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Work remotely but do it from the office? Remote jobs have their lights and shadows. Some days you don’t even get out of your pajamas, and you end up feeling like a giant slug. Some days you stop so many times

Boss Demands RTO Then Hosts a Google Meet With Everyone Sitting Right Next To Each Other: ‘We spent forty-five minutes talking to each other through microphones while making awkward peripheral eye contact across our plastic desk dividers’

Where did the habit of having reasonable aspirations go? Some of us only want jobs that pay a normal amount of money and let us check out and go chill at our homes without worrying about anything work-related for the rest of the day. Some of us want to be clerks, cas

Employers Don’t Seem To Hire Normal People With Normal Aspirations Anymore: ‘In a market this crowded, going "above and beyond" has literally become the norm’

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Virginia Couple Move to Alaska for Wife's New Job, She Gets Fired After One Month of Working: 'We are out over $10,000 from this move and have absolutely nothing now to show for it.'

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Manager marks 1 minute late as a 'no call no show,' consistently asks for 30 minutes of unpaid labor

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HR implements dress code for fully remote employees, demands 'business casual' in virtual meetings: ‘Do they think this will magically make us more productive?’

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'I hit her with a Gen-Z stare': Boss walks up to employee who's juggling multiple projects and says they're 'not doing enough'

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Guest discovers he missed his hotel booking by a full year, proceeds to blame hotel for his mistake and demand a room anyway: ‘That's not how anything works’

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Bad boyfriend tries to financially manipulate his girlfriend and guilt-trip her by accusing her of being petty for enrolling in college: ‘He told me that he allows me to be in college’

Giuliana Tiscioni

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Guest demands explanation for hotel booking another guest in "her" room after she checked out 2 days earlier: ‘Really don’t know what to reply to such nonsense’

A college student who works as a waitress in a restaurant.

College student waitress pays for her older coworker's $20 Uber to get home from work; coworker keeps asking her for more money: 'She's a young single parent and shares a car with her boyfriend.'

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'It all started when memes...': Pour a dash of these laughs into your morning coffee for extra energy (August 18, 2026)

Elna McHilderson

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College student forces professor to give them full credit for a blank essay after using professor's formatting rules against him: ‘I hadn't broken a single rule’

It was about time. You know what they say: when a product is free, it’s because you are the product, or something like that. We’ve enjoyed LLMs very much up to this point, and while we were enjoying them, we also helped them learn how to fix the logical and ethical problems that arose in the process.

Anthropic launches new model that imperceptibly watermarks texts made with their Language Models: ‘The load-bearing question is, how would anyone know if it was watermarked?’

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Employee turns off his work phone during his PTO time, and you won't guess what his boss did! He said that he was being unprofessional by setting up that boundary, now he wonders if he needs a new job

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After coworker refuses to stop taking employee's office chair, employee forces him to stop by swapping the chair with a broken one: ‘He hasn’t touched it since’

Judging by what this employee said, I don’t see any reason why he thinks he is being monitored, but I see reasons to think he is overreacting. Frequent or recurring 1-on-1s are totally normal, and might be a part of ‘office culture ’.

Employee is alarmed due to coworker arranging a recurrent 1 on 1 meeting with him: ‘I feel uncomfortable like I'm being monitored because I did something wrong. Is this normal or is this weird?’