workplace-stories

Employee told to just focus on the own tasks as outlined in their job description, drops all other tasks forcing them to put a job ad out: 'Let’s stick to what’s actually in your job description, alright?'

Brad Dickson

Coworker stands up for employee who is being berated by their boss during a team meeting, turning the roast back on her: 'Maybe if you didn’t change the brief 5 times, he’d have it done. Chill'

Brad Dickson

20+ employees share the clueless things their bosses have said to them: 'It’s not mandatory, it’s compulsory!'

Brad Dickson

'Let’s stick to what’s actually in your job description, alright?': Boss tells employee to focus on his main duties, employee maliciously complies and stops answering the phones

Ben Weiss

Employee allows coworker with wheelchair user son to use his RV when needed, coworker flips out when he tells her she can't use the RV for her upcoming vacation: ‘Since then... I've been excluded from team lunches and group chats’

Lana DeGaetano

‘Lock the doors’: Retail employee kicks customers out after manager demands they abide by ever-changing schedule, store loses major sales, manager gets written up as a result

Bar Mor Hazut

‘No one is going to play this mean girls game with you, no one likes a mean girl’: New hire Alexa targets younger coworker Carrie’s crush and gossips behind her back, uniting whole department against her

Etai Eshet

Boss ignores 5 clear warnings from his expert employee, but springs into action the second a male colleague repeats her exact words: ‘They only hear things when a man says it’

Etai Eshet

Teacher told to "work contracted hours" when he's been helping kids in the gym after school, he stops forcing the district to hire someone: ‘I was told to work my contractual hours, I’m only paid until 2:22. I did this for fun, and it was unofficial’

Brad Dickson

Company keeps delaying giving an offer to prospective employee, chews them out when they accept another offer: 'I had 5 clients lined up for you and now I have to go apologize to them. [..] You are a terrible person!'

JR Atkinson

Entitled coworker keeps taking employee's mug without permission, employee gets even by lining the rim with cat food: 'Smells like victory!'

Ben Weiss

Hardware store employee refuses to cash his paychecks for 'religious reasons,' company threatens to take legal action: 'I'm wondering how he pays his bills'

JR Atkinson

Client presentation saved by an intern after the employee in charge unexpectedly calls in sick, company rewards intern: ‘A quiet acknowledgment through my bank account’

Bar Mor Hazut

'I cost him his desired job': Admin employee gets back at condescending colleague by revealing to a hiring manager his bad nature during a reference call for his next job

Bar Mor Hazut

Construction manager meets with unqualified boss to tell him his workload is too high, boss gives him more work, he quits: 'Ok then, I am resigning.'

Brad Dickson

'[He] asked HR to prove it': 15-year employee in his late 50s saves himself from getting fired when company doesn't want to pay his pension

Remy Millisky