business

‘Lady I work 3 jobs, I serve dozens of customers…’: 20+ Baristas share times random strangers demanded they were ‘regulars' and how they dealt with them

Elna McHilderson

Social media manager buries micromanaging boss in approval requests and business starts to suffer, owner steps in and gives manager more control and a raise: 'The problem is she takes forever to respond'

Isabella Penn

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

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

Jesse Kessenheimer

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

15-year-old poultry farm supervisor gets talked down to because of his age, ‘promotes’ mean employee to waste duty: 'As it turns out, you still don't want to [mess with] your boss even if he's 15.'

Elna McHilderson

'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

Employee pleasantly surprised after she thinks she's getting fired but actually gets promoted, sparks others to share similarly misjudged meetings: ‘[I] got a $5K bonus instead!’

Elna McHilderson

‘30 minutes or 2+ hours, your call’: Paramedic drivers score 2 months of overtime pay when a nitpicky manager's decision to disband their workforce's ‘gentleman’s agreement' costs the company $1000s in overtime pay

Jesse Kessenheimer

Guy ‘fakes it until he makes it' after getting unexpectedly fired; ends up getting a career-making job offer as a result of an elaborate bluff: ‘I just played along until it worked’

Jesse Kessenheimer

30-year-old man refuses to loan $15,000 to 33-year-old cousin's budding food truck business, family tries to guilt-trip him due to his success: "I thought you'd be more generous than that"

Ely Bulnes

Small salon shop owner overcome with heartwarming gratitude after her team throws her a surprise birthday party: ‘They don’t know that it’s the only birthday celebration I’ve had since I was 7…’

Elna McHilderson

Manager forces HR to hire his ‘crush’ even though she was the least ranked candidate, costs the company thousands of dollars: ‘Turns out, hiring your crush isn’t as cute when the company starts losing money.’

Elna McHilderson

Manager enacts new policy that puts speed over accuracy, employee notices a mistake but gets forced to ‘follow policy to the letter,' company losses $12,000: ‘You got it boss!’

Elna McHilderson

Manager demands employee take $15k salary cut, they claim that they are starting their own business instead: 'I had been doing the job of 4 people'

Ally Perry

Supermarket stock worker sets a precarious chocolate bar trap, deliberately overloading shelves after a snarky demand from a manager: 'Like a cocoa avalanche waiting to happen'

Jesse Kessenheimer