workplace-stories

'Everyone's faces shifted... to laughter': Call center boss tells employees to hang up on customers

Remy Millisky

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'I’m returning the favor': Employer gaslights remote worker into working from the office, worker quits

Brad Dickson

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Workers maliciously comply by racking up milage when boss schedules unpaid weekend meeting to cut costs: '45 employees drove their own vehicles to the training'

Brad Dickson

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'I got fed up with her': Coworker keeps getting employee's name wrong on purpose, employee claps back

Ben Weiss

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'I led that project': Guy puts random coworker down as a reference, she exposes the lies on his resume

Ben Weiss

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Manager tries to gaslight worker that there's no snow at their house when they call out of work: 'There is no snow on the ground'

Brad Dickson

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'You can't just tell a customer [to] Google it': Worker records himself getting fired, gets split reaction

Ben Weiss

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'The customer is always right—I am the customer!': Entitled customer demands manager drop everything and rearrange store to her liking

Sienna Varady

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Movers double customers' cost to move just three items: 'They told me to call the owner'

Remy Millisky

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‘Pretty sure you’re not in the right place’: Entitled customer storms into a random store to complain about the Postal Service then returns a week later to file an 'official' complaint

Sienna Varady

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'Bye Felicia': Insecure boss fires employee for being too good at her job

Ben Weiss

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'Won't let me work from home? Okay, I'll [stink] up the office': Guy requests to go remote due to smelly side effects of medication, boss refuses, cue malicious compliance

Ben Weiss

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'When they say “nobody wants to work” THIS is what we’re referring to': Boss unveils insane new PTO plan, worker quits

Ben Weiss

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'Can't prove it... [but] I'm 100% sure': 20+ Wholeheartedly believable everyday conspiracies with no proof to back them up

Jesse Kessenheimer

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HR manager tells worker they can't work remote whilst working remote: 'It is 100% about control'

Brad Dickson

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'Ummm you fired me?': Teenager gets fired for missing a shift to attend a funeral, then their desperate ex-manager begs them to return a month later

Jesse Kessenheimer

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