receive a $250 Amazon gift card'

Ben Weiss

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Manager demands to see no more reports of hourly workers arriving late, employee cleverly complies by requesting HR stop sending attendance reports to manager altogether

Sienna Varady

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'At this point... we’re making pure scrap': Industrial engineer begs to boss not to run trial with sticky materials, boss insists and costs company thousands

Remy Millisky

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