Ever feel like your job belongs in a sitcom? Or maybe a soap opera with a dark sense of humor? Some workplaces don’t just toe the line of chaos—they leap over it in dramatic slow motion. Take the café girl who finally burned out after months of overwork. No staff, no support, just her holding the place together with caffeine and sheer will. She quit, and the café? It shuttered four months later. Turns out she was the glue.Then there was the new hire who got trained wrong—on purpose. Her smiling coworker taught her all the wrong steps,

waited for the mistakes to pile up, and sat back while she got blamed and fired. Smiles can be sharp-edged, apparently.One manager decided being a boss wasn’t enough—so he turned his office into the headquarters of a pyramid scheme. Tried to recruit his own staff and HR. His exit? Less dramatic than expected—just a quiet walk out the door with a cardboard box and a very awkward silence.In one kitchen, a guy got promoted and immediately stopped trying. His big moment,