workplace-stories

'Sorry boss, that's a managers job': Boss tells employee not to take on extra work, employee maliciously complies and boss's incompetence starts to show

Ben Weiss

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Top Painfully Awkward LinkedIn Flops for Employees 'Embracing' Team Morale

Eleonora Bader

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'I will be filing an ethics complaint': Boss wants healthcare worker to work overtime, doesn't want to pay for it

Brad Dickson

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Update: 'I will not be following up': Boss asks employee to write impossible report before he leaves the company, employee proves it was a bad idea

Ben Weiss

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'Another manager [who] won't believe their worker could be sick': Tutor who was told they have to come into work while sick makes their boss regret their decision

Brad Dickson

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'I got laid off': Employee develops startup for two years, was promised shares, gets laid off right before the company launch

Ben Weiss

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'She doesn't work here': Karen shames woman's outfit at the grocery store, thinks she's an employee, demands to speak with the manager

Ben Weiss

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'I remind him since he hasn't sent me the contract I don't work for him yet': Former boss tries to squeeze free labor out of ex-employee

Ben Weiss

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'Get back to work': Employer sends employee on errands during their lunch, won't let them eat on the clock

Brad Dickson

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'I got it in writing': Manager demands BBQ cook clock-out early to cut their hours, their kitchen goes uncleaned and work goes unfinished

Brad Dickson

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'I should get a bump in pay too': Boss pays new hire 20% more, denies employee the same rate, employee gets a better job elsewhere

Ben Weiss

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'They still scheduled me': Employer refuses to honor new worker's negotiated leave, refusing to remove them from the schedule

Brad Dickson

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‘Tripled their revenue; denied a raise’: Crumbling company pays $300,000 to customers after ambitious employees who tripled revenue quit, due to being denied a raise

Eleonora Bader

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'I stopped doing their work for them': Company experiences huge losses when developer stops doing her coworker's work for them, exposing them

Brad Dickson

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'Ted was cast aside to make room for the owner's son': IT employee with 40+ years of experience gets fired and replaced by inexperienced nepo baby

Ben Weiss

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'I called... to tell him the great news, and he loses it': Service advisor tells customer about cheap fix for his car, he insists on an expensive new fuel pump

Remy Millisky

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