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Company forces employees to buy and carve their own pumpkins for mandatory after-hours competition: 'Forced camaraderie is the worst'

JR Atkinson

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Parents offer 24-year-old son and roommates to move into their rental instead of paying for an apartment, roommate's dad accuses them of overstepping: ‘You're spoiling my kid’

Bar Mor Hazut

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'Dude straight up presented my entire deck at the meeting': Manager steals employee's presentation word-for-word and passes it off as his own, gets his comeuppance when VP finds out

JR Atkinson

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The Best Relatable Work Memes This Week (November 10, 2025)

Ally Perry

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Company forces employees to re-apply for their jobs at an $8k salary cut: 'I've been there 6 years. Built entire systems, trained new staff, covered shifts constantly'

JR Atkinson

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Employee purposefully slows down productivity to show how he's carrying the team, his coworkers flip out: 'I was the mug that covered for everybody and was then doing 5 peoples jobs, [then] I decided to work at the pace of everyone else'

JR Atkinson

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'I’m fully booked for the next 3 weeks': Massage therapist cancels a booking with his fiancée's boss to drive his sick partner to the doctor because the boss's petty doctor's note mandates

Jesse Kessenheimer

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21 Employee Burnout Posts To Push You Through Your Late-Week Work Slump (November 7, 2025)

Lana DeGaetano

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Son refuses to tell mom when he's off work after she demands he do housework on his days off, he claims he does enough by paying rent: ‘I might as well quit my job’

Bar Mor Hazut

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Data analyst refuses to answer work messages outside of working hours, coworker 7 hours ahead protests when she won't respond to 'urgent' problem at 9 PM: 'On a random Tuesday I counted 47 notifications after 6 PM'

Ally Perry

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Company fires 40 employees at once via a slide show, leaving them to scramble wondering why: 'We got bought by a tech giant and it turned into a cult'

JR Atkinson

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HR department demands woman lead morale-boosting company "culture initiative", protests when she refuses: 'Someone said I have good vibes because I bring muffins sometimes'

Ally Perry

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Company's AI payroll tool decides one employee shouldn't be paid that month, tells them to wait for the next one: 'So now I'm sitting here debugging code while worrying if I'll be able to afford my lunches until this is fixed'

JR Atkinson

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Manager forbids use of 'use it or lose it' PTO, employee finds loophole to take vacation time: 'Two hours every morning next week, two hours every afternoon the week after, a random Friday 3 to 5 to watch a plumber'

Ally Perry

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'I've landed 5 interviews in the past 6 weeks': Job applicant cold calls company HR departments, claims he was asked to schedule an interview without applying

Ally Perry

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'Maybe if you actually checked your own emails once in a while': Boss insults employee in front of team, employee accidentally lets the truth slip

JR Atkinson

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