Episodes

  • The Director Said Nothing for Two Hours. Then HR Called Me In. | Workplace Drama

    The Director Said Nothing for Two Hours. Then HR Called Me In. | Workplace Drama
    Oct 15 2026
    A closed meeting room, two silent hours and an email that arrives at 3:47. A first-person workplace story about a rumor, a mistaken accusation, and what the paper trail said when the meeting finally ended.
    This is a fictional composite story. Names, companies and events are invented and do not describe any real person or workplace.

    This is a fictional composite story told in the first person. Names, places and events are invented and do not describe any real person.
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    11 mins
  • Told to Follow the Policy Exactly. So I Did. All of It. | Malicious Compliance

    Told to Follow the Policy Exactly. So I Did. All of It. | Malicious Compliance
    Oct 14 2026
    A new manager, a forty-page policy binder and an order to follow every word. A first-person workplace story about malicious compliance: doing exactly what you were told, to the letter, until the instruction explains itself.
    This is a fictional composite story. Names, companies and events are invented and do not describe any real person or workplace.

    This is a fictional composite story told in the first person. Names, places and events are invented and do not describe any real person.
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    11 mins
  • He Took Credit for My Report in the All-Hands. I Had the Edit History. | Workplace Revenge

    He Took Credit for My Report in the All-Hands. I Had the Edit History. | Workplace Revenge
    Oct 12 2026
    Six weeks of work, three minutes on a stage, and somebody else's name on it. A first-person workplace story about a stolen report, a very quiet document trail and a calm, precise payoff.
    This is a fictional composite story. Names, companies and events are invented and do not describe any real person or workplace.

    This is a fictional composite story told in the first person. Names, places and events are invented and do not describe any real person.
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    12 mins
  • I Was the New Hire Nobody Introduced. By Friday I Knew Why. | Toxic Workplace

    I Was the New Hire Nobody Introduced. By Friday I Knew Why. | Toxic Workplace
    Oct 11 2026
    Day one at a new job, and nobody says her name. By Friday she understands why, and by the following Monday the people who froze her out are the ones who need her. A first-person workplace story with a payoff.
    This is a fictional composite story. Names, companies and events are invented and do not describe any real person or workplace.

    This is a fictional composite story told in the first person. Names, places and events are invented and do not describe any real person.
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    14 mins
  • She Found Out on a Tuesday. Her Colleague Had Been Sabotaging Her References for 18 Months. | Workplace Entanglement

    She Found Out on a Tuesday. Her Colleague Had Been Sabotaging Her References for 18 Months. | Workplace Entanglement
    Jul 2 2026
    Eighteen months of career stagnation. Processes that ended without explanation after the reference stage. And a recruiter who let something slip on a reference call. This episode covers the full arc of reference sabotage — what it looks like, the legal landscape around it, the documentation strategy that created leverage, and the outcome. Subscribe to Workplace Entanglement.
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    10 mins
  • She Signed Seven Invoices. Her Boss Was Gone Before the Audit Started.

    She Signed Seven Invoices. Her Boss Was Gone Before the Audit Started.
    Jun 30 2026
    Vivienne had seven years at the company and an eighteen-month promise of a VP promotion. When her supervisor offered her a "special project" — a confidential vendor payment transition initiative — she took it. Seven invoices. $2.3 million routed through a vendor that didn't exist. A fake service delivery confirmation system built by a former IT contractor. Her supervisor on approved personal leave forty-eight hours before the audit that would expose everything. Her name on all of it. In this episode of Workplace Entanglement, Vivienne tells the story of the mechanism built around her — and what she's doing about it.
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    16 mins
  • She Signed the NDA. She Thought It Just Covered the Salary.

    She Signed the NDA. She Thought It Just Covered the Salary.
    Jun 28 2026
    She read the compensation section. She read the non-compete. She did not read the section titled "Prior Incidents and Organizational Knowledge." Two years later, a colleague said something that made her go home and read all four pages — and understand why certain conversations at that company had never quite been possible. This episode of Workplace Entanglement covers NDA scope concealment: how non-disclosure agreements are structured to contain patterns of workplace behavior while remaining legally unimpeachable, what the 'quiet list' is, and the architecture of a document that requires your voluntary signature to function as intended. Workplace Entanglement — available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and everywhere you listen.
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    9 mins
  • She Built the Deck He Presented. Her Name Wasn't On It.

    She Built the Deck He Presented. Her Name Wasn't On It.
    Jun 25 2026
    She built a 47-slide strategy deck. Her mentor presented it to a C-suite client under his name alone. When she found a file creation timestamp proving she'd started work 11 days before he claimed to have briefed her, she consulted a lawyer — who told her it was a professional norms problem, not a legal case. In consulting, the work-for-hire clause covers everything. This episode of Workplace Entanglement breaks down how mentor credit theft works — the fragmented briefings, the deniable conversations, and the timestamp that nobody was ever asked to read. New episodes on Spotify and Apple Podcasts.
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    8 mins