work

Company asks employees to donate PTO to their coworkers because the holidays are a season of giving: 'We need your generosity.'

Emmy Pratt

'I pay all the bills': 25-year-old breadwinner puts a ‘Do Not Disturb' sign the door of her home office after repeated intrusions from her distracting, freeloading family members

Jesse Kessenheimer

'Remember that everyone is replaceable': Arrogant boss threatens employees' job security out of nowhere at 8 AM in work group chat

Lana DeGaetano

Junior tech of only 16-months drops ‘nice guy act’ and rage baits guy who trained him to secretly use responses against him, guy discovers it and turns the tables: 'Whoever he's sharing that folder with has new reading material.'

Elna McHilderson

Colleague insists woman get takeout with work team, protests when she refuses to pay $60 after making a $14 order: 'She said I never buy dinner for the crew'

Ally Perry

31-year-old New Zealand earthquake specialist gets even with 28-year-old coworker who undermines her in front of clients: 'I turned to the clients and said, "Actually, Brendan's made an error"'

Remy Millisky

Resident blocks neighbor in with their car after she refuses to stop parking in their driveway, causing her to be late for work: ‘It's not my fault she doesn't want to learn’

Bar Mor Hazut

Manager schedules 17-year-old worker for 3-9 PM shifts Monday through Friday, despite her getting out of school at 2:30 PM: 'I work 10:30 AM-7:00 PM on weekends.'

Emmy Pratt

Consultant gets fired unceremoniously after using daily $50 lunch credit to fund his side business for months: 'He was embezzling $40 to $45 a day for "lunch" while eating PB&J sandwiches'

Ben Weiss

Coworker hints for a free ride to a supplier visit, so junior employee spite-commutes by hour-long public transit until the boss makes coworker drive: 'My manager berated him for being irresponsible'

Isabella Penn

Museum curator takes credit for archivist's research, then embarrasses herself in front of major donor: 'I thought you were working on this together?'

Ben Weiss

70-employee warehouse runs out of toilet paper, manager tells employees to use Kleenex instead, after failing to place online order in advance: 'They're one ply off-brand generics'

Emma Saven

Woman unemployed for 4 months finally lands her dream job and uproots her life for it, 3-weeks in she gets fired after inexplicably failing her background check: ‘If they don't [explain], I will hire a labor lawyer.'

Elna McHilderson

Impolite recruiter wrongly rejects job candidate over location: 'You need to pay more attention to postings'

Remy Millisky

Overworked admin quits after months of late paychecks and being denied wedding time off, CFO demands she trains her replacement during her honeymoon, worried she won't receive final paycheck if she refuses: 'This was my last straw'

Emma Saven

Company fires employee for no reason, immediately hounds them to return equipment within 24 hours: 'Are they trying to intimidate me?'

JR Atkinson