workplace-stories

Woman refuses to vouch for a coworker, Dana, who got her in trouble with their manager, and now the whole office thinks she's the problem: “She told our manager that a report I sent had “major formatting issues”’

Etai Eshet

‘I'm disgusted. Is this even legal??’: Australian woman discovers her manager has been secretly screenshotting and saving cropped images of her face during video calls for six months

Etai Eshet

Woman refuses to take a coworker's potluck dish after he hands it to her, assuming she’s the help

Etai Eshet

Boss forbids employee from leaving their desk, refusing to let them work from other locations in the office, employee confronts him: ‘I'm so fed up’

Bar Mor Hazut

Boss sends prank email firing employee on April 31st, a date that does not exist: 'What a terrible joke in this economy lol'

JR Atkinson

Company mandates RTO, workers commute 50 minute to wear headphones alone and take virtual meetings with coworkers

JR Atkinson

Company offers employees wellness benefits, only for employees to discover it's practically impossible to use them: ‘Barely anyone actually succeeded'

Bar Mor Hazut

Woman stays silent about a major mistake her coworker Claire makes in a presentation after Claire spreads rumors to their manager, and watches her get publicly embarrassed

Etai Eshet

Company introduces $75 wellness stipend that is so intentionally difficult to use that most employees give up

JR Atkinson

‘[He] has taught longer than I have been alive. I am a first-year teacher. Trying to survive’: First-year teacher gets blocked trying to enter her classroom by a veteran colleague upset about classroom noise

Etai Eshet

Miami hedge fund partner who set the tone for a party-hard workplace culture reported an employee to HR over a harmless doodle of his coworker and dragged it out for two weeks

Etai Eshet

Manager finds her employees' secret group chat, reads everything they said behind her back: ‘Let's invite her, maybe we can get free lunch’

Bar Mor Hazut

Coworker Carrie ruins her team manager’s laid-back honor system by crying bias to HR, forcing a department-wide crackdown that tanked morale and drove people to quit

Etai Eshet

Boss refuses to turn on the office AC during heat wave, employees sneak into his office and hide his personal fan to force him to change his mind: ‘He eventually joined us’

Bar Mor Hazut

College sends employee to mandatory retraining months before his retirement, falsely claiming he failed a phishing test he never took

Etai Eshet

Resigning employee refuses to sign a “separation agreement,” demanding $5,000 per negative online post, and her firm threatens to withhold $2,200 in earned PTO if she doesn’t comply

Etai Eshet