workplace-stories

45-year-old coworker reprimands 27-year-old employee for being on her phone during lunch, employee reports her to manager: ‘She's been on thin ice since’

Bar Mor Hazut

Grocery store employee quits with 2 days' notice after boss screams that he'll replace them: 'Just call their bluff'

Remy Millisky

Employer waits until 8 interviews in to tell prospective employee that the posted salary is a 'mistake': 'The absolute most they could offer is $90k'

JR Atkinson

48-year-old job candidate gets grilled about a gap in his resume from 20+ years ago: 'Can you tell us what you were doing during that time?'

Ben Weiss

‘I don't want to cancel my whole vacation just to spend a week gluing rhinestones on table cards’: Bride-to-be demands 26-year-old sister cancel approved PTO, prepaid weeklong trip to do wedding prep

Etai Eshet

Work schedules mandatory 'fun meeting' during unpaid lunch: 'I think morale actually dropped more after that'

JR Atkinson

'A string of cheese was still hanging from my mouth to the plate': 18+ Servers share their most unhinged, jaw-dropping workplace stories

Jesse Kessenheimer

'The "intern" turned out to be someone with 5 years experience making $10k more than me': Manager forces employee to train new 'intern,' only to fire them and replace them with the intern weeks later

JR Atkinson

Colleague micromanages their office's bagel orders and singles out the employee who is in charge of placing said orders: 'There are bigger things to focus on in an AEC firm'

Lana DeGaetano

‘I'm essentially working for free’: Coworkers push part-time bank employee to stay after their scheduled hours, even though their boss does not pay them overtime for the labor

Lana DeGaetano

Boss gets angry at employee making $45K working 40 hours a week for getting a 2nd job on the weekends: 'He actually said I should be using my weekends to think about how to add more value to the team'

Emmy Pratt

‘My promotion was earned, not gifted’: Coworker Mark demands a cut of a colleague’s promotion bonus, claiming he deserves it for training him, but the colleague refuses

Etai Eshet

Employees discover boss gave himself $100k retantion bonus after he claims all bonuses and raises are ‘off the table’, leading to mass quitting: 'The man literally rewarded himself for not quitting'

Bar Mor Hazut

Employee refuses to answer boss's text after resigning from their job via email, leaving boss in the dark about why they quit: ‘Now the company is calling me’

Bar Mor Hazut

'Door 1/4 way open = It better be urgent and very brief': The strangest 'unwritten rules' from workplaces across the globe

JR Atkinson

Star employee gets unjustly fired, negotiates one full year of compensation then starts working for top competitor: 'We have to fire you because you are too expensive'

Ben Weiss