workplace-stories

Graphic designer told to stop "pestering" client, designer complies, client's project goes up in flames: 'As per your request, I did not follow up'

Ben Weiss

Boss fires new employee for pointing out labor law violations, not offering 30-minute lunch: 'In less than 40 min, I was completely removed from the schedule'

JR Atkinson

Selfish woman ditches carpooling with coworker to go with her work crush instead, then comes running back after his car gets damaged and she no longer has a ride to work: 'I missed you, I think I will be coming with you now on'

Emma Saven

Overworked employee working 75 hours a week gets criticized for not being efficient enough, leading employee to cut their work time in half: ‘This was my wake-up call’

Bar Mor Hazut

Boss takes 15 minutes off construction worker's pay when he was 1 minute late, his refusal to work sparks chain reaction with other staff: 'I'm not getting paid until 6:15 so I'm not doing any work until 6:15. I enjoy what I do but I don't do it for free'

Brad Dickson

Marketing team member Travis calls in sick but shows up to the office as his invented twin Trevor for twice-mostly in-person meeting until HR gets involved: ‘He wore glasses and a beanie, that's it LOL just said "I'm Trevor" if anyone asked’

Etai Eshet

‘I don’t know what happened’: Intern spirals after thinking she 'crashed the company' by deleting an important folder on the drive, only to have coworkers explain she only deleted a shortcut

Bar Mor Hazut

Employee spills water on coworker’s laptop during lunch, refuses to pay them back after discovering it is ruined, coworker considers reporting it to boss: ‘I can’t afford a new laptop’

Emma Saven

Employee purposefully locks coworkers out of shared work PC after they fail to log out when leaving shift, leading to an office dispute: ‘They had to reset their passwords’

Bar Mor Hazut

Marketing demands review of all technical documents, programmer creates a fake protocol to mess with them: '[It was] called the "TP Protocol." [I]t could be implemented as a 2 or 3-layer network, each layer called a "ply"'

Brad Dickson

New hire shows up 15 minutes late and insists he 'doesn't take orders': 'By 3 PM his keycard didn't work any more'

Remy Millisky

20+ Employees who happily quit their toxic jobs: 'Guy taped his resignation letter to his computer... and never showed up again'

Remy Millisky

'I stopped correcting Stacey's work': Employee told by HR to stop fixing boss's mistakes without approval, boss loses clients over too many errors

Ben Weiss

UPDATE: Entitled landlord gives business 7 days to leave space, tries to sell all of their equipment: 'He has at least another 4 weeks without rent'

Remy Millisky

Employee makes ‘whistleblower report’ on doctor colleague after he takes on overlapping shifts in the emergency room and the psych ER, potentially putting patients at risk: ‘He has been terminated because of it’

Lana DeGaetano

Coworker tries to sabotage hardworking employee, they get revenge by simply doing their job: ‘[Now] she's getting a lot of heat from upper management to perform better’

Lana DeGaetano