workplace-stories

Restaurant manager calls police on customers who are refusing to pay $9 for using the salad bar: '3 cop cars pulled in and surrounded them'

Brad Dickson

Employee learns his new raise is $2,000 more than what his mentor makes: '[He] has worked 50 years in my current company'

Ben Weiss

'Please send messages for me directly to me': Employee gets back at petty coworker by only pointing out his errors in the team's group chat

Ben Weiss

'I'm paying so that the restaurant doesn't lose $500 on a dine-and-dash': Server gets scolded by manager after table of 11+ customers leave without paying

Ben Weiss

'My entire team left within a 6 month period': 20+ Moments people realized they had to quit their jobs

Remy Millisky

‘You should've gotten it in writing’: Boss scams employee out of $100 after he promises to reimburse him, employee uses boss's words against him when he's needed for an urgent project

Lana DeGaetano

'I just sent an email to my HR with all the emails, texts, [and] call logs': Security guard gets boss fired over his nonstop pestering during their vacation time

Remy Millisky

Coworker keeps trying to mooch off of employee's lunches, sparking office feud: 'It wasn't my responsibility to provide food for everyone'

Ben Weiss

‘It's not up to you’: Job applicant goes over recruiter's head and submits her application directly, she gets the job, only for employer to demand she pays the recruiter a fee

Bar Mor Hazut

Mechanical engineer slowly realizes they've been hired as a janitor by their vindictive 'nepo baby' new boss, quits after 2 days: 'What's your fastest I quit story?'

Brad Dickson

'They won’t stop guilt tripping me about [...] abandoning them when they’re understaffed': Employee gets new job leaving toxic employer, faces poor treatment from their soon-to-be ex-coworkers

Brad Dickson

'[She] left us with $800 worth of merchandise to put back': Entitled customer shops for 7+ hours but can't pay for most items in her cart, employees clean up her mess

Ben Weiss

5-year-old daughter appears on dad's work screen for 2 seconds during 8:30 PM meeting, HR reprimands him: 'I don't think I can work here anymore'

JR Atkinson

'I give it 3 months tops:' New employee overhears Karen coworker gossiping about her, confronts Karen on her last day

Ben Weiss

‘I don't know what took ahold of me’: Employee asks coworker about their retirement plans, only to discover he is 36 years old, avoids that coworker until they quit

Bar Mor Hazut

'There's nothing I can do': Entitled customer demands employee personally deliver her groceries, employee refuses, leading to a dispute at the grocery store

Bar Mor Hazut