workplace-stories

'Approve my 1-week PTO or accept my 2-week notice': Boss denies IT employee's vacation request until he trains the new hire on a decade worth of experience, employee refuses and submits his resignation instead

Ben Weiss

Manager tells 21-year-old retail worker to "just smile more," she obliges by smiling non-stop for her entire shift, horrifying a Karen customer: 'For the rest of my shift, and every shift after, I smiled'

Brad Dickson

23-year-old employee demands that 24-year-old coworker pays for her parking ticket because she said they could park there: 'She was lying!'

Ben Weiss

Employee reports 2 remote coworkers who fail to complete their daily tasks because they're too busy babysitting their children and grandchildren, upper management threatens RTO mandate in response: ‘The company is not paying them to be a SAHM’

Lana DeGaetano

'I am not employed elsewhere!': HR accuses remote worker of "overemployment" due to "abormal" keyboard and mouse activity

Ben Weiss

‘What's the C-suite's play here?’: Company lets go of 40+ high-performing employees, then immediately posts 40+ better-paying jobs on a job board, leaving employees dumbfounded

Lana DeGaetano

Construction employee gets even with coworker by making him think he's instantly rich: 'He called my boss... [and] quit immediately on the spot'

Remy Millisky

‘She’s acting like a 12-year-old in middle school fawning over her unobtainable crush who happens to be dating me’: 35-year-old coworker Sarah fixates on colleague’s boyfriend she never met, fishing for details and copying her to feel connected to him

Etai Eshet

Supervisor refuses to let employee enter their shared office to take their bag at the end of the day, employee enters anyway, leading to an office dispute: ‘I have the right to access my own belongings’

Bar Mor Hazut

Manager threatens to write up employee if they don't call their coworker next time they fail to show up for their shift, employee refuses: ‘That's not my responsibility’

Lana DeGaetano

'She said "I forgot that I worked here"': Employees reveal the most unusual excuses they've ever heard from someone calling off work

Lana DeGaetano

20+ Retail workers who had bizarre customers: 'He released a box of spiders into the store... He's not allowed in any Starbucks in this town anymore'

Remy Millisky

22-year-old employee teams up with 30 coworkers to enact payback on micromanager for making them log every detail of every task: 'Data [was] lost in a heap of unusable data'

Ben Weiss

47-year-old employee on business trip turns down dinner with coworkers, boss threatens consequences: 'It was outside work hours, unpaid, and not scheduled'

Ben Weiss

‘I learned my lesson': 19-year-old night janitor agrees to take on boss's work during summer break, immediately regrets it after discovering they won't get compensated for the extra work

Bar Mor Hazut

Employee resigns after they fall ill while moving and have to take sick leave, their boss slowly unravels, escalating to accusations: 'My boss went nuts and I quit, but now my CEO is begging for me back, should I return?'

Brad Dickson