workplace-stories

Advertisement

boss workplace-stories employee manager job invoice client satisfying quitting story workplace company quitting Workplace - 46377733

Boss demands employee alter clients' invoices to falsely overcharge them, employee refuses, reports boss, and quits job: ‘He assumed I was morally bent in his favor’

workplace-stories toxic-workplace work workplace toxic-work-environment Workplace - 46358021

Payroll department employee notices coworker gets a raise by mistake and doesn’t alert anyone: ‘HR discovered the mistake. They are correcting future paychecks and want to recover the overpaid amount over the next year. The coworker is obv devastated’

Advertisement

workplace-stories toxic-workplace work workplace toxic-work-environment Workplace - 46358277

Manager debates whether to fire his hardest-working employee because he nonetheless underperforms: ‘When deals fall through or a customer leaves us he seeks constant re-validation that he did all he could’

boss antiwork workplace-stories toxic-workplace job bosses work coworkers working reddit story toxic-boss workplace reddit thread bad bosses Reddit toxic-work-environment Workplace - 46360069

Company mandates weekly 15-minute "gratitude circles": 'I told my manager privately that I think the whole thing is counterproductive'

I’m going to throw my most superstitious take out there: Life always presents you with an opportunity to perform some degree of petty revenge on someone who wronged you in the past. It works like this: you have a fall out with somebody; at first you’re very angry, and as time goes by, you begin to le

Employee gets the chance to perform a petty revenge on ex-coworke and takes it: ‘Things fell apart when our office manager flipped a switch and suddenly hated some of us and split half the team onto her side’

Advertisement

boss workplace-stories employee job work coworkers lunch Office workplace break Coworkers - 46355205

Employee refuses to cover for coworker who always takes long lunches, coworker blames employee when she gets in trouble for it with boss: ‘[You] should have warned me’

workplace-stories toxic-workplace work workplace toxic-work-environment Workplace - 46320645

‘It would really help if you could knock this out before you leave’: Employee consistently gets assigned urgent work 5 minutes before he leaves and is left wondering if he is expected to accept it to be seen as a “team player”

Workplace workplace-stories employee lock locker room workplace boundaries coworkers locker retail employee personal belongings workplace workplace drama pet store privacy trust - 46322181

Pet store employee starts locking her work locker after one coworker helps herself to her perfume, only for another colleague to publicly accuse her of thinking they are thieves: '[You] don’t trust any of [us]'

Advertisement

management workplace discussion employment issues boss workplace-stories hr coworkers colleague Horrible Bosses Workplace - 46327557

Boss forced to admit they need employee more than the employee needs them after a firm “no” to overtime, then tries to save face by publicly reprimanding and issuing vague warnings

management workplace discussion employment issues boss workplace-stories hr coworkers colleague Horrible Bosses Workplace - 46327045

Job candidate gets rejected after 4 interview rounds, then 5 days later HR calls admitting they messed up, asking to re-interview and send an offer

boss workplace-stories employee manager job tales-from-the-workplace factory workplace company operator machine Workplace - 46323461

Factory machine operator quits job after boss denies him a pay raise, leaving the company with no qualified operators: ‘They effectively lost thousands’

Advertisement

management customer service workplace discussion workplace-stories entitled customers supervisor Workplace - 46324741

Overworked store supervisor deals with a customer attempting to buy cookies without cash by offering “the value of knowledge,” cancels the sale, and walks away to help paying customers

management workplace discussion employment issues boss workplace-stories hr coworkers colleague Workplace - 46304773

‘[She] doesn’t know the new hire is actually her replacement’: CEO makes employee help hire her struggling coworker’s replacement, while that coworker has no idea she’s fired once the traveling boss returns

Sometimes a person doesn’t know how to express admiration. Complimenting somebody might be the most difficult thing for some people, and they end up bullying you in a naive way that doesn’t cease to be annoying. It starts getting weird when it becomes a habit, and you are forced to discuss a topic time a

Man keeps making strange comments at coworker after he told him he goes to the gym: ‘It’s literally every time he walks by he says some weird remark’

Advertisement

lunch break workplace-stories leftovers employee food containers workplace environment coworkers office potluck office food workplace entitled coworker workplace food company potluck Workplace - 46288645

Coworker brings nothing to company potluck, packs several containers with everyone else’s food to take home, then grabs the cookies too, prompting a colleague to call him out: 'He didn’t want to cook after his shift'

This is a skill we all need to acquire. Haven’t we all had a coworker who gossiped a little too much? Or who got us into trouble? I’ve had coworkers I trusted deeply who turned out to be really disloyal, and work is a place where you spend a lot of your time, so it shouldn’t be a place full of conflict. Personall

‘What's one office habit that makes you trust a coworker almost instantly?’: People share their tips on how to befriend coworkers wisely to avoid unnecessary conflict in the workplace