promotion

Boss Denies Agreeing to Employee's Raise Request, Employee Finds Receipts with HR

Ben Weiss

Employee gets offer from rival company, decides to take the job, until current company gets word of it and demands employee stay: ‘Please be joking'

Bar Mor Hazut

Boss scolds employee during performance review for doing the bare minimum, while also claiming that she meets all of her goals: 'If they want to see bare minimum they’ll for sure see it starting now.'

Emmy Pratt

Employee calls out coworker after she gets glowing performance review for sending weekly email to upper management summarizing everyone else's hard work

Ben Weiss

Coworkers spend 6 weeks competing for management position, company hires external candidate instead: 'We're trying to recalibrate'

Ally Perry

School principal tells teacher she didn't get a promotion in the school hallway: 'In front of the students, whispering, as other classes walked by. I then had to continue to teach for the rest of the day.'

Emmy Pratt

Unsympathetic job recruiter learns valuable lesson after one of the interviewees he belittled lands a senior position and gets him fired: ‘I’m glad he has the life he deserves.’

Elna McHilderson

Employee rejects promotion that paid him 35% less than what he's making now: 'More responsibility, higher expectations as higher management, but significantly less pay overall.'

Emmy Pratt

Employee refuses to help her new boss, whom she has trained, with something she's taught her how to do 3 times already: 'I'm sure you can figure that out. It's above my pay grade.'

Emmy Pratt

27-year-old employee refuses to assist the new hire she trained after she gets their dream promotion: 'I wont help her anymore'

Ben Weiss

Coworkers spend 2 years telling employee he should leave his fiancée because she'll take his money: 'These people don’t even know me'

Ally Perry

Company replaces kind, respectful manager with a micromanaging AI-obsessed manager: 'I was planning to be at this company long term, but I'm already looking for new work.'

Emmy Pratt

Workplace friendship starts to fade after coworker gets promoted and begins acting like the boss he used to complain about: ‘I don’t recognize him anymore’

Celeste Mello

36-year-old software engineer turns down $15k pay bump to continue coding, manager thinks they've lost their mind

JR Atkinson

Employee gets passed for promotion despite fixing owner's mistakes for weeks, they decide to quit after getting the news: ‘I respect myself more than that’

Bar Mor Hazut

Coworkers compete for the same management position, one instantly freezes the other out: 'She’s been ice cold and goes out of her way to avoid interacting with me'

JR Atkinson