workplace-stories

Boss refuses to approve any PTO requests, employee finds a way around it in the company handbook, resulting in office chaos when more employees follow suit: ‘Thank you, legal team’

Bar Mor Hazut

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New employee gets fired after only a week at the job, gets told by boss that their accountant claims they can't afford to pay him: ‘I thought it was my saving grace’

Bar Mor Hazut

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Nurse quits job after boss demands she works on Christmas since she “has no family to celebrate with”, despite already approving her time off: ‘People with children are given priority’

Bar Mor Hazut

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20+ Employees who worked with unprofessional coworkers: 'Project manager... [paid] $19,000 worth of overnight shipping charges'

Remy Millisky

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Overworked employee overhears bosses gossip about remote workers, sparking office discourse: 'They're the ones actually doing the work'

Ben Weiss

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Man waits 5 years to get car repaired, demands $2,600 plus additional $1,200 from coworker who hit his car: 'I finally got HR involved'

Remy Millisky

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'My contractor coworker quit with 10 seconds' notice': Boss gleefully brags about firing contractors with no notice, contractor quits mid-project

Remy Millisky

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Coworker Kim demands changing desks, claiming her crystals need better energy flow by the window to work and align better with her aura: ‘I laughed because I thought she was joking. She wasn’t’

Etai Eshet

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Employee uses obscure employee handbook loophole to take PTO when their boss forbids them from taking it before it expires: 'PTO requests not explicitly denied [...] within 48 business hours are [...] approved.”'

Brad Dickson

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Employee debates ghosting manager, after she repeatedly messages her on WhatsApp for medical updates and documents on the day of her major surgery, despite handing in the sick notes a week prior: 'She's not understanding boundaries'

Emma Saven

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Boss demands employees follow protocol by the book, only to have the entire office shut down after discovering “the book” hasn't been updated in a decade: ‘Nobody noticed because nobody followed it’

Bar Mor Hazut

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33-year-old coworker uses fake project as an excuse to get out of work, scheme lasts for months: 'Tom had made the whole thing up to justify missing deadlines'

Ben Weiss

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'Guess I'll take lunch then': New manager triples employees' workload, refusing to let anyone go home before everyone is done, employee uses their lunch break to "avoid" working

Bar Mor Hazut

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Entitled coworker keeps volunteering employee for extra work, she finally confronts him: 'Oh, Sarah can take that, she’s great with client calls!'

Ben Weiss

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'I quit on the spot and told my boss’ wife he was cheating on her': 15+ Workers who snapped and dramatically quit their jobs

Remy Millisky

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‘She quit a week later. Three others followed. All four mentioned the "family" hypocrisy’: CEO calls company family for years, denies financial help to a longtime employee after she loses her house, then criticizes her for not being “team player”

Etai Eshet

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