workplace-stories

'I was instructed to smile more': Tech support worker weirds out customers by maliciously complying with supervisor's instructions

Remy Millisky

'My workload diminishes and boss's increases': Employee makes micromanaging boss handle tasks, ends up coasting with no work

Ben Weiss

'Either do your job or hand in your resignation': Long-time employee calls boss's bluff, leads mass exodus

Remy Millisky

'If you have a problem with my direction, you come to me': Entire team complies with boss's vague instructions, putting her job in jeopardy

Ben Weiss

‘I already moved on’: Manager demands former employee train new hire, despite them already starting a new job

Bar Mor Hazut

30 Hardly Working Memes for Overworked Employees

Bar Mor Hazut

Construction worker offers former micromanager a job, setting the record straight and teaching him a valuable lesson in humility despite of the claim that he will ‘never amount to anything’

Sienna Varady

Worker calls out company for asking for donations to help a struggling coworker: 'A lot of us are already struggling to make ends meet as it is'

Brad Dickson

'You were not qualified': Job candidate messages interviewer to decline role, receives unhinged response in return

Brad Dickson

'I saw red, but then I had an idea': Woman engineer punishes her coworkers by agreeing to "get coffee" for them

Remy Millisky

Billion-dollar company asks $19.95/hour wage workers to donate to colleague: 'I don't make enough to save my coworkers from disaster'

JR Atkinson

New boss experiences consequences when multiple members of their team quit simultaneously: 'I'm giving my notice the next day I work'

Brad Dickson

'I was too stunned to speak': Boss tries to earn social approval by mocking overworked employee during meeting, coworkers back them up instead of taking his side

Bar Mor Hazut

Client humbles micromanager in front of entire team after micromanager tries to teach staff member a lesson in business etiquette

Sienna Varady

'Guess who woke up to 17 emails from the company?': Team leader pressures employee to work on their day off, demands employee 'write a review by the end of the day'

Remy Millisky

'If they don't respect my schedule, I'm just going to be absent': Manager ignores employee's conflict, employee maliciously complies, manager gets reprimanded

Ben Weiss