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'It all started when...': Pour a dash of these laughs into your morning coffee to energize you for the work week ahead (October 11, 2025)

Elna McHilderson

30 Relatable Work Memes to Get You Through Another Glorified Email Marathon

Isabella Penn

'I couldn’t take “no” for an answer': Determined job candidate emails the CEO's private email address after getting rejected from a position, gets hired as a result

Jesse Kessenheimer

'You guys are so stingy': Employee treats birthday celebrations like it's her personal buffet, coworkers start quietly ordering food amongst themselves without inviting her

Isabella Penn

'I literally couldn't get a single word out': 22-year-old college graduate freezes during job interview, prompting hiring manager to walk out

Ben Weiss

58-year-old essential employee gets laid off 1 year before retiring, entire team quits out of loyalty, HR begs them to come back for double their original pay: 'I'll come back for 13 weeks'

Brad Dickson

Boss tracks employees' bathroom breaks, employees maliciously comply, breaking down communication, and costing the company $50k: 'It's honestly beautiful to watch'

JR Atkinson

'I kept showing up late to work... my boss noticed': 22-year-old hitches daily ride with colleague, gets upset when she drives off without her because she's 5 minutes late

Ally Perry

'They owe me a lot of money': Former bar manager still had remote access to venue’s lighting, used it to prank owners who never paid him

Isabella Penn

20-year-old financially supports his mom, 28-year-old brother, and 2 younger siblings for years, family turns on him when he moves to pursue an internship in London: 'They all called me selfish'

Emmy Pratt

Micromanager enforces new "performance tracking policy" forcing employees to prioritize phone calls over emails, creating major backlog of work: 'And just like that, [the] policy quietly vanished'

Ben Weiss

21 Employee Burnout Posts To Push You Through Your Late-Week Work Slump (October 10, 2025)

Lana DeGaetano

31-year-old pregnant coworker Sarah tries to take a front parking spot from a colleague with a knee problem, leading to office drama and HR intervention: ‘I felt guilty, but I stood my ground’

Etai Eshet

Lawyer submits 75 case files full of mistakes in 1 day to get back at bosses: 'No matter what they did, their system didn't work'

Remy Millisky

Engineer passed over for promotion for their own direct reports, instead up-skills himself on the job, uses those skills to land a better job with 3x the pay: 'I developed skills on the company dime that got me a >100% raise at another company'

Brad Dickson

‘I’m just trying to survive the last few days until I’m officially gone’: Woman quits her retail store job, sending her manager into a rage spiral and making her last days tense

Etai Eshet