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HR phone call leaks rumors of mass layoffs, all employees retaliate by not working, HR forced to do damage control: 'They'll still sit around and wonder why nobody wants to work anymore'

Ben Weiss

Old fella overlooks early 20-something-year-old mechanic due to her age and being a woman, next customer teaches him a lesson: ‘I happily helped [her] get some petty revenge.’

Elna McHilderson

‘You don't want me on call? You won't be able to call me’: IT worker tired of years of unpaid emergency duty while colleagues bank €500 monthly, gets instant promotion after vanishing for a weekend by switching numbers and cutting landlines

Etai Eshet

HR boss rejects one candidate for being 2 minutes early to the interview instead of 5 minutes, rejects another for wearing brown shoes with a black belt: 'These people had better qualifications than our current team.'

Emmy Pratt

Employee steals $45 of colleague's expensive coffee pods, gets offended when they ask to be repaid: 'I never offered to share them'

Ally Perry

Traveling businesswoman refuses to downgrade her flight by giving up her first-class seat to separated newlyweds, holds her ground when they get haughty and entitled: 'I paid for this seat'

Jesse Kessenheimer

Entitled friend plans a last-minute wedding on a weekday, then throws a tantrum when her best friend's husband can't get PTO: 'It’s happening in only 8 weeks'

Jesse Kessenheimer

Employee earns a 10-precent raise because she refuses to use ChatGPT, supervisor spends months negotiating with upper management for her: ‘I take pride in my work…’

Elna McHilderson

UPDATE: Manager schedules meeting with employee during her PTO, reprimands her when she doesn't show up: 'Her boss called to chastise her for it while we were on vacation'

Ben Weiss

'Everything will be late': Boss denies a salaried employee's work-from-home request, so they refuses to work after hours or answer any work-related calls after 5:00 PM; derails operations

Jesse Kessenheimer

Corporate Influencers are Trying to Romanticize the 9-to-5, and It’s Not Working

JR Atkinson

30-year-old man takes credit for work of 25-year-old female colleague in client meeting, flips out when she calls him out on it: 'Everyone knew it was mine'

Ally Perry

‘I've been in a financial hole for years now and this job would help bring me out of it’: Man considers accepting a job that would give him a $20k+ pay increase, but his girlfriend tries to guilt him into declining because he'd be unavailable on weekends

Lana DeGaetano

Grocery store worker is 'fired' after trial shift, gets told off for not coming in to work: 'A colleague called me angry asking why I am not in'

JR Atkinson

CEO tries to take employee's personal office chair because it's nicer than his, employee keeps it in the back of his car where everyone coming to the office can see it: 'I'm 100% certain they thought I was just going to give in and let him have my chair'

Brad Dickson

Grocery store employee fired after one trial shift, then reprimanded for not showing up to their next shift: 'I didn't know I was scheduled!'

Ben Weiss