workplace-stories

'We microwaved her salad': 15+ bizarre requests for servers from entitled customers

Ben Weiss

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Boss demands to have meetings at employee's house instead of the office, leading him to visit her late at night, until she asks him to stop: ‘Last night I saw his car parked at my driveway’

Bar Mor Hazut

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Manager finds out employee they recommended for the job is about to get fired, they try to prevent it without employee's knowledge, only to make it worse: ‘I saved her job, which led to her getting super fired’

Bar Mor Hazut

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‘I was woken about an hour ago to a coworker at my door’: Night-shift worker’s day off is ruined when management sends a colleague to his door after another employee didn’t show

Etai Eshet

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Scapegoated IT admin gets blamed when client's employee retires and accidentally deletes their entire database: 'Welp, I'm retired now! Guess I'll delete everything'

Brad Dickson

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Employee gets his car towed after refusing to move it from coworker's private parking spot for over a day: ‘Turns out it's the fourth complaint for his license plate’

Bar Mor Hazut

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Job candidate walks out of fourth-round interview after recruiter refuses to reveal salary for the position: 'Salary transparency is basic respect'

Ben Weiss

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Boss demands a “good reason” for every vacation request, so an employee maliciously complies, inventing dramatic tales: ‘My boss still gets visibility uncomfortable whenever I come to ask for time off, it's kind of hilarious to me’

Etai Eshet

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'Your boss said we could have it': Entitled guy demands office WiFi password from employee, claiming her boss agreed to it, yet not knowing her boss is also her husband

Bar Mor Hazut

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'Work smarter, not harder': New boss gets rid of overtime policy despite team's concerns, employees maliciously comply and boss ends up scrambling

Ben Weiss

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'I did what I was instructed to do': Boss shuts down employee who was trying to explain a discrepancy in reporting, employee maliciously complies to prove his point

Ben Weiss

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Employee fails to read late-night email from boss, demanding to prep for a 9 am meeting the next day, leading to an office dispute first thing in the morning: ‘Where have you been?’

Bar Mor Hazut

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15+ Job candidates whose mid-interview mistakes cost them the job: 'I could barely contain my laughter'

Remy Millisky

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Vegan colleague Crystal caught on camera eating a coworker’s beef lasagna, exposing her as the one behind the missing lunches: ‘Now she brings a salad every day and avoids eye contact like we didn’t catch her in 4K with beef on her breath’

Etai Eshet

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‘I’ve become office enemy #1’: Employee reports team lead for repeatedly blaming them for her missed deadlines and slip-ups, but the entire office ostracizes them for speaking up

Lana DeGaetano

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20-year-old receptionist gets fired after 4 days for lack of experience despite insisting she was qualified: 'I don't understand why this happened'

Ben Weiss

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