Office

Company orders engineer back to the office for “collaboration,” where outdated equipment and slow internet double his workload: 'The technical absurdity of returning to a ‘professional’ office'

Cata Holmes

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Call Center Managers Reserves Break Room for Higher-Ups Only, Forcing Employees to Eat Lunch on a Bench in Front of the Bathrooms

Emmy Pratt

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IT employees get kicked out of their office to accommodate shiny new marketing lead, they get revenge by leaving the office without AC for the whole summer: ‘He never thought to call maintenance about the temperature’

Giuliana Tiscioni

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HR suspends an employee and asks him to leave for playing a joke on coworker, but forgets to notify boss and other departments: ‘My phone [was] called over and over’

Giuliana Tiscioni

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‘What's an unwritten office rule everyone learns the hard way?’: Employees discuss workplace habits they only got to discover because of a mistake they made.

María Cetra

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'Why does just going into an office job make you so tired?': Employees who work in site jobs open up about the disadvantages of going to work at an office every day.

María Cetra

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Manager accidentally CC’s employee on an email saying he doesn’t deserve a raise because he’s not a “flight risk,” employee starts silently quitting: ‘[My] trust was actually being quietly exploited, not reciprocated.’

Giuliana Tiscioni

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Employee returns from maternity leave to find coworker using her personalized desk despite several designated hot desks, plans to confront him: ‘Does he just work there [with photos of me and my baby] smiling at him?!’

Celeste Mello

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Woman wants to quit her office job after climbing the corporate ladder, discovers that her true calling is in fast food: ‘It [only] paid about $1 more…’

Giuliana Tiscioni

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Boss demands employee to give them their personal phone number so that they can contact them after work hours and just use that form of contact: 'This is crazy, right?'

María Cetra

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Coworker demands employee keep bringing her lunch to the office after they agreed once, employee refuses when it becomes a daily errand: ‘She's an adult who can get her own lunch’

Bar Mor Hazut

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New hire accidentally exposes coworkers' secret work-from-home arrangement during a routine check-in with management, turning the entire team against them: 'I just answered my manager's questions honestly'

Cata Holmes

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Employee accepts a hybrid job expecting one office day a week, then discovers nobody on the team has been in the office for months: 'I think I accidentally struck gold'

Cata Holmes

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Office employee forgets that he drove to work and leaves his car in the expensive parking lot before leaving for a long weekend, comes home to a massive parking bill: ‘It’s gonna cost me $100-$150…’

Giuliana Tiscioni

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27 Lake Loving Doggos for Exhausted Employees Who Need to Cool Off

Laurent Shinar

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Corporate employee needs to log in day sheets with the tasks he does, but he has nothing to do for most of the day and doesn't know how to pretend anymore: 'What am I supposed to log when I literally have nothing left to do? '

María Cetra

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