workplace-stories

Healthcare professional faints on the job and gets sent home by boss, only to be scolded for calling out sick the next day: ‘[This] is not an acceptable practice’

Lana DeGaetano

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'Enjoy $7k in rotten shrimp': Manager ignores grocery store employee's warning about freezer temperature, whole seafood section goes bad

Ben Weiss

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Job candidate stands up to company after they offer him $80k salary instead of the $90k they posted in job listing, gets told to back down: ‘This is your first job right out of college'

Bar Mor Hazut

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Employee tells coworkers to stop telling him how to do his job, gets caught breaking the rules by the boss: 'We had 10 trucks to unload'

Remy Millisky

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Parent of 16-year-old coffee shop worker encourages employees to get back at their boss: 'The parents of the other high school kids aren't all OK with this'

Remy Millisky

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20+ Employees who left their toxic bosses and bad coworkers: 'He told me to get a real job... so I left'

Remy Millisky

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Restaurant worker quits after 4 shifts when owner shouts at them during service: 'Finished the shift in silence and handed my notice in today'

JR Atkinson

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Entitled coworker rejects job candidate because she's a fan of Stark Trek: 'She made the mistake of mentioning her hobbies during [the] interview'

Ben Weiss

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Management forbids tech support employees from providing customers solutions to their problems, claiming it makes them look bad: ‘We had customers call back for months’

Bar Mor Hazut

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10+ Overworked employees who reached breaking points on the job: 'I don't get paid enough for this!'

Ben Weiss

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'He crashed a $120,000 car': 20+ Workers who made expensive mistakes at work

Remy Millisky

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Employee of 25+ years takes 10 weeks of PTO, then resigns: 'You need my help? It'll cost 1 mil'

Remy Millisky

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Boss asks freelance worker to change their name so other clients can't contact them: 'If he wants exclusive rights, he should pay for it'

JR Atkinson

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Conniving boss cancels employee's doctor's appointment without their consent, so they file a formal complaint and kickstart a HIPAA violation investigation: ‘I did not authorize these changes”

Lana DeGaetano

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'You're not paid to think': Employee gets boss fired by proving that she was responsible for company losing two major clients after she ignored employee's warnings

Bar Mor Hazut

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40-year-old coworker repeatedly asks 25-year-old colleague for thousands in loans, turning the office into his personal cash machine with nonstop awkward money talk: ‘I'm not the only coworker he's requested this, It's making me feel extremely uneasy’

Etai Eshet

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