workplace-stories

Teenager weighs down entitled customer's car with 30 bags of concrete: '[They're] on your car, just like you asked'

Remy Millisky

'That's not only inappropriate, it's just plain weird': Boss barges into employee's bathroom to get them after a 1 minute break from a company meeting

JR Atkinson

'Worst Secret Santa ever!': Boss "gifts" employees a Febreeze plug-in, mismatched pens, and a used gift card for office Secret Santa

Ben Weiss

Update: Former manager shows up to office Christmas party anyway, wife makes a scene: 'Jeff was mortified'

Ben Weiss

Employee offers to fix store's computer, boss refuses and calls a professional, only to reach the same employee and pay X4 the rate: ‘You fool, I am the professional’

Bar Mor Hazut

Employee confronts boss about her inability to keep office morale up, boss refuses to listen, claiming employees are happy as long as they don't quit: ‘That's her metric'

Bar Mor Hazut

Boss demands employee ‘stay in their lane’ after they help manager with his projects, employee complies, resulting in manager drowning in work: ‘Not my circus’

Bar Mor Hazut

Entire team gets let go before Christmas, only for company to post pictures of over-the-top Holiday party: 'That looked expensive and like a grand ol' time'

Ben Weiss

Employees pressured by HR to pitch in $20 for the CEO's Christmas present: '[He makes] at least 5x what I make!'

Ben Weiss

Kitchen worker asked to train new hire, finds out the new hire is making $2 more than them: 'This is just part of a larger pattern of disrespect with this company'

Brad Dickson

Employee gives two weeks' notice while traveling for work, employer cancels their flight home: 'I have worked for this company for 3 years...'

Brad Dickson

'My boss kept cutting my hours more and more': Sandwich shop employee discovers he's been training the new hire to replace him, cue malicious compliance

Ben Weiss

Call center employees protest wannabe-CEO's meeting: 'In comes the Head Karen'

Remy Millisky

Factory worker follows manager's orders, costing the company thousands of dollars, managers gets fired: ' I was ordered to direct all questions to the "senior" worker'

Ben Weiss

'I'm going to be struggling stuck in a cold truck for Christmas': Truck driver abandoned with no money or gas after boss ghosts him during the holidays

Ben Weiss

Woman puts husband's colleague and self-proclaimed ‘work-wife’ in her place when he hosts his office Christmas party in their home: ‘[She] is crazy’

Lana DeGaetano