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80-year-old restaurant owner threatens to withhold wages if employees forget to clock out: 'Nice of Hank to provide written evidence of his law breaking'

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'It all started when...': Pour a dash of these laughs into your morning coffee for extra energy (July 21, 2026)

Elna McHilderson

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A bare-faced young woman who doesn't feel like she has to wear makeup to go to her job as a teaching assistant, especially considering that her school forbids students from wearing makeup.

Friend calls 21-year-old teaching assistant unprofessional and lazy because she doesn't wear makeup to work: 'Our school prohibits students wearing makeup.'

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Employee makes a blunder on an Excel file, coworkers ice him out and talk behind his back: 'I hate corporate culture, it's full of vultures'

29 Soft Cat Memes to Comfort You When You’ve Had Handle Hard Things Like Work | thumbnail includes one image which shows an orange cat sitting in bath next to toy balls ‘My cat brought his balls into the bathtub. He’s displaying them for me.’

29 Soft Cat Memes Fur When You've Had a Hard Day

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At first, I thought I was going to read about something terrible a coworker had done to harm her teammates, but it turned out to be much less harmful than I expected, and it ended up revealing more about the teammate who wants revenge than about the lying coworker. To me, in normal customer service jobs where you are no

Woman lies straight into coworker's face, leaving him questioning how to get back at her: ‘I just sat there like “uhum”, and tried not to roll my eyes’

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‘Why are people this miserable and pathetic?’: Entitled customer yells at a customer service agent for something he couldn’t possibly have influence over

Force majeure This is the typical discordance that emerges when we think about a problem by looking at the bigger picture rather than its every detail. We’d like to think that upper management takes every part of the company into consideration when they make big decisions like laying people off, but sometimes they don’t, and they

Upper management fires 4 employees from the same team without letting their manager know beforehand: ‘Had I been asked I could have pointed leadership to the actual underperformer on my team’

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It’s time to RTO It’s hard to think it’s all for the best when you just signed the lease on an apartment 45 minutes away from the office you now have to return to. Some things we can’t predict, and

Company announces RTO immediately after employee signs a lease on an apartment 45 minutes away from the office: ‘My manager knew I was moving, I told him directly, he said nothing. HR knew, I updated my address in the system’

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Employee identifies $10k pay gap between him and coworker with the same role, boss dangles it in front of him as a bonus

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Potential hire gets rejected from camp counseling job, only to be contacted by boss a week before camp starts, asking about their first shift: ‘I didn't think I got the job’

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Fantasy job search. This employee should’ve gotten a job in acting; the way he pulled a performance and everybody believed it. I’ve exaggerated things on my curriculum when I was young, not to the extent of lying, but there were some exaggerations here and there, and I still didn’t get hired!

Employee lies on his resume and gets hired at a high-paying IT company, and now struggles with his day-to-day and fears yearly evaluation: 'My buddy basically taught me everything I know and helped me learn as I go'

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Boss tells employee who works 65-70 hours/week to take on community service instead when she asks for a raise

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Grandparent refuses to babysit grandchildren during summer break without getting paid, parents claim: ‘You need to step up as a grandparent’

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‘9 to 5, what a way to make a living’: 28 Memes for all the job-hunting people looking for their first work experience

Giuliana Tiscioni

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‘I genuinely feel like I’m watching a real-life Mean Girls spinoff play out in real time’: Employee notices his colleagues are constantly aggressively gossiping about everyone else, and they are also doing it to each other