workplace-stories

Worker is asked to train new employee, threatens to quit when they find out trainee makes $3/hr more than them: 'I immediately called my boss and said how this is a slap to the face'

JR Atkinson

Apathetic boss calls employee ‘overdramatic’ for taking a PTO day after they put down their sick family cat, employee reports boss to HR: ‘The way my boss handled this was just unacceptable’

Lana DeGaetano

'I told him he couldn't spend 4-8 hours on break': Managers who were paired with the world's worst employees

Remy Millisky

Employer denies PTO to a remote employee with 90 hours accrued, desperate to care for his declining mom, pushing the worker to find fresh job offer and consider the most satisfying way to walk out: “for as much financial security as I can get”

Etai Eshet

Mom of 17-year-old daughter makes her apply to 42 jobs: 'You owe your child a huge apology'

Remy Millisky

‘Good worker quits, it signals to others it's time’: 15 Employees discuss times they or their coworkers quit and started mass exoduses

Lana DeGaetano

‘I have to watch her get paid to do nothing’: Animal shelter employee is fed up with slacker coworker who refuses to pick up after cats and dogs

Lana DeGaetano

'If you pay peanuts you get monkeys': Boss gives employee salary 'adjustment' down to minimum wage, is surprised when they immediately quit

JR Atkinson

'We sent 10k copies of a useless calendar to a client': 30+ Employees who worked with very incompetent coworkers

Remy Millisky

Forklift driver at 1.4-million-square-foot factory strictly follows strict no-phones rule by shutting his off, sending managers on a wild goose chase every shift as their own policy backfires: ‘I received like 30 calls a day that were left unanswered’

Etai Eshet

Nepo-boss’s plan to spy on employees backfires when his Big Brother cameras meant to monitor the office reveal the staff’s reviews on his CEO skills: ‘He can now hear our unfiltered opinions of him’

Etai Eshet

15-year-old assistant soccer referee doesn't get paid after 18-year-old ref makes up a rule about being 30 minutes early, assistant ref gets him fired: ‘Dave was fired for making up rules, and I got paid’

Brad Dickson

Employee accidentally says ‘I love you’ to an important client at the end of a call, she's mortified when he responds with an email: ‘You should be proud’

Bar Mor Hazut

'I can make it work': Employee finds a loophole in strict new clocking system, forcing management to pay him 3x overtime than any other employee

Bar Mor Hazut

Moviegoer reports loud theater guests, other viewers side with the talkative group: 'It's an empty theater, sit somewhere else'

Remy Millisky

Deceitful employer lists job as remote for "outreach" despite the fact that it's on-site 5 days/week in Wichita, Kansas: 'Can't imagine why they're having trouble recruiting'

Ben Weiss