The spokesperson’s response is childish but utterly unsurprising.

I have two stories and ironically enough they are both about counterparts who do the same job as I. So I work as a contractor in a job that is embedded with DoD types. There are several units that do the same thing so there are a handful of jobs that are staffed with 2-5 people per job just in different units but in…

“Red” was a short, conniving troll disguised as a female coworker. Red and I sat in a sales office with our 10 other new coworkers in a new branch of an established company. On the first day of orientation, she bragged on and on about her adeventures in geocaching- and how she sometimes didn’t leave anything but a…

I’m already likely to dox myself with this if any old coworkers read this, but here we go. A while back, I was a new clinician at a community mental health clinic. I had indicated that I was interested in starting a group for queer teens, and was brainstorming in group supervision how we might advertise it so teens…

I lasted with co-workers (in broadcasting) for a little over 3 years. I hated it so much that I left radio completely ( sexual harassment was off the charts) and have been self employed for forty years now. No boss! No co-workers! At this point I’d die before I worked for anyone else. I don’t know how people stand it.

I sort of miss those early corona press conferences. A few people would get up there and say smart, helpful stuff, and then Trump would get jealous of the attention and get up there and spouting nonsense. “Sure, take this unproven drug that has dangerous side-effects, what do you have to lose? Oh me, well I’m not…

Glad you got to get out of there and have the delicious knowledge she was not rewarded for bad behavior.

You being too busy to answer/return his calls, and him having to swallow his pride and call you multiple times, was probably even more damaging to him than any laughter you could have produced. This way, you’re just too busy being awesome to even bother with his desperate ass.

It was fairly anticlimactic. He’d called both my work line and cell phone multiple over two days times before finally leaving a VM, which I ignored.

Yep, and she’s still there 4 years later, probably until she retires, because she was already getting up to that age.

That is INSANE. I swear, some people know one trick; to find that job where once in, you have to be dynamited out.

Reading through these I’m amazed that I’m still amazed at how many flat out incompetent lunatic people can hold long term jobs. My story is kind of a mirror universe of the requirement—the terrible employee was the only one NOT fired but it didn’t work out well for her.

That’s awesome! I had a similar boss for a minute. I was running a facility (with a team of two other managers), it was doing great, everything was smooth. Suddenly they hire another manager and tell us we’re all reporting to him. He basically spent a month reinventing the wheel, like he didn’t think we were tracking…

Naturally this was a government office. This guy was mid-50s. Always working away at something and he stayed late a lot. His claim to fame was setting off the smoke detectors at least once a month by burning his microwave popcorn. He had a habit of standing in the hallway whenever a young attractive woman went by, he…

I had a coworker I nicknamed Coffeecup because I could do more than he did on top of my regular job just by drinking an extra cup of coffee. I’d never seen anyone else whose progress sticky notes would move *backwards* on the sticky note board. The day after he got fired, I went through his open job tickets and…

Boy oh boy is this a timely topic for me personally! Miserable coworker finally left recently after being a complete rotten apple and threatening to leave for 2+ years. This person was just the worst in every possible way and even if I wrote you an entire essay it wouldn’t fully capture it. I’ll stick to the…

Not the traditional seeing a coworker leave, but some great schadenfreude:

I interpreted that look as, “Nurse? Why not doctor??”