workplace-stories

18-year-old call center employee told by new supervisor to "just stick to the script" she does exactly as asked leading to her boss changing her mind: 'If you deviate even slightly, you’ll be written up'

Brad Dickson

Overworked employee is unceremoniously fired after giving their 2 weeks' notice, which was to end with 3 days of leave: '55+ [hour] weeks with no overtime'

Brad Dickson

Former employee confesses to receiving over $80,000 in overpayment after he quit 1.4 years ago: '[I'm] still receiving the same bi-weekly pay [...] as if I still work there!'

Ben Weiss

23-year-old forces her coworker to constantly cover her shifts because she has a boyfriend and he's single: 'I figured you'd be fine with it since you don't have a girlfriend or kids to worry about.'

Emmy Pratt

25-year-old living with 26-year-old coworker gets promoted, coworker now wants her to pay all the rent: 'Now that you earn higher, you won’t come asking me about the money'

Ben Weiss

Employee hits 10-year anniversary at engineering job, boss rewards him with either a pizza kit or angel figurines worth $60: 'You actually get gifts?!'

JR Atkinson

'I won't be reapplying': Boss makes employee reapply for the same position because of changes in the school district, employee stands ground

Ben Weiss

Interviewer tells candidate to stop talking when candidate's refusal to let them speak leads to candidate literally talking himself out of a job: 'You walked into this room with a 99 percent chance of getting the job. Now that chance is zero'

Brad Dickson

20+ Retail employees who got to ban customers from the store: 'Best day of work I have ever had'

Remy Millisky

Update: New employee refuses to work overtime, boss fires him to make an example, entire team suffers without employee's efforts: 'We didn’t need to work overtime!'

Ben Weiss

‘She’s taken it upon herself to treat every package like it’s her business’: Receptionist continually opens employees' packages and tapes them back together to cover her tracks, so the employees report her to HR and she gets off with a slap on the wrist

Lana DeGaetano

Boss requires housekeepers to wear skin-tight pants and non-breathable shirt as part of work uniform, workers claim it's a health hazard: 'He refuses to listen to us because he thinks they look great'

JR Atkinson

Overworked startup employee gets ghosted by boss for weeks and then suddenly fired and blamed for the business's failures: 'They're using you as a scapegoat'

Ben Weiss

Boss invited new hire to a 'casual dinner' at his house with him and his wife, confused employee contemplates whether they should accept: 'Is this weird?'

Bar Mor Hazut

Cashier forced to clock out late for lunch break after their cover fails to arrive on time, gets reprimanded by store manager, leading cashier to leave the register unattended: ‘They wanted me to skip my break’

Bar Mor Hazut

Employee shares her struggle of commuting 3 hours to work, leaving little personal time to even do chores, receives sound advice: 'In a single 24-hour weekday cycle, I have on average 4 hours a day to just exist without work'

Brad Dickson