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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'.

For some time now, I’ve realized that some things aren’t solved through talking. I know this is a rather controversial stance in times where everywhere we look, we are bombarded with the message that we should ‘talk things through’, that we should ‘go to therapy’, and that will be the solution to all our problems.

Woman asked for a "low maintenance" friendship but gets upsed when she is treated as such, leaving friend wondering if the low maintenance only applies for her: 'She also said bringing up friendship issues over text makes her anxious'

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Customer gets mad at server for charging for a potato he ate and leaves a $5 tip on a $100 tab as a punishment with a note in the bill: ‘That potato charge hurt your tip.’

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One Weekend of Research and 14 Job Descriptions Led to A Salary Negotiation That Got This Employee a 28% Raise After 3 Years of Rejected Raises During 4 Years at the Company—How should employees handle difficult salary negotiations?

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Distant family member ends up saving his cousin’s wedding after unknowingly agreeing to be a groomsman for a man he hardly knows: ‘Couldn't hear a conversation at a loud party, [but] kept nodding…’

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Computer science student rescues a cat outside of his university and unintentionally names him after his classmate, now class is awkward: ‘Everyone looked at me strangely…’

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Pet sitter locks herself out of the house in the middle of the night, helpful neighbor climbs a ladder to help her back in: ‘The embarrassment is too much.’

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Child-free woman splits costs 50/50 with her best friend for years until she starts bringing her kids along too, so she quietly starts declining every invitation: 'I feel financially drained'

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Woman misses group trip over visa issues and offers to cover her share, but her friends pocket her refund when Airbnb falls through and mock her on a call: 'Keep the money, we're done'

Imaginary friendship  Is it just me, or is this a classic situation? I’ve been through this so many times. I hope I haven’t done this to anyone, but it always goes like this: you get together with someone once or maybe twice, and they start believing you are their best friend, but you are not there yet, and you might never be.

Man wonders how to gently decline woman's request to get together after years of her thinking they share a friendship that is actually non-existing: I’m also turned off by the way she declared in her email that ‘we should do this and do that together’

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