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'Now he's hinting that my performance slipped because I'm 'too comfortable'': Remote worker moves abroad to Portugal, doesn't realize that his boss is setting up a paper trail to fire him

Jesse Kessenheimer

‘My equipment is worth $25,000’: Manager pressures an employee to work overtime at a company event because they're a hobbyist photographer, but he refuses to risk his expensive gear

Jesse Kessenheimer

'Easiest 175k I ever made': 20+ Employees who got paid to goof off all day

Remy Millisky

Employees are forced to cut boiled steaks with plastic utensils at mess of an 'employee appreciation dinner': 'The worst part was: they locked us inside the building'

JR Atkinson

Company sends package to wrong address, asks random recipient to print out a label and take it to UPS: 'This isn't my problem'

JR Atkinson

Employee starts new job in 4 days while their clingy, ‘helpless’ coworker will be left to their own devices: ‘I've almost made myself insane from trying to help her’

Lana DeGaetano

Coworker takes entire boxes home of office snacks, manager locks the cabinet in response: 'Over four Tuesdays in a row the cabinet is half empty by 2 pm and [he] has a tote bag'

JR Atkinson

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

JR Atkinson

41-year-old unemployed boyfriend tells 25-year-old girlfriend who works 3 jobs he doesn't ever want to be an employee again: 'His mother covers all his living expenses.'

Emmy Pratt

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

Ally Perry

A Midmorning Snack of 22 Work Memes for Employees Hungry to Clock Out Early

Jesse Kessenheimer

Company forces employees to re-apply for their jobs at an $8k salary cut: 'I've been there 6 years. Built entire systems, trained new staff, covered shifts constantly'

JR Atkinson

Data analyst refuses to answer work messages outside of working hours, coworker 7 hours ahead protests when she won't respond to 'urgent' problem at 9 PM: 'On a random Tuesday I counted 47 notifications after 6 PM'

Ally Perry

‘I struggled to keep from smiling on the call': Remote employee offered an 8-month severance package just days before quitting when their company initiates a return-to-office mandate

Jesse Kessenheimer

Top performing sales employee caught scamming the internal employee rewards system, pocketing an extra $20 that costs them their job: 'Internal theft is internal theft'

Jesse Kessenheimer

Employee purposefully slows down productivity to show how he's carrying the team, his coworkers flip out: 'I was the mug that covered for everybody and was then doing 5 peoples jobs, [then] I decided to work at the pace of everyone else'

JR Atkinson