25 Workplace Problems So Mildly Infuriating Even HR Pretended Not To Notice
Most workplace problems won’t get you fired, they just quietly chip away at your will to log in tomorrow. It’s never the big stuff, it’s the little things.
The coworker who microwaves fish, the meeting that could’ve been a sentence, the boss who somehow appears the second you open a snack. Even HR sees it happen and just kind of… nods like, “yeah, that’s rough.”
1. “Someone at work put a ‘help yourself’ note on a pack of Tim Tam’s that I bought”
2. “My boss wouldn’t let me go turn off my headlights, even though you can see they’re on from the window.”
3. “I have to bring tp from home because my boss doesn’t buy any”
“i realized after 3 days of asking, i had to bring some from home i guess.”
4. “My boss at work plays the same playlist EVERYDAY for the past 6 years”
5. “How my boss eats burritos.”
6. “My boss put this on the bottom of my laptop so I can’t just put it down anymore”
“It’s some crystal thing to ‘harmonize the frequencies in the office'”
7. “My ‘boss’ has no regard for a customers expensive chair even after I told her how much it’s worth.”
8. “Boss just walks up and starts editing files on my PC”
“He has access on his own system. Still chooses to come to my desk and interrupt whatever I’m doing.
…..multiple times in a day.”
9. “2 weeks of telling my boss the produce in the warehouse is going bad – Him: dont worry about it.”
10. “My boss thinks these are ‘perfectly fine’ tires to be driving on…”
11. “My boss doesn’t think this needs to be changed and I’ve only swept half the store”
12. “My boss is physically incapable of pointing without touching”
13. “My boss screwed the only window at our office shut, so now it’s impossible to get fresh air. I’m boiling at work rn.”
“He wants to save money by not using the heater, which we never use cause it’s so hot in here anyways, so he decided to screw it shut. This can’t be legal.. right?”
14. “Boss didn’t like the color of the chairs in the break room. So now we just don’t have chairs.”
15. “My boss ‘cleaned my desk’ AKA threw everything out. I had to go digging in the trash to get my personal items, along with client files, receipt records, etc.”
16. “My boss’s dog, which doesn’t belong at work to begin with, tore up my mango plant, that i grew from a mango i had eaten. Boss wasn’t present for this, so I texted him letting him know, and all he had to say was “how much do I owe you””
17. “Every single day my boss puts piles of work on my chair when I literally have a ‘new to be done’ inbox right there.”
“He started doing this when I started, then I put the new organizer there, he used it for maybe 2 weeks, and now leaves it here again. He’s 73 but thinks we all forget everything when it’s him who does.”
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19. “This banana my boss gave me to celebrate 1 year of work”
20. “Told my boss I had a headache, he offered me some Tylenol”
“The bottle was dusty but didn’t really pay it any mind because our warehouse has a layer of dust on everything.
I’m still alive so that’s cool.”
21. “If my car is not parked before 9am, someone steals my spot”
“My boss pays for parking with the store. The entire lot has assigned parking. If my car is not parked at 9am on the dot, others will steal my spot, even employees of other shops. On each parking spot as well (the yellow and black stoppers) there’s a reserved sign for each address as well.
Had my car serviced for the first half of the day now I’m constantly in and out of the store on several call outs having to park over a block away at the city parking. Safe to say I’ve started reporting when people do this too.”
22. “Broke my favorite stress squeezie at work. It looks horribly inappropriate. I’m in HR.”
23. “This is the device we use to play music at work while the boss gets a new car, goes on vacation, AND breaks ground for a pool at his house.”
24. “My bosses ‘inspirational’ quote on the wall…”
25. “Boss says the office has no Roaches”
“So, here’s the deal. I found a roach a few times inside my work laptop when I got home..it couldn’t come from my house and a few other colleagues complained of the same issue. I decided to prove him wrong, bought a cheap 50c chinese sticky roach trap and left my laptop at work with this trap directly next to my laptop….this is the results after a weekend in the office. Not just roaches but the roach egg sack thingy hatched and those are the babies…….”