workplace-stories

'Who do you think you're hiring?': Candidate shares over-the-top application for bartending job in rural area

Ben Weiss

'She fumbled the job, the relationship, and a free ride to work': 27-year-old man recruits GF to work with him, discovers she's a nightmare employee

Remy Millisky

Employee complains that she doesn't have a car to drive to and from work, assumes that her coworker will drive her home despite living in the opposite direction: 'Some coworkers think I was inconsiderate'

Emmy Pratt

Manager schedules ‘mandatory’ staff meeting during the day, night shift employee shows up in sleepwear to send him a message: ’[It] cut into my sleep schedule’

Lana DeGaetano

2 Bosses forbid employees from discussing wages but are forced into an awkward retreat when employees call them out: ‘I guess TWO different managers didn't know the law’

Etai Eshet

Work colleague helps himself to coworker's daily homemade lunch, finally gets called out on his gluttony by another coworker and loses it: ‘[He] got extremely red’

Lana DeGaetano

'I work to live, I don't live to work': 20 ways people messed up their job interviews

Ben Weiss

20+ Fridge thieves who helped themselves to lunch: 'He was expressly forbidden from being in the break room ever again'

Remy Millisky

Employee gets back at manager who refuses extra leg room request: 'Enjoy paying for my business class seat'

Remy Millisky

Employee finds-out their manager earns a significant salary by delegating work and taking credit for their accomplishments without contributing much, receives witty comebacks on the discovery

Etai Eshet

New hire gets fired in front of everyone after two shifts on the job, owner claims it's due to a 'mix-up' with another hire, no one believes him: ‘He’s a complete loser'

Bar Mor Hazut

20-year-old who stays calm under pressure wonders what jobs might value their ability to remain unfazed receives amusing comments: ‘Unemployment’

Etai Eshet

Hiring manager rejects job candidate after failing to schedule an interview for over a month, candidate responds to the rejection email: ‘Good luck or whatever’

Bar Mor Hazut

Manager declines employee's requests for in-house training, claiming there's no budget, employee convinces higher-ups to pay for an entire master's degree instead: ‘They ended up paying me $12,000’

Bar Mor Hazut

'My company is stealing $20,000 from me': Employee denied the same pay as coworkers with the same job by new boss, begins retaliation

Ben Weiss

Restaurant employee gets petty revenge on employer who stole $4,000: 'I handed him my keys and quit on the spot'

Remy Millisky