workplace discussion

Try-hard coworker constantly one-ups employee in workplace group chat: ‘Honestly feels forced’

Lana DeGaetano

Employee uses loophole in company's half day policy, ends up working just one hour a day every Friday: 'Half days entirely depend on the set lunch time? Alright then!'

Ben Weiss

‘I’m two days in, and the "red flag" list is already a mile long’: Designer wants to quit job 2 days in after 8 months of unemployment

Etai Eshet

University admin retires after five months’ notice, managers ignore her replacement warnings and blame her when chaos hits: ‘Now they're paying the price'’

Etai Eshet

Company forces lab employees to use PTO for a weather-related closure: ‘This cannot be legal. The company is deciding for us’

Etai Eshet

Supervisor insists employee can't work from home after blizzard drops 10 inches of snow, employee takes vacation day instead, gets a free snow day fully paid after working 10 minutes: '[He tells me] I need to drive the 50+ miles to work or take vacation'

Brad Dickson

‘After more than 20 years working there, she was fired.’ Loyal employee fired 4 years before retirement by her former mentee, who climbed the ranks with questionable methods

Etai Eshet

Employee discovers that they no longer have a shop via a Facebook post from their employer announcing a closing-down sale: 'I found out I no longer have a job from a Facebook post'

Brad Dickson

10 new hires share what made them quit on their first day on the job: 'The microwave [in the break room] was coin-operated'

Brad Dickson

Woman tries to "return" a coat she stole from a thrift store’s off-limits donation cart, claimed it was hers, and threw a tantrum when staff refused: ‘[She] snapped instantly from tears to rage’

Etai Eshet

Coworker demands company accommodate her schedule for parenting, but chooses late hours to avoid her child and complains about missing time with them: '[She's] an absolute nightmare of a person'

Etai Eshet

Handshake deal between boss and employee for a bonus in exchange for doing the boss's work goes sideways when the boss suddenly leaves and the new boss refuses to uphold it: 'I was successfully fulfilling my role and extra work'

Brad Dickson

Boss retaliates employee’s wage complaint with new rules, cameras, and strict policies aimed directly at them: ‘I gave so much of myself to this company for many years’

Etai Eshet

UPDATE: “[She] stole my position and now I get to watch her struggle worse than I did in it”: Teacher loses leadership role to a colleague who now has trouble with the same demands and responsibilities

Etai Eshet

High school night-shift custodian snaps at a phone-obsessed coworker, Bill, then worries she crossed a line by judging his personal life, talking about his younger sister: ‘I'm starting to think I should have kept my mouth shut’

Etai Eshet

Coworker replies all all 3000-employee company-wide emails with pointless “thanks” and “noted” messages, flooding inboxes, making whole office slowly lose it: ‘During lunch yesterday I got three separate reply-all emails from her within 20 minutes’

Etai Eshet