workplace-stories

Job candidate gets rejected after 4 interview rounds, then 5 days later HR calls admitting they messed up, asking to re-interview and send an offer

Etai Eshet

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Overworked store supervisor deals with a customer attempting to buy cookies without cash by offering “the value of knowledge,” cancels the sale, and walks away to help paying customers

Etai Eshet

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Factory machine operator quits job after boss denies him a pay raise, leaving the company with no qualified operators: ‘They effectively lost thousands’

Bar Mor Hazut

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Pet store employee starts locking her work locker after one coworker helps herself to her perfume, only for another colleague to publicly accuse her of thinking they are thieves: '[You] don’t trust any of [us]'

Celeste Mello

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Bosses accidentally include employee on email thread about her: 'They keep referring to me as “the girl”'

JR Atkinson

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‘It would really help if you could knock this out before you leave’: Employee consistently gets assigned urgent work 5 minutes before he leaves and is left wondering if he is expected to accept it to be seen as a “team player”

Olivia Arocena

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‘[She] doesn’t know the new hire is actually her replacement’: CEO makes employee help hire her struggling coworker’s replacement, while that coworker has no idea she’s fired once the traveling boss returns

Etai Eshet

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Workplace replaces lunch break with mandatory 'lunch and learn' where employees present on their work

JR Atkinson

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Coworker brings nothing to company potluck, packs several containers with everyone else’s food to take home, then grabs the cookies too, prompting a colleague to call him out: 'He didn’t want to cook after his shift'

Celeste Mello

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The unnecessary workplace rules that nobody actually follows: 'She hides in the bathroom, so she can be on her phone'

JR Atkinson

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20-year-old yells at 64-year-old assembly line coworker for disrespecting her on the job: 'She told my team lead that I was “intentionally causing her to panic"'

JR Atkinson

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'A 31-minute lunch means you leave office at 7:00pm': Workplace demands 1 hour of unpaid work for every minute exceeding 30-minute lunch break

JR Atkinson

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Employee refuses to take a call during their 1-hour unpaid lunch break, coworker ices them out

JR Atkinson

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Receptionist Lies to HR About Coworker Being Condescending to Her, HR Refuses To Help

JR Atkinson

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‘We already have plenty of work for you now, and if you don't start now, it will pile up for you’ : Future boss starts changing dates and plans imediately after employee signed contract

Olivia Arocena

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Boss fires top-performing employee because their customer reviews weren't 90%

JR Atkinson

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