workplace-stories

Job candidate drives 35 minutes and gets ghosted by job interviewer, teen employee tells them to "go home": 'You gotta be kidding me'

Remy Millisky

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New army boss urges employees to take their PTO, entire team takes off at once, leaving new boss scrambling: 'Each of us had accumulated between 200 and 500 extra hours'

Ben Weiss

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'We need a doctor's note': Employee requests 3 days off due to burnout, boss demands a doctor's note, doctor demands a full month off

Ben Weiss

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‘It's annoying to have to find ways to lock up your possessions because you might get robbed by a 40-something mother of 3’: Office worker discovers her seemingly sweet coworker is responsible for stealing $1,300, food, and spreading rumors

Etai Eshet

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Employee at electric vehicle company gets put on a PIP after having an argument with their new manager, who was hired only 3 months ago: 'The most [foolish] man I've ever had the awful displeasure of working with'

Brad Dickson

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Boss keeps calling employee by the wrong name, even giving a promotion to this nonexistent person: '[HR] had to inform my boss that such a person doesn’t exist'

Ben Weiss

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31-year-old photographer confronts entitled mom during a couple's photoshoot, after she demands pictures of her kids for free: ‘Just snap a few, it costs you nothing’

Bar Mor Hazut

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New American boss tries to cut British-based employee's "excessive" PTO, HR sides with employee: 'I have referred this to HR because I think this isn't right'

Ben Weiss

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'8/10, see me after class': Gas station employee quits job by editing petty manager's note for all to see

Remy Millisky

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Manager informs employees that they won't receive their pooled tips and she's donating them to a struggling coworker instead: ‘I don't know how to react’

Lana DeGaetano

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New supervisor tells employee not to bother coming in to work if he's even 5 minutes late, he just turns around and goes home every time he gets stuck in traffic, prompting a reversal of the rule: 'I won’t be coming in'

Brad Dickson

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Nepo-hire claims 15-page report as her own to impress CEO, coworker ousts her: '[She] took all the credit'

Remy Millisky

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Client accidentally sends engineer confidential documents, yet refuses to believe engineer after they claim to delete them, leading to a security dispute: ‘I didn’t mind escalating it’

Bar Mor Hazut

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Entitled boss forces overworked employee to pause payroll and prioritize new report, maliciously complies, delaying payroll for the entire company: 'You could almost see the steam coming out of his ears'

Ben Weiss

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'You don't sound sick to me': Employee refuses to give in to management pressures not to use any PTO, records conversation with boss to prove their actions are illegal

Bar Mor Hazut

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Entitled boss spells company name wrong in his emails for years, fed up employee reports it anonymously to the board of directors: ‘He lost his credibility’

Bar Mor Hazut

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