workplace-stories

Employee gets back from work trip only to find out their position became redundant due to restructuring, faces termination from dream job: ‘I thought I had finally made it’

Bar Mor Hazut

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Boss demands employee rewrite their job description with more responsibilities, but refuses to give them raise in return, employee arrives empty-handed instead: ‘I'll stick with that, thanks’

Bar Mor Hazut

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Customer service rep gets paid to play video games after management's misguided instructions leave them without any work: 'For 5 days, I sat in my spare bedroom/office playing video games, all while logged in'

Brad Dickson

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40-year-old company man gets passed over for promotion in favor of younger coworker, starts quiet quitting: 'Why should I care about them?'

Ben Weiss

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Micromanager threatens employee if he sees him wearing headphones in the office again, so employee invests in invisible earbuds

Ben Weiss

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'A coworker... started suggesting I didn't go to college': Coworker accuses employee of lying to get their job

Remy Millisky

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Mom calls the cops on Halloween store employee after he refuses to give her a refund for a dinosaur costume for 8-12 year olds she bought for her 17-year-old son: 'The receipt literally said "All sales final after October 25th"'

Emmy Pratt

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‘My union rep will be in touch’: Boss demands employee provide a doctor's note for every sick day but refuses to pay for it, employee gets the demand in writing, then files for grievance 

Bar Mor Hazut

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Woman Refuses to Be Doormat Ever Again After Cancelling Wedding Anniversary Plans to Cover Desparate Coworker's Shift Only to Find Out She Just Wanted to Watch a Movie

Ely Bulnes

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Boss demands software service rep stick to the script causing client catastrophe: 'My boss said, "Just follow the script"… so I did—all the way to a million-dollar client meltdown'

Brad Dickson

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'There are rats in the kitchen': 30 employees and servers share the industry secrets their bosses do not want them to reveal

Ben Weiss

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‘I stopped coming into the office’: HR never approves employee’s Work From Home requests, he stops coming in anyway

Ben Weiss

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‘I gave my answer and that’s that’: Employee refuses boss’s insulting request to stay late to paint the office

Ben Weiss

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Job candidate laughs in the face of interviewer after their terrible offer: 'I didn't mean to I just burst out laughing'

Brad Dickson

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'I was hired and fired within the span of 3 hours': New employee fired three hours after being hired and shown around the company's offices

Brad Dickson

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Selfish coworker throws tantrum at work bestie for not throwing her a going away party: 'I did nothing. Her last day came and went'

Ben Weiss

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