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15+ Employees who made expensive mistakes: 'My coworker hit reply-all on an email... the silence in the office was so loud'

Remy Millisky

Boss demands lowest-paid employee spend $100 on lunch for customer, she worries she won't get paid back: 'Is it not etiquette to pick up the check?'

Ally Perry

Employee takes 3 weeks of PTO, returns to work feeling as burnt out as he did before the vacation: 'My motivation for work is basically gone.'

Emmy Pratt

New hire refuses to sign non-compete contract after receiving it weeks into their role, demands a meeting with CEO instead: 'I have no choice but to walk away'

Bar Mor Hazut

Remote employee quits, boss forces them to travel across the country and stay 3 months to finish their work: 'No is a complete sentence'

JR Atkinson

Boss lays off employee 2 weeks before Christmas, asks her to do unpaid work for him 2 months later 'as a friend': 'The only other employee, his wife, left him and the business.'

Emmy Pratt

Employee at nonprofit organization discovers new hire gets higher salary, takes it up with manager, who refuses to give them a raise: ‘There will be no increase’

Bar Mor Hazut

Employee leaves job of 5 years with no fanfare, regrets spending years in a toxic environment: 'I left like a ghost'

JR Atkinson

Fired employee wins $17K after former law firm employer refuses to pay his earned commissions: ‘They thought they could rip me off $4k and turned into substantially more’

Etai Eshet

CEO buys ‘luxury throne’ for his office while HR refuses to buy new chair for employee with back problems, employee protests: ‘His new chair costs more than my monthly rent’

Bar Mor Hazut

Boss asks employee at 8 AM to make a presentation for the whole company at 9 AM: 'He is the same guy that passed me over for a promotion.'

Emmy Pratt

Employee makes half-joke about asking for 'allowance' when boss calls them family, boss retaliates and buries him under projects: 'It was clearly tongue in cheek'

JR Atkinson

The Best Relatable Work Memes This Week

Ally Perry

Job seeker steals roommate's portfolio to land a new job, roommate tells their new boss the work was stolen: 'They rescinded her offer within 2 hours.'

Emmy Pratt

Boss calls employee he fired on Christmas, asking for unpaid weekend help as a favor "as a friend” after his wife and only other worker quit, but the former employee refuses

Etai Eshet

Boss lectures an employee about taking “personal calls” on their break, then gets burned when the employee start screening their calls: 'I let it go to voicemail'

Jesse Kessenheimer