work

'Several people have been sniffed by our manager': Employee’s dramatic request to ban scents turns into HR nightmare

Ely Bulnes

2 men listening in to work meetings fool their customers into paying $100 per month for "AI note-taking startup": 'The first version... doesn't even have AI'

Remy Millisky

Coworker takes entire boxes home of office snacks, manager locks the cabinet in response: 'Over four Tuesdays in a row the cabinet is half empty by 2 pm and [he] has a tote bag'

JR Atkinson

'[She's] refusing the team’s bonding tradition': 28-year-old marketing employee, struggling with personal finances, skips her office's Secret Santa exchange to save money, facing judgment from coworkers who are calling her the "grinch"

Emma Saven

Boss takes full credit for tech employee's presentation, employee goes to VP before boss's performance review: 'Guess who didn't get credit for strategic contributions?'

Ben Weiss

Worker gets laid off, told that they're "expendable," gets hired by their former employer's biggest client and watches as the former employer loses clients and even contacts them for "advice": 'Feels good knowing they made a mistake undervaluing me'

Brad Dickson

‘Oh rats!’: Employee treats tech support with 0 respect, so IT leads her district manager to the break room where she's been living with her cat

Elna McHilderson

Company forces employees to buy and carve their own pumpkins for mandatory after-hours competition: 'Forced camaraderie is the worst'

JR Atkinson

HR leaves worker stuck on bogus PIP after he exposes boss’s unfair treatment and gets her moved, pushing him to find new job: ‘No one has removed it or apologized for how messed up this all was’

Etai Eshet

‘I am both impressed and disgusted by the audacity of this team’: Employee sent across the world to help with project ends up as their scapegoat, leaves team high and dry

Elna McHilderson

‘Yep, I’m looking for a new job…’: Software company designer forced to pay for own training and spend every day on call for 12 hours, 7 days a week, while HR promises barely extra pay for the trouble

Etai Eshet

Call center boss demands that workers read long script for every single call, doubling customer wait time: 'The message said "no exceptions"'

Remy Millisky

'You're next': Employee's manager warns him about his job security after getting unceremoniously fired over "excessive absences"

Ben Weiss

Boss demands employee use very slow company computer, employee waits 15 hours while editing 2 files: 'I headed to the break room'

Remy Millisky

Parents offer 24-year-old son and roommates to move into their rental instead of paying for an apartment, roommate's dad accuses them of overstepping: ‘You're spoiling my kid’

Bar Mor Hazut

Bizarre Work Moments Shared by Managers Who've Seen It All: '[She said] she couldn't touch any meats because she vegan'

Ely Bulnes