employment issues

‘I'm disgusted. Is this even legal??’: Australian woman discovers her manager has been secretly screenshotting and saving cropped images of her face during video calls for six months

Etai Eshet

Remote employee concerned when new ownership pushes Return-to-Office mandate under a new CEO, pushing higher productivity and always-online culture: 'Our past CEO just jumped ship to let the rest of us drown'

Brad Dickson

Company throws anniversary celebration for 5-year veteran worker, then tells him they're giving the promotion he's been promised for 2 years to an external hire: 'The person they hired has less industry experience than me'

Brad Dickson

Woman refuses to take a coworker's potluck dish after he hands it to her, assuming she’s the help

Etai Eshet

33-year-old brother-in-law refuses to share his $20K Lotto winnings with his financially irresponsible sister and her husband after they demand a cut: 'He proceeded to waste $520 on scratch-offs'

Brad Dickson

22-year-old nanny quits on the spot and walks out when the mother of the 2 kids demands she take an over 50% pay cut, says she's greedy: 'She would only pay $50 for the entire day'

Brad Dickson

Woman stays silent about a major mistake her coworker Claire makes in a presentation after Claire spreads rumors to their manager, and watches her get publicly embarrassed

Etai Eshet

Warehouse employee quits 4 days in after supervisor denies her request for adequate breaks: 'They made us work 12 hours through with no 30 minute lunch'

Ben Weiss

‘[He] has taught longer than I have been alive. I am a first-year teacher. Trying to survive’: First-year teacher gets blocked trying to enter her classroom by a veteran colleague upset about classroom noise

Etai Eshet

Miami hedge fund partner who set the tone for a party-hard workplace culture reported an employee to HR over a harmless doodle of his coworker and dragged it out for two weeks

Etai Eshet

Coworker Carrie ruins her team manager’s laid-back honor system by crying bias to HR, forcing a department-wide crackdown that tanked morale and drove people to quit

Etai Eshet

College sends employee to mandatory retraining months before his retirement, falsely claiming he failed a phishing test he never took

Etai Eshet

Resigning employee refuses to sign a “separation agreement,” demanding $5,000 per negative online post, and her firm threatens to withhold $2,200 in earned PTO if she doesn’t comply

Etai Eshet

Remote worker stops answering his older coworker's calls after being phoned 5-6 times daily, including during flights and customer dinners

Etai Eshet

'I will personally see to it that you never work in this city or this industry again': New manager threatens employee due to "insubordination," employee records the meeting and gets the manager fired

Ben Weiss

'The guy who made my life miserable for a year is now going to be under my authority': Software engineer takes a 50% pay cut to join “dream team,” finally gets promoted over undermining team lead

Etai Eshet