workplace-stories

'Meet me at the courthouse': Coder brings 500 pages of evidence to judge to get payback on their stingy boss

Remy Millisky

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'Please come back': Undervalued chef quits after boss refuses to pay full salary, restaurant collapses as boss begs him to come back

Sienna Varady

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$11,000 machine gets destroyed after the operator is fired for exposing executive's embezzlement scheme: ' [The books were] $20,000 out'

Brad Dickson

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‘Our agreement doesn’t apply': Employee quits and gets reimbursed for $21,000 after boss insists they commute 200 miles a day for 2 years without compensation

Eleonora Bader

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'My mom ends up ruining the life of her ex-boss': Head of Finance gets caught making financial 'irregularities' for decades

Remy Millisky

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'He was out to get me from the start': Employee deletes all his work files after being fired by manager who wants to take down the company

Bar Mor Hazut

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'To save two dollars in OT, they let a few thousand dollars [...] go to waste': Employee lectured for working OT, double malicious compliance ensues

Ben Weiss

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'He claims [I] was "wasting two hours of everybody's time"': Manager refuses to speak to IT employee after being embarrassed in front of clients

Remy Millisky

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'It made me realize I have been living this shell of a life, almost like a zombie': Employee's month-long vacation has surprising health benefits, sparks internet discussion on workplace culture

Isabella Penn

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'I knew I was getting fired': Retail manager creates the world's hardest passwords just before getting fired

Remy Millisky

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'This is my supervillain origin story': Boss tries to tell worker that their demotion is a good thing, they leave and sabotage the company

Brad Dickson

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‘You have no clue what you're doing': Customer demands to speak to manager after yelling at employee, only to discover the employee is the manager

Bar Mor Hazut

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'Nah. My PTO is my PTO': HR demands employees donate their vacation time to coworker's medical leave

Ben Weiss

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'You trippin bro...': Guest ignores hotel policy, demanding nonexistent membership points from fed up employee

Sienna Varady

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Boss tries to take her employee's first class seat upgrade: 'She wanted to talk to me about my lack of respect for protocol'

Ben Weiss

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'No one stayed longer than a year': 25+ Jobs that were the worst of the worst according to employees

Remy Millisky

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