workplace-stories

UPDATE: 'CEO didn't understand what my department did apparently': New employee decides she's a supervisor and refuses training, workers maliciously comply with her demands

Remy Millisky

Retail worker declines to come in on their day off after management fired 3 of 6 coworkers, management 'reconsiders [their] reliability': 'What clothing store is slammed at 8 AM?'

JR Atkinson

'Either reduce my hours [or] pay me more!': Employee working 6 days a week forced to take a 30% pay cut, hands in his resignation and gets job with a top client

Ben Weiss

Manager forces employees to put their phones in a basket and forbids from taking them out until the end of shift, one employee rebels: ‘I’m a grown woman, not a teenager'

Bar Mor Hazut

61-year-old coworker spreads rumors on new hire, enlists her husband to fuel a false office narrative that she’s angry and unstable: ‘He asked me if I ate today because “we don’t want you going off on nobody cus you starving”’

Etai Eshet

‘He just stooped to a whole new level of useless today and my brain cannot comprehend it’: Useless produce department worker ignores tasks and dodges responsibility every shift, pushing coworkers into overtime to clean up his mess

Etai Eshet

Employee forced to take the red-eye home, refuses to come to work the next day, leaving boss scrambling: 'I came back to work the following day to a flurry of emails'

Ben Weiss

15+ Employees who watched their coworkers get fired: 'HR cleaned out his desk within 10 minutes'

Remy Millisky

Employee gets fired after never showing up to work, uses ex-boss as a reference, he maliciously complies: 'IF you can get Karen to work for you, you will be VERY lucky'

Ben Weiss

15+ Bosses who had the worst workers: '[She was] sleeping on the job. She was a lifeguard. Fired on the spot'

Remy Millisky

Management punishes workers for celebrating coworker's goodbye with pizza and cake on their lunch break, calls it 'time fraud': 'They may restructure our office area in response'

JR Atkinson

Secretary proves to the office who's really in charge after she puts boss in his place for attempting to go against a long-established policy: ‘She's the Real Boss’

Bar Mor Hazut

Boss sends a 4am email demanding employee attend a 7am conference, then blames them for not driving 2 hours and missing booth setup: ‘My boss is notorious for never reading an email’

Etai Eshet

Boss-employee romance turns office into personal love nest, leaving coworker third-wheeling their jobs and taking on unfinished tasks: ‘it didn’t really bother me until it started to affect my job’

Etai Eshet

“You can’t keep telling us what to do”: 35-year-old man puts new entitled 25-year-old female coworker in her place after she demands they change the entire office rules for her, causing HR stir

Briana Viser

Railroad supervisor loses company $940,000 after his demand to change workers' schedule causes massive production delays: ‘He turned three shades of purple’

Bar Mor Hazut