workplace-stories

Engineer files HR report after her male boss expects her to handle admin tasks mid-presentation because: ‘Come on, it's not that hard. Women are naturally better at this stuff anyway’

Etai Eshet

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Employee confronts boss after discovering that he has been stealing from employee's 401k account for over a year: '[I'm] contacting a lawyer!'

Ben Weiss

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Hiring manager refuses to hire his cousin, Evan, after HR catches the 24-year-old lying on his résumé, choosing integrity over nepotism: ‘Now my aunt and mom are furious with me for “humiliating” him’

Etai Eshet

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Employee books $623 flight for boss on his personal credit card after the company card was declined, boss never pays employee back: 'I got scammed by my own boss'

Ben Weiss

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Entitled coworker demands employee give her free rides to work, even on days employee isn't working, forcing them to look for another job: ‘She's definitely losing her ride’

Bar Mor Hazut

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Employee gets even with petty coworkers after they keep misspelling their name: 'It’s been effective at making sure they don’t do it again'

Ben Weiss

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Immature boss starts playing petulant games with his employee, assigning her no work for days because she expressed a need for rest once: ‘She's been removed from their Slack channel’

Lana DeGaetano

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Employee gets offered another job with higher pay, leaves new job after only two weeks, manager gets offended: ‘I laughed and explained what I was offered’

Bar Mor Hazut

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‘Hire me and then I will fix it’: Job candidate finds a bug in company’s data dashboard during the interview, hiring manager demands they provide notes on how to fix the issue

Bar Mor Hazut

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CEO asks IT intern to use their own car to move company property against policy, intern has him brush up on the company handbook: ‘If anything gets damaged I am toast’

Lana DeGaetano

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Business owner finds out they hired the ex of their biggest client as the new designer, client demands they fire him: 'My business feels like a reality show'

Bar Mor Hazut

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Shoplifter conjures a half-baked excuse for stealing a charger from a convenience store, then books it when he's caught red-handed: ‘"I put them there because my hands were tired"’

Lana DeGaetano

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15+ Employees who defied their bosses and still didn't get fired: 'Manager... wakes me up and sends me home. Didn't get fired'

Remy Millisky

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‘"I don’t care what you think, you do what I tell you to do"’: COO asks sales employee to lie to clients about their exit from the company so they don't disrupt any business relationships

Lana DeGaetano

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'I was now the person holding a bag of sugar and a pile of IOUs': Office worker quits organizing monthly birthday funds after losing about $120 covering late or missing payments, igniting office drama over "ruining a nice tradition"

Emma Saven

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‘I feel really disrespected. I’ve already gone above and beyond what was required of me’: Boss begs preschool teacher to stay past her contract, using guilt and emotional pleas while offering barely any extra reward

Etai Eshet

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