most popular posts of 2025

Here are the posts that interested people the most in 2025, via two lists: the most viewed posts and the most commented on posts.

Most viewed posts of 2025:

10. my employee keeps insisting he looks much younger than he is (but he doesn’t)

9. I rejected a student’s advances, but his parents are mad at me

8. my coworkers have way more money than me … and they constantly expect me to shell out cash for meals and gifts

7. I don’t want to babysit my brother in my office

6. updates: martial arts at work, coworker hates me, and more

5. our Gen Z employees want to be coddled and are struggling with the realities of work

4. I manage a terrible slob — how can I convince her upset coworker that I’m handling it?

3. my boss said I’m threatened by his “masculine energy”

2. questions from federal workers who are currently under attack

1. my vegan coworker is upset about getting non-vegan gifts three years in a row

Most commented on posts of 2025:

(doesn’t include open threads or “ask the readers” posts, which otherwise would hold many of the top 10 places)

10. I still have to work if I don’t attend team-building, boss has hired my replacement but I’m not ready to leave, and more

9. I won a work lottery but used a fake name, can a company strand you if you’re fired on a work trip, and more

8. I overheard a horrible phone call, will I be unhireable if I do a naked bike ride, and more

7. job candidate’s name is a slur, exec is marketing a job as a “roommate opportunity,” and more

6. our Gen Z employees want to be coddled and are struggling with the realities of work

5. can I tell a coworker I dislike him, we upset our boss by organizing stuff, and more

4. an inappropriate song in children’s theater, coworker won’t stop insisting everything is fine, and more

3. coworkers want our office breakfasts to be vegan, how to back out of a job, and more

2. employee is afraid to fly, the office poopfoot, and more

1. my vegan coworker is upset about getting non-vegan gifts three years in a row

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