workplace-stories

‘Good worker quits, it signals to others it's time’: 15 Employees discuss times they or their coworkers quit and started mass exoduses

Lana DeGaetano

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Apathetic boss calls employee ‘overdramatic’ for taking a PTO day after they put down their sick family cat, employee reports boss to HR: ‘The way my boss handled this was just unacceptable’

Lana DeGaetano

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Restaurant employee is ostracized after speaking up about the manager's newborn baby being in the kitchen during working hours: ‘Holy OSHA violation’

Lana DeGaetano

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Carpooling coworker loses it after employee makes her late for work so she can cuddle with her cat for 15 more minutes: 'That animal is my baby!'

Ben Weiss

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Employee punished for underperforming for 1 day after over-performing for 2 years, stops doing the extra work they had been doing: 'I handle 40 cases, my daily requirement, and then I do NOTHING for the rest of my shift'

Brad Dickson

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Restaurant customer sees maintenance man standing on food prep area, is told workers "usually" clean the area: 'Is this standard procedure?'

Remy Millisky

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‘I have to watch her get paid to do nothing’: Animal shelter employee is fed up with slacker coworker who refuses to pick up after cats and dogs

Lana DeGaetano

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New railroad manager costs the company $940k in just 6 weeks while trying to save $700 after ignoring the advice of experienced workers: 'If my boss isn't going to have my back, I'm not going to stop this inevitable disaster'

Brad Dickson

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26-year-old "loyal client" spends $460 on waxing services, waxer closes shop doors and refuses to refund her: 'Just sue her... slam dunk case'

Remy Millisky

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Employee suspects coworker blocked them on corporate chat software because they were promoted to a better role: ‘[We] have never really gotten along’

Lana DeGaetano

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Forklift driver at 1.4-million-square-foot factory strictly follows strict no-phones rule by shutting his off, sending managers on a wild goose chase every shift as their own policy backfires: ‘I received like 30 calls a day that were left unanswered’

Etai Eshet

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‘Some weird favoritism’: Troublemaking, under-qualified coworker is chosen for promotion over star employee, employee is then forced to quit her job after workplace retaliation

Lana DeGaetano

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'I told him he couldn't spend 4-8 hours on break': Managers who were paired with the world's worst employees

Remy Millisky

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Mom of 17-year-old daughter makes her apply to 42 jobs: 'You owe your child a huge apology'

Remy Millisky

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15-year-old assistant soccer referee doesn't get paid after 18-year-old ref makes up a rule about being 30 minutes early, assistant ref gets him fired: ‘Dave was fired for making up rules, and I got paid’

Brad Dickson

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'We sent 10k copies of a useless calendar to a client': 30+ Employees who worked with very incompetent coworkers

Remy Millisky

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