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18-year-old roommate wants to stop sharing dinners with his flatmates as he is now spending $100 a week on just dinner food when he knew he could eat for less: 'I even suggested that I could buy my own food and still cook with them once a week'

Is this ‘singleness’ trend meant to last? I suppose we can confidently say that nowadays more and more people are choosing to be single. Plenty of new discourse is forming online about new types of relationships. Right now, there are situationships, low-commitment long-distance relationships, open relationships, ‘eyecontactships’, and a long list of other types of ships navigating the sea of romantic attachments.

‘Why do you think staying single is becoming more common these days?’: Redditors debate whether people really prefer this lifestyle or if it’s imposed on them

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HR publishes leaderboard to show how much PTO each employee donated to coworker and shame those who didn't: ‘People who donated 0 had their number highlighted in red’

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Man pranks AI recruiter by spouting nonsense in a job interview: 'Every pharmacist is a hallway'

This new hire began a new office job and thought that they'd be receiving some on-the-job training. Instead, they found themselves only with two short onboarding sessions. The two days' worth of company-values videos and tests. This continued, with no real work assigned to them and no practical instructions being given. They started trying to train themselves, searching around company files for procedure manuals. Their boss still told them to "work more" and to learn by doing.

New hire left abandoned with no training or assigned work—boss starts insisting they get more work done and "learn by doing"—they consider quitting: 'I told him that I didn't get any proper training'

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New hire with “20 years of experience” refuses to listen to coworker training her, reveals confidential information after being told not to: ‘I know what I’m doing'

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Mother refuses to let 30-year-old son move back home after a lifetime of being irresponsible to teach him a lesson: 'It's called tough love for a reason'

Giuliana Tiscioni

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'What is an oddly specific rule you enforce in your own house that makes total sense to you, but would sound ridiculous to a guest?': People share the weird house rules that may seem crazy to everyone else but make total sense to them

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Roommate's boyfriend moves in, uses living room from 8 AM to 6 PM every day, eats all the food, and refuses to contribute to the rent or the bills: 'He said I was making him feel unwelcome in his own home.'

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40-year-old questions his 28-year-old brother's parenting, so he comes back saying that his teen kids are extremely disrespectful and seem to have no boundaries: 'My brother said: "Oh, so you think my parenting is awful." I straight up said yes'

Boss gives New Jersey mobile mechanic a company vehicle, puts the title in his name to force him to pay running costs, then fires him and demands it back along with the employees personal tools:

Boss gives New Jersey mobile mechanic a company vehicle, puts the title in his name to force him to pay running costs, then fires him and demands it back along with the employees personal tools: 'I pay the insurance. I pay the registration'

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'I fell asleep at work and I’m spiraling': Office worker falls asleep at their desk, supervisor threatens to write them up

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Couple traveling the world wants to pay a hotel reservation with a credit card under the boyfriend's supposed mother with a letter that "authorized" them: 'She tells me that it's illegal for me to not accept that letter and she's going to call the police'

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Customer service rep decides to quit after being publicly scolded by boss for being 10 minutes late to a weekly meeting because they stayed on a call to resolve an upset customer’s issue, takes a full-time second job instead

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Tinder users claims to be a good conversationalist, responds to her match with one-word responses only: 'When I get this kind of response, I unmatch.'

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Stepmom offers to take daughter and stepdaughters on different trips, one of the girls refusses to get on a plane and demands her stepmom and sisters stop traveling without her: 'It makes her feel left out'

Giuliana Tiscioni

The employee left his office at 5:00 on the dot, much to his boss's chagrin.

Boss harasses employee for leaving work at 5 PM exactly, claims he's leaving earlier than 5 PM according to her watch: 'It's just breaking my spirit.'

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Ohio boss requires workers to arrive 15 minutes early for unpaid morning meeting, calls it “voluntary” before threatening their jobs: ‘You won't work’

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Mother refuses to make the kids ride the bus to school and prefers for them to be taken by their dad, he refuses, as the bus is free and gas isn't: 'If she doesn't want to wake them up, then she will be the one to take them to school'