workplace-stories

'By all means, keep it up and get fired': Customer service rep refuses to stop CC'ing their CEO in emails

Remy Millisky

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'Ended up putting in a two week notice... they acted surprised': Worker gives workplace 6 months notice, company avoids finding a replacement

Remy Millisky

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'Employee quit because he got bit by a squirrel a customer threw at him': 20 business owners share their most bizarre quitting and firing stories

Ben Weiss

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'I was instructed to smile more': Tech support worker weirds out customers by maliciously complying with supervisor's instructions

Remy Millisky

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'My workload diminishes and boss's increases': Employee makes micromanaging boss handle tasks, ends up coasting with no work

Ben Weiss

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‘I already moved on’: Manager demands former employee train new hire, despite them already starting a new job

Bar Mor Hazut

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Employee asked by new owners to teach their replacement how to do their impossible job: 'This guy got [a] full year's worth of training in a week'

Brad Dickson

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'Either do your job or hand in your resignation': Long-time employee calls boss's bluff, leads mass exodus

Remy Millisky

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'If it's not in writing, it didn't happen': Employee uses written communication as defense when micromanaging supervisor's tries to get of them

Brad Dickson

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'If you have a problem with my direction, you come to me': Entire team complies with boss's vague instructions, putting her job in jeopardy

Ben Weiss

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'The case was hopeless...': Lawyer saves restaurant owner from a rapacious landlord's iron-clad contract

Brad Dickson

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'I saw red, but then I had an idea': Woman engineer punishes her coworkers by agreeing to "get coffee" for them

Remy Millisky

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30 Hardly Working Memes for Overworked Employees

Bar Mor Hazut

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Construction worker offers former micromanager a job, setting the record straight and teaching him a valuable lesson in humility despite of the claim that he will ‘never amount to anything’

Sienna Varady

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'Look it up': Customer talks himself out of a price-match and has to pay more when retail associate looks it up and realizes it's against their policy

Brad Dickson

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Worker calls out company for asking for donations to help a struggling coworker: 'A lot of us are already struggling to make ends meet as it is'

Brad Dickson

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