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IT employee gets reported for stealing company laptops by coworker, only for HR to discover everything was fully approved: 'HR already had all the paperwork before you even finished your report'

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Ex-employer asks employee to write a positive review for them on a third-party platform—employee leaves them a scathing 1-star review and gets their fake positive reviews removed: 'I reported the 3 new 4.5-star reviews for manipulation'

Sometimes our managers are so spaced out that they don’t notice their employees are having an awful time working at their companies. You might even resign without another job secured and block them everywhere, and they still wouldn’t notice.

29-year-old employee leaves his job as a specialist at a small planning and design firm and his ex-boss instists on him leaving a review on a popular local job review site: 'He wanted a review? Fine. Let's comply'

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Employee gets ignored for years, quits, then gets offered everything she asked for in a counteroffer: ‘Where was this 8 months ago?’

Luckily, most of this intense drama happens in high school and stays there. Still, years later, we find out we’re paying the price to this day with numerous insecurities and sensitivity around certain topics.

Best friend of six years dates the guy her friend liked in high-school, leaving her questioning if the friendship was toxic or if she is viewing everything from the lens of her own hurt: 'Was this friendship unhealthy from both sides?'

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Restaurant employee gets denied vacation even though she had approved time off by management, she tries to fix it, but the union rep is on vacation: 'Ever since one of my coworkers got fired, we've been working 6-day weeks and doing two people's jobs.'

I don’t know about you guys, but I consider picky eating a very serious issue. To me, it’s unthinkable to be more than 7 years of age and still unable to eat anything with garlic.

Entitled 29-year-old picky-eater demands his girlfriend to exclude every ingredient he doesn't like from her diet leaving her wondering if she should accomodate: 'After I told him they were for me, he kept saying things like, “You know I don’t eat that”'

Realistic hopecore Reading stories like this reignites my faith in humanity. Probably all the hearts he broke are mended by now, but he can at least stop himself from breaking more in the future. I thought my cold exes could never be self-aware, but this story makes me think they might be, one day, when they turn 34.

34-year-old man realizes he has been the toxic one in every single relationship he had and wonders what to do about it: 'I always thought codependent people had the problem and i was fine because i don't need anyone. but not needing anyone isn't strength'

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Sometimes the best way to show love is not being extremely sweet. Psychologists called this ‘cute aggression’, or at least that's what I read on some random Instagram infographic.

70-something-year-old woman teases 30-year-old man in spanish thinking he doesn't understand her: 'I just stood there for a second, a huge smile on my face. I turned around, walked right back to them, and said in my best (admittedly clumsy) Spanish(..)'

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‘I’m totally fed up with nepotism’: Contractor promised conversion for months, only to lose it to his manager’s old friend, and left fixing Nepo hire’s mistakes with zero days off

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One New Customer Support Policy Turned Every Problem Into Four When This Software Customer Support Worker Followed It to the Letter: ‘I Reminded Them That I Had Simply Followed the New Policy Exactly as Instructed'

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Resident catches neighbor as she goes through their mailbox, reports her to the post office after neighbor claims she has mail delivered to their address: 'Please stop'

Resident catches neighbor as she goes through their mailbox, reports her to the post office after neighbor claims she has mail delivered to their address: 'Please stop'

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Seller refuses to refund after letting entitled buyer test-run a fully working stove, watches her drop and drag it on concrete, and slam it in her hatchback while loading: ‘I got nasty messages from her’

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Rural landowner leases 80 acres of farmland to a neighbor, a politician, to farm—neighbor plants illegal corn, plows through the landowner's driveway—tries to deny ever signing a contract when cops arrive, loses elected seat: 'I showed him the contract'

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This character flaw is rather hard to live with if a friend has it. You do your best; you tell them reunions start an hour before they actually start, so if they arrive one hour late, they are actually early.

Woman is always more than 40 minutes late to every event and friend doubts if she should confront her about her chronic tardiness or not: 'It's getting worse but at the same time I don't think she does it on purpose and I don't want to hurt her feelings'

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Employee gets pranked by her 50-year-old coworker by getting her water bottle mixed with coffee cream, she is very upset and worried she's overreacting: 'I feel like it’s not okay for anyone to mess with someone's drink.'

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Homeowner decides to sell after HOA leadership restricts kids from playing in front yards and starts fining residents $20 for having guests over: ‘An actual fee. For having visitors.’

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I have no idea why this is so common; I’ve heard and watched so many related stories. Mothers-in-law are, not for nothing, represented in so many folk tales like this. They act very jealous with their sons; they sabotage relationships; they always present themselves as ‘the one who knows best’, and every time a husband is on their side, you are sure to lose.

Bride-to-be specifically asks her wedding guests to wear any colour but white and green for the ceremony and mother-in-law buys two white and green dresses: '“It’s like champagne” she said as she looked it up, and I just knewwww!!'

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Aunt locks her bedroom to avoid her 11-year-old nephew from breaking his collectibles, hurting the little boy's feelings, her brother says: ‘[she] was more concerned about plastic than the boy's mental health.’