workplace-stories

18-year-old working her first job takes her loafing coworker up on his offer after he tells her to "do it herself", takes his job after doing his work for him: 'I’m doing it myself now. With a raise'

Brad Dickson

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‘I am ready to burn all bridges’: Entitled boss expects freshly let-go employee to do more work and train their replacement in the 2 months they have left at the company

Lana DeGaetano

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Cook gets even with petty coworker by planting kitchen messes and refusing to take on her work: '[It's] the radical act of not doing her job for her'

Ben Weiss

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University employee tells off toxic CFO after being denied $2,000 bonus: '2 can play that game!'

Remy Millisky

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Entitled hotel customer books room for the wrong day, expects front desk employee to book a new room despite the hotel being sold out: ‘She is not budging. She just stands there’

Lana DeGaetano

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City records worker denied a promotion for making her job look “too easy” is left watching the rookie she trained get the pay raise and desk upgrade: ‘I’m not quitting. I’m just here. Clocking in. Doing exactly what's asked. No more, no less’

Etai Eshet

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20-year-old almost college-graduated digital marketer is tired of her “corporate girlie” era and is brought to tears every Monday as her dream job turns out to be hours of commute to an uninspired office, to do no meaningful work: ‘all I wanna do is cry’

Etai Eshet

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17-year-old babysitter quits after her boss’s husband, Jason, leaves, making her unpaid primary caretaker of their 1, 5, and 7-year-old unruly kids, dealing with their mom, Mina's daily emotional meltdowns: ‘ The 1-year-old calls me mom’

Etai Eshet

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'Because I'm good at my job, I'm not allowed to grow?': Employee is passed over for promotion because they 'make it look too easy'

JR Atkinson

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Boss refuses to read emails, demands employee print them out for him instead, employee complies by making his desk look like a filing cabinet: 'He couldn’t find anything’

Bar Mor Hazut

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28-year-old man's coworker fakes fainting spells at work for attention, he calls an ambulance on her to teach her a lesson: "Expensive fake heart attack"

Briana Viser

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'I don’t need to be babysat': Project coordinator gets told to stop reminding supervisor about overdue tasks, only to be reprimanded when supervisor misses a deadline

Bar Mor Hazut

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Supervisor tells team project coordinator to stop reminding him about a deadline, misses it: 'Now he thanks me every time I send a reminder'

Brad Dickson

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Coworker insists nurse trades shifts with her so that she can spend time with her 2 children who are under 10-years-old, begins telling their coworkers that the nurse is selfish: 'You don't have kids, so it's easier for you'

Brad Dickson

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Entitled coworker conspires to get 11 employees fired, one employee stands up to her and ends up taking her job: 'She took it too far when she tried to mess with me'

Ben Weiss

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'You will do as I instruct you to do': Warehouse manager enforces temperature policy despite warnings from employees, malicious compliance ensues

Ben Weiss

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