management

Senior manager discovers her company is acquiring her former company after she burned bridges with them when she quit: 'My old coworkers will be joining my team. Ugh!'

Ben Weiss

‘I'm in a bait-and-switch nightmare’: 5-months pregnant woman is hired as a head of department, then turned into a support agent, denied the maternity leave she was promised, and put on a sketchy performance plan

Etai Eshet

Coworker Stephanie demands silence in an open office until 10 am for her "morning focus time" routine, gets reprimanded by management: ‘She'll shush people who are having work conversations at their desks’

Etai Eshet

‘Learned just now that coworkers are not your friends’: Veteran 8-year employee summoned to an after-Christmas meeting after venting about manager to a “trusted” coworker, who immediately told everyone

Etai Eshet

Laid-off employee put on garden leave during office Secret Santa refuses to play along and send a gift: ‘I was technically still employed and being paid, but I was clearly told not to come into work’

Etai Eshet

18 Construction laborers attend annual Christmas lunch expecting usual gifts and bonuses, but receive nothing with no explanation from management: ‘No speech, no card, no gift, no thank you, nothing’

Etai Eshet

‘But that's MY PTO’: Coworker keeps taking every holiday off using company PTO rules, refusing to trade, so colleagues team up against her, leaving her stuck working through all the breaks she claimed last year

Etai Eshet

Entitled manager does not ‘approve' of employees resignation, so she quits on the spot and manager still has the audacity to ask her to stay for a project handover: ‘How do you refuse a two-week notice?’

Elna McHilderson

Employee forced by boss to work alongside coworker with bad breath for six hours straight: 'I have never been so happy to clock out in my life'

Ben Weiss

After being ignored by manager Jess when accepting a promotion, an after-school care worker withdraws interest and immediately finds themselves left off the roster for a month: ‘I have gotten a second job to supplement my income’

Etai Eshet

Coworker constantly comments on employees' snack and beverage choices in the break room, cries when she tells her to knock it off: 'Commenting on what others eat isn’t appropriate.'

Emmy Pratt

Management demands 24/7 availability without extra pay for routine work that could wait until Monday, and pulls employee into meetings, criticizing his lack of responsiveness: ‘There’s no emergency, and no contract that says I owe them my free time’

Etai Eshet

Overworked junior specialist realizes his ‘above and beyond’ work mentality won't get him anywhere so he stops, managers are now drowning in work: 'It's truly satisfying to see'

Elna McHilderson

Remote consultants forced to work off old computers, they get even with management by slowing their pace down: 'There really is no way for us to go quicker without quicker laptops'

Ben Weiss

Hotel manager fires employee for refusing to allow a 16-year-old employee to work 15 hours straight: 'The 16-year-old had been working since 7 AM and from 3 PM to 11 PM the night before.'

Emmy Pratt

Employee double-checks a grant detail to prove his right, accidentally uncovers widespread legal noncompliance that everyone in the organization ignored for years: ‘This entire situation happened because I wasn’t about to let someone tell me I’m wrong’

Etai Eshet