workplace-stories

Job seeker finds out "networking" advice is useless after going to endless events full of empty promises: ‘This strategy doesn’t work, it’s just an opportunity for mid-career people to revel in having their egos stroked’

Etai Eshet

Office lunch trend sparks chaos and company-wide memo: 'Please excuse me while I go destroy your lunch'

Remy Millisky

Reputable company lowballs overqualified ‘unicorn candidate’ with 10% below her asking salary, candidate questions their intentions: ‘She's already taking a pay cut’

Lana DeGaetano

28-year-old employee teaches 50-year-old new hire how to use a computer; new hire cries to supervisor when employee doesn't do her job for her: 'The one moment I don’t help her the way she wanted me to, she had a meltdown.'

Emmy Pratt

‘The hardest part of my job isn’t the work, it’s the constant urgency over nothing‘: Company treats every minor task like a crisis, drowning its staff in fake emergencies until stress becomes the main worload

Etai Eshet

‘Coworker assumed I was pregnant,Im not even kidding’: colleague gifts baby items to someone not pregnant, claims a “glow” gave it away, and sparks an office-wide lesson in confidence without awareness

Etai Eshet

Boss demands remote employees decorate their home office for Christmas, one employee refuses, boss blames them for ruining the holiday spirit: 'It isn't my job to decorate for her’

Bar Mor Hazut

Coworker constantly chastises colleague for minor mistakes, abandons night shift 2 hours in after blowing up: 'You better stop talking before it gets much worse, I don't even care if we have to call the police'

JR Atkinson

Senior manager refuses to pitch in for a coworker's retirement gift because she constantly mocked her team's function in the company: [Brenda] negatively impacted my work-life balance for years’

Lana DeGaetano

Employee starts arriving to work at 7:00 AM to beat his boss, only to realize he's forcing his boss to come in 1.5 hours earlier: 'The director demands all managers to arrive before the first staff member arrives'

Ben Weiss

Clinician moves to a new clinic, maliciously complies with business casual dress code, wearing fitted chinos that cause workplace chatter, and management reverses back to scrubs: ‘I'm back in my joggers. Problem solved’

Etai Eshet

Employee quits job after being denied time off for the holidays, only for HR to extend their notice period by 30 days without warning: ‘HR can shout all they want’

Bar Mor Hazut

After being ignored by manager Jess when accepting a promotion, an after-school care worker withdraws interest and immediately finds themselves left off the roster for a month: ‘I have gotten a second job to supplement my income’

Etai Eshet

Employee in a heavily downsized department get an end-of-year “bonus” in the form of a $5 Dunkin gift card from their boss’s pocket: ‘We aren't the Rockefellers after all’

Etai Eshet

Teen worker forces popular pizza place to shut down for days after they refuse boss's demands to make the dough for the week: ‘I laughed and said nah’

Bar Mor Hazut

Coworker constantly comments on employees' snack and beverage choices in the break room, cries when she tells her to knock it off: 'Commenting on what others eat isn’t appropriate.'

Emmy Pratt