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'I need my full paycheck': Employee quits two weeks in after boss never draws up his W2, demands to be paid in full

'I need my full paycheck': Employee quits two weeks in after boss never draws up his W2, demands to be paid in full

Some jobs seem like great opportunities in theory, but in practice, things can go awry pretty quickly. Here , we have a social media strategist who was hired by a boutique dentist's office and was tasked with making video content for his new boss. However, after requesting a W2 on day one, his new employer kept delaying drawing up any paperwork. It became crystal clear to the new hire that this was not going to work out, as he was putting in over 40 hours a week and still had not had the opport…
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Man leads a $23M class action lawsuit after his request for a refund is refused, despite the app having multiple bugs that prevented him from canceling his subscription

Man demands $45 refund for a dating app subscription after a bug prevents him from canceling, his refund is refused so he leads a class action lawsuit that drains company of $23M

"This is why I support laws saying that canceling a subscription must be as easy as signing up for one."
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Café Karen complains that her pieces of toast aren't the same size, gets smaller ones: 'You want your two pieces of toast the same size? As you wish.'

There's a lot to complain about in this world—if you go looking for it… but who wants to live their life like that anyway? You're far better off putting that time and energy towards something productive and just getting on with it rather than falling into that line of thinking. Regardless, you're determined to find something to take issue with… the size of your toast probably isn't one of them worth worrying about—there are plenty of other things that should take priority on the list Who knows.…
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'You want to escalate? Okay': Customer support insists they can help customer, customer wastes his own time trying to escalate the matter

Not every customer support worker is reading off of a script. That didn't stop this customer from insisting that one worker was doing that, though! Sure, when you call a customer service helpline, you'll have to answer a bunch of standard questions. You might have to tell them your age and address and maybe answer a few security questions. Some customers just have zero time for this, though. Even though answering all of the necessary questions probably takes about a minute, a lot of people get…
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Man enacts petty revenge on package-stealing neighbor by packing up junk and leaving it on his doorstep, giving the neighbor the comeuppance he deserves

’He took the bait’: Package-stealing neighbor gets owned when man ‘get[s] creative’ by filling fake packages up with junk to teach neighbor a lesson about theft

"The best way to deal with a thief is to get a little creative."
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Entitled landlord gets his comeuppance when small business removes all of their renovations after he doubles their rent, resulting in his real estate blacklisting

‘We had the place gutted’: Evil landlord doubles rent for commercial space, so tenants remove all of their renovations resulting in the landlord's eventual real estate blacklisting

"We now have a larger nicer studio for 70% the original rental cost, and last time I drove by, the original space was still empty."
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'Sounds optional to me': Employee declines optional training course, boss reprimands her, claims it was mandatory to attend

'Sounds optional to me': Employee declines optional training course, boss reprimands her, claims it was mandatory to attend

Look, if a work event is mandatory, then employers need to be transparent about it. Time is valuable for everyone, and saying that employees are “strongly encouraged” to participate in an extracurricular activity does not exactly mean that it's required. The only way in which employers could possibly think those concepts mean the same thing is if they have a backward sense of authority and control over their subordinates. Here , we have an employee who received an email about a training course…
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Employee watches in the background as arrogant employee ruins his career, making the company a safer, better place

‘Dude made his bed’: Egotistical colleague ruins his career, whose promotion leads to a mass resignation and his eventual firing

Karma always finds those who deserve it.
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'I've never been caught': Worker confesses to leaving job site while nobody is watching, stirring controversy and sparking discussion in online community

Having a job generally means that you do that job and get paid for it—simple, right? Like, it doesn't really take anyone telling you that to figure it out. But what should you do if you do the job that you're being paid to do and it doesn't take you nearly as long as your employer expects it will? This happens all the time, and depending on the job—and the person—and the place, and the time, your approach to this situation might be different. The more motivated among us who couldn't simply stan…
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'My mom thinks I’m putting turkey over my own family': Siblings squabble over vegan turkey dinner for Thanksgiving meal

This family is having a major argument over what to eat for a holiday meal ! Each family has their own unique traditions and menus for their holidays. For many people, the meat depends on the holiday: for some, ham is reserved for Easter, while cooking a big turkey is reserved for Thanksgiving and Christmas. You've got to have a lot of side dishes too: many people eat mashed potatoes, green beans, cornbread, cranberry sauce, collard greens, sweet yams, beans, or myriad other dishes. That way, e…
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20 cheap, low-effort Halloween costume ideas: 'Time traveler [...] wears the same clothes you wore yesterday'

20 cheap, low-effort Halloween costume ideas: 'Time traveler [...] wears the same clothes you wore yesterday'

It's spooky season and if you're like many of us, you probably are already panicking about your Halloween costume. Perhaps you were planning on sitting this one out, and then your friend invited you to a costume party that you can't get out of no matter how hard you try. Perhaps you've tried brainstorming what you could be this year, but everything seems far too complicated and expensive. At the same time, building something from scratch seems excessive and time-consuming. Who has the emotional…
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'Their house was the wrong color': HOA forces couple to repaint their freshly painted house, couple chooses brightest paint possible

What's the craziest color you'd consider painting your home ? Neon pink? Lime green? Electric yellow? There are so many possibilities, as one couple found out while they were challenging their HOA . This HOA member was truly a busybody with nothing better to do than critique other people's life choices. Joan was the “busybody president” who made a lot of assumptions about her neighbors. She was rather unkind in accusing her neighbors of keeping a renter in their home against HOA policy . Well,…
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Quarry ordered to pay more than a million dollars in damages over farmer's electrical fence after refusing to compensate him: 'He would have gladly settled [for] $10K'

Electric company ordered to pay more than a million dollars in damages over farmer's fence after refusing to compensate him: 'He would have gladly settled [for] $10K'

Never underestimate the power of a wronged dude with nothing to lose. After a portion of his ranch was destroyed, this farmer learned that the cause was a flaw in the electrical line that resulted in his fence catching fire. He tried to reason with the electric company, but they refused to grant him any compensation despite the fact that he was entitled to it and had confirmed with his wife, a lawyer who specializes in such cases, that he deserved repayment. The manager at the company assumed t…
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WFH employee maliciously complies to company's ‘no pets policy’ when he gets an official strike for his dog being on camera, so he sets his Zoom background as his cute dog

WFH employee gets official strike when their dog pops up in the background of a company Zoom call, company states it's because they have a ‘no pets policy’

"So they're paying your rent to act as a workplace?"
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Customer complains about internet speed, but it turns out they were getting faster speeds than they were paying for, gets slower internet than they started with: 'It's even worse than it was before!'

Getting slower internet speeds than you're paying for is quite a gear-grinding, to say the least—especially when you're paying through the nose for the highest possible speeds and still just receiving the lower speed 80% of the time. The internet service providers (ISPs) basically figure that we won't notice the difference, and to be fair, most of us wouldn't. That or they don't actually have the infrastructure to support and deliver the speeds they're selling, so they throttle speeds, especial…
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'[I'm] realising I destroyed an art piece': Artist realizes they accidentally covered up another artist's work

Some art is too modern for its own good. Modern art says a lot about the current conditions that people are living through. Consider the painting of an Uncrustable sandwich that's gone viral, or the robot that leaks oil and tries to clean it up before it dies. There are plenty of ways for modern artists to express themselves, and it seems like modern art museums are happy to indulge them. Sometimes modern art is so modern that you roll your eyes at it: but if it makes you feel a strong emotion,…
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