workplace-stories

Company shuts off the AC at 3 pm to save money, forcing employees to buy desk fans, until they discover management floor is exempt: ‘Their floor was freezing’

Bar Mor Hazut

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Employee discovers her CEO hired her toxic ex-friend as her direct manager, and put her in charge of training her new boss: ‘I feel trapped. It was the CEO's decision’

Etai Eshet

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Manager realizes he is losing a very valuable employee only after she leaves and asks for recommendations to identify “quiet performers” before they walk out: ‘Is it just asking better questions, or is there something structural that actually works?’

Olivia Arocena

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Boss gets upset employee accepted a new job paying $28k more after waiting 7 months for a promised raise at her current company

Etai Eshet

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Man employs a very peculiar tactic involving a figurine to get both a raise and a bigger commission at work: ‘So for the next week and a half I randomly started removing things from my desk area (very whimsical) and finally that item’

Olivia Arocena

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Employee returns from maternity leave to find coworker using her personalized desk despite several designated hot desks, plans to confront him: ‘Does he just work there [with photos of me and my baby] smiling at him?!’

Celeste Mello

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Co-owner Claire locks her two business partners out of their shop, hides finances, and pockets clients, pushing partners Diana and Sarah to refuse to keep paying rent: ‘We’ve told her attorney: We aren't paying’

Etai Eshet

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"It is just ABSOLUTELY insulting": Boss offers tech worker a promotion to Senior Project Lead with 20 weekly extra hours and 0 pay raise

Etai Eshet

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Employee starts prompting his boss as if she were an AI chatbot to get the responses he desires and it works: 'I try different prompts in my chat to see which wording of a question will give the affirming answer I want. I then bring up my decision to her'

Olivia Arocena

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Woman refuses to keep driving her boss to work after already giving her two 90-minute rides in one day and getting stuck paying the tolls with zero thanks

Etai Eshet

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Data analyst tells his boss that his clothes don’t affect his professionalism after getting lectured for wearing shorts: ‘My job is 100% back-office. I never interact with clients’

Etai Eshet

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Employee trains a very young colleague that then bosses him around: 'He had the audacity to try to yell at me and say, I will cut the files if they are correct. You need to do your job and make sure that I have the right measurements. I lost it'

Olivia Arocena

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New manager forces employee out by leaving them out of meetings and micromanaging their every move, leading employee to realize they have no choice but to quit: ‘I can't shake the feeling that this was calculated’

Bar Mor Hazut

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Teenage manufacturing plant trainee cuts 40 units wrong, blames his Chief Designer trainer, and gets him reprimanded after the trainer snaps back in anger: 'He thought he could boss me around'

Etai Eshet

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High-performing employee gets demoted and forced to train his new manager, he quits and refuses leadership's demands to negotiate: ‘We lost him for good’

Bar Mor Hazut

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IT employee gets reported for stealing company laptops by coworker, only for HR to discover everything was fully approved: 'HR already had all the paperwork before you even finished your report'

Cata Holmes

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