Meet Cynthia. Head of Strategy. Master of buzzwords. Dangerously confident with file attachments.
In this episode, one click in the company’s women’s Slack channel triggers a full-scale layoff leak—complete with names, dates, and a Caribbean vacation itinerary. What follows is chaos, crying, and a crash course in how not to handle confidential information.
It’s real. It’s corporate catastrophe. And it all started with:
“LAYOFF PLAN CONFIDENTIAL - DO NOT DISTRIBUTE.”
“Cynthia… was the word ‘layoff’ in the file name?” — HR, seconds before giving up on the day
Know a real-life Michael Scott?
Or just have a workplace story so awkward it deserves its own HR file? We want to hear it. Funny, absurd, or jaw-droppingly tone-deaf—if it happened at work, it belongs here. Names will be changed (mostly), but the stories stay true.
Send yours to HRislooking4you@gmail.com.
Thanks for contributing… and remember: HR is always watching.
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