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China
Man demands ex-coworkers pay him back for boba tea he ‘treated’ them to
A man in China is being criticized online for telling his former employees to pay him back for bubble tea purchases. What happened: On Sept....
Editorial Staff
Feature
Japanese man fined $11,000 for smoking more than 4,500 times on the job
A Japanese civil servant was fined around 1.44 million yen (approximately $10,900) for smoking on the job more than 4,500 times in over 14 y...
Michelle De Pacina
Crime
99 Ranch Market employee arrested for attacking co-worker with meat cleaver in California
Marlon Uy, a 57-year-old employee of 99 Ranch Market in Chino Hills, California, was arrested on Oct. 9 for attacking his co-worker with a ...
Koreans boycott Paris Baguette for mishandling death of 23-year-old employee found in mixing machine
On Oct. 14, a 23-year-old employee was operating a sauce mixing machine alone at the Paris Baguette’s factory in Gyeonggi province, South K...
News
Ex Huawei Employee Demands Severance Pay, Gets Detained for 8 Months
Chinese telecommunication corporation Huawei is under fire in China for detaining an ex-employee of 13 years after he demanded severance pay...
Bryan Ke
Business
One of the World’s Hardest Working Countries is Finally Giving Their Employees a Break
South Korea has initiated a move to encourage local companies to provide an improved work and family life balance for their employees. The i...
Ryan General
Entertainment
Thrift Store Worker Gets Fired, Goes on an Epic Intercom Rampage Blasting His Managers
For those among us who aren’t madly in love with their day jobs, fantasies of the day they can finally quit, stick it to your boss and tell ...
Man Records All the Late Excuses His Co-Worker Uses For One Year Until He Finally Gets Fired
We may all have that one co-worker who always shows up late but never fails to impress everyone with their excuses. One Redditor, Diondrems,...
Uncategorized
Boss Asks His Workers to Decorate Their Desks — They Make the Most Epic Office Ever
Few office employees have the creative skill, imagination and permission from the boss to construct something as awesome as what Karl Young ...
Wal-Mart Employee of 18 Years Gets Fired For Not Turning in Lost Cash Fast Enough
A Wal-Mart in Niskayuna, New York, fired an employee of 18 years for not turning in $350 in cash that he found in a parking lot fast enough....
Jacob Wagner
Bill Gates’ Foundation Has Amazing News For Employees Who Are New Parents
Add the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to the small but growing list of companies who offer their workers paid long-term parental leave...
Lifestyle
HP Reportedly Bans T-Shirts at Work, Programmers Forced to Wear Collared Shirts
HP has finally put their foot down, ending what was becoming a fashion catastrophe. This week, HP sent all of their employees — rough...
Riley Schatzle
Two Men Win $2.25 Million After Employer Illegally Swabbed Their Butts
Two men are now $1 million richer after their employer violated their right to genetic privacy by swabbing their butts for DNA. The story be...
Sebastian Dillon
Pizza Delivery Hero Saves Life, ‘Left a Pizza Boy and Came Back a Pizza Man’
On a mid-June evening, an unsuspecting 19-year-old boy went through an experience that changed him into a man. As the hours dwindled on June...
American CEO Pay Has Risen 997 Percent Since 1978, Study Reveals
The average CEO takes home 303 times as much cash as their employees, according to a new study. The study, conducted by progressive think ta...
Drunk Boss Violently Yanks Employee’s Testicle During ‘Team Building’ Outing
A New Jersey man is one testicle short after a horrific business “team building” exercise and the actions of a drunk boss led to three faile...
The West Coast is the Happiest Place to Work, New Report Finds
A new report indicates that the West Coast is the best coast to be when it comes to work happiness. Monster and Brandwatch collected and an...
Laura Dang
Here’s the Best Way to Say Thank You After a Job Interview
Some people think that thank you letters are obsolete — those may be the people not getting jobs. Answering millions of questions abou...
Chinese Employees Watch More Porn Than Anyone Else at the Office, Survey Reveals
China has surpassed everyone else to become the largest smartphone market in the world, and, with that, they have now become the most prolif...
New Study Reveals Why Being Good at Your Job Might Not Really Be a Good Thing
Apparently, working today doesn’t always just mean eating tomorrow. It might also mean working even harder tomorrow to eat the same the day ...
Chinese Boss Threatens to Fine Employees For Not Attending Mother-in-Law’s Funeral
One ridiculous boss in Taizhou, China is being criticized for forcing his employees to attend his deceased mother-in-law’s funeral and threa...
If You’re Not Doing This One Thing After Receiving a Job Offer, You’re Making a Huge Mistake
If you’re a millennial, it’s more likely than not that you’ve committed one particular cardinal sin when receiving a job offer: not negotiat...
Engineer Asks Quora to Help Decide Between Two Job Offers, Immediately Regrets It
A Silicon Valley engineer was having some trouble deciding between two job offers — one from Uber and the other from Zenefits — ...
City Employee Gets Fired After Watching an Astonishing Amount of Porn at Work
A Baltimore city employee has been fired for watching an obscene amount of porn on his computer when he should have been working, a report f...
New Harvard Study Debunks How Everyone Usually Answers This One Interview Question
Humblebragging, a skill that comes naturally to someone who thinks a little too highly of themselves, is something you never want to do in a...
Max Chang
Jedi or Sith: Which Side of the Force Are You on at Work?
As only true geeks would know, May 4 is a holy day for Star Wars fans, a holiday passed down a long, long time ago from a galaxy far, far aw...
Avoid Using this ‘Boring’ Font on Your Résumé at All Costs, Experts Suggest
So when it comes to résumés, why is the Times New Roman font similar to putting on sweatpants? Well, according to typography experts who tal...
Augustine Reyes Chan
Study Reveals The Crucial Traits That Separate Entrepreneurs From Employees
In 2013, the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) found that 13% of the U.S. population were entrepreneurs running a business or in the pro...
Pissed Off Bank Employee Emails CEO For Raise — CC’s over 260,000 of His Co-Workers
We all know about the increasing wage gap here in corporate America. Most people simply deal with it and continue working for measly ...
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