workplace-stories

‘No more Mr. Nice Guy’: Employee refuses to work for client after they take him out of project for being too expensive, client admits they made a huge mistake

Bar Mor Hazut

Pharmacy continually schedules worker for 11-8 and Saturday shifts despite them only being available weekday mornings: 'You need to nip this in the bud'

JR Atkinson

Warehouse manager sends new hire on an impossible errand, new hire quietly slips out and takes a 3-hour break

Brad Dickson

Coworker calls same-level colleague 'annoying' after they refuse to do their job for them: 'I'm stuck working with someone who expects me to babysit them'

JR Atkinson

Coworkers compete for the same management position, one instantly freezes the other out: 'She’s been ice cold and goes out of her way to avoid interacting with me'

JR Atkinson

Retired coworker Jeff spots a colleague on medical leave eating dinner and decides to play unpaid HR and tells their managers

Etai Eshet

15+ Retail employees who quit on the spot

Remy Millisky

Boss approves employee's email asking client for a raise, backtracks and chews them out when client denies it, cuts their salary by 30%

JR Atkinson

Manufacturer helps client with urgent order by supplying differently specced parts at client's agreement, client still makes official complaint because the parts weren't to normal specification, manufacturer delays their orders thereafter in retaliation

Brad Dickson

'I’m not going to wake up at 8am just to make sure someone doesn’t need their shift covered that day': Coworker sets boundaries with colleagues, they call her out for not covering on her day off

JR Atkinson

Boss admits she intentionally gave one employee extra work to test how they cope, while her coworker, Sue, slacks and leaves them handling whole project alone

Etai Eshet

Manager refuses to let employees eat at workstation, employee books the conference room and eats their lunch there every day: ‘I'm sitting alone at a twenty-person table’

Bar Mor Hazut

Coworkers snoop through colleague's private social media just to screenshot and send to manager: 'She sent them a selfie I took at home and put on my Instagram story'

JR Atkinson

10 Unprofessional employees: '[He's] hiding when there's work to do'

Remy Millisky

Boss denies 25-year veteran employee’s fully prepared PTO request, blocking their vacation despite having plenty of accrued time off

Etai Eshet

Boss refuses to let employee use WFH perk, then proceeds to use it herself every week: ‘She used multiple excuses to block the staff from using the option’

Bar Mor Hazut