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‘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

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

Laurent Shinar

9 Years, One Corner: The Same People Caught in the Same Moments

Ely Bulnes

Mother kicks entitled family out for gatecrashing her son's private birthday party and stealing food: 'That doesn't matter, my children want some food'

Brad Dickson

Northern lights tour employee instructed to guarantee if auroras will happen or not following customer complaints: 'Tours didn't go out... tourists are leaving 1-star reviews'

Remy Millisky

'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

Employee quiet quits after hitting his $2M savings goal at 40, accidentally gets 4 promotions and becomes a millionaire executive by doing less work: 'I became an expert at saying no'

Isabella Penn