workplace-stories

‘I don't want to get involved’: Nurse overhears patient's plan of using someone else's health insurance, decides to risk her career and not report them

Bar Mor Hazut

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Company offers fully remote work in exchange for 24/7 monitoring of all home network traffic: 'Why would a company even want to bother with this?'

Ben Weiss

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25+ Unbelievably awkward questions employees have been asked at work: 'During an interview I was conducting, a candidate asked if [my wife] was single'

Isabella Penn

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Employee discovers the new hire is making more than them: 'With zero experience in this position'

Brad Dickson

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Boss makes team work extra weekend shift, Data Analyst makes sure he's there: 'You also need to be there for the sign-off'

Brad Dickson

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Power-tripping Karen thinks she's the boss, employee gets back at her and takes over: 'I'll get you fired and get your position'

Ben Weiss

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'[He] showed up 4 hours late because he "overslept"': 25+ Workers reveal the reasons everyone at their workplace dislikes 'that one colleague'

Remy Millisky

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'[He] just wanted to see how many free burgers he could eat before getting canned': 20+ People who couldn't make it through a single day of work before getting fired

Remy Millisky

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'I literally did everything that was written on the rules': Postal worker gets petty revenge on boss who keeps disciplining them

Remy Millisky

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‘If you think you can find a loophole, think again’: Software developer maliciously complies with new boss’s strict 9-5 hours, team productivity tanks

Ben Weiss

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'Teaching 7 classes a semester on 3 different campuses and making less than $30k/year': Workers share experiences in the workplace that radicalized them

Emmy Pratt

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'As I handed her the coffee I told her I quit': Manager demands that employee makes her coffee at the end of every shift, employee finally snaps

Ben Weiss

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'Double malicious compliance': Two supervisors tell airport valet not to listen to each other

Remy Millisky

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'4 hours at the end of the day is miserable': Unpopular opinions about working 9-5

JR Atkinson

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Boss makes employee cancel vacation, employee's girlfriend confronts boss: 'I then demanded my boyfriend's boss [refund] me every penny'

Ben Weiss

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'Boss wouldn't pay [for] two months after she fired me': Former employee calls out disorganized ex-boss for never getting her final paycheck

Ben Weiss

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