workplace-stories

10+ Unwritten rules employees shared about their workplace environments: 'Speak to the boss as if you were talking to a young child'

Ben Weiss

Comments

'Manager changed my clock-out times': New employees get left alone to close the store, forcing them to clock out an hour late every day, only to find out they don't get paid past closing time

Bar Mor Hazut

Comments

Employee gets even with petty boss by providing email receipts, gets fired: 'She saw an opportunity'

Remy Millisky

Comments

Customer demands an off-the-clock employee to help her find an item to repurchase in-store, then chews out the store's pregnant manager when the item's price changed from what it was 20 years prior: ‘Technology, inflation, reality, pick one’

Lana DeGaetano

Comments

‘She makes me feel like a fraternity pledge’: Bossy coworker treats temp lab tech like a personal assistant, demanding non-work-related chores and favors

Etai Eshet

Comments

‘You’re just the help with a fancy knife set, don’t act like you’re above me’: Entitled charity gala guest causes a scene after catering chef refuses to make her a special off-menu pasta dish

Etai Eshet

Comments

Entitled friend demands a cut of her friend's $500 referral work bonus: ‘I laughed it off and didn’t think she was being serious’

Lana DeGaetano

Comments

HR calls out employee of 15 years in attempt to steal his pension, employee's best friend saves his job: '[He] asked HR to prove it'

Remy Millisky

Comments

‘I’m furious. I’m disgusted I work for this company’: Boss offers employee a $1 promotional raise, then hires someone in the employee's current role before he accepts the offer

Lana DeGaetano

Comments

Kind employee guides new 16-year-old new girl through shift after petty coworkers get "stressed out" and refuse to train her: 'Over the next 5 hours I worked side by side with this child'

Remy Millisky

Comments

‘And just like that, the tables have completely turned’: Underpaid and overworked employee lands a unicorn job offer and resigns from their current role, boss loses it

Lana DeGaetano

Comments

25-year-old employee learns he's making $2,000 more than his office mentor: '[He] has worked 50 years in my current company!'

Ben Weiss

Comments

'A delightful shot at revenge': Employee gets back at worker who suddenly quit, leaving them short-staffed

Remy Millisky

Comments

'Power-tripping, micromanaging, unsupportive boss': Workers who quit their worst jobs ever explain what pushed them over the edge

Remy Millisky

Comments

Boss brags to essential contractor about firing contractors without notice, essential contractor quits with 10 seconds of notice in return, leaving the company scrambling to pick up the pieces: 'Hey, thanks for everything, this is my last day!'

Brad Dickson

Comments

Engineer shuts down rich developer’s attempt to make her break safety codes to save money, and her firm backs her up against him: ‘My entire job is to make sure buildings don’t fall down’

Etai Eshet

Comments