Professional At Work

‘Play stupid games, win stupid prizes’: Longtime employee puts arrogant middle manager in an uncomfortable position during a Father's Day-themed team icebreaker, exposing manager's sideways leadership skills

Lana DeGaetano

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Freelancing brother refuses to babysit niece after sister claims he is unemployed, he says she must find someone else as she does not respect him, causing full family feud: 'Come on, you're at home all day anyway. You're basically unemployed'

Emma Saven

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Coworker reports crying baby to HR, then is concerned that she 'ratted out' a vulnerable mother without permission to have her baby at work: 'I work with a lot of touchy personalities and egos, I was not confident to simply ask her to close her door'

Emma Saven

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‘He was trying to intimidate me into doing it’: Arrogant coworker tries to order employee to work for free on an external ‘side project’ because he doesn't have the budget for an expert opinion, employee adamantly refuses

Lana DeGaetano

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20+ Employees who were hired and quit on the same day: 'I won. 4 hours of work, for $12,646'

Remy Millisky

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Single man goes to HR over flirty coworker who feels "deceived" after finding out that he is not married despite wearing a ring on his left finger: "She seems to be one of the types who likes to go after married men"

Ely Bulnes

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Company asks employees to contribute money for boss’s gift, then gives it back, when they ask for it yet again, employee refuses: 'It's just I could really use that $10 to buy lunch or something'

Emma Saven

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Envious coworker is upset that his supervisor gets remote work privileges, then proceeds to bad-mouth the supervisor to their shared client while under the influence: ‘Coworker was promptly fired’

Lana DeGaetano

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Employee makes ‘whistleblower report’ on doctor colleague after he takes on overlapping shifts in the emergency room and the psych ER, potentially putting patients at risk: ‘He has been terminated because of it’

Lana DeGaetano

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Coworker tries to sabotage hardworking employee, they get revenge by simply doing their job: ‘[Now] she's getting a lot of heat from upper management to perform better’

Lana DeGaetano

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30-year-old chef treats coworkers to homemade cakes for their birthdays for a year, refuses to make anymore when they become entitled to free treats despite forgetting her birthday: "It rubbed me the wrong way"

Ely Bulnes

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Entitled woman demands that coworker change her vacation days and miss her family reunion because her Cancun trip is "more fun," manager shuts her down: "I already booked flights"

Ely Bulnes

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‘"You need to be more energetic on calls"’: Boss reprimands insurance employee for being too neutral-sounding over the phone, so the employee leans into their ‘radio host voice’ from a former role 20 years prior

Lana DeGaetano

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Freeloader belittles a friend's 5-year profession as a photographer, demanding they work their wedding for free to "build their portfolio," they challenge their cheap attitude with facts: ‘I charge $1,000+ per wedding’

Jesse Kessenheimer

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31-year-old software developer presents terrible code, brushes off female coworker when she attempts to help him fix it at boss's orders: "Your self-taught background is showing"

Ely Bulnes

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25-year-old woman quits giving chronically late coworker rides to work after they both get written up for tardiness: "She started treating it like a service"

Ely Bulnes

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