work

24 Employee Burnout Posts To Push You Through Your Late-Week Work Slump (August 15, 2025)

Lana DeGaetano

47-year-old employee on business trip turns down dinner with coworkers, boss threatens consequences: 'It was outside work hours, unpaid, and not scheduled'

Ben Weiss

27-year-old analyst clashes with a marketing coworker who tried to grab his laptop mid-project, leading to a loud altercation that drew security, escalating into petty sabotage in the office: 'He made me miss a deadline'

Emma Saven

32-year-old continually calls 28-year-old coworker lazy despite her taking half her workload, gets offended when called out in a meeting: 'Some of these comments were in front of our boss'

Ally Perry

'I didn't think this would escalate but... it did': Artist refuses to lend fragile mosaic to neighbor for a dinner party, neighbor breaks in and takes it anyway sparking neighborhood feud

Isabella Penn

22-year-old employee teams up with 30 coworkers to enact payback on micromanager for making them log every detail of every task: 'Data [was] lost in a heap of unusable data'

Ben Weiss

‘Trying to save money on travel made them spend more, oops!’: Penny-pinching contracting company bans mileage, forces a 21-year-old to rent “cheapest” car with under-25 fees, and ends up paying nearly $800 plus gas

Etai Eshet

Coworker Emma claims she has celiac to get special gluten-free food at work, but grabs regular pizza at office party, and has to admit it’s just a sensitivity when called out publicly: ‘She's saying I "outed" her medical information’

Etai Eshet

Pennsylvania truck driver outsmarts boss Fred and state commercial driver’s license laws, gets the license, a raise, then quits on his own terms: ‘Over that 2-week period I got about 25hrs of overtime, a CDL, and a pay raise’

Etai Eshet

Smug retail employee thwarts their competing coworker's every attempt to secure PTO until their colleague snaps and threatens to quit: 'I am so DONE'

Jesse Kessenheimer

‘In THIS economy?’: Posts to help even the worst spenders make it to next payday

Elna McHilderson

‘I listen to gossip you have better nails now’: 20+ More professionals describe their job as poorly as possible

Etai Eshet

20+ Retail workers who had bizarre customers: 'He released a box of spiders into the store... He's not allowed in any Starbucks in this town anymore'

Remy Millisky

Coworker tried to prank employee with fake write-up and accidentally got themselves written up instead: 'Our manager didn't find it funny'

Isabella Penn

Delivery guy refuses to climb two flights of stairs to deliver a package, instead claims no one was home, only to be forced to climb to the 8th floor the next day: ‘Enjoy the stairs’

Bar Mor Hazut

Massage parlor holds last-minute mandatory meeting from 7-9 PM forcing worker to skip their fiancé's birthday: 'I don't do meetings outside of work hours. End of.'

JR Atkinson