workplace-stories

Coworker throws a fit and delivers a mini TED Talk on teamwork after being politely refused help with a task she was perfectly capable of doing herself: ‘I told her that nothing would have happened to her too if she wrote it’

Etai Eshet

‘They fired the Cash Cow’: Carpet cleaning company axes its top phone upseller, who turns every $99 call into a multi-hundred-dollar deal for years over sick leave, leaving owners to watch profits tank

Etai Eshet

‘Fate had my back’: Employee takes company truck to interview for another workplace after repeatedly being denied days off, gets the new job while on the clock

Bar Mor Hazut

Quality control supervisor tells fruit-robot-checker to stop reporting issues that she sees and to just do her job: 'Your job is only to count. Count, count, count, and count. That’s it'

Brad Dickson

'We were audited and fined $80k': 25+ Workers whose brainless bosses left them speechless

Remy Millisky

'New boss gives me an impossible task': Overworked IT employee stands up to boss, demands guarantee of never working overtime again

Remy Millisky

HR green lights employee's April Fool's prank in the office bathroom, employee is subsequently fired for it: ‘[HR] even told me what washroom to put it in’

Lana DeGaetano

Slacker coworker lightheartedly jokes about never completing job duties, employee seriously agrees and coworker explodes: ‘"You have issues!"’

Lana DeGaetano

'An extra 0.50 is what this promotion is worth to that company': Worker chases salary increase for 6 months only to be rewarded with a 50¢ raise

JR Atkinson

Veteran employee of 3 years finds out they're paid 25% less than the new hire, internet discusses the importance of salary transparency and company-hopping: ‘Knowledge is power’

Lana DeGaetano

Coworker dumps her work onto executive assistant, tries to make her cancel her day off to do extra work: 'That's not happening!'

Ben Weiss

Employee sends in 2 week notice, 2 weeks later their boss hasn't acknowledged it: 'So what happens now?'

JR Atkinson

Worker wears a suit to work and gets their supervisor demoted after supervisor criticizes their attire: 'The CEO came to my desk later in the day to tell me I would be reporting to him now'

Brad Dickson

Guy builds device for 32 remote employees to bypass company's new idle time requirements, now CEO wants one too: 'You wanted zero idle times!'

Ben Weiss

Boss and coworker have a loud ‘introvert bash session’ and trash-talk friends for refusing to play a card game: ‘Tell me you don’t respect boundaries without telling me you don’t respect boundaries’

Lana DeGaetano

20+ CEOs who ran companies into the ground with their terrible workplace decisions: 'He fired the guy who owned almost all the patents'

Remy Millisky