workplace-stories

10+ year employee stands up to entitled CEO who demands huge project be completed before vacation: 'You want me to resign? Good luck without me!'

Remy Millisky

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Management starts tracking employees' every move and forcing them to stay at their desks, their compliance cost the company $50k: 'We're doing exactly what they wanted - staying at our desks and not moving around'

Ben Weiss

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‘Am I missing something?’: Coworker refuses to communicate with employee unless it's in person or over the phone, even though it's integral to their jobs to keep a paper trail of records

Lana DeGaetano

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58-year-old essential employee gets laid off 1 year before retiring, entire team quits out of loyalty, HR begs them to come back for double their original pay: 'I'll come back for 13 weeks'

Brad Dickson

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Micromanager enforces new "performance tracking policy" forcing employees to prioritize phone calls over emails, creating major backlog of work: 'And just like that, [the] policy quietly vanished'

Ben Weiss

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31-year-old pregnant coworker Sarah tries to take a front parking spot from a colleague with a knee problem, leading to office drama and HR intervention: ‘I felt guilty, but I stood my ground’

Etai Eshet

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Lawyer submits 75 case files full of mistakes in 1 day to get back at bosses: 'No matter what they did, their system didn't work'

Remy Millisky

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Engineer passed over for promotion for their own direct reports, instead up-skills himself on the job, uses those skills to land a better job with 3x the pay: 'I developed skills on the company dime that got me a >100% raise at another company'

Brad Dickson

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‘I’m just trying to survive the last few days until I’m officially gone’: Woman quits her retail store job, sending her manager into a rage spiral and making her last days tense

Etai Eshet

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‘No one's allowed to wear deodorant, let alone perfume’: Coworker claims they are ‘sensitive’ to smells and calls out employee for washing their hands with the scented office hand soap

Lana DeGaetano

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HR gives employee ultimatum, forcing him to get a doctor's note that day, opts for malicious compliance: 'I gave YEARS of loyal service and they're going to get their karma very soon'

Ben Weiss

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Update: Customer complains about worker's glasses, boss sends employee home without pay

Remy Millisky

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Manager demands construction workers stop using shortcuts to keep an efficient workflow, leading to a backlog in orders when they follow her rules: ‘Hope you’ve got time to wait’

Bar Mor Hazut

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58-year-old employee gets let go, the rest of the department leaves, HR begs for employee to come back 4 months later: 'That's not going to work for me'

Ben Weiss

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‘If he gets a third [warning] he could be fired’: Unrelenting coworker badgers man for his secret homemade hot sauce recipe, to the point where the two cannot be assigned to work on the same projects

Lana DeGaetano

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Boss schedules meeting with HR to discuss employee's attitude after they say "no" to increased workload for the first time ever in 2 years: 'So now we have a meeting scheduled with HR to talk about it'

Brad Dickson

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