workplace-stories

Boss fires employee and goes on a 3-week cruise, leaving retirement community with no one to cover weekends: ‘We’re 3 people in my department - my boss, Brian, and me. My boss just fired Brian and left’

Etai Eshet

Top employee quits job and starts his own business after boss refuses to give him a raise, he thrives in the new business while old boss struggles: ‘What a fool’

Bar Mor Hazut

Employee lies about getting married to quit, but his boss makes him work from home instead, forcing him to juggle 3 jobs and wear a disguise near the office: ‘I told my boss I moved cities’

Etai Eshet

Boss forces employee to work during their 20-minute lunch break, employee reports it and boss retaliates

JR Atkinson

'I left at 1 pm after lunch': Employee cuts out of work early to spite toxic dysfunctional boss, dares them to retaliate

JR Atkinson

Employee accidentally receives coworker's $6k bonus, wonders whether they should report it or not: 'It stings but this money was never yours'

JR Atkinson

Call-center employee finds a loophole that starts making her job a lot easier: ‘I had just had a customer before this one who got a call and had to go... which gave me the bright idea'

Olivia Arocena

Employee considers resigning after $72k salary offer because they paid the previous employee $86k: 'I am extremely disappointed and feel insulted by the raise'

JR Atkinson

Admin accidentally prints an entire office's salaries and leaves copies on every desk, turning a normal workday into 8 hours of silent resentment

Etai Eshet

Manager insists employee log all 'non-billable' time, so employee tracks every bathroom break, slack message, and email

JR Atkinson

Airport worker spends months warning about a flawed process, gets dismissed, takes one day off, and watches everything fall apart exactly as predicted while a new employee gets blamed

Etai Eshet

HR accidentally sends entire company the results of employees' engagement survey, leading all employees to read through the unfiltered feedback: ‘There were very pointed remarks about management’

Bar Mor Hazut

‘My coworker honestly doesn't know why she was let go’: Temp worker tanks every chance at a permanent position and is genuinely shocked she’s not getting hired

Etai Eshet

Boss refuses to approve employees PTO because they laid off everyone else on their team, leaving them stranded

JR Atkinson

Company hires $15K “culture consultant” who recommends everything employees already said, then presents it back to them as a leadership breakthrough: 'I'm not even angry anymore I'm just tired'

Etai Eshet

UPDATE: New employee decides to quit job after finding out they were hired to do a 3-person job that has nothing to do with their own role

Bar Mor Hazut