workplace-stories

Worker gets written up for "unprofessional attitude" after asking why their paycheck was 2 weeks late: 'You don't need to come at me with that kind of tone'

Brad Dickson

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17-year-old employee gets fired for not personally calling in sick after fainting and going to the emergency room: 'We're praying for you but you're fired'

Ben Weiss

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‘I refused to falsify my time sheet’: Boss accuses employee of time theft despite seeing proof of attendance, then tries to make them use sick time to supplement the alleged absence

Lana DeGaetano

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Manager asks employee to work until 8pm on Friday, gets mad when they already had plans: 'The project wasn't urgent and could have been done Monday'

JR Atkinson

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'He was fired on the spot [and] sued for his extra leave': 20+ HR employees whose workers left them speechless

Remy Millisky

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Employee's monthly salary gets cut following company's pay restructure, they quit after boss refuses to give them a raise, causing the business to sink: ‘I didn’t realize how important I was’

Bar Mor Hazut

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‘Play stupid games, win stupid prizes’: Wannabe office big shot gets fired after swapping his coworker’s $30 ear buds for knockoff replacements, exposing a long list of small stings

Etai Eshet

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Coworker reports employee to HR for not inviting her to her private wedding, forcing her to have to explain to HR why she's not invited: 'Some people really do think they’re the main character'

Brad Dickson

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Coworker confronts employee after discovering they use their lunch break to take walks around the parking garage, employee refuses their demands to stop: ‘I’m entitled to my break’

Bar Mor Hazut

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‘They went sight-seeing, they weren’t at the airport’: Two junior employees miss their flight back from Nashville after skipping work events and ignoring repeated reminders, leaving company director to deal with corporate fallout once they end up stranded

Etai Eshet

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Entitled coworker tattles on her coworker to HR for not inviting her to his wedding: 'She filed a complaint saying I was being "exclusive" and "creating a hostile environment by leaving people out."'

Emmy Pratt

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'Enjoy your holiday and don't bother coming back': 15+ Bosses who got to tell their least-favorite employees, "You're fired"

Remy Millisky

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Manager makes request at 4:30pm for employee to stay late, employee declines and manager throws temper tantrum: 'Nah, bro! Your emergency is not my emergency'

Ben Weiss

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'I made the mistake of giving 6 months notice': Entitled manager forgets to hire new employee, spends 4 months doing double the workload

Remy Millisky

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High-achiever "quiet quits" and gets a job in a different area of the company with better pay when manager ignores their repeated warnings about impending issues, watches as the disaster happens exactly as they predicted: 'My new job is a piece of cake'

Brad Dickson

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'Ben had been living in the office since late May': Intern gets away with sleeping in the office for two months before getting caught by another employee

Ben Weiss

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