There genuinely is no drama quite like workplace drama.

Used to work with a really diligent and thorough dude doing Data Analysis around overall Ops performance metrics, we got along really well in terms of work ethics, so we became work buddies pretty fast. Trouble was, the higher-ups set up the original databases in Google Spreadsheets and the people who worked on those docs before us botched them beyond belief. We kept trying to convince Management to let us redo all databases in SQL, link them with our tools to make things dynamic, and pull them through Power BI to get some nice visuals going, but they realised their asses would be on the line if the data started showing accurate values (plus they were too cheap to actually pay for viable software), so they kept stonewalling.

One day my guy gets fed up with our manager and decides to go nuclear. Thing is, the dude had a very, very nasty case of IBS (no wonder, honestly...). So he started taking advantage of it. He'd come in, tell me to keep an eye on him, and if I saw him getting red and sweaty I should use the facilities within the next 30 minutes then stay away from them. I can tell you that I made the mistake of not heeding his words only once. The dude literally bio-bombed every washroom in that building (small office, start-up type deal), and it would linger for hours due to poor ventilation. He did this without a predictable pattern, so that nobody would figure out who was to blame. This happened for several months. I cannot begin to tell you how much respect I had for the guy.

Ask them, they'll probably tell you. It is the night shift after all.

I used to get a daily dose of tea from aita and tifu

It's like reading a drama but for some random person's life somewhere on the planet

They're mad at each other because they work bargain retail. They are stressed out and irritable.

There's a podcast for that : Normal Gossip

Oh, I'm interested in diffident small gossip - I would like to observe chicken politics, and bee politics.

All the disputes, daily fads, coups, 1:1 bonding rituals, etc.

If it's anything like my time on the night shift at a grocery store, there's probably one person that's been there for decades and only has to pack out one aisle of pillows, or some other bulky and light stuff, while everyone else has to cover 3 times as many shelves, with smaller and heavier items. But since that person has been there forever, they're one of the holdouts with a decent contract that makes several times more an hour than anyone else, including the shift supervisor, and actually has decent benefits.

lemme guess... the weed seller started selling to the management and is getting away with doing fuck-all on the floor

Here goes gossip from my job.

• There was this janitor guy that used to be around and we haven't seen him in a while turns out he was stealing from people's desks.

• You know our ex boss, who was suddenly degraded? Turns out he committed a crime, and he is going to jail in a few months, if you see him happy lately it's because he is full of drugs to cope with the anxiety.

• This woman who just came out from her wedding, all the office know she hooked up with the guy from accounting a few months ago.

• These two guys who used to be friends and don't talk anymore? You know the reason, this pretty new girl both of them fall for her. She had nothing with either of them, but they stopped talking regardless because both think the other one is the reason she don't hook up with them.

average HR staff

Fish paste vs croutons.

Move to a small city/village, befriend a local old lady, visit for coffee often, get gossip and cake, give company = everyone wins.

as the morning crew idk who hates each other in the night but I gotta say I have made enemies with our signage supervisor

Kohl knows what he did

My wife just learned that the motive the seus chef on her restaurant is going out and back from work is because he's dealing with drug problems. The surprising thing is not the drugs, because they practically standard use in kitchen staff, but that is so bad he can't work while high.

a reality show that follows minimum wage emplyees seem exploitative and dystopian as fuck.

I would likely watch. and feel bad about it