The Workplace Stories cases readers rated highest and believed most — the jury's all-time picks.
Every open-plan office has a smell, a hum, a guy. Ours had Warren, and Warren had a jar of teeth. I noticed it my second week, when I still …
168 Upvote · 66% of readers believe this story
I got fired for time theft, which is a strange fate for a person who could barely be bothered to work the hours she was actually paid for. I…
149 Upvote · 66% of readers believe this story
I want to be clear about the scale of what happened here, because when I tell people they laugh, and then they stop laughing when they reali…
132 Upvote · 68% of readers believe this story
The fourth floor had a room, and the room had no purpose anyone could name, and for two years I let that be a background fact of my life the…
121 Upvote · 66% of readers believe this story
I have made peace with almost all of it. The part I have not made peace with is the parking spot, and I recognize that says something about …
103 Upvote · 67% of readers believe this story
His name was Martin, or that is what the little paper sign taped to his monitor said. He arrived the same Monday I got back from a dental th…
96 Upvote · 69% of readers believe this story
I have now been hired at the same company twice, which sounds like loyalty and was actually a clerical accident that spiraled into the stran…
77 Upvote · 68% of readers believe this story
The unsettling thing about Dale is that for a long time he was not unsettling at all. He was the best part of Fridays. Dale sat at the end o…
68 Upvote · 68% of readers believe this story
Most people worry when money goes missing. We had the opposite problem, and I promise you it is worse. I managed the petty cash tin in a sma…
54 Upvote · 67% of readers believe this story
I did inventory reconciliation for a distribution warehouse, which is a boring job that occasionally hands you a genuine ghost story, and th…
41 Upvote · 70% of readers believe this story
