workplace-stories

Employee helps friend land a job at her company, gets denied raise while friend gets paid $10,000 more than her: 'Should I confront my CEO?'

Ben Weiss

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'How do you feel about overtime?': 20+ Job interview signs that hint at a bad work environment

Remy Millisky

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Corporate asks entire team of 30 employees to share their Spotify Wrapped for team-building: '[This is] so emblematic of something I dislike about work culture'

Ben Weiss

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Employee bristles at workplace's demand for entire team's Spotify Wrapped data as a form of corporate team-building: 'What if someone just has unorthodox tastes that they'd rather not share'

JR Atkinson

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'My manager told me to quit so I did': 23-year-old server told by Karen and Kevin owners she's not needed, so she quits and business plummets

Ben Weiss

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‘It's messed up': Employee gets pressured by family to call in sick instead of working on Christmas Eve, she refuses to risk her job in favor of a family dinner

Bar Mor Hazut

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'Look busy!': Student worker gets paid $10,000 to sit on his phone, maliciously complying with boss's orders to take his time on new project

Ben Weiss

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Employee maliciously complies after being told to take shorter breaks: 'I decided to take short breaks every five minutes'

Brad Dickson

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'It's just very weird and customers aren't happy': Petty dollar store boss forces employees to pay out of pocket for supplies

Remy Millisky

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Guy lets ex-boss join his DnD campaign, enacts payback for making him quit: 'They got what they deserved!'

Ben Weiss

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Update: Workplace escape room debacle pits boss against his 29-year-old employee: 'Should I have let us fail to spare his ego?'

Remy Millisky

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Boss demands employees provide details about their PTO, forcing them to lie to keep their private life, private: ‘Causes me unnecessary stress’

Etai Eshet

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Boss demands employee sell their sports car and buy a new truck for the company, employee firmly refuses, gets fired as a result: 'It's like asking me to sell my child'

Bar Mor Hazut

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'The advertisement... almost made me quit': Electronics store worker faces off with confused customers and Karens who didn't read the fine print

Remy Millisky

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IT boss insists that salaried employee has to work during vacation, employee discovers a clever way to avoid their boss: 'I won't be expected to work?'

Remy Millisky

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'Incorrect appointments were scheduled, or not even made at all': Medical office worker shares what happens when their quirkiest colleague was put in charge of patient check-outs

Remy Millisky

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