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

JR Atkinson

‘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

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

Remy Millisky

‘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

‘She demanded I send an apology email to the whole team. I told her I would not lie just to make her look better’: Employee refuses to apologize to boss after exposing her for taking credit mid-meeting, and the boss responds with silent treatment

Etai Eshet

Man comes to the heartwarming realization that he finds his cat asleep on his pillow is because she feels purrfectly safe smelling his scent before bed: 'There's always a cat-shaped imprint on my pillow when I get home from work'

Blake Seidel

New software developer finishes a major project early but is left with no work for weeks, spending days bored in his cubicle and wondering if he’s the only one paid to do almost nothing: “Seriously, is work like this for everyone?”

Emma Saven

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

The Best Relatable Work Memes This Week (November 10, 2025)

Ally Perry

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

Ely Bulnes

Mom refuses to postpone vacation to Spain after husband claims he's too busy with work to travel, she decides to take the kids and go without him: 'I'd been looking forward to this'

Bar Mor Hazut

Café owner demands bakery lead order more product due to upcoming holiday, ignoring and overriding their knowledge and experience, they comply and then quit when they're blamed for the wasted product: 'So I did it. I doubled my regular order'

Brad Dickson

'My boss trusts a broken AI bot more than the people actually doing the work': Boss blames employees when their AI productivity tool fails to update properly—why trying to fix workflows that aren't broken might not be such a good idea

Brad Dickson

20 Silly Photos of Snow Puppers Playing Outdoors While You Have to Work

Laurent Shinar

‘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

'[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