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Hospital worker accepts higher-level position with a $2 raise at their employer of 2 years, but the pay is missing from their first paycheck, then HR contacts them saying the offer was a mistake: 'The new rate would actually be LOWER than my previous pay'

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After landlord denies responsibility for a fire-damaged dryer and keeps the deposit, his tenant uses his own lease terms to sell the “ownerless” washer and dryer before moving out: ‘[He] refused to fix appliances, so I sold them’

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Corporate employee wants to quit his job and finally travel but feels guilty and scared: ‘Sometimes I see myself as a robot and I need to remember that I can break free from the programming. Does anyone relate?’

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A male employee leans over a female colleague working at her desk, gesturing to some files on the desk.

Employee gets promoted to supervisor over colleague with 3 more years' experience, faces pushback from coworkers: 'I'm not trying to act like everyone's boss'

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Roommate demands her roommate move out so her boyfriend of 2 months can move into their apartment: 'What do I have to do to convince you to leave?'

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20 year old niece stands up to her dad's disrespectful older family memebers after years of them being toxic: 'I want nothing to do with them anymore'

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Parents introducing us to their new partners is almost always uncomfortable. Everyone tries to act nicely, but it’s very hard to get along on the first day. And for everyone dating someone with a son or daughter, this post is also relevant to avoid some things that are far from ideal.

‘Didn’t want me cleaning up after myself, told me to “help myself” to stuff there, telling me where things are’: Father’s new girlfriend acts as if his house were hers and his 30-year-old daughter has never been to the place

An employee and her boss work at opposite desks, with her pushing her chair towards him as he shows her something on a clipboard.

Company plans to fire boss, employee feels conflicted about interviewing for his job: 'My boss is the whole reason I'm even in this position'

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‘How to handle quiet quitting?’: Team lead is preoccupied about how to handle the situation between a great employee who deserves to get promoted but won't due to his issues with management

A 28-year-old woman who is being forced out of her home by her HOA. The home is in a senior living community, which requires occupied homes to meet its age restrictions. The HOA board and some motivated residents have been aiming to force the woman out of the home in accordance with those age-restriction rules.

Are Senior living communities still fair or relevant?—Jacksonville Florida HOA votes to remove defiant 28-year-old woman from her home she inherited in a 55+ seniors community—costs residents $155k in legal fees: 'I have a right to stay in my home'

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Employee refuses to share the first harvest with coworkers after 3 years of doing the workplace gardening without their help: ‘We get the first dibs’

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This Redditor posted this on a subreddit that’s all about despising HOAs and all the drama that puts us through; like, life wasn’t already hard enough to have to worry about people doing crazy financial stuff in a random association on top of it. I thought the problems stopped when you owned a house, but it seems that they follow every group of people

‘I asked for invoices for the cash and he sent me one fake invoice dated a month before any of the cash withdrawals were even made’: HOA member withdraws $10.000 in cash without asking for permission, leaving them wondering what to do

Do we have to rebrand our lives now? Boundaries between work and personal life have become diffuse, to say the least.

‘Everyone is acting like this is cute and wholesome. I don’t want to do it’: Company asks employees to submit a video of their home-office setup for publicity

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Restaurant owners cut hardworking employees hours down from 48 hours a week to 32 hours a week so their lazy nephews can work more, get angry when he gets a 2nd job on the weekends

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Colleagues go on work trip, employee falters when coworker demands to join them on 1 week solo trip afterwards: ‘I don’t see why I should spend my free time with them’

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Driver leaves fake note to entitled lady at a parking lot to mess with her after she took their parking spot: ‘Sorry, I bumped into your car’

The thing is, we’re right in the middle of a profound change, so I don't think we can expect everything to be settled and working soon. We still have many things to adjust and change. At first, companies wer

‘If this building blew up in flames it would still be a far second to the least hectic day at my old job’: Ex-marketing employee resigns and gets a ‘simple office job’ to get away from stress

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Indiana tenant discovers their neighbor's air conditioning unit is wired to their residence, and they’ve been paying for their neighbor's AC costs after they call a technician to investigate: ‘My bill will end up being $700, which is 5x more than normal’

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Mother of the groom doesn’t like his fiancée, so she doesn’t want to invite her to her 70th birthday trip, as she alleges she doesn’t know her enough: ‘My wife isn't invited, so I've essentially said I won't go, as I feel she should have been invited’