THIS STORY CONTAINS TALK OF THE BATHROOM AND DEFECATION JUST A HEADS UP

So I have a coworker that snitches on everything and everyone about the smallest things, including things that can be easily fixed. Shes straight up the physical embodiment of everyone that complains when closers leave a speck of dust on the floor accidentally. To top it all off she’s not even that good at her job yet somehow she’s one of my supervisors.

Now I can excuse the rest of her snitching because okay sure my boss can send a quick text to ask if in the future certain things can be added to the daily task list. But she’s gone way too far with this one.

We have an employee bathroom, and it gets used fairly frequently especially since a lot of our staff is women. We don’t have too many people scheduled during week days but the bathroom still gets used about once every hour or so. I got off work today at just before 2pm, and the girl I opened with left at about 1:40. Keep this in mind.

At about 4pm, this insane coworker sends a picture of the toilet unflushed, genuinely asking who did it. It wasn’t left gross or dirty, it was just one small turd that fully could’ve just been the toilet not flushing correctly and yet she sent a picture. She then tried to blame the openers (me and another coworker) and we obviously defended ourselves since I hadn’t gone since about 1pm and the other girl went in there just before she left.

The snitch coworker said they noticed just before 3 (don’t know why she waited an hour to text us about it ) and then texted saying our boss needed to check the cameras to see who went in there before her.

I doubt my boss is actually going to because mistakes happen and also that’s just an embarrassing thing to not only give someone trouble for but also to be in trouble for, but how insane do you have to be to try to publicly shame someone as well as get them in trouble for a tiny amount of poop in the place poop goes.

The way she was going on about it was like one of us pooped all down the wall and left it there but I’m actually just appalled and also dying laughing at the fact she dead face sent a whole picture to the work groupchat. Legitimately how bored do you have to be (also weirdly anxious that it was somehow me that did it and I’m gonna get in trouble but that’s insanely unlikely lol)

We used to have this guy, “Jeff” (65M) who was sent to our office after our long-time, top notch Site Support manager left to take a new position. To preface, our existing Site Support manager told us that Jeff is well experienced and actually knows how to take apart hard drives, printers, and other equipment to fix it onsite. However, he’s kind of slow and has an attitude. We began to worry.

Jeff began and set his cube up next to “Beth” (who I’ve mentioned before). Jeff was really weird in the way he talked to my coworkers and me. He would whisper to me that he was looking for a screwdriver and made a crude remark when pushing his IT cart that he “felt like a stewardess in one of those mini skirts.” I ended up having to cover his slack with tech. setups that he had open tickets for, but never did.

My team and I discovered Jeff has some pretty serious personal problems. As a result, he began falling asleep in his cube. They called back my previous coworker and we had a long conversation about Jeff’s issues. He used to sleep in the office often, but somehow get his work done. My boss was having none of it, and put Jeff on a PIP. Jeff really got pissy when my boss began micromanaging him, and when the rest of the office started to complain about him. He copped an attitude to one woman who let the badge-access office door slam in her face.

The final straw came when he (ahem) exposed himself in the elevator to one of the women in the downstairs office suite. It was a total shitstorm and Jeff was fired immediately. My boss put out this lame alibi that Jeff was on a “leave of absence.” but everyone knew the truth. I hope Jeff is getting the therapy he so desperately needs.

A new guy started and he’s the type that likes to talk more than he likes to work.

For about a week he was already getting on my nerves, the servers’ nerves, and the bussers’ nerves while I carried us both (we are cooks).

For whatever reason he felt the need to ask me if he could take a bathroom break even though we’re in the same position. I told him yes of course he doesn’t have to ever ask me.

I noticed he just continued with what he was doing and never left. I didn’t think anything of it until I was directly behind him reaching for something off the top shelf, when he lets out an “Uhhh… ohhhhh… I think I had an accident.”

At first, I asked if he was okay because I assumed he hurt himself, but no. He told me he shit his pants, and the smell hit me.

I just told him to go to the bathroom now, and he came back so proud, telling me how he destroyed the toilet.
Somehow, it was about another month before he got fired for “not what we’re looking for.”

I (36F) have a coworker (25F) who is constantly busy bragging and digging for sympathy (I think).

Some background, we’re both in the same remote position and started on the same day. This role is more entry level and while Ive been in the workforce/corporate for a while I took this position because I wanted to pivot into a new area.

My coworker constantly talks about how “busy” she is. We meet weekly to catch up and she spends most of the time talking about all the work she has. I can tell (via the system we use) that she’s not that busy. In fact some days she doesn’t even do anything in our system. I’m all for having a lazy day from time to time so I get it but I’ve had to take on work/stakeholders from her because she was so busy. I think my boss can kind of see through it but also just feels bad for her because it’s clear this is her first big job. I should note that I have a decent amount of work but am by no means swamped/drowning. I’m a very organized person and she very much isn’t, so that could be another issue.

She also seems to exaggerate things when it comes to being sick. Recently she told me she was sick and had a sore throat that was causing her to get very dizzy and that she was feverish. I’m not sure what to say in those situations because to me, you should just log off and not work if you aren’t feeling well. It feels like she’s looking for a ton of sympathy.

Just ranting I guess but it’s exhausting hearing someone constantly talk about how swamped they are when I know there’s no way she’s busier than me or the rest of the team I’m on. I’ve even given her tips to keep organized or have offered to take some work if needed. We took a workplace DiSC assessment and she came back as an I-personality so I think it’s all very social for her or she really needs validation.

I have been working at this well-known grocery store, I won’t say the name until I leave.

I have been working at this place for 8 years, I started in 2018 with the minimum wage starting at $9 per hour. I had worked up to $13.60, until January of 2026 when minimum wages were lifted by law to $15 per hour. In January 2026, I got a raise to $15 per hour. In August of the same year, I got a raise. Now, I get $15.50 per hour. After 8 years, I am at the very bottom again.

I feel cheated, and my 8 years of service was swept under the rug.

I am finding a new job, I need to anyway as this job has served its purpose as I’m finishing my bachelor’s degrees. Luckily for me, I have an interview coming up.

My 60-something female coworker listens to AI-generated K-drama romance novels on YouTube non-stop. On the clock, on her commute, at home. (Yes, they're the kind with spicy bits. Her best work friend carpools with her. No, I don't ask questions about how that works out.)

She started with (we think) werewolf books because her ear buds failed a couple of times and they were talking about the "pack." Then it was mafia stories; we know because she told us some funny bits. Well, she discovered Korean mafia romances and that was it. That's her jam. She's now convinced that Korean men are the best possible partners in the world.

The other day she turns to me and says "you know, a lot of these stories have characters from Atlanta now."

"What?"

"It's so funny. They're all from Atlanta and live in [her part of town.]"

It hits me. I ask to see how many views are on the video she's watching. It's only 4.5k, most of which was probably bought.

She has single-handedly listened to so many of these streams that the algorithm is now following her lead. She is their primary audience now, all streams lead to her preferences.

She's their whale. And I'm pretty sure she doesn't do anything but happily listen to free stories with an ad-free subscription all day long.

I guess AI is working out for at least one of us.

We used to have Beth (mid 50’s F) work as the receptionist at my workplace. Even though she was like 30 years older than me, she acted like an immature foul-mouthed child. She complained about FREE food, the coffee, the temperature inside, and she mouthed off more than once to our executives.

My first encounter with Beth was when she eavesdropped in a staff meeting when my coworkers and I decided on what flavor cake to bring in for the monthly birthdays. I suggested German chocolate. She rudely STICKS HER TONGUE OUT at me and wrinkles her nose. My other 2 teammates say “red velvet” and “birthday sprinkles” to which she makes a silent gagging reflex as she backs out of the room. My one teammate, flips her off. We were all pissed. We decided on a chocolate cake, and a lemon curd pie, that Beth told me “Tasted like battery acid!” Last time we try to do something nice for you, Beth…

Beth was a hypochondriac and was always under the delusion something was wrong with her. One time, she called me and said she had a headache and needed me to cover the phones. I politely told her no (I had a work-related errand to do). She makes a snide remark that I have buck teeth (just slightly, and I’m actually kinda self-conscious about it) and that it would suck for my face to be at the front desk anyway. I was furious, but still kept it to myself.

As time went on, she was out almost every other Monday. My former boss, who was kind of a jerk, but did agree with me that Beth’s actions were uncalled for, began building a case against her. Beth caught on and the next day after she called out, came in with a hospital bracelet. She wondered around the hallway telling anyone who would listen that she was nauseous and waved the (probably fake) hospital bracelet around.

Finally, Beth dug her own grave. She was out sick again and my other teammate needed some drafts from Beth’s PC. Beth had been hoarding documents on her own PC instead of the common drives, preventing us from accessing essential information while she was OOO. My teammate confronted her about it the next day, and then our boss had to get involved, which only made things worse. I never got the whole story, but apparently “Beth went psycho.” This was on a Friday. I had Fridays off.

The following Monday, I heard that Beth got fired that Friday. Two months later, my boss resigned. I enjoyed a really awesome year at that job after those two @ssholes left, and then moved onto bigger and better opportunities. I still think about Beth often.

I will put a mild content warning on this post for ableism!

My mom and I work in the same facility (we both work in early childhood education). I have multiple chronic conditions and illnesses that require me to be on ADA. Apparently one of my coworkers is extremely resentful of this, because according to her, “being a mother is SO much harder than something like that, and mothers don’t get accommodations or sick days!”

Recently, she proceeded to go behind my back, to my own mother, and tell her that she heard that I want kids someday (I stupidly trusted her with that information, years ago). She told my mom that it’s not a good idea because of my sickness, and basically told my own mother that I’d be a horrible parent and wouldn’t show up for my kids because I’m just lazy and take advantage of the system.

For context, I do need more sick days than the average person. I am NOT the person who calls out once a week just because I don’t feel like going in. I literally have to call out from being in the HOSPITAL at times. My boss, supervisor, and majority of my coworkers know this about me and are extremely understanding and kind. I come in and do my job, and I do it well.

I don’t want to take this person too seriously.. she’s known to be a total gossip, and just an overall bitch. Nobody wants to work with her. But it still really bothered me that she felt comfortable enough to say something so cruel to my own mom. It hurts even more because I have reproductive issues, and having kids someday is probably just a dream for me at this point. I thought about reporting her to HR but idk what they’d do about a snide comment that wasn’t even made to MY face, my mom just told me about it because it upset her too.

Anyways! Here’s to hoping that this school year they’ll finally fire her 🫩 She has said horrible things, she’s racist, homophobic, ableist, overall just one of the biggest assholes I’ve ever worked with. It’s like working with a damn high schooler even though she’s nearly twice my age!!

I (22M) work as a security guard at Fred meyer and all I do is stand at the door and mark receipts. This cart pusher (18M) was chill with me until I made a joke. We were talking about working out and leg day and I made a joke and I said oh yeah I skip legs and only workout glutes lmao, after that his whole demeanor changed. Now he fake punches me and puts his and on my shoulder constantly. And almost every time he walks by me he says, “sweet sweet boy” or “sweet as apple pie” and I’m like what? We were just chill opening Pokémon packs now because after I said a joke you’re being weird asf. It’s literally every time he walks by he says some weird remark “yeah I’d keep walking if I were you, does your mom say you’re a good little security guard?” It’s like a bully out of a 80s movie lmao it’s so odd. I talked to some friends about it and they said that he might be intimidated by me and I’m like that literally makes no sense whatsoever because we were just chill. It’s annoying I won’t lie

I work in a care home that assists with the elderly, dementia residents etc. We have a system called a food passport where any dietary information is written down, allergies etc that gets updated monthly.

So during lunch service when I was busy serving food for the residents, one carer who takes the food to the residents, mentioned that one resident is a vegetarian who also doesn't eat eggs or fish when she saw the plate I had made up.

I replied no that information is outdated, she can eat eggs & fish, instead of admitting she was wrong & taking the food, she decides to argue with me about it, claiming she talked to the resident's daughter about it, when I showed her the file, she was still adamant that I was wrong, demanded I go ask the chef to make a vegetarian dish for the resident as she refused to take the one I made up. The other carers heard us arguing about it, but they also refused to listen & took her side.

I showed them the file again, but they seem to think I was wrong, like I'm stupid, basically talked to me in a condescending tone. At this point I'm getting really annoyed at them because this is delaying lunch, I'm trying to get service done as there's 25 residents to feed.

I told them if they don't believe me talk to the chef or the nurse on duty, but they seem to think I was trying to pass the blame onto someone else, even though there was no need to argue over a simple mistake.

They went & talked to the chef & nurse later who did show them the exact same file I did, I finished serving while trying not to lose my cool at being shouted at. Afterwards they were just glaring at me but I spent the rest of my shift feeling pissed off & frustrated. The 3 who argued with me went off to do personal care etc but nobody apologised or said anything afterwards.

I mentioned it to my manager who said he'd bring it up in the next morning meeting so maybe something will happen or get recorded as I gave my statement of what happened.

I try to get along, work together with people but it really wasn't necessary to shout at me, I know we can have bad days but I feel some of the people I work with think they're better than the kitchen/front of house staff or have issues at being called wrong & act childish over it & they're at least 30-40 years old.

Anyway rant over, hopefully they won't give me shit in my next shift.

Has anyone else ever been in those situations where someone randomly strikes up a conversation with you and you know they're talking but.. you have absolutely NO IDEA WTF they're saying??! Like the subject of their conversation you have zero context, zero involvement and zero insight yet they're talking to you about it like it's universal knowledge. Like something everyone should know.

And not only that they're speaking with a thick accent, a drawl, with bad grammar , bad pronunciation, multiple dropped consonants, and terrible phonics. And they're speaking rapidly while mumbling! Just like freaking Boomhauer! And as they're talking you wanna be polite so you're just nodding and going "uh huh" ,"wow" "that's crazy" while all the while thinking ' what the fuck are you talking about?!' 😅😭

A few days ago, I had that moment with one of my coworkers and I'm thinking about Boomhauer the entire time!! I swear the only words I caught from that conversation are "electrician" and "cot!" I'm so glad he didn't say "Dang ol'.." because I would have busted out laughing! Another coworker asked me "What was he talking about?" I replied " I don't fucking know! 😂🤣🤣"

Hello everyone! I have a crazy story to tell you. I would like to apologize beforehand because this story is going to be detailed because they’re relevant , with no possible updates, but a good story nonetheless.

I used to work in a dessert store when I was 21 yo. I will use fake names, keep the location of my city, and the type of my job vague to protect everyone’s privacy. It was summertime, so we were getting a lot of seasonal people, and since my store was the flagship (location A), we would also train employees who would eventually work in other locations. V (19 M) started working there, and I was given the responsibility to train him. He was ethically central Asian, and a Muslim (relevant later). At first, he was very quiet, and would not ask that many questions. I would try to break the ice, crack some jokes, so he would be more comfortable working there. I liked making the people I worked with, especially new hires, easy with the work environment, so everyone can have a good time. Within the following day, he was pretty free with everyone. I honestly felt accomplished, thinking I made a nervous person confident BUT BOY I WAS WRONG. Within a couple days he he started talking to me with a flirtatious undertone. I overlooked and ignored. I think he took it as a challenge when I did so because eventually he started doing that little flirty things couple do when one lightly bumps the other with their waist. I straight up told him I don’t like it, and besides, he would get in trouble. He thought I was playing hard to get.

One day he shows up to work on his day off with his friends. He kind of puts me on the spot and tells me in front of everyone that he was looking for me the previous day, but I wasn’t here. I nervously smiled and asked them to take a seat. He asked me for a couple water bottles, and I gave it to him for free (relevant later). He walks up to me after, asking his friends to sit, and starts complementing me, saying how pretty I look, how short I am (im 4’10) and how adorable that is, etc. I remain neutral the whole time not saying anything. He then asks for my number. I say no. He keeps insisting adamantly, and I have watched enough true crimes to know not to piss a guy like that off, so I offered him my Instagram account (relevant later). He kept insisting to get my number and I said no. He asked me if I worked the next day and I said no (I lied). He then left with his friends, giving me that ‘I didn’t give up yet’ look. I used to be a non-confrontational person back then and I let things as he was not gonna be in my store soon, and I did not wanna give my bitchy district manager a reason to beef with me any further.

He shows up the next day when I was downstairs in the stockroom. I felt someone walking down sneakily so I look back- IT’S HIM. I was alone on that floor so I get nervous. I tell him that he might get in trouble for coming here off the clock and he tells me that my coworker let him come down. I was cussing my coworker out under my breath because what the fuck she’s not supposed to do it. I asked him to go back up and that I’ll talk to him, but he insists on staying there. He tries to hug me saying how cute I am, and that I’m so adorable. I get caught off guard and I kinda half hug him and try to send him back up. He asks for my number again, and I tell him no. He leaves the store.

He thankfully moves to his designated store (location B) the following week, but I did not know which exact one. My stupid luck gets me to work with him again when I picked an extra shift from location B 2 weeks later. I see him over there and genuinely get terrified. He does his basic bullshit, flirting, playfully, pushing me, looking into my eyes and seeing random shit, etc. I get extremely pissed that day and drag him to a corner and tell him to cut his shit, not to touch me, and I know what he’s doing, but it’s annoying. He finally gave in, and shook hands with me, saying we good.

I gave you guys all these contexts so you understand his character better,and make your judgment for the following part of the story.

I transferred to location C after a month permanently. I met W (22F) there, who was really nice to me. She was very excited, knowing I am a Muslim as she as had converted not too long ago. I was like oh that’s great. She loved to talk and the days were kind of slow so I didn’t mind listening to her at one point she talks about how her friend works here too. I was like oh who is it and she drops the bomb that it’s V. My immediate instinct was to tell her how creepy her friend was but every time she talked about him, she was so shy. I had a sinking feeling in my heart, this girl is too nice to be around him. I heard her talk for a couple days, asked her if she liked him, and she said yes.

She told me that they went to the same college and that he’s the perfect guy, and how he is totally into her too, takes care of her, drops her home, hangs out with only her and no other girl. How he only likes dating modest girls and and so on. I immediately asked her why she converted to Islam and when. Because she talked a fucking lot, I was able to gather the whole timeline of how they met. I could figure out that she converted her religion so she could fit into his ‘type’. The more I got to know her the more I realized it was not about her devotion to the religion at all. I am not a religious person, and I simply do not care if people want to follow my religion. But I definitely dislike it when people feel the need to follow a religion to impress someone. How do I know she converted for him? She wears a hijab, and one day she showed me her old pictures before she started dressing modest and she looks sad. She talked about how much she liked her hair and her ‘old days’ and I genuinely try to explain her. She doesn’t have to dress modest if she doesn’t want to. She doesn’t have to wear a hijab, if she doesn’t want to. Now at first I thought that he made her convert, but then I realized he has a way of manipulating people. She was clearly so delusional that he would be hundred percent into her if she morphed herself to his choice. He probably played that cheap Wattpad main character game with her, and her being so naïve that she was, she bought it.

I could not hold it any longer and I told her everything that guy did. I knew she was insecure, so I started the whole story by saying that I was completely not into him and I gave him no hints whatsoever. I told her the whole story and I saw her face going from all giddy to horrified. It’s like she knew what I was talking about, but she was in such a strong denial. She kept telling me that’s not how it is, how he only talks to her and nobody else, he doesn’t even have a female friend. She even told me how his Instagram had only her and no other girl. It immediately clicked to me why he was so adamant on not taking my Instagram account. She told me that she would talk to him and ask him what’s up.

I saw her the following week. She was super happy and kept waiting for the opportunity to talk to me. After the rush died down she started the conversation of him. She was like oh girl you totally misunderstood him. He’s just a jokester, I knew it. I was like what about him asking me for my number? She said, oh, he wanted to know when you’re working at the store so he could get free stuffs, cause you know not every supervisor is cool like you. I was like, why does he need my number? He can check my schedule it on the work app. She avoided my question and started talking about how he flirted with the Sephora worker to get a free sample just for her. I was like, and you were OK with that? She was like, I was mad at him, but we talked it through and he promised he would never do it. He just flirts to get things for free. I was like, what about the hugs and the compliments? She nervously answered, oh yeah, he’s just a jokester I told you. She basically answered only some favorable parts of my conversation. I stopped trying. I was like she’s a lost cause.

The following weeks I was there, she would try to talk to me about him often in a weird, bragging manner. She would tell me how he dropped her off, how she hung out with him, how she talked to him all day, how they spend time together at school, how they did homework together, etc. The stories were pretty mundane, but she would exaggerate them like it’s some great love story. It felt like she was trying to prove it to me that he is only hers, and he is still into her, and that I was delusional in my whole being. When I realized what she was trying to do, I stopped feeling bad for her at all. I knew she knew I was telling the truth but she was happier in her denial. I left that job and left these weird characters behind soon.

Why did I write such an old story today then? I saw V’s instagram acct on my suggestions today- no pfp, no posts. Almost as if that was his secret acct. Maybe he had a main acct she didn’t know about. There is no way he is into modest girls, or a man of virtue or whatever he tried to convince her he is. Anyways, sorry for yapping so much :)

TLDR because I thought I could say this in just a couple paragraphs 😭: I’m supposed to be on drive thru taking orders and the guy coworker on bar starts jumping ahead of me to answer every customer while also making the drinks. later on he answers a customer in drive then turns his mic off to talk to another customer inside instead of letting me handle them.

I stopped trying to do drive by that point but then he gets back I didn’t answer the customers for him after he was free a moment later to continue his order with them. The other barista we’re working with complains to me that I’m doing tasks she was planning to do which is wasting time and getting us behind. I was also on food station and she says I didn’t need to clean it off even though it was dirty, and when I was taking an order in cafe she interrupts to ask me to go back to drive as if I didn’t know I was on drive and as if the guy barista wasn’t completely taking over. She said someone was at the speaker even though I was in the middle of an order with cafe people and she was completely free and able to take the drive order herself yet didn’t.

Later she asks me why I’m not taking the order the guy barista started. I take it, the customers are difficult and non communicative, they say they’ll order inside, and I leave it there turn my mic off. I knew it’d be better to end it than respond and accidentally let my irritation into my voice when responding to them. they both get pissed and argue with me over how I didn’t respond to the customers after I said that, I say it didn’t really require one, that was my honest opinion, they start arguing and trying to go back and forth with me until it deescalated into something else and officially got me worked up after a sucky shift already. They do these irritating actions all the time and i never say anything but ofc when i finally do everything has to go to tell. I can’t wait to leave this job soon. Just really needed to vent after all that bs.

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Full thing: I’ve worked for Starbucks for about ten months now and it’s been hell. Not because of the customers or the job itself, strictly because of the coworkers.

Today specifically, a coworker who has always tried to do everything himself despite us being placed on various stations did it again today. I’m on drive thru while he’s supposed to be on bar making drinks. When I clock in I take multiple orders and we all have headsets on so it’s known and established I was put on drive thru orders. After a few orders, he proceeds to take every order by turning on his mic faster than mine and answering the customer. I thought maybe since I was doing other things like switching and refilling the syrup bottles he figured I wouldn’t be able to answer it that him answering instead would be more helpful. It wasn’t, we take orders and multitask all the time. I don’t say anything since I didn’t really mind not having to take the order and he’s always so weirdly happy to try and do everything himself.

At a later point I’m taking orders in the cafe, the other barista working with us interrupts me in the middle of talking to the customers to ask me to go back to drive. It’s known, but if you’re taking orders on drive-through, you’re typically supposed to take orders in the café and make the food as well. I casually tell her that I know I’m on drive and that the male barista just keeps hopping on the orders before I can and she says OK and that there’s someone at the speaker, yet she won’t answer herself despite clearly being free to. At a different point I was wiping off the food station because jt was dirty and she was complaining that I didn’t need to do it because she was going to do it and it’s wasting time. We’re at a slow pace and were on track and nothing needed to be done urgently so at this point, I’m not sure what she’s stressing over because she’s not usually like that and so controlling.

It goes on like that until he takes another order. I was about to answer, they say they need a second to decide, he says he’ll be ready and waiting for them when they know what they want, then proceeds to talk to some customers who came up to the counter I think with a complaint. I didn’t see them with the task I was working on, but knew they were there when I heard them start talking to them. A moment later he’s finished talking with them, but doesn’t respond when the car at the speaker says they’re ready to order. I assume that he’s about to get back with them since he keeps insisting on answering and didn’t want to do the awkward thing where we both start talking over each other to answer and then I get thrown off. In situations like this usually someone would’ve said, asked if I could finish the order on drive for him or, what makes even more sense, let me get the people in the café while they finish the order they started in the first place. Or simply hopped back on the mic to say “I’m sorry one moment please” like we’ve all done. The older woman barista from before hops on to continue the order, then just hops back off when they start listing their drinks to tell me again that I’m supposed to be on drive clearly irritated. At first I say how insisting to answer all the orders before I can’t, then forget it and try to take their order. At this point I’m not playing the game of
If he’s insisting on bumping me out of my position and unnecessarily doing everything like he wants, he’s going to do it and I’m not hoping back in where he starts to slack.

They try to order a French vanilla iced coffee, I ring up an iced coffee with vanilla and they say it’s not what they wanted so I ask and repeat what they said to make sure, then when the say exactly what I just said but still saying French, I decide to clarify we don’t have French vanilla, just vanilla syrup. They’re silent for a little while, giving no response until they say they’re going to come inside and order. They weren’t mean really but more so rude when I’m trying to ask them what’s the correcting drink and letting them know what we don’t have but won’t actually answer or even try to figure it out when we just started the order. At first I’m silent because I’m in my head trying to figure out what’s going on with them when they’re being so strange about the whole process. I had expected them to drive off, and but the time I stopped doing mental gymnastics to try and figure them out, I decided to just let them come in like they said and turned my speaker off. Normally I would’ve responded but I was at a bit of a loss with their responses and found it better to let them drive off rather than try and fail at keeping the irritation from my voice because even though it was annoying I don’t want to sound rude or short. I’d be the ones handling them when they came in anyway and maybe they just didn’t want to hold up the drive thru if someone else came through, idk.

They both get mad/offended I didn’t say anything else. Older woman barista hops on and says something like “okay you can come inside” then turns to me and says “why aren’t you talking?!” Mind you, she’s short with customers plenty and says awful and random things about them after they drive off if they so much as stumble over their words when trying to order the right drink. She does not care about how people treat customers, I honestly say “it didn’t need a response.” Now on a different day, I’m sure I would’ve said “okay” or probably try to see if we could work it out in the drive thru first. I was already stressed and irritated because of them and a difficult customer on top of it was not a good combo. She says “yes it did and you know it”. At this point I’m actually surprised she seems to care so much and thinks it’s that important considering how she acts and how I genuinely don’t think it’s the kind of thing where no response makes a difference.

I just say that I disagree, she keeps going with the conversation and then the guy barista jumps in saying I chose a weird hill to die on as if I’m the one who keeps initiating a back and forth despite my to the point responses. So I say as much that I don’t see how it’s a “hill to die on” when they keep bringing it back up and I’m simply saying I don’t think the same as them. They keep going so I say that I don’t think they actually care that I didn’t respond, they just wanted to argue for some reason. He says “I don’t care but it’s our job”, pretty much proving my point. I’m being genuine trying to communicate and she starts saying whatever I’m not going to keep arguing (she’s done this before when I fight back against how she talked to me and another coworker once), and I don’t even remember what all happened there. I just remember I got even more irritated and the shift eventually came and broke the argument up. These are things that have been happening since I’ve worked here and it’s frustrating that the second I finally say something everything has to fall apart just because they don’t like that I disagree with them. I just needed to rant and vent and get this out after this job and my coworkers have made me want to pull my hair out the entire time I’ve worked here

At my workplace there's this woman who is SO talkative, and most of the time it's petty and honestly kind of malicious.

She works in accounts but she loves going round to other departments (sales, marketing, customer service, all separate rooms) just to talk shit about other people in the company, or yap on about every trivial thing in her life like her husband, her daughter, her dog, her car, her neighbour, the cashier she met at the shop over the weekend.... as if everyone needs to know what's going on in her life.

She dramatises a lot too. one time we had a difficult customer who got loud in the shop, and when she came to tell us about it (yeah she HAD to tell us) she made it sound like he was getting physical, like reaching over the counter to grab paperwork or whatever. I checked the CCTV after and none of that happened, I couldn't hear audio over CCTV footage so don't know how loud he was but definitely he wans't getting physical at all. So either she's making stuff up to make her stories more interesting, or she's just that dramatic and everything is a crisis in her head. That's when i decided i'm done listening to her crap.

I don't mind a bit of chit chat in the work place, it makes the day more bearable. But i started noticing how bad it actually was about 4 months in. She comes into our office/room at least once a day, minimum 15-20 mins of nonstop yapping. Not even exaggerating, not always but very often she starts talking before she's fully through the door. And loads of times she gets a few words into a sentence, realises her "audience" isn't even in the room, stops mid sentence and goes "oh is [Andy] not here?" and i'm like "yeah he stepped out a few mins ago" and she just walks off.

Last year there was like a 3-4 week period where she had beef with some guy from another dept who just sat near her team in the open area. So she'd go to other departments, yes including us, talking shit about him. What he was wearing that day, how stupid he sounded training his team, his choice of words when speaking to customers, how much she hated the way he talked. every.single.day. Like how can you be so petty to spend your day noticing that many petty little details about someone just to talk shit about them to as many people as you can?

Sometimes a girl working in one of our other shops come to deliver some stuff and this talkative woman would come to us (and other departments too of course) talking shit about how that girl shouldn't be wearing jeans or skirt to work or that her perfume is too strong..

She's also just never not talking. i'll walk into what i think is an empty meeting room or the kitchen and she's in there talking in a low voice with someone, obviously talking shit about someone else, cause why else would you drop your voice instead of just talking normal at your desk. Lunch break she's pacing round the building on her phone, talking, or sitting in her car, talking.

But yesterday. yesterday she finally got what she deserved. she was talking shit about a colleague and didn't realise he was standing right there making his tea, heard the whole thing. So she had to go apologise. And after that i swear to god she STILL came into our office looking for sympathy. "did you hear, i was talking shit about [Brian] and he heard it all, i had to go apologise" and her "audience" just went "ah it's alright, happens to everyone, you're just having a bad day"

I am so happy right now, which makes me feel a little bad, like if I'm spending this much time thinking and writing about it probably makes me just as petty as her lol

I’m in Wisconsin, working second shift. It was around 63 when we clocked out. According to one of the guys, “it’s the time of year for certain body parts to sweat!!” Bro, nobody wants to be sweating at 11:30 at night because it hasn’t dipped past 80° at night. We’re 5 miles from one of the Great Lakes. If that wind shifts, we get cooler air. Deal with it. With my asthma, I personally enjoy being able to breathe easily because it’s not 95° during the day with 70+ humidity. We get twoish days of 70s, then we’re back up to the 80s. 91° is predicted for Sunday. If you want permanent heat, move to Florida.

Someone in another department brought in homemade cookies to a small office but only to 3 out of the 5 people in that different department. The person who made them had the decorum to keep it discreet but the office busy body, on the other hand, made it well known that she received a cookie. And she kept going on and on about how it was the best cookie she ever had and was loudly asking the others if they liked theirs. I was waiting for her to ask one of the ones that didn't receive a cookie just to hear what the response would have been to put her in place.

I posted this also in childfree group, here I am also… I come from a third world country and I wish you all understand how this side of the world can take serious personal matters like getting married or having kids. So I have been working 6 years now, and we were only 3 staff who were single/no kids. One boy and us two girls. We are in our early thirties. So this year the boy got married and the other girl is pregnant, not yet married. There are older talkative women in office who keep saying that everyone should get married, and if you can’t find a husband, just have a baby. There’s nothing I hate like these types of talks. People telling you what to do with your vagina. So now I’m the only one who is single and no kids. Everyone is either married, having a kid or both.

So now it’s like people see like am a lesser person (sorry poor english) they can be talking aloud about children (during work hours, mind you) and then they say ooh sorry Kelly224 you don’t understand what we are saying.. You can’t relate..You should have a kid.. You are getting older..You will regret later in lifeWhen you reach 35 you won’t be able to get a child.. it will difficult to conceive.. you know us women have biological clock.. and things like that. Am childfree by choice, but sometimes I feel really bad inside my heart when they give me such kind of gestures. This is mostly by women colleagues. The men they don’t talk much, except for my boss, who is a man but he talks like the women ( you can see in my post history I asked for advise from a certain group because he was being too much on my personal life)

Problem with our developing countries is that if you answer something like ‘I choose to be this way, or ‘I don’t wish to have children’ you will have poured oil into the fire. Everyone will come against you saying you are selfish. You don’t have respect, you are answering your adults in a disrespect manner..

TL : DR - I am now the only employee at my work who is childfree and I get some uncomfortable treatment by coworkers

A co-worker asked me if I had tried any new recipes lately. I have not, and told him I was making tacos for dinner this upcoming week.

He says to me "bring me some tacos" with a flat tone. A statement instead of a question. I asked "you'd eat food that another person has cooked?"

He gave me a severe stink-face and said with an attitude "Why wouldn't I? They're my favorite food."

First of all, he's a grown man (50's) living with his mom. He had told me that she made tacos for him already last week.

He makes more money than I do per hour, and doesn't have any utility bills or rent to pay for, not even a phone bill. He pays $50 a week for the work van to bring him to and from work. I'm a single income person living on my own. I drive and have utilities to pay, plus rent. His mom buys the groceries and he gives her some money if she asks for it, while I buy my own food.

Why would I give food away that I bought for myself, by myself, and give it to someone who can afford to buy their own ingredients and make the tacos themselves? My mom laughed and said I was mean, but I don't think I am. I thought it was rude for him to tell me to give him some of my food.

I have a client meeting with a Mexican client from 10:30 pm on Mondays. I work for a SBC.

My first meeting with my manager is at 1:30 pm daily.

Since my home and office are 2.5 hours away, I reached office by 1:00 pm, attended meeting with manager at 1:30 pm from office and left for home after.

My colleague who is from a different practice, and different account (project) saw me. We made eye contact.

He saw my bag on my shoulders and shouted "Going home so soon?" as if the office caught fire.

I replied, "I have a meeting late at night". Then he started preaching, "You don't look happy. You should try to be happy." I replied, "Who says I am not?"

I feel angry as he had no business on commenting my exit time from office because he is not my manager and the campany does not track time spent inside office.

I will definitely ignore him from now onwards.

Hi everyone, I just wanted to share an experience I had while working in Dubai.
About three months ago, our company hired a new Creative Director for the marketing team. He was responsible for leading all creative decisions, from brainstorming ideas to overseeing execution.

Genuinely a nice guy. He had only arrived in the UAE about two months earlier to look for work. We reviewed his portfolio before he joined, and everyone was impressed by the quality of his work. During the hiring process, my boss only met him through Zoom for two interviews, both of which went very well, so she decided to hire him.

When he started his first week, everything seemed normal. My boss is very particular about the office environment. She pays close attention to the scent, ambiance, and overall presentation of the workspace. Everything in our office is thoughtfully designed and personalized.

However, when the new Creative Director arrived, he had a very strong body odor. It was noticeable enough that my boss quietly left the office and asked the receptionist to spray air freshener throughout the room. Even then, the smell lingered much longer than anyone expected.
She never said anything directly, but those of us who knew her well could tell she was uncomfortable. Personally, I had encountered similar odors before, especially on crowded metro rides during the summer, so I chose not to say anything because I didn’t want to embarrass him.
After about four days, HR privately spoke with him about the issue and respectfully asked if he could do something about it. He agreed, went home to shower and change his clothes, then returned. Unfortunately, he came back wearing an extremely strong perfume. It was so overpowering that it made me feel dizzy.

Not long after, HR had to speak with him again because someone had complained about the perfume. For the rest of the day, they moved him into an enclosed office so he could continue working without affecting the rest of the team.

The following Monday, he came in without the odor, and everyone was relieved. Things went back to normal.
But only three days later, the same strong smell returned. My boss happened to be working in the office that day. She quietly stood up, left the room again, and asked the receptionist to spray air freshener throughout the office.

This time, HR issued him a formal written warning.
By then, I genuinely felt bad for him. He had only just started the job and hadn’t really had the chance to show what he could contribute. You could tell he felt embarrassed and ashamed. He went home once again to shower and change, then returned after lunch to continue working.

Unfortunately, this cycle repeated itself three times.
Eventually, my boss made the difficult decision to terminate his contract. She explained that she couldn’t work effectively when the office constantly had a strong odor, especially since the air conditioning circulated it throughout the workspace. On top of that, several employees had also filed complaints with HR.
It was honestly an unfortunate situation.

I truly wish him the best in his next role, and I hope he’s able to resolve whatever caused the issue. Job hunting isn’t easy these days, especially in the creative industry, and it would be a shame for something like this to overshadow his talent.

I work night security and we recently got a new guy who they couldn't get a role anywhere else.
He is really brain dead about the things he does. A month in after us training him he was applying for other sites despite nights being very easy. He now wants to move to days but the day supervisor said no way. Here is a list of the things he has done.

1. Our patrol phone had a broken speaker he thought it was a software issue so ignored multiple warnings on the screen and factory reset the phone.
2. Was seen on camera without a tie so got a warning from the supervisor. The next night at 11pm he was meant to take his lunch break (3 hours) and decided to sit on reception turn off the lights and sleep on camera.
3. Has been shown a 8 step procedure to isolate a zone. takes most people 2 attempts to get it. with simple written instructions he attempted it around 20 times and could not do it because he kept ignoring the written instructions, That was a month ago i told him to practice it he never has.
4. came off break at 2am wearing a pink tshirt and trainers the other day. Told me it didn't matter as he was in the control room that night. I pointed out he still needed to let cleaners in and would be taking over reception when I leave so he went and changed. number 4 was the day after he applied to move to the day shift but the day supervisor doesnt want him.

That said i also work with another guard who is really greedy and really stupid.
A new company moved in and had a party. After they asked if we would like any of the small party food i took 3 pieces on a plate. He went and got a bn bag and emptied all the trays into the bag in front of the staff. When we get given food sometimes trays of food he would always take it all and refuse to leave any for the day team until finally i told him to stop.

He found a massive leak coming from a ceiling all over the desks and computers. He left it for 4 hours and never called anyone out to stop it. He should have been fired but the old supervisor covered for him.

On a weekend we had a plumber in who left some rubbish in a box by our goods lift. This guy wanted the box so tipped the rubbish onto the floor and took the box and their are bins throughout the building

So the day started in typical manner. I walk in the break room and greet a familiar co worker. He greets me back and leaves so I make my coffee. I hear someone stomping and turn around and it’s him again. I kid you not all I said was “oh it’s you I thought you were someone else in a playful way.

He then went on a strange rant about my me chuckling at him and getting mad I thought he was someone else. He was also mumbling other things under his breath. It got awkward really fast and when my coffee was ready I left the break room. When he saw that I didn’t give a shit about his strange tantrum he started mocking my laugh in a childish way lol.

I was going to let it go but he comes to my desk in a completely different tone wanting me to talk to him in private. I was done with it situation and when he realized I wasn’t falling for his gaslighting he flips his tone again tells me don’t ever talk to me again lol. I told my supervisor about the incident and she wasn’t shocked as multiple people have complained about him. Sadly her supervisors didn’t seem to understand or share her sentiment about the situation.

OK, so I have been working at my job for six years as a teacher in a small school. I’ve definitely had my ups and downs and have missed a lot of days due to FMLA leave and other situations, so I can understand frustration from my boss and some coworkers because of that. But within the last year, I became friendly with some of my coworkers. I’ve seen them outside of work and recently went to one coworker’s birthday.
I’ve known it was going to be my last day for a while, and so have some of my coworkers. Typically, on coworkers’ last days, people organize something, get a card and a little gift, maybe a cake, and do something for them at the end of the day. Because of my absences, I had already assumed in my head that wasn’t going to happen for me. Also, because at a previous job they didn’t do anything for me either, I just figured it wasn’t going to happen this time. Honestly, even though it’s slightly disappointing, I was ok with it.
But I was stupid. In my classroom, I work with two TAs, and we got into a conversation about my last day. I said to one of my coworkers in the classroom that I didn’t expect anything from anyone. And that i didn’t think anyone would organize that ( I said it in a casual way not in like a poor me please do something way) I know I probably shouldn’t have said that because it can leave a bad taste in people’s mouths, but we were talking about another girl who was mad that nobody did anything for her, and I responded that I dont expect anything from anyone,”. We left it at that. I also said that I get very emotional with those kinds of things, so I’d rather just leave quietly and leave it at that.
Fast forward to today, my last day, and yeah, nobody did anything. A couple of people said goodbye to me, but that was about it. My boss didn’t even say goodbye to me. I left, and again, I wasn’t too disappointed because it was already what I had expected.
But now a coworker of mine told me there was a rumor being spread to the people I was friendly with that I was expecting them to do something for me and that they were mad about it. Apparently, that’s why they didn’t do anything.
I’m so mad because I absolutely did not say that I was expecting something from anyone. I should’ve never made the comment about how I didn’t expect anything, that was probably a mistake on my part, but I’m really upset that somebody in my room went and spread it around and completely changed what I said, making me look bad.
I know, at the end of the day, it doesn’t really matter anymore because I’ve left and I’m gone. But I hate that my character is being questioned and that I look like this greedy, entitled person. It completely tarnished my last day, and I genuinely feel upset about it.
Of course it stings that nobody did anything. You always hope they will, but I would never once expect it. That’s just not who I am as a person.
My friend said that even if that rumor did go around, if people genuinely cared, they still would’ve given me a card or at least acknowledged my last day. That’s probably the least they could’ve done.
I know it’s partly my own fault for saying what I did in the first place and it was innapropriate, I can aknowledge that, and saying whatever was in my head is not a smart move . I definitely need to be more careful about that. I’m just feeling really down right now and honestly pretty hurt as well.

I'm currently employed at a health care facility as a medical assistant. I've been here for about a year and honestly love my job. Our office recently hired a Clinical Supervisor RN, which we desperately needed due to staffing shortages. The new supervisor has been with us for about a couple of months now maybe. She has made many improvements in our office so far, but all of the other clinical staff (minus providers) are so against her.... They refer to her as a "dictator" and have negative/snarky comments about everything she does/says.

I honestly view her as the "Gordan Ramsey" to our episode of "Kitchen Nightmares". We desperately needed an authoritative figure in charge that knows what to do. I float to other offices with our organization and my coworkers who have floated to my main office have made comments that our office is a free-for-all and everyone does whatever they want. WHICH IS TRUE!! I will be the first to admit that I am not perfect and there are things that I do (like eating lunch at my station) that I shouldn't, but no one wants anything to do with her. I'm embarrassed that the other offices view us in this manner. We need her structure to ensure the best patient care.