Professional At Work

HR green lights employee's April Fool's prank in the office bathroom, employee is subsequently fired for it: ‘[HR] even told me what washroom to put it in’

Lana DeGaetano

Veteran employee of 3 years finds out they're paid 25% less than the new hire, internet discusses the importance of salary transparency and company-hopping: ‘Knowledge is power’

Lana DeGaetano

Boss and coworker have a loud ‘introvert bash session’ and trash-talk friends for refusing to play a card game: ‘Tell me you don’t respect boundaries without telling me you don’t respect boundaries’

Lana DeGaetano

Hardworking employee receives lower bonus than employee they hired and trained, proving 2.5 years of labor means absolutely nothing: ‘I’m just extremely disappointed’

Lana DeGaetano

‘Good worker quits, it signals to others it's time’: 15 Employees discuss times they or their coworkers quit and started mass exoduses

Lana DeGaetano

Restaurant employee is ostracized after speaking up about the manager's newborn baby being in the kitchen during working hours: ‘Holy OSHA violation’

Lana DeGaetano

‘I have to watch her get paid to do nothing’: Animal shelter employee is fed up with slacker coworker who refuses to pick up after cats and dogs

Lana DeGaetano

‘Why are we still doing this in 2025??’: Coworker touches colleague's belly without her consent and assumes she's pregnant, woman claps back at their arrogance

Lana DeGaetano

‘Some weird favoritism’: Troublemaking, under-qualified coworker is chosen for promotion over star employee, employee is then forced to quit her job after workplace retaliation

Lana DeGaetano

Unqualified 25-year-old new hire scores promotion over the woman who trained her, company doubles down when confronted: “Favoritism is flushing her entire career down the drain”

Ely Bulnes

Working student spends $200+ on groceries and rides on entitled coworker who repeatedly asks for favors without offering to pay them back: ‘I'm literally losing health insurance tending to him’

Lana DeGaetano

Employee keeps doing entitled coworker's work, gets even by keeping her from taking her break: 'She's just itching to run out of here, but she can't leave'

Ben Weiss

Boss advises hourly employee to avoid working overtime, but VP of the company keeps scheduling meetings with them after 5 PM: ‘It’s starting to get to me’

Lana DeGaetano

Entitled coworker rejects job candidate because she's a fan of Stark Trek: 'She made the mistake of mentioning her hobbies during [the] interview'

Ben Weiss

Employee resigns, boss notifies him two years later that he has been fired for not showing up to work: 'Your employment [...] is being terminated for job abandonment'

Ben Weiss

Employee refuses to split referral bonus with entitled friend after they land them an opportunity for a promotional role, only to find out the company doesn't offer internal candidacy bonuses: ‘She called me "greedy"’

Lana DeGaetano