FAIL Blog - Page 43 - Work Life and Social Dilemmas - Employment, Life, Work, Culture - Cheezburger

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Factory machine operator quits job after boss denies him a pay raise, leaving the company with no qualified operators: ‘They effectively lost thousands’

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Mother demands to move in with her 31-year-old daughter due to financial issues and makes a big scene when she denies: ‘I feel like my mother is "window shopping" to see with which one of her kids she will be more comfortable.’

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Overworked store supervisor deals with a customer attempting to buy cookies without cash by offering “the value of knowledge,” cancels the sale, and walks away to help paying customers

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Elderly driver refuses to stop parking in resident's rented spot, claims he's been "parking there for 30 years”, forcing resident to block him in overnight

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Who are really the quiet quitters? Bosses discusses how is like to manage a group of remote workers, the good, the bad: ‘the quiet quitters aren’t the ones who everyone assumes’

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Update: “I Got Everyone Towed”—Annoyed Homeowner Tows “Half the Neighborhood” Filled With Airbnb Guests, Shares an Update 2 Days Later When They Threaten Lawsuits

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Neighbors turn residential home into an outdoor restaurant, blasting music, filling the patio with shouting customers, and making peaceful living impossible: ‘It's truly unbearable’

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Civil engineer documents that the builder purposely ignored his drawing and built only with what he was told on the phone, which got him fired: 'On my next site visit, there was a different foreman, and I was told the previous foreman had been let go'

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I understand people expect useful gifts at their bridal showers, but that can’t be an excuse to shake down friends for cash we know they don’t have. My point is that we shouldn’t shake anyone for gifts or cash, even if the people who are supposed to be making the gifts can afford it. A gift is always supposed t

Bride calls friend immediately after wedding party to say her gift was inferior and she expected more: ‘I'm unemployed, and she's a successful business owner’

Marrying the right person doesn’t feel like the movies told us it would feel, and that’s ok. One has to work very hard not to get caught up in the what-ifs, because they are a trap. She could’ve continued with that other relationship, for example, and maybe she would’ve wasted her time with something that felt so rom

‘I did have a romcom romance in my 20s. We met at an airport when I nearly walked off with his charger while waiting for my connecting flight’: Woman started wondering about the life that never happened after marrying her now husband

The shift from real life to virtual life has already happened I don’t think that, at any point in history, people have incorporated so many marketing concepts into their own lives as they do now. Marketing used to be something companies used to sell their products more effectively, to generate desire, or to project an image. With social media nowadays, people have got

Bridezilla shuts down every conversation that’s not about the newlywed during her wedding for not being “on brand”: ‘You'll have plenty of time to talk about holidays later today is about us’

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Boyfriend assumed that the condo he was living in with his girlfriend and that she paid for had to add his name to the deed once they got married, even though he had never paid the mortgage: ‘He just looked surprised that I didn't immediately agree.’

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Cell Phone Store Employee Gets Manager and District Manager Fired for Defrauding the Company, Then Quits After Getting Passed Up for Their Manager’s Vacant Role, Leaving the Store With 2 Employees Remaining

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Entitled neighbor demands resident relocate their new AC unit due to noise, resident refuses and hires certified technician to prove it's up to code: ‘I consider the matter closed’

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25-year-old starts taking care of her elderly neighbor, only to discover that her son is receiving government paychecks to care for her: ‘I am no longer comfortable helping out our neighbor.'

Some of us fantasize about something like this happening to us so we can get revenge without planning. We have to be really intelligent to be presented with the chance and be quick enough to see it and take it. I’ve read countless stories about exes who benefited from their partners' kindness only to resent i

31-year-old man accidentally sends $8.400 to ex-girlfriend, and she refuses to transfer the money back immediately, making him miss the closing date and lose a condo: ‘I’m following my bank’s instructions’