workplace-stories

'Do you take me for a fool?': Call center workers share their most memorable encounters with entitled Karen customers

Ben Weiss

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Efficiency consultant "experts" advise firing the wrong employee cost the company their biggest account: 'Business went from $200k to zero'

Brad Dickson

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‘I simply didn't want you to come’: Entitled coworker gets excluded from coworker's birthday party, confronts entire office about it, but gets shut down by the birthday celebrator

Bar Mor Hazut

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Entire team asked to take 70% pay cut after incompetent boss messes up contract negotiation: 'Virtually nobody is accepting this insulting offer'

Ben Weiss

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'I decide to go full loophole': Bank branch worker helps customer stuck in phone call loop

Remy Millisky

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Employee figures out toxic boss is watching their every move and no one else, plans payback: 'The camera is pointed directly at me'

Ben Weiss

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'[I] went for another technicality': Employee maliciously complies with HR's photo request

Remy Millisky

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'An entire department quit on the spot': 20+ Workers who quit ASAP thanks to their terrible bosses

Remy Millisky

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Fast food chain informs employees their tip money will be used for group activities, but fail to mention those are for management only: ‘We're basically funding their day off'

Bar Mor Hazut

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Employee told to stand by for reassignment, does for 19 months until they run into their boss who asks them where they're working now: 'You should have seen her face'

Brad Dickson

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'Sorry, boss. I got other plans': Boss confronts employee about not attending weekend work party, employee tells boss to reschedule work events for the actual work day

Ben Weiss

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'You really can't win with her': Top Infuriating Coworker Stories of the Week (June 9, 2024)

Ben Weiss

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Employee skillfully complies with micromanager's demands for complete access to personal schedule by erasing everything from calendar before granting access

Sienna Varady

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‘I got to spend the next hour cleaning up 96 broken eggs’: 20+ “I don’t get paid enough for this” moments that made people rethink their jobs

Remy Millisky

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‘I gave him an offer he couldn’t refuse': Hiring manager stands up to HR in order to secure an offer for an unexpected internal worker, resulting in worker doubling his salary

Bar Mor Hazut

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‘Why me?!’: Employee escapes first round of dismissals, only to find out that 80% of his team has been fired

Sienna Varady

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