workplace-stories

26-year-old "loyal client" spends $460 on waxing services, waxer closes shop doors and refuses to refund her: 'Just sue her... slam dunk case'

Remy Millisky

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Workplace asks employee to clock out for 30 minute lunch break but requires them to continue working: 'If you are working, you have to be paid'

JR Atkinson

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Carpooling coworker loses it after employee makes her late for work so she can cuddle with her cat for 15 more minutes: 'That animal is my baby!'

Ben Weiss

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Hardworking employee receives lower bonus than employee they hired and trained, proving 2.5 years of labor means absolutely nothing: ‘I’m just extremely disappointed’

Lana DeGaetano

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Employee suspects coworker blocked them on corporate chat software because they were promoted to a better role: ‘[We] have never really gotten along’

Lana DeGaetano

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Restaurant employee is ostracized after speaking up about the manager's newborn baby being in the kitchen during working hours: ‘Holy OSHA violation’

Lana DeGaetano

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Worker is asked to train new employee, threatens to quit when they find out trainee makes $3/hr more than them: 'I immediately called my boss and said how this is a slap to the face'

JR Atkinson

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Apathetic boss calls employee ‘overdramatic’ for taking a PTO day after they put down their sick family cat, employee reports boss to HR: ‘The way my boss handled this was just unacceptable’

Lana DeGaetano

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'I told him he couldn't spend 4-8 hours on break': Managers who were paired with the world's worst employees

Remy Millisky

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Employer denies PTO to a remote employee with 90 hours accrued, desperate to care for his declining mom, pushing the worker to find fresh job offer and consider the most satisfying way to walk out: “for as much financial security as I can get”

Etai Eshet

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Mom of 17-year-old daughter makes her apply to 42 jobs: 'You owe your child a huge apology'

Remy Millisky

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‘Good worker quits, it signals to others it's time’: 15 Employees discuss times they or their coworkers quit and started mass exoduses

Lana DeGaetano

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‘I have to watch her get paid to do nothing’: Animal shelter employee is fed up with slacker coworker who refuses to pick up after cats and dogs

Lana DeGaetano

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'If you pay peanuts you get monkeys': Boss gives employee salary 'adjustment' down to minimum wage, is surprised when they immediately quit

JR Atkinson

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'We sent 10k copies of a useless calendar to a client': 30+ Employees who worked with very incompetent coworkers

Remy Millisky

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Forklift driver at 1.4-million-square-foot factory strictly follows strict no-phones rule by shutting his off, sending managers on a wild goose chase every shift as their own policy backfires: ‘I received like 30 calls a day that were left unanswered’

Etai Eshet

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