workplace-stories

Controlling boss asks all employees to download location-tracking app 'Life360,' employees are baffled: 'We are not his children'

JR Atkinson

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Employee accidentally injures finger while working from home, company claims it's a work-related accident and bans working from home for all employees: 'My colleagues are annoyed with me'

Emmy Ward

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New hire shows up to his first day at the office, only one employee notices he's not the person they interviewed : 'No one else seems to notice that it's a completely different guy'

Emmy Ward

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'Only a grifter would do that': Shady coworker 'borrows' coworker's designer clothes and jewelry, won't return them after 1 year

JR Atkinson

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Entitled Mom Challenges Staff Over Playground Rules and Threatens to Fire Employee When Her Six-Year-Old Is Denied Entry

Sienna Varady

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Entitled Pregnant Woman Demands Coworkers Pay Hundreds for Additional Gifts Despite Recent Baby Shower, Igniting Office Uproar

Sienna Varady

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'You are literally working yourself into an early grave': Burnt-out husband works 70 hours a week in construction, freeloading wife refuses to work part-time to contribute to household

JR Atkinson

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'That's a trick': New employee is reprimanded for showing up with coffee, despite arriving on time and ready to work

JR Atkinson

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'It's giving MLM/pyramid scheme': Shady job recruiter puts 10+ applicants in a public group chat, exposing everyone's phone number

JR Atkinson

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'Being likable is actually more important than being good': Beleaguered workers share their hard-won advice about employment

JR Atkinson

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Office worker refuses to bake a dessert for coworker's 'grandma shower': 'Ridiculous and not a thing'

JR Atkinson

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'It's time to pay me': Shifty boss offers stellar employee lump sum instead of a raise, keeps delaying the payment

JR Atkinson

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Bride invites 9 out of 10 of her coworkers to her wedding, the 1 coworker calls out his exclusion during department meeting: 'I could see the bride's face visibly change'

Emmy Ward

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Vice President of company denies longtime employees 2-week vacation request after taking 3 weeks of vacation for himself: 'That's what people who are quitting do'

Emmy Ward

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'Time to work 3% less hard': Company announces record-breaking profits, cuts employee's 401ks in the same meeting

JR Atkinson

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Employee sends in one-month noice, toxic boss makes them fire innocent coworker before they leave: 'So happy you were able to escape'

JR Atkinson

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