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Company denies leave request sent in 6 months prior, claims they've run out of PTO after draining it for closure days

JR Atkinson

Full-time hospitality employee demands part-time colleague covers shift so she can be with 2-year-old, gets annoyed when she refuses: 'I'm so worried my daughter is alone'

Ally Perry

New-hire fast food worker told to stand in one place and not move, they comply, standing still and not helping customers for more than 30 minutes: 'I’m sorry, I would get that for you but I’m not allowed'

Brad Dickson

Employee quiet quits for 4 years straight, gets a raise and then promoted, they tell how they did it: 'I got a raise and a promotion'

Brad Dickson

Boss scolds employee during performance review for doing the bare minimum, while also claiming that she meets all of her goals: 'If they want to see bare minimum they’ll for sure see it starting now.'

Emmy Pratt

25 Work Memes Working Hard to Reward Hardworking Workers With Laughs (May 18, 2025)

Jesse Kessenheimer

Coworker constantly expects employee to cover for her lateness, manager starts getting suspicious: 'I panicked'

Ally Perry

Remote job asks employees to video their work-from-home space for social media, employees bristle at invasion of privacy

JR Atkinson

College student applies for graduate job, company demands he complete 40 hour assignment for application: 'I thought I was crushing it'

Ally Perry

Teacher conspires to 'lose' 60 student essays because she doesn't want to grade them: 'I got through 3 of them before I contemplated dumping them all in the trash.'

Emmy Pratt

Manager hesitates to criticize high-performing employee who refuses to document work: 'The rest of the team is stuck'

Ally Perry

CEO berates employee over their facial expression during company meeting

JR Atkinson

Warehouse employee reports safety issue, company changes his job title without telling him: 'I never signed anything, never got a new offer letter, and nobody told me this was a formal change'

Ally Perry

Workplace implements AI-powered cameras to track employee's every move, reprimands them for tiny details

JR Atkinson

Employee gets second job offer with $150k salary, manager wife argues it's a 'lack of integrity' to take it: 'She had to fire someone'

Ally Perry

Woman completes 4 rounds of interviews before learning company already chose internal hire, realizes she was only there to “validate” the promotion: ‘I was never a real candidate. I was a prop in their internal politics.’

Inés Soubrie