Our purpose

Why we exist

Office Tea is not a jobs platform. It's not a ratings site. It's a record — of what institutions and individuals have done, and got away with.

The problem

Large institutions and corporations are becoming significantly more powerful. AI is automating management, optimising for productivity over people, and giving employers new tools to monitor, control, and silence workers. The power imbalance between employer and employee is widening — and people on the receiving end of toxic cultures, bullying, misogyny, and institutional failures have even less recourse than they did before.

Existing platforms compound this. Glassdoor allows employers to flag and suppress negative reviews. Internal reporting tools report to the company, not for the worker. HR departments exist to protect the institution, not the individual. Nobody has been building something genuinely on the side of the people doing the work.

We are.

Our position

We are not neutral. We are not "balanced." Systematic harm — bullying, discrimination, harassment, retaliation — is not a "both sides" issue. We exist to shed light on these failures, to give workers a safe place to share their experiences, and to let the community provide the validation that institutions denied them.

Every design decision, every feature, every piece of copy is filtered through one question: does this serve the person who's just been screamed at by their manager and needs somewhere to go? If yes, build it. If it serves the employer, skip it.

How anonymity works

1

Email only — and it's never shown

You sign up with an email address and password. Your email is used only to log in. It is never shown publicly, never shared, and never associated with your stories.

2

You're given a random anonymous name

The moment your account is created, you're assigned a name like "Employee #4827." This is the only identity anyone ever sees — including on your stories and replies.

3

Named individuals are hashed, never stored

If you name a specific person in your story, their name is immediately converted to a cryptographic hash and the original name is discarded. We use the hash only to detect if the same individual is named in multiple stories — without ever storing a real name.

4

No employer access — ever

There are no employer dashboards, no verified business accounts, no paid "right to respond." Companies cannot flag, suppress, or contact us about individual stories. The stories stand.

Our principles

  • ☕Worker-first, always. Every feature exists to serve people doing the work — not to manage, monitor, or commercialise them.
  • ☕Institutions do not get to moderate their own criticism. There is no employer right to respond, no suppression mechanism, no "balanced view" requirement.
  • ☕Patterns matter more than individual events. One bad manager is a management failure. Fifteen stories about the same company is systemic — and the public deserves to see it.
  • ☕Privacy is the foundation, not a feature. We have built anonymity into the architecture of this platform from day one. It is not a checkbox.
  • ☕The community validates, not an algorithm. Reactions and replies are from real people who have experienced similar things — not a corporate scoring system.

Moderation

Stories must be based on genuine personal experience. Every submission includes a confirmation of this. We do not accept content that reveals others' private information or constitutes clear defamation. Use the report button on any story or reply you believe violates these principles — our team reviews all reports manually. We moderate to protect workers, not to protect institutions.

Ready to be heard?

Share your story — anonymously