workplace-stories

'Oh, it must be nice to just sit at the register': Karen manager taunts employee and tells him not to do any work, so he doesn't

Ben Weiss

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Bank teller asks if he can sit on the job, management gaslights him: 'I was super thrown'

Ben Weiss

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Boss won't stop contacting former employee after she rejects his counteroffer: 'He proceeded to comment on 30 posts praising my work'

Ben Weiss

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‘They fired me without even telling me’: Woman gets fired while on maternity leave, finds out about it from coworker who has been informed she quit

Bar Mor Hazut

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Managers reveal the worst thing an employee has done to get fired: 'He walked in 25 minutes late holding a Starbucks cup and said “I couldn’t help it, the drive thru took forever”'

Isabella Penn

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'None of my manager's rules apply to her': Barista irritated by manager's double standards towards customers' orders

Remy Millisky

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'I was asked to take a 30%+ cut in pay': Top employee quits and company goes under after boss pressured him to be a "team player"

Ben Weiss

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Boss forces employee to take a red-eye home, he takes off the next day and leaves his boss scrambling: 'An $80 hotel stay could have avoided a far more costly loss'

Ben Weiss

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Worker told they're not going to be paid for overtime because they "volunteered": 'I [didn't] get paid'

Brad Dickson

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'If you say so...': Employee settles score with CEO who demands workers follow alarm protocol, leading to an amusing car chase with the authorities

Sienna Varady

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Negligent boss fires former employee two years after he resigned: 'Your employment [...] is being terminated for job abandonment'

Ben Weiss

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'Boss balked at the idea': Manager forces employee to take PTO for the whole day just because he needed to leave five minutes early

Ben Weiss

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'I'll make sure it's $30 Every. Single. Time': Employee gets in trouble for expensing $1.02 above the limit, maliciously complies and costs the company 3x her normal spending

Ben Weiss

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Overworked IT worker is denied overtime pay, he collects data to file a lawsuit against the company demanding compensation for all employees: 'Never mess with the IT guy’

Bar Mor Hazut

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‘You brought this on yourself…’: Server puts lying patron in her place after fabricating a food allergy in an attempt to force the restaurant to accommodate her food preferences

Sienna Varady

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'I was left speechless for the first time': Bank customer demands employees help him avoid "pressing 1 for English"

Remy Millisky

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