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Employee Burnout Posts To Push You Through Your Late-Week Work Slump

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New manager insists that employees fill in payroll sheets after hours, faces fortnightly Friday hold ups while they did them after 5PM: 'We decided we'd take our time'

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Micromanager times employee's bathroom breaks, calls them out for taking too long

'I've noticed you took 3 bathroom breaks totaling 17 minutes. The team average is 12 minutes': Micromanager times employee's bathroom breaks, calls them out for taking too long

Restaurant fires server via text while they're on a cruise

Restaurant fires server via text while they're on a cruise: 'No shade, but you're an unfriendly loner that refuses to learn and grow. No shade though'

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Employee gets 15% raise once he stops working 24/7 and only works from 9-5: 'Now that I've stopped trying so hard, suddenly I'm promotion material? Corporate logic makes zero sense.'

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Woman yells at coworker for 'telling her what to do' when she suggested she take a lunch break

Woman yells at coworker for 'telling her what to do' when she suggested she take a lunch break: 'I want to make her look bad for being out of the shop too much'

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Boss forbids female employee from wearing black slacks because they're too casual for the office: 'Nobody cares if a guy wears wrinkled khakis and a polo from 2007'

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Employer waits until 8 interviews in to tell prospective employee that the posted salary is a 'mistake': 'The absolute most they could offer is $90k'

‘I don't want to cancel my whole vacation just to spend a week gluing rhinestones on table cards’: Bride-to-be demands 26-year-old sister cancel approved PTO, prepaid weeklong trip to do wedding prep

‘I don't want to cancel my whole vacation just to spend a week gluing rhinestones on table cards’: Bride-to-be demands 26-year-old sister cancel approved PTO, prepaid weeklong trip to do wedding prep

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Boss gets angry at employee making $45K working 40 hours a week for getting a 2nd job on the weekends: 'He actually said I should be using my weekends to think about how to add more value to the team'

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Work schedules mandatory 'fun meeting' during unpaid lunch: 'I think morale actually dropped more after that'

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'The "intern" turned out to be someone with 5 years experience making $10k more than me': Manager forces employee to train new 'intern,' only to fire them and replace them with the intern weeks later

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'Door 1/4 way open = It better be urgent and very brief': The strangest 'unwritten rules' from workplaces across the globe

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Employee with the flu is written up for not coming into work: 'I reminded him of the policy. His response? Well, we still need people to show dedication'

Couple plans week-long vacation, only for husband's boss to deny his PTO, he blames wife for his poor planning: ‘He used all his PTO from taking random days off’

Couple plans week-long vacation, only for husband's boss to deny his PTO, he blames wife for his poor planning: ‘He used all his PTO from taking random days off’

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Employee receives 2% raise after making $5 million for company, manager flips out when he refuses employee of the month award in meeting: 'He said he didn't want it'

Employee receives 2% raise after making $5 million for company, manager flips out when he refuses employee of the month award in meeting: 'He said he didn't want it'

40+ of the freshest and funniest tweets of the week: 'I cannot stress enough how important it is to lie to your coworkers'

40+ of the freshest and funniest tweets of the week: 'I cannot stress enough how important it is to lie to your coworkers'

Frugal 24-year-old refuses to drain her savings to bail her older sister out, family pressure mounts when the eldest insists she can 'always save again': 'She assumed she was entitled to my money'

Frugal 24-year-old refuses to drain her savings to bail her older sister out, family pressure mounts when the eldest insists she can 'always save again': 'She assumed she was entitled to my money'

'Laughter is the best medicine': 21 Laughs That Will Guide You On Your Inner Journey to a Happy Brain (January 24, 2026)

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Mom takes 60% of the money her 13-year-old daughter earned from tutoring, insists she's entitled to $25 of every $40 her daughter earns for household expenses: 'She kept the money in her bag and wouldn’t let me see it.'

Mom takes 60% of the money her 13-year-old daughter earned from tutoring, insists she's entitled to $25 of every $40 her daughter earns for household expenses: 'She kept the money in her bag and wouldn’t let me see it.'

Employee finds out their place of work is closing via Facebook post: 'That’s the notice I got. No discussion in person beforehand. No phone call. No text'

Employee finds out their place of work is closing via Facebook post: 'That’s the notice I got. No discussion in person beforehand. No phone call. No text'

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