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21 Employee Burnout Posts To Push You Through Your Late-Week Work Slump (February 13, 2026)

Lana DeGaetano

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Coworker threatens to report colleague to HR after a friend brings them coffee at work: 'They received an email from an unnamed employee who felt I might have received more than a coffee'

JR Atkinson

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Employee is only given 2 hours of tasks per day, boss chews them out for spending the rest of it on their phone: 'Okay, then give me more stuff to do?'

JR Atkinson

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Government employee makes $33 an hour, manager insists it should be $10 instead: 'The department head makes $130k a year'

Ally Perry

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Employee leaves corporate job to accept dream startup role, wants to leave after 3 months: 'I feel like I'm wasting time'

Ally Perry

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Business owner ghosts job candidate after discovering she's a close friend's girlfriend, only to be confronted by friend when he finds out: ‘That's uprofessional’

Bar Mor Hazut

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Employee expects promotion with performance review, upper management randomly select him as needing improvement: 'I have had an amazing year'

Ally Perry

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23 Mood-Boosting Pictures of Cats Creating the Perfect Pre-Work Playlist Mood

Sarah Brown

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A Lunchbox of 36 Work Memes to Satisfy Your Midday Craving for Laughs

Jesse Kessenheimer

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New Vogue editor Chloe Malle's awkward moment with Anna Wintour reveals so much about Millennial vs. Boomer work dynamics: 'This is why boomers don't retire'

JR Atkinson

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Staff treats newly hired restaurant server like trash and rushes him during his 1-hour break after a 12-hour shift, so he quits effective immediately: ‘This was my last straw.’

Elna McHilderson

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Remote employee pretends to quit job after partner claims working from home is a hobby, he immediately panics about paying the bills: ‘You said it wasn't that serious’

Bar Mor Hazut

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Man gets strung along and then ghosted by hiring company for 3 months, is told position is eliminated along with an ad, sends hilariously sarcastic ‘Thank You’ email: ‘In a stroke of tone-deaf genius…’

Elna McHilderson

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Employee works 7 days/week from January to June, is denied a raise at the end of the year: 'Effectively, I will lose money this year to inflation'

JR Atkinson

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Entitled boyfriend tries to prevent his girlfriend from taking a promotion, but she refuses to let him drag her down: ‘This opportunity means something to me’

Lana DeGaetano

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Employer calls employee's emergency contact to ask if he can come into work: 'Employer just called my mom to ask if I'd come in, because I didn't answer. I'm 30 years old.'

Emmy Pratt

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