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Manufacturing engineer gets blamed for product failures, complies with orders to shut down key tests he warned against, and calmly watches failure rates skyrocket: ‘This was a terrible idea, so I argued against it’

Manufacturing engineer gets blamed for product failures, complies with orders to shut down key tests he warned against, and calmly watches failure rates skyrocket: ‘This was a terrible idea, so I argued against it’

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UPDATE: AI program permanently deletes business's database of 1,100+ companies without permission, tells CEO: 'I destroyed months of your work in seconds'

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'I want to work, keep my head down, and go home': Pushy coworker gets reported to HR after a reserved new employee protects their privacy

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Print shop boss demands large print job start 'this instant' when preparation is incomplete, has to be redone, and costs the company a lot of money: 'Job was late, we lost any profit we were looking forward to through overnight delivery, reprint, etc.'

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20+ Retail employees who got to ban customers from the store: 'Best day of work I have ever had'

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25+ Employees whose coworkers are driving them up the wall: 'It was easily the worst shift I ever had'

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Job candidate roasts panel interviewers to their faces, accidentally impresses CEO and gets the job: 'One guy blinked so hard I thought he rebooted'

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Employee told they're not allowed to work from home, when they're asked to finish something urgently on the weekend they remind management of "the policy": 'I will get to it on Monday whenever I have the opportunity. Everything will be late'

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20+ Retail workers whose customers got instant karma: 'Guy stole $60 headlights... and had to have his car towed'

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CEO kept moving employee’s personal chair to his desk every morning, so employee quietly ended the fight by storing it in his car: '[He] said it wasn't right I had a nicer chair than he did'

Employee at a large property management company sees through his shady manager's demands, gives them a pile of paperwork and quits two weeks later: ‘[The] defeated looks on their faces!’

Employee at a large property management company sees through his shady manager's demands, gives them a pile of paperwork and quits two weeks later: ‘[The] defeated looks on their faces!’

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Entitled coworker switches shifts with 26-year-old server without his approval, assuming he's free because he is single: 'You don't have anything else to do anyway!'

Entitled coworker switches shifts with 26-year-old server without his approval, assuming he's free because he is single: 'You don't have anything else to do anyway!'

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Employee comes in to the office when they are sick at their boss's demand, boss soon regrets it: 'Boss said no working from home'

Employee invites boyfriend to her work trip and asks him to cover the expenses until she gets reimbursed, only to refuse to pay him back: ‘You promised to repay me and didn't’

Employee invites boyfriend to her work trip and asks him to cover the expenses until she gets reimbursed, only to refuse to pay him back: ‘You promised to repay me and didn't’

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'Stop calling me 'mom' in the office': Coworker's lets his 6-year-old daughter bombard his colleague with affection in the workplace, so she takes parenting lessons into her own hands to set boundaries

Jesse Kessenheimer

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‘She’s taken it upon herself to treat every package like it’s her business’: Receptionist continually opens employees' packages and tapes them back together to cover her tracks, so the employees report her to HR and she gets off with a slap on the wrist

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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'

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'

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'

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'

Reliable employee refuses to cover coworker, Jenna's, future shifts, after discovering she lied about having a "family emergency" and instead attended a 3-day music festival, leading to workplace tension: 'I open Instagram and guess who’s posting stories'

Reliable employee refuses to cover coworker, Jenna's, future shifts, after discovering she lied about having a "family emergency" and instead attended a 3-day music festival, leading to workplace tension: 'I open Instagram and guess who’s posting stories'

Father gets called out for avoiding kids by camping out in his car every day: 'My dad wasn't just busy... he was avoiding us'

Father gets called out for avoiding kids by camping out in his car every day: 'My dad wasn't just busy... he was avoiding us'

'It all started when...': Pour a dash of these laughs into your morning coffee to energize you for the work week ahead (October 11, 2025)

'It all started when...': Pour a dash of these laughs into your morning coffee to energize you for the work week ahead (October 11, 2025)

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'

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'

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