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Boss scolds new dad for sleeping during his unpaid lunch hour: 'He even mentioned the statistic that naps are good for you, but not at the workplace.'

Emmy Pratt

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Manager asks employee to stay an extra 5 minutes while clocked out, employee wonders if that's legal: 'I'm honestly pretty frustrated'

JR Atkinson

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'The markup on eyeglass frames is 300%': The unexpected secrets that make different industries work

Ally Perry

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Employees are forced to cut boiled steaks with plastic utensils at mess of an 'employee appreciation dinner': 'The worst part was: they locked us inside the building'

JR Atkinson

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Travel agent hates on new coworker, gets caught out blaming him for mistake she made: 'She would criticize my attire, my work, if I was 20 seconds late from making lunch'

Ally Perry

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Employee of 27 years receives Oreos and a Snickers bar as a thank-you gift after retiring from Home Depot: 'Management has become less welcoming and empathetic over the last 10-15 years.'

Emmy Pratt

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Coworker takes entire boxes home of office snacks, manager locks the cabinet in response: 'Over four Tuesdays in a row the cabinet is half empty by 2 pm and [he] has a tote bag'

JR Atkinson

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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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'The ones who act superior to you': These are the worst types of coworkers to have in the workplace

Ally Perry

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Social worker yells at supervisor, reports her for checking on her after tense meeting: 'She was crying and slamming her hands on the table'

Ally Perry

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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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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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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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