workplace-stories

Employee challenges power-tripping CEO by denying him coffee at company workshop: 'We can't have coffee? You can't have coffee!'

Ben Weiss

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Nursing home asks admin workers to help with landscaping at the beginning of each shift, suggest they bring their own rakes: 'Use up all PTO. Find new job.'

JR Atkinson

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Company revokes offer from job candidate without explanation after candidate attempts to negotiate the salary: ‘This feels like shady business practice’

Bar Mor Hazut

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'They kept messing it up': Employee refuses to come to work after boss insists on complicated shift schedules despite being warned it creates confusion, leading to a dispute

Bar Mor Hazut

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17-year-old gets fired for not personally calling in sick after her trip to the ER: 'Her mother and grandmother both call in on her behalf. Still gets fired'

Ben Weiss

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‘[It was] a 30-minute humiliation session’: Job seeker is berated by interviewer for having a PhD, despite listing higher education as a preference in the job description

Lana DeGaetano

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‘She kept calling me a liar’: Employee coming off of 12-hour shift rejects coworker's last-minute plea for shift coverage, coworker bombards her with a lengthy, audacious text message

Lana DeGaetano

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Boss “concerned” about 26-year-old employee’s love life, turning workplace chatter into awkward lectures: ‘I don't understand why he's so concerned about my relationship he knows nothing about”

Etai Eshet

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Upper management bans above-average reviews to avoid raises, pushing employees to question why they should even try: ‘I was shocked when I got a “met expectations,” 3/5 across the board’

Etai Eshet

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‘Made me feel awful—he completely invalidated me’: Boss publicly mocks new hire on first week, prompting employee to leave meeting feeling defeated and questioning their abilities

Etai Eshet

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Woman decides to confront husband's female coworker after she refuses to stop asking him out, husband fears he will lose his job as a result: ‘Don’t confront her’

Bar Mor Hazut

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Construction workers maliciously comply with expensive project plans: 'We followed the plans to the letter, just like you said'

Remy Millisky

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'Aren't you the guy who told everyone in the office I cheated on my husband with a white or Asian man?' Mom calls out her husband's coworker who said he couldn't be the father of her baby because of his race in front of their boss

Emmy Pratt

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Manager scolds employee for leaving his desk to use the restroom, employee drives her crazy by messaging her constantly: 'I made sure to let her know every time I left my desk'

Ben Weiss

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New Corporate VP fires crucial team members, engineers maliciously comply with new policies, leading to financial mess: 'All the [employees] who were let go were rehired'

Ben Weiss

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'My mid-year review which should have been completed in July wasn't completed until November': Boss gives $0 bonus to employee after they find a new job, boss claims they 'need improvement'

JR Atkinson

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