workplace-stories

‘She was "jealous of my motherhood"’: Coworker becomes ‘obsessed’ with colleague's pregnancy and sneakily attempts to make an ultrasound appointment to find out the gender of her baby, despite the colleague repeatedly declining her ‘help’

Lana DeGaetano

'Everyone is replaceable': Boss refuses to give hardworking employee a raise, claiming he can find someone else to do the job if needed, employee quits and proves boss wrong

Bar Mor Hazut

‘The bank's call center manager personally called me’: Bank freezes man’s account for over a month due to clerk’s error, ignores his calls, so he floods their social media with complaints and they come running

Etai Eshet

Entitled customer berates 17-year-old cashier when she takes too long during checkout, bystander stands up for the teen: ‘You don’t have the right to treat her like that’

Bar Mor Hazut

New boss refuses to acknowledge engineering contractor's resignation or even discuss renewing their contract, tries to dictate their own bizarre notice terms: 'I've just decided your last day will be 2 months from now'

Brad Dickson

UPDATE: Over-employed worker gets fired from 3 jobs at the same time: 'After a year, I finally got caught'

Remy Millisky

Job-seeker attends virtual interview, is joined by 40+ other prospective employees competing for the position: 'Don't interrupt me. Raise your hand before speaking'

JR Atkinson

‘The judge actually congratulated me and my lawyer’: Boss exploits employee using a fake freelancing contract and then fires her without warning, so she takes them to court for violating labor laws

Lana DeGaetano

Vegan woman grabs free lunch from "entitled" coworkers hands when he continually takes from the vegan section, despite not being vegan, they both get a talk with HR: 'I was embarrassed after the fact'

Briana Viser

Retail boss tells assistant manager that "everyone's replaceable" when they ask for their first raise in 3 years, business struggles after they quit: 'Turns out, he was wrong'

Brad Dickson

Boss demands cashier clock out every time they leave the register, employee complies, only for it to get flagged by HR: ‘My timecard showed I’d left work thirteen times’

Bar Mor Hazut

'The judge actually congratulated me': Boss forces full-time employee to sign a freelance contract, then fires them illegally seven months later, employee gathers all the evidence to win in court

Bar Mor Hazut

‘I'm not like regular customers’: Entitled lady demands cashier waive store's policy because she is an executive member and “rules don't apply to her”, cashier refuses

Bar Mor Hazut

Outside hire production manager declares 'No Overtime! No exceptions!' production stalls costing the company $120k: '[He] lasted about 3 months [after that]'

Brad Dickson

Employee's access to software gets revoked by IT, so they send IT a list of all the tasks they need to take over: ‘Within 30 minutes, the decision was reversed and I had my access back’

Bar Mor Hazut

‘This was just one guy's way of feeling powerful’: Semi truck driver gets denied by building supply store clerk for being 6 minutes late after driving a Drywall delivery from New Hampshire to New Jersey

Etai Eshet