People shared the shocking workplace treatment that finally tipped them over the edge – 15 absolute jaw-droppers

Every so often you will find yourself in a job where you’ve put up with a fair amount of nonsense over the weeks/months/years but then something happens that makes you realise – I’m not going to take this anymore.

We mention this after @RevampedCP had a question for people back in the day on Twitter.

What experience in the workplace radicalized you? pic.twitter.com/tVv1IOzD3g

— Revamped | Career & Workplace Development (@RevampedCP) May 9, 2024

And there was no end of people happy to share the moments in a job which radicalised them. And these 15 are absolute and outrageous eye-openers.

1.

HR sent out an email asking everyone at the company to give $100 to buy the CEO a birthday present https://t.co/lKtH47eDKr

— Handsome Bigfoot Lawyer (@lighterfandango) May 10, 2024

2.

Intern year I worked a lot and had no time to make plans to see my own doctor.

One day I went to work and felt horrible, my resident and attending seemed frustrated with me, as if I was milking it. I went home and woke up 10 days later in my own ICU. It was a long recovery. https://t.co/jzKFuNgSKW

— D. King, MD (@doctorORbust) May 12, 2024

3.

Very first job, in a room full of senior dudes, I was told to “make the elves sexier” and when I did that as elegantly as possible w max respect to established lore & worldbuilding I was told “no, like a stripper” and “I can send you reference lol” and I’ve never forgotten https://t.co/IeoLGGMkN0

— Nicholas Kole (@FromHappyRock) May 10, 2024

4.

i quit this state job the day after i got this email. https://t.co/Ue6aznjuyy pic.twitter.com/XOytPU06HX

— end racism, phd (@paul_t_miller) May 10, 2024

5.

Me and my co-workers were riding the elevator at the same time as the main boss but when we greeted him he did not greet us back https://t.co/B3v3XVGKU8

— (@Taehyungeyemole) May 13, 2024

6.

I kept complaining about how over worked I was.

When I finally left, they hired _seven_ people to do my work. https://t.co/t6tw6S0RLF

— Mick Douglas (@bettersafetynet) May 10, 2024

7.

I wrote a profile of a teenager who survived Hurricane Katrina for a major glossy magazine. She was murdered 6 months later and the editor wouldn’t let me write about that because she said the readers would find it “confusing” that a triumph-over-tragedy story…wasn’t. https://t.co/GvikEpF6we

— Julia Dahl (@juliadahl) May 11, 2024