workplace-stories

Coworker demands friendly employee give her cash after she locks her credit card, employee refuses, coworker calls them out on social media: ‘I stopped speaking to her’

Bar Mor Hazut

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Coworker accidentally sends workplace gossip about an employee to that employee creating a tense environment and leading to her changing departments: 'Once they realized I wasn't joining in, they kept it to private chats'

Brad Dickson

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Job lies about 6-week out-of-state training process to get employee to onboard, won't cover travel expenses and only gives $20 for food: 'I will most likely have to quit my job over this'

JR Atkinson

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Boss tells employee they 'lack passion' for not answering Slack messages at 10 PM: 'I make $19/hr [...] for a company that sells industrial cleaning supplies'

JR Atkinson

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Fired employee pays Etsy witch 25 dollars to cast a spell on her boss, then hears the boss got demoted after her behavior finally caught up with her: ‘Etsy magic isn't something to take lightly. It might end up working’

Etai Eshet

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HR disciplines employee for missing mandatory meeting, only to discover they forgot to invite them in the first place: ‘Do you want me to telepathically sense meetings?’

Bar Mor Hazut

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HR hounds woman on maternity leave to complete trainings, boss constantly reminds them not to bother her: 'Your current management just threw you under the bus instead of taking 5 seconds to check the email chain'

JR Atkinson

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Entitled boss demands employees drive in whiteout blizzard conditions to do office work: 'Bosses... think their email is more important than your safety'

Remy Millisky

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Employee discovers consultant's push to get her fired, she proves her value to the company by taking a 2-week vacation and leaving everyone scrambling: 'I came back on Monday with a $10,000 raise'

Ben Weiss

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'We shouldn't be talking about our wages': Employee exchanges fiery emails with HR after manager reprimands him for discussing his salary with his coworkers

Ben Weiss

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Employee hires an Etsy witch to cast a ‘revenge spell’ on their former manager, and months later, that manager is demoted: ‘There was a major reckoning’

Lana DeGaetano

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AI-loving boss insists that employee uses Chat-GPT to assemble company's monthly report, employee complies and submits absolute gibberish to upper management: 'The result was entirely and completely useless'

Ben Weiss

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Company VP invites employees to his holiday housewarming party, then tells them they're expected to do business with other attendees last-minute: ‘I didn’t sign up for [this] on my days off’

Lana DeGaetano

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‘I'll keep my mouth shut’: Boss demands employee stay silent during project presentation, trying to take credit for employee's work, VP puts boss in her place

Bar Mor Hazut

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‘I let Karma do what she does best’: Jealous coworker Barb plots to steal her trainer's job and gets her fired, only to end up jobless herself while the former friend is rehired to a higher position

Etai Eshet

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Employee gets boss fired by successfully taking care of a last-minute product shipment to Europe that boss had neglected: ‘He had no one else to blame for his mess-ups’

Bar Mor Hazut

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