Good bosses know how to manage their staff. Great bosses, however, know that they should lead by example, inspire their team, and cultivate a healthy workplace culture. Oh, and they know to swiftly shut down office drama instead of adding fuel to the fire.
Some work nonsense continues to haunt you for years to come. And it can be therapeutic to spill the tea. A bunch of emotionally weary employees opened up online about the pettiest, most toxic, weirdest drama that they ever experienced at work. It’s frustrating beyond belief to know that someone had to go through all of that nonsense.
#41
I have someone that doesn’t not spell my name right ever when messaging me on teams or email. Both which have my name right in front of them. I purposely get their name wrong when I address them in emails. They have a very generic easy spelling name too
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8points
#42
The manager told us all we are only allowed 1 doctor/hospital appointment a YEAR. We work in a GP practice 😭
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8points
#43
Someone took someone else’s Diet Coke out of the fridge, so they just kept unplugging the fridge and left a note that said “now no one gets a drink”
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8points
#44
Someone wanted to take me to hr because I didn’t put a capital at the start of their name on 1 email I sent
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7points
#45
I was told off by a nurse for closing the curtains in the common areas at night, bc they took too long to open the next morning 🤡
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7points
#46
My ex-boss slashed all the tires on my old coworker's car because he wouldn't make him coffee.
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7points
#47
I got a “talking to” for sending my colleague a Get Well Soon card signed by myself and other teammates. Apparently I wasn’t supposed to because other teammates hadn’t received greeting cards for their life situations. 🙄
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7points
#48
I got in trouble cause I said yes in an email. They took it as I had an attitude. I thought it was crazy.
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7points
#49

The morning I got a call my dad had passed, she immediately texted and said “so how long do you plan to be out.” 8 mins after I told her. I quit.
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6points
#50

Whilst my daughter was in NICU born 3 months premature - my manager come to the hospital to tell me my team were being made redundant
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6points
#51
Someone ate the chocolate side of someone else’s corner yogurt in the fridge and then next day ate 6inch out of the footlong subway
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6points
#52
one of the chefs I worked with used to get annoyed at the waitresses who were too happy and would also get annoyed at those who weren't
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6points
#54
My manager made one of my coworkers move DESKS because her son (who also works there and sat behind him) complained he was getting up too much??
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6points
#55
My boss telling me not to send a welcome email to my new employee who I inherited through a merger because she wanted full control - my employee wondering why I’m not contacting her and my boss tells me if I email her it will make her nervous - guess what? I quit that job!
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6points
#56
My fiancé went to pick up a suit on his lunch and parked in the office car park. His entire team turned on him because he deigned to leave his desk during the day, it went on for months and months, his boss did nothing. He’s the sweetest person as well and really cares when it people like him unfortunately, anyway after a year of this he ended up finding a new job and is very happy.
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6points
#57
Went into work, had a shift woth my manager (at a coffee shop) and noticed someone used all my hand cream. I was a bit annoyed but whatever, I had more in my bag. I mentioned it to the manager and she got quite annoyed and spoke to the rest of the staff and this started a war because who was the thief and why wpuld anyone do that? Turned out EVERYONE was using it like it was communal hand cream 😂 I didn't even care, I was more annoyed someone put the cleaned out empty tub back where it was instead of in the bin
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5points
#58
Office was talking about MAFS (which had finished, and spoilers all over social media), I said something about how 2 people are together now (who weren’t a couple in the show), and my desk neighbour told me I’d ruined her whole day, and we haven’t spoke since.
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4points
#60
the stock count for bottled water on the bar was out by 1 and the manager made all those working that day sign a stock loss form.
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4points

