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A Coffee-Break’s Worth of Work Funnies if You Need a Mid-Afternoon Pick-Me-Up

Lana DeGaetano

Exterminator needs access through homeowner’s yard to treat neighbor’s house, repeatedly no-shows until she revokes permission to enter her property: 'I had to take off work both times'

Isabella Penn

31-year-old self-employed carpenter offers to help pay for his girlfriend's grad school tuition until she mocks his blue collar career: 'She feels her education makes her better'

Jesse Kessenheimer

How Gen Z are Rewriting the Corporate Jargon Lexicon

Jesse Kessenheimer

Indispensable employee uses a company blunder to negotiate a 30% raise after they fire an entire support department: 'I'm using this to twist their arm'

Jesse Kessenheimer

Former employers claims ex-employee owes them 20 PTO hours despite previously claiming they'd cover it: 'He can come and get it'

JR Atkinson

'Isn't it courtesy?': Manager demands resigning employee give more than 3 weeks notice, she decides to give 0

Ally Perry

“We're all burnt out. You just have to push through it”’: Manager weaponizes exceptional employee's tears during an unwarranted poor performance review and tells them it's a "growth moment’

Lana DeGaetano

33-year-old project coordinator refuses to let 26-year-old coworker take credit for her work anymore: 'I stopped CC’ing her on everything'

Ben Weiss

‘He was a great boss': Beloved garage shop manager has it with corporate, takes matters into his own hands using ugly brown paint, gets corporate to give him his way

Elna McHilderson

Data analyst corrects manager in an important meeting because he misrepresented a project the employee is spearheading, and is then reprimanded for making him ‘look unprepared’

Lana DeGaetano

Factory employee ruins machines on purpose, loses company $30k and costs boss his job: '5 hours... to clean, fix, and replace damaged sensors'

Remy Millisky

29-year-old HR employee reprimanded for not inviting 41-year-old manager to her wedding: 'After everything I've done for you, that's how you thank me?'

Ben Weiss

29-year-old architect rejects requests for her project files and designs after being laid off and rehired as a contractor by the same firm: ‘They’re saying I’ll “burn bridges” in the industry’

Etai Eshet

Manager asks employee over text message to join meetings and assist with "knowledge transfer" after firing them: 'Are you available to jump on a call?'

Brad Dickson

‘I then told her I would be putting in my 2 weeks if she couldn’t give me a raise’: Boss mocks employees for wanting a raise, so they threaten they quit and end up getting more money

Etai Eshet