workplace-stories

Content creator gets fired and replaced by an AI; company numbers start to go wrong, so they offer to rehire her, expecting to pay her less: ‘So they failed, learned nothing and came back expecting a discount’

Olivia Arocena

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Employee shows up 9.5 hours early to his shift after mind-altering power nap: ’Yeah… I’m going back home. Clearly I’ve done enough for today’

Olivia Arocena

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Workplace charges employees $8 every time they forget their security badge: 'I would never turn it back in'

JR Atkinson

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Boss threatens to fire new employee for refusing to use their personal phone for work: 'HR is on the phone for you'

JR Atkinson

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Boss fires employee after finding out they're interviewing at other places and pays severance, doesn't realize they're already taking a new job

JR Atkinson

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Boss ambushes employee with a PIP, employee retaliates by resigning the next day

JR Atkinson

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Employee is laid off with 7 months severance days before they were going to quit: 'You hit the jackpot'

JR Atkinson

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Employee accidentally joins boss's private HR call about them: 'Am I going to get fired?'

JR Atkinson

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23-year-old employee is continually excluded from work events: 'They all just ignored you'

JR Atkinson

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Employee loses new job after 4 days when they complain about their PTO policy: 'They were unwilling to meet me halfway'

JR Atkinson

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Employee is laid off with no severance, then asked to complete a work project for free: 'I had asked for 6 weeks of severance, but they refused'

JR Atkinson

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Bosses accidentally include employee on email thread about her: 'They keep referring to me as “the girl”'

JR Atkinson

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Workplace replaces lunch break with mandatory 'lunch and learn' where employees present on their work

JR Atkinson

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The unnecessary workplace rules that nobody actually follows: 'She hides in the bathroom, so she can be on her phone'

JR Atkinson

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20-year-old yells at 64-year-old assembly line coworker for disrespecting her on the job: 'She told my team lead that I was “intentionally causing her to panic"'

JR Atkinson

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'A 31-minute lunch means you leave office at 7:00pm': Workplace demands 1 hour of unpaid work for every minute exceeding 30-minute lunch break

JR Atkinson

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