workplace-stories

‘I had a job offer in hand and was preparing to start work, when I get a call from HR that the offer has been rescinded’: Boss gives a poor reference to a former employee, costing them a new position within the company

Etai Eshet

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Employee discreetly looks for another job, only for boss to find out and demand they stop the search, employee refuses to back down: ‘I cannot stay at this job’

Bar Mor Hazut

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'Gave notice, got fired instead': Employee quits job but offers boss to stay until they find replacement, only to be told to leave effective immediately

Bar Mor Hazut

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20+ Poorly written job postings riddled with typos and misspellings: 'Someone should get fired for this!'

Ben Weiss

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Employee discovers that IT is monitoring his every move via his work phone, confronts boss immediately: 'They're trying to listen and track everything we're doing'

Ben Weiss

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'Don't stop baking until I say stop': Assistant manager berates baker at bagel shop for not cooking fast enough, malicious compliance ensues

Ben Weiss

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'They've now turned on me': Staff throw party in the breakroom and exclude new hire, coworkers blame her after boss finds employee eating alone and bans all office events

Isabella Penn

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Power-hungry boss singles out employee, sets them up for failure and fabricates mistakes forcing employee to weigh whether to expose her or walk away: ‘The final blow came when my performance grading was adjusted retrospectively’

Etai Eshet

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15+ Workers who quit on the spot in front of their bad bosses: 'This is one of the most unprofessional management styles I have ever seen'

Remy Millisky

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Manager lands employee in hot water with coworkers after failing to communicate tasks effectively and quits soon after, employee sends them a clever ‘parting gift’

Lana DeGaetano

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'We are still waiting’: Manager demands employees wait for her approval to start closing restaurant, leading manager to pay them overtime when she forgets to follow through

Bar Mor Hazut

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Company forced to pay $6000 to fix tech issue after boss demands sole IT employee deletes his account on his last day at the job: ‘You asked me to do this’

Bar Mor Hazut

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“They're just stressing people to come up with lists of who to fire if they don't quit first’: Company forces employees back to an unworkable office with missing equipment, non-functional workspaces, and zero effort to support them

Etai Eshet

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Boss hires inadequate daughter to replace top employee, employee refuses to train daughter and quits job instead: ‘She's not fit for the job’

Bar Mor Hazut

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Candidate finds interviewer's insistent line of inappropriate personal questioning off-putting, they leave: 'We can’t continue this interview'

Brad Dickson

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‘I flat out said no’: Employee refuses to train her underqualified replacement after being passed up on a promotion she was ‘heavily encouraged’ to apply for

Lana DeGaetano

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