hr

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

Employee gets suspended from work after they ask to have HR present during a meeting with boss: ‘I'm assuming I'm fired and HR won't listen to me’

Bar Mor Hazut

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

Etai Eshet

'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

30-year-old quits her job of 6 years after new coworker, Ben, keeps stealing her work and credit, and faces zero consequences despite multiple complaints: ‘I addressed it with my manager, director, and HR. After a year I simply couldn’t take it anymore’

Etai Eshet

Boss issues formal warning to employee during her approved vacation in Cabo for missing a meeting added to her work calendar while she was out of the country

Etai Eshet

Job candidate withdraws his application after HR emails him by the wrong name, then gets upset when he corrects them: ‘My name is Zach, not Ryan’

Bar Mor Hazut

HR requires a 500-word "reason" alongside each PTO request, so a witty employee writes an entire essay to go to their cousin's wedding: 'I began [by] explaining the historical significance of marriage'

Jesse Kessenheimer

'It is basically a $50 "loyalty tax" to keep your name off the troublemaker list': HR tries to force workers to "donate" $50 for the CEO's birthday party, until one brave employee stands up to them

Jesse Kessenheimer

HR claims they 'lost' employee's application for promotion after they hired an external nepo candidate for the job: 'Did you send it by carrier pigeon?'

JR Atkinson

Teacher walks out mid-shift on her last day after an admin yells at and follows her for taking a brief call, leaving the already mismanaged school scrambling to cover her classes, leaving the already mismanaged school scrambling to cover her classes

Etai Eshet

Biotech employee starts planning to quit after their boss expects them to train the fresh-out-of-college new hire they gave the promotion to :‘[She’s] asking me to hold her hand through tasks daily’

Etai Eshet

Guy demands a 10% raise after learning Welsh, pushing HR to honor a promise for wage increases for bilingual employees: ‘The policy meant Spanish, but [it] didn't specify Spanish'

Jesse Kessenheimer

30-year-old woman blocks male coworker for “being distant” after she stepped back to appease her jealous boyfriend, and still expected casual friendly office small talk: '[She] blocked me for respecting the distance she created'

Etai Eshet