workplace-stories

Employee discreetly looks for a new job, then discovers a hiring manager contacted their boss and revealed their intentions, boss confronts them: ‘Not cool’

Bar Mor Hazut

Company lies in job description, cuts employee’s schedule after hiring 8 new employees to same position: ‘I was told an average work week is “32-37 hours.” next week and I am scheduled for 12 hours’

Etai Eshet

Executive orders fired employee to keep working, running errands and monitoring emails without pay, threatens their career when they refuse: ‘now, after being fired I’m supposed to be a team player?’

Etai Eshet

New supervisor reorganizes labor, leaving inspector to work a loading bay on his own, he refuses to work it: 'Goods started arriving, but I didn’t touch a single box'

Brad Dickson

Boss forces employee to work overtime to complete a project, only to fire him the next day without providing compensation, employee withholds the passwords to access the project in response: ‘I walked out’

Bar Mor Hazut

Woman abruptly fired after being pressured to stay up until 2 am to finish a project, she withholds company passwords in retaliation: “No two weeks, no severance pay”

Briana Viser

Boss demands fired employee return their uniform despite employee paying hundreds of dollars for them, employee returns them covered in cat fur as payback: ‘You didn't say they had to be clean’

Bar Mor Hazut

20+ Job interviews that could not have gone worse: '[I] had a guy take almost every pen in the room'

Remy Millisky

Boss tests employee with one week to prove himself, employee follows up with resignation: 'You were lucky to have me'

Ben Weiss

Content writer gets paid 30% of agreed-upon compensation for project, gets even with ex-colleague when roles are reversed: 'He promptly transferred the remaining amount'

Ben Weiss

Employee teases "big reveal," irritated coworker immediately guesses correctly: ‘She stole her own thunder’

Remy Millisky

Nurse refuses to cover unreliable coworker's shift because she won't cover their Valentine's Day shift in return, coworker is fired as a result: ‘I said no chance’

Lana DeGaetano

Salty boss refuses to give employee shifts after they can't work one weekend, employee refuses to return his uniform unless boss picks it up from their house

Lana DeGaetano

Boss calls 20-year-old woman working her first job "ungrateful" for not working unpaid overtime: 'Now I'm worried they're going to cut my hours or make my life harder'

Brad Dickson

Employee gets fired without warning for "poor performance" after doing the jobs of 3 other people: 'Fired because I put in too much effort during the busiest time of year and was fired when it got quieter again'

Brad Dickson

Hotel quiet fires porter over scheduling conflicts, they refuse to return their uniform when their boss demands it back: 'You want your uniform back? Come and get it'

Brad Dickson