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Cubicle-mate sprays Lysol at employee with allergies every time they cough: ‘[It] makes me cough even more’

Lana DeGaetano

Employee quits their job 1.5 hours before his whole team is laid off with severance: 'If you ever know you’re getting let go, don’t resign'

JR Atkinson

Are Robots About To Bring Back Farm Life? Because That Would Be Hilarious And Amazing

John Summers

UPDATE: Manager rejects engineer’s ideas in private, then implements the same solutions as his own, after the construction professional refuses to demote himself

Etai Eshet

Manager lowballs cybersecurity employee with a 12% raise, so the employee internally transfers to another team and gets a 28% raise: ‘Gotta love the corporate world’

Lana DeGaetano

Man demands coworker pay repair fees, after borrowing his car and returning it with a cracked windscreen, she refuses, claiming it was already damaged, goes on to tell all their coworkers that he's "punishing" her: 'They can’t prove it was me'

Emma Saven

‘Hey, I tried to help’: Blue collar guy ends up managing his old workplace frenemy, so he promotes him to a higher position where he can ‘shine’ and where the work is loathsome

Elna McHilderson

Employee hires an Etsy witch to cast a ‘revenge spell’ on their former manager, and months later, that manager is demoted: ‘There was a major reckoning’

Lana DeGaetano

AI-loving boss insists that employee uses Chat-GPT to assemble company's monthly report, employee complies and submits absolute gibberish to upper management: 'The result was entirely and completely useless'

Ben Weiss

'[He] didn't even make it to his desk': 15+ Workers who were fired from their jobs on the first day

Remy Millisky

Employee discovers consultant's push to get her fired, she proves her value to the company by taking a 2-week vacation and leaving everyone scrambling: 'I came back on Monday with a $10,000 raise'

Ben Weiss

Retail worker returns from pre-approved, off-grid camping trip to discover she was scheduled for multiple shifts during time off, then wrongly blamed by manager, despite documented approval: 'We need to have a serious conversation about your employment'

Emma Saven

15+ Brand new hires who quit a job on day 1: 'It took me about 2 hours to realize... then I left'

Remy Millisky

Boss tells employee they 'lack passion' for not answering Slack messages at 10 PM: 'I make $19/hr [...] for a company that sells industrial cleaning supplies'

JR Atkinson

‘I let Karma do what she does best’: Jealous coworker Barb plots to steal her trainer's job and gets her fired, only to end up jobless herself while the former friend is rehired to a higher position

Etai Eshet

Qualified daughter challenges parents’ lifelong favoritism by landing the AI division head role her brother applied for, triggering his meltdown and leading parents to uninvite her from Thanksgiving: "I'm tired of shrinking myself to make him feel bigger"

Emma Saven