workplace-stories

Restaurant fires apprentice chef who owns all their recipes, cripples their kitchen: 'The manager clearly began to panic'

Brad Dickson

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'We do things my way now': Entire fast-food restaurant quits to protest entitled new manager

Remy Millisky

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'How was your little tete-a-tete with our boss?': Coworker takes credit for employee's 15-page report, employee tells CEO

Ben Weiss

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Update: 'Biggest payday of my life for 2 minutes of work': Contractor spends entire weekend at work after being told to "stay as long as it takes"

Remy Millisky

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Karen tells shopper they're dressed too casually for a job that isn't even theirs: 'I'm not at my job right now'

Brad Dickson

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'I dare you!': Slacking coworker distracts cleaner from job, cleaner dumps water on him

Ben Weiss

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Manager gets demoted in their own store so that another manager can take over after their branch went out of business: 'I got demoted'

Brad Dickson

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Boss Abandons Understaffed Team To Go On Vacation, Employee Switches Jobs While She’s Gone

Ben Weiss

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'You don't expect this level of dishonesty': Lying job-seeker humiliated during interview

Remy Millisky

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'We had to charge them about $7K': Hotel workers share their worst housekeeping cleanup stories

Ben Weiss

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Update: 'You all took it up a notch': Sarcastic development team realizes they're 'actually able to do nothing' following boss's new directions

Remy Millisky

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Off duty retail worker plays along when Karen mistakes him for an employee: 'Stop harassing other shoppers'

Brad Dickson

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'It took them about 3 seconds to realize': Worker commutes 6 hours each day, client complains about his repeated lateness

Remy Millisky

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Update: 'By the end of the day, they will not have an IT company': Nightmare client orders IT company to deliver 'any email addressed to me'

Remy Millisky

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'I started using the timer for everything': Micromanaging boss accuses employee of "cheating the company"

Remy Millisky

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'I'm going to have to reject your application': New hire goes in to sign contract only for the offer to get rescinded

Ben Weiss

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