workplace-stories

Boss ambushes employee with a PIP, employee retaliates by resigning the next day

JR Atkinson

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Employee is laid off with 7 months severance days before they were going to quit: 'You hit the jackpot'

JR Atkinson

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Manager tries to gaslight a robotic developer into doing 3 jobs for 1 salary by manipulating the job description, pushing him to start job hunting: ‘[He] is deliberately misquoting and cherry-picking my contract’

Etai Eshet

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57-year-old Executive assistant catches her boss getting cozy with a young woman from logistics, lies when his wife asks if anything abnormal is happening, deciding silence is safer than risking her job

Etai Eshet

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Boss chews out employee for not inviting their coworkers to their birthday brunch: 'Haha are you joking'

JR Atkinson

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Employee copies and sends company documents to competitors after company fires him and demands that he train his replacement before leaving: ‘He brought a USB drive’

Bar Mor Hazut

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80-year-old boss publicly scolds young bookstore employee over tiny mistakes: ‘He keeps publicly reprimanding me over increasingly ridiculous things’

Etai Eshet

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Employee Claims He ‘Can’t Trust’ New Coworker Because She Pushes Back on His Instructions

JR Atkinson

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Business Owner Threatens to Assign Volunteers to Work His Private Event on a Saturday if His Employees Don't Willingly Volunteer: 'We Don't Work Saturdays.'

Emmy Pratt

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Employee accidentally joins boss's private HR call about them: 'Am I going to get fired?'

JR Atkinson

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Man arrives to a job interview 7 minutes early but leaves after he’s made to wait almost half an hour to be interviewed: ‘When it got to around 27 minutes, I decided my time was more important than that’

Olivia Arocena

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Employee asks for tips on how to deal with a coworker who constantly reports everyone else’s slip-ups: ‘They turn every little thing into a investigation, escalations and somehow remember every mistake you’ve made’

Olivia Arocena

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Ohio firm sues a former employee for $3,000 over a training repayment clause tied to basic onboarding videos and PDFs: ‘This cannot be how the system is supposed to work’

Etai Eshet

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Coworker calls out colleague for wearing the same outfit every day: 'She's mentally still stuck in middle school'

JR Atkinson

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23-year-old employee is continually excluded from work events: 'They all just ignored you'

JR Atkinson

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Employee considers leaving his job due to overly confident coworker’s attitude: ‘AI gives you generic answers based on patterns, and this guy takes those answers, shares them with us like they’re some groundbreaking strategy’

Olivia Arocena

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