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Boss wearing black sweater attends a Zoom meeting with a female colleague on a Friday while the rest of his team works in the office

Boss forces fully remote company to return to the office 5 days a week, while he works from home on Fridays without letting the rest of his team do the same: 'Leadership roles have different requirements.'

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Employee wins company holiday raffle, office manager demands they hand over the prize to a colleague who's retiring: ‘My ticket was in there fair and square’

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Employee floods the boss's DMs, dutifully reporting every single moment away from their desk after the micromanager demands to keep tabs on their whereabouts: 'Every time I leave my desk'

Jesse Kessenheimer

Employee presents her research to the senior leadership team

Employee refuses to correct her overly confident coworker before she presented her outdated business proposal to the senior leadership: 'She said teammates are supposed to look out for each other.'

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Employee creates program for managing personal workload, refuses to let management share it with entire department: 'There's no offer of extra pay, promotion, or formal recognition'

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Manager reprimands employee for texting at the office instead of looking busy: 'Okay, then give me more stuff to do!'

CEO demands employee leave their office door open at all times after thinking they were out because it was closed: ‘What's the point of an office?’

CEO demands employee leave their office door open at all times after thinking they were out of office because it was closed: ‘What is even the point of an office?’

Man working from home on his laptop at his chill job that only requires 10-20 hours of actual work per week

Employees share how to secure work-from-home jobs that only require 3 hours of work per day: 'Have subject matter expertise.'

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26-year-old office coordinator gets payback for years of criticism from her coworker Linda by dismantling the improved company operating system she built: 'I knew it would cause chaos'

Jesse Kessenheimer

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Boss claims any employees' personal belongings left out in the office are up for grabs when his kids visit: ‘Get control of YOUR children’

story about a man pranking his office by making them think there's a cat in the ceiling | thumbnail includes one picture of a cat peeking from above 'I thought it would be funny to put a Bluetooth speaker in the ceiling and play sounds of cats over it.'

Employee pulls prank on entire office by making them think there's a cat in the ceiling, causing the office to shut down, the boss to reprimand, and theories to be made: 'I found an eight hour video of cats meowing that was perfect.'

Mariel Ruvinsky

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UPDATE: Employee refuses to organize boss's 50th birthday party after he made 0 effort for their birthday: 'I told him I'm not having anything to do with organizing anything for him'

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New mom forced to come into the office in snowy weather but turns around when front door is frozen shut: 'I was standing outside [...] in below freezing weather'

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Company demands remote employees return to office 3 days a week, provides tiny space with malfunctioning Wi-Fi: 'It's chaos with barely any privacy'

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Employees forced to return to office after years of working remotely, only to find out the company failed to rent a space big enough for everyone: ‘The desks are crammed together’

Employees forced to return to office after years of working remotely, only to find out the company failed to rent a space big enough for everyone: ‘The desks are crammed together’

Employee abruptly fired after four years due to accumulated "late" arrivals, despite promised time-card adjustments due to main entrance restrictions, he claims it's their excuse to replace employees with lower-paid hires

Employee abruptly fired after four years due to accumulated "late" arrivals, despite promised time-card adjustments due to main entrance restrictions, he claims it's their excuse to replace employees with lower-paid hires: 'The promise didn't apply to me'