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Call-center manager, Janet, tells employees they can only use restroom outside of breaks if it's an emergency, so employee acts out dramatic scenes every time she needs the restroom: 'I make sure to treat it like the medical emergency she wants it to be'

Call center manager, Janet, tells employees they can only use restroom outside of breaks if it's an emergency, so employee acts out dramatic scenes every time she needs the restroom: 'I make sure to treat it like the medical emergency she wants it to be'

Boss gives same penalty for being 6 minutes late as for hours, so an always-early employee decides to lay back his mornings, making the most of every write-up: ‘I had a leisurely 2-hour breakfast and got the same write up’

Boss gives same penalty for being 6 minutes late as for hours, so an always-early employee decides to lay back his mornings, making the most of every write-up: ‘I had a leisurely 2-hour breakfast and got the same write up’

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Grocery store assistant manager gets his boss fired after catching him stealing $200 from the children's hospital donation collection box; gets promoted: ‘I pulled the footage’

Jesse Kessenheimer

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'Petty? Maybe. Deserved? 100%': Credit-hogging coworker gets what she deserves when a hardworking colleague deliberately sabotages a presentation for the executives

Jesse Kessenheimer

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'Ma'am, I told you so': 20+ Workers whose customers couldn't understand anything

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Coworker repeatedly bothers employee with photos and stories of her 3-year-old son, employee is reprimanded when she asks coworker to keep their relationship professional: ‘My manager… disciplined me for “not being best friends like we should be”’

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'He fumbles, repeats himself, and starts sweating’: CEO steals sole credit for his employee's work, then he gets burned in an international meeting when she refuses to help him answer questions about ‘his program’

Jesse Kessenheimer

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’

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’

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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’

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’

‘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

‘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

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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'

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30+ Workers who got petty revenge on coworkers who ate their lunches: 'Put 1/2 of a scorpion pepper in each [burrito]... he never ate my food again'

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’

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’

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Employee loses days of PTO for taking an hour for lunch: 'I finally decided to treat myself and go to lunch one day...I received an email that I will be losing 2 days of PTO.'

Christiana Maimone

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Manager tries to use petty reason to fire employee on worker's comp, instead, the employee ends up getting 20 people fired and is offered a promotion: ‘I let out a big sigh and I started smiling.’

Manager tries to use petty reason to fire employee on worker's comp, instead, the employee ends up getting 20 people fired and is offered a promotion: ‘I let out a big sigh and I started smiling.’

Elna McHilderson

Tech employee gets skipped for promotion at his first ‘real’ job because he was out sick, gets revenge on petty manager several years later: ‘I love telling [this story]!’

Tech employee gets skipped for promotion at his first ‘real’ job because he was out sick, gets revenge on petty manager several years later: ‘I love telling [this story]!’

Elna McHilderson

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Boss demands that employees remain at their desks and tell him what they're doing every time they get up, they comply and message him so often that he is forced to reverse the order: 'Last week I sent him 9 messages in one day'

Boss demands that employees remain at their desks and tell him what they're doing every time they get up, they comply and message him so often that he is forced to reverse the order: 'Last week I sent him 9 messages in one day'

Employee turns the tables, uses micromanaging boss's own reports to trick her and expose her hypocrisy in her criticism of his work: 'I found the folder online and used her past work verbatim'

Employee turns the tables, uses micromanaging boss's own reports to trick her and expose her hypocrisy in her criticism of his work: 'I found the folder online and used her past work verbatim'

18-year-old refuses to give her parents her car keys after they demand she leave her job to drive her 16-year-old and 14-year-old siblings around as a punishment for violating her strict curfew: 'The car is mine, a gift from my grandmother that I pay for'

18-year-old refuses to give her parents her car keys after they demand she leave her job to drive her 16-year-old and 14-year-old siblings around as a punishment for violating her strict curfew: 'The car is mine, a gift from my grandmother that I pay for'

Tenant locks and unplugs neighbor's laundry machine after he kept taking other people's clothes out before the cycle was finished: 'Learn to pay for your [own] laundry!'

Tenant locks and unplugs neighbor's laundry machine after he kept taking other people's clothes out before the cycle was finished: 'Learn to pay for your [own] laundry!'

Employee changes strategy to "show, not tell" his boss that his ideas are terrible: 'I didn't have to say a word. He saw the error himself'

Employee changes strategy to "show, not tell" his boss that his ideas are terrible: 'I didn't have to say a word. He saw the error himself'

Staff treats newly hired restaurant server like trash and rushes him during his 1-hour break after a 12-hour shift, so he quits effective immediately: ‘This was my last straw.’

Staff treats newly hired restaurant server like trash and rushes him during his 1-hour break after a 12-hour shift, so he quits effective immediately: ‘This was my last straw.’

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