workplace-stories

25+ Interviews that could not have gone worse for the job candidate: 'Every answer was "I don't know"'

Remy Millisky

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'My boss called my mom': Employee quits, boss refuses to accept their resignation, calls employee's mother to step in

Ben Weiss

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'It triggers her into speaking tongues': 25+ Distracting Habits Coworkers Annoy Others With

JR Atkinson

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'I caught a guy trying to buy a $30k boat': 20+ Employees who overspent on their company credit card

Remy Millisky

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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

Remy Millisky

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

Ben Weiss

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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

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

Remy Millisky

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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

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