workplace-stories

‘I work with a toddler’: Employee gets silent treatment from manager after they leave manager's team for a big promotion

Bar Mor Hazut

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Employee derails terrible boss's personality test by mirroring his answers to get the same result: 'I watched him die inside'

Brad Dickson

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Coworker does vacant manager's position for a year under guise of promotion: '[They] resigned because, surprise!.. It didn't happen'

Brad Dickson

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'Let the newbie fail': Finance worker stunned that new hire refuses to learn because they're "not the boss"

Remy Millisky

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Coworker annoyingly claims shared desk, employee gets even by unplugging things: '[IT] pointed out that her power chord was loose'

Brad Dickson

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'I got quiet fired two days before my wedding': Employees discover their boss fires female coworkers when they get married, HR fiasco ensues

Ben Weiss

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Boss refuses to give in to employee's demands until they quit: 'He is scrambling. He has no one to fill my position'

Brad Dickson

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'I'm not cleaning this up...': Customer demands restaurant staff let her in before opening time, then leaves a mess in bathroom when they refuse

Sienna Varady

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'You're about to be real short-staffed': Overworked employees take on extra shifts only for management to announce they are cutting the bonus pay so they can hire more staff

Bar Mor Hazut

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Mooching in-laws order luxurious meals expecting everyone to 'split the bill evenly', earning a free serving of petty revenge at the next birthday dinner: 'Never splitting the bill again'

Jesse Kessenheimer

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'You got some nerve...': Employee confronts gym goer who refuses to adhere to gym policy, then finds out he isn't even a member

Sienna Varady

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'I won't have someone gaslight me': Customer gets snippy with retail manager, manager tells him to "call customer service yourself"

Remy Millisky

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'The company dangled an unreachable carrot': Employee laments their impossible targets that were only designed to make their team work harder for nothing

Brad Dickson

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15+ Technologically incompetent coworker stories: 'Old coworker used to print out 100+ page PDF just to scan it all back into email one by one'

Ben Weiss

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25+ bosses who instantly regretted taking on their new hires: '[She] started crying as soon as the phone rang saying she couldn't handle it'

Ben Weiss

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'I gave her exactly what she asked for': Micromanager boss scolds employee for lateness, regrets it when employee stops working long hours

Remy Millisky

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