workplace-stories

Boss doubles employee's workload with $0 pay raise after coworker quits, tells employee not to 'take it personally': 'Today is the day you quiet quit'

JR Atkinson

Boss calls out call center employee for using the bathroom mid-shift: 'I understand but there were several calls on hold in the queue'

JR Atkinson

'I generated over 12 million in sales, and my salary was $60,000': Employee's raise request gets denied, he quits for better job offer, boss scrambles and suddenly offers to increase his salary

Ben Weiss

Boss schedules mandatory meeting just to fire "underperforming" coworker in front of all 25 employees: 'It felt like a power trip more than anything else'

Ben Weiss

Absentee boss demands bakery supervisor increase pastry orders, supervisor complies despite knowing better, only to get demoted when it backfired: ‘We lost lots of sales’

Bar Mor Hazut

Employee fed up after coworker repeatedly makes passive comments demanding she share her "delicious" meals during lunch, employee debates confronting entitled coworker: 'This food is for me and my kids, and sometimes it's got to last us a few days'

Emma Saven

CEO rejects job candidate, claiming it's due to their failure to list any weaknesses, job candidate accuses CEO of being a bad interviewer: ‘Working with him sounds exhausting’

Bar Mor Hazut

‘Don’t be toxic to your colleagues. You never know when you might need them in the future’: Ex‑coworker applies for a job and lists former colleague as a referral without asking, only for the employee to shut it down immediately

Etai Eshet

Factory management holds a meeting to report record profits and tell employees that they won't be paid between Christmas and New Years, doesn't go as planned: 'We didn't even feel heard. But hey, green number get bigger'

Brad Dickson

Job recruiter approaches prospective candidate to attend an interview and then ghosts them, accuses them of having an attitude when they try to follow up: 'I waited for a full 20 minutes, thinking maybe there was a technical issue or something'

Brad Dickson

Management tells employees they're no longer allowed to discuss "burnout" in their 1:1s and are then surprised when the employee asks for stress leave: 'I got 7 weeks off and partial pay, and they had to cover my job'

Brad Dickson

Company introduces new "security badges" which track employee movements, productivity, and even bathroom breaks, employees cease all communication to management, leading to production issues: 'Cost the company $50k in repairs and lost production'

Brad Dickson

Employee of the month confesses to giving boss and coworkers decaf coffee for 5+ months: 'I don't feel guilty'

Remy Millisky

Entitled coworker insists she's the only one who can handle repairs, employees maliciously comply by offloading their work onto her: 'If that’s what you want, Mel!'

Ben Weiss

Boss decreases employee's pay from $22 to $20/hr without reason, employee threatens to quit: 'Work your wage, they want less effort'

JR Atkinson

‘He created a bottleneck and blamed everyone else’: Project manager demands every request to admin assistant get his written approval, then forgets to approve any of them

Bar Mor Hazut