workplace-stories

Employee gets ignored for years, quits, then gets offered everything she asked for in a counteroffer: ‘Where was this 8 months ago?’

Etai Eshet

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Calm employee discovers his quiet competence made his good work invisible: 'People who get noticed are the ones who create urgency, send 14 Slack messages, act stressed, then get praised for solving the same issue they made everyone aware of'

Olivia Arocena

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IT employee gets reported for stealing company laptops by coworker, only for HR to discover everything was fully approved: 'HR already had all the paperwork before you even finished your report'

Cata Holmes

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Sales manager embarrasses himself while on the phone with a long-time client by accidentally saying “I love you,” they all laugh it off, but HR still gives him 2 write-ups: ‘Basically had to convince them not to fire me’

Giuliana Tiscioni

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Work "enemy" turns out to be the only one to have employee's back when he needed it, worked 6-8 extra unpaid hours for him and refuses to accept a gift in retribution: 'I approached him about it and he told me basically he was busy and not to bother him'

Olivia Arocena

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Boss consistently clocks out at 11am to golf, leaving employee to run the office alone

JR Atkinson

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‘Right now they owe me over $1000’: Worker leaves corporate for a small family-owned business and faces chaotic pay, no accountability, and quickly misses the structure she thought she didn’t need

Etai Eshet

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70-year-old employee is interviewed for a higher-paying position only for it to be given to an employee 40-years-younger: 'It’s not like I didn’t know the reason I wasn’t chosen'

Olivia Arocena

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Restaurant employee gets denied vacation even though she had approved time off by management, she tries to fix it, but the union rep is on vacation: 'Ever since one of my coworkers got fired, we've been working 6-day weeks and doing two people's jobs.'

María Cetra

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Boss prevents social media manager from running any promotions, spending any money, complains they get no sales

JR Atkinson

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Man spent two years secretly learning Spanish to catch his coworkers talking about him, only to discover they were just worried about his sad lunch and wanted to be his friend

Etai Eshet

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Spiteful employee spent two years learning spanish to hear what his coworkers were saying about him during lunch and was confused when he found out what it was: ​'I wanted to crawl under my desk and evaporate.They weren't mocking me'

Olivia Arocena

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Man pretends to have a remote job for two years while he has actually been unemployed: 'I’ve somehow maintained this entire fake identity of being a “busy remote worker.” I schedule fake meetings on my calendar so i have an out for certain family events.'

Olivia Arocena

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'HR loves my resume... Then I received an email': Company rejects application because they worked at their sister company

JR Atkinson

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49-year-old designer is penalized at work for keeping his personal life private, and is fed up with corporate culture treating basic boundaries as a career-ending red flag

Etai Eshet

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Boss bans tech employee from taking lunch after allotted time, forcing employee to go on break while the company's entire network is down: ‘So I clocked out’

Bar Mor Hazut

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