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Employee has to pretend to be working because of the lack of real work he receives, he spends the shift checking emails, but now he’s bored: ‘I spent 6 hours doing absolutely nothing.’

Boss bans tech employee from taking lunch after allotted time, forcing employee to go on break while the company's entire network is down: ‘So I clocked out’

Boss bans tech employee from taking lunch after allotted time, forcing employee to go on break while the company's entire network is down: ‘So I clocked out’

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Employees grow tired of constantly having to double-check and fix their AI-obsessed coworker's 100% AI-generated work output: 'It's low effort, low quality, and I don't want to be associated with delivering [low-quality] work as a team'

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30-year-old man thinks his 40-year-old girlfriend is delusional about her project to start medschool because she keeps failing or missing the exam to get in: 'It will just impact our future if she keeps believing in it'

People taking the most twisted road ever to find out about something will forever fascinate me. This sounds like a spy story from a TV series, and I really hope he finds Spanish interesting for reasons other than understanding when his coworkers speak in private, because all that effort being wasted on it is ludicrous.

Spiteful employee spent two years learning spanish to hear what his coworkers were saying about him during lunch and was confused when he found out what it was: ​'I wanted to crawl under my desk and evaporate.They weren't mocking me'

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There are always many sides to a story, and depending on which you tell it from, it benefits one side or the other. In this son’s particular case, I don’t think it’s even that problematic; the person he messed with was doing something bad. He wonders whether or not he should have stepped into the situation at all.

Son defends father of being kicked out by digging into coordinator's records and finding shady information: 'My dad says I did the right thing but part of me wonders if I shouldve just let him handle it his own way instead of getting involved like that'

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Man spent two years secretly learning Spanish to catch his coworkers talking about him, only to discover they were just worried about his sad lunch and wanted to be his friend

It’s funny how managers sometimes become these angry beasts that nobody can satisfy. The position itself might demand that of somebody. Some handle it better than others, of course, and in my opinion, the job only brings good and bad personality traits you ALREADY HAD into the light. So if you become an irrational monster, you were already one to begin with.

Angry manager states that server is expected to always arrive 30 minutes before scheduled work time and that is not considered extra-hours: '2 families needs to be sat down and I as the main server wasn’t here ”on time“ to attend them'

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Guest tries to steal food from the hotel pantry and, when confronted, pretends that he never intended to steal and acts defensively: ‘Oh, of course I was going to pay for it.’

Employee loses their promotion after missing training for the new role, all because they were forced to cover for coworkers who called out: 'I am livid'

Employee loses their promotion after missing training for the new role, all because they were forced to cover for coworkers who called out: 'I am livid'

It’s funny to think that anyone around you could be living a double life without you knowing. It’s funny and somewhat paranoid. This fake remote worker is directly harming no one by keeping his lie alive; the only ones being harmed seem to be him, his dirty conscience, and his savings.

Man pretends to have a remote job for two years while he has actually been unemployed: 'I’ve somehow maintained this entire fake identity of being a “busy remote worker.” I schedule fake meetings on my calendar so i have an out for certain family events.'

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21-year-old electrical engineering student and amateur makeup artist gets asked by a friend to do free makeup for 12 hours for her school project, gets mistreated by cast for being 20 minutes late, doesn't return to set: ‘I feel so uneasy’

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Pennsylvania homeowner left stumped as parents dropping kids at their neighbor's backyard daycare routinely park in front of, and even in, their driveway, making them late for work: 'When I told them to move, they said they thought it was shared parking'

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Girlfriend argues with boyfriend because he's being disrespectful towards her culture by not following basic customs she asked him to: 'What upset me was how he immediately dismissed my request as "silly" instead of making such a small accommodation.'

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New Jersey man rents a rural cottage at a below-market price, discovers the lease classifies the property as owner-occupied, and his landlords are probably scammers

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Out of work employee has an interview for a position in his dream job, but encounters several red flags in the interviewing team and feels really bad about the whole thing: 'The interview went a bit weird'.

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