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21 Employee Burnout Posts To Push You Through Your Late-Week Work Slump (October 10, 2025)

Lana DeGaetano

31-year-old pregnant coworker Sarah tries to take a front parking spot from a colleague with a knee problem, leading to office drama and HR intervention: ‘I felt guilty, but I stood my ground’

Etai Eshet

Lawyer submits 75 case files full of mistakes in 1 day to get back at bosses: 'No matter what they did, their system didn't work'

Remy Millisky

Engineer passed over for promotion for their own direct reports, instead up-skills himself on the job, uses those skills to land a better job with 3x the pay: 'I developed skills on the company dime that got me a >100% raise at another company'

Brad Dickson

‘I’m just trying to survive the last few days until I’m officially gone’: Woman quits her retail store job, sending her manager into a rage spiral and making her last days tense

Etai Eshet

'I've made significant progress on my reading lol': Employee ends up getting hours of leisure time after entitled supervisor forces her to change her work schedule

Elna McHilderson

‘No one's allowed to wear deodorant, let alone perfume’: Coworker claims they are ‘sensitive’ to smells and calls out employee for washing their hands with the scented office hand soap

Lana DeGaetano

22 Pawfect Pictures of Cat Mechanics Mastering the Art of Meowtenance

Sarah Brown

HR gives employee ultimatum, forcing him to get a doctor's note that day, opts for malicious compliance: 'I gave YEARS of loyal service and they're going to get their karma very soon'

Ben Weiss

Update: Customer complains about worker's glasses, boss sends employee home without pay

Remy Millisky

Quiet employee get mocked at work for giving off 'background character energy,' so they expose the office rumormonger with a spicy piece of workplace gossip: 'The whole room went quiet. He froze'

Jesse Kessenheimer

Director is told to accept $50k less pay or take 8 weeks' severance after company is acquired by another company: 'I’m going to be doing the same thing'

Ally Perry

58-year-old employee gets let go, the rest of the department leaves, HR begs for employee to come back 4 months later: 'That's not going to work for me'

Ben Weiss

Boss denies employee of 4 years raise and tells them to be 'grateful' they have a job at all: 'Meanwhile, he brags about his new car and vacations'

JR Atkinson

‘I’m the one keeping kids safe:’ 36-year-old woman leaves her corporate boyfriend at 2 am after he belittles her for being a beloved school bus driver

Elna McHilderson

‘If he gets a third [warning] he could be fired’: Unrelenting coworker badgers man for his secret homemade hot sauce recipe, to the point where the two cannot be assigned to work on the same projects

Lana DeGaetano