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Granddaughter inherits more money than the other grandchildren, so his uncle asks her to give up some of her money to her cousins: ‘I told him that it would not be happening’

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CTO enforces rule stating employees should only work if they're at their office desks, they all comply, resulting in client crisis during the weekend: ‘Nobody was working'

Retroactive family charge There is a distinction between a gift and a debt. A gift produces an asymmetry. A genuine gift produces an asymmetry; you can’t immediately ‘give back’ or repay, and that’s part of what makes it genuine. It’s not something you’re expected to pay for.

Man charges his daughter-in-law $5,000 for a trip to Europe he was supposedly paying for: ‘I would have booked different flights, hotels, and experiences if I knew I would have had to pay for all of it. I was only told I would be paying for the flight’

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Entitled customer expect front desk employee to unattend the other hotel guest so he has priority to book a room oveer the check ins: 'He screamed on the phone "NO! YOU HAVE JUST LOST MY BUSINESS!!!"

Laid-Off To Dreamland Some of us can only dream of something like this ever happening to us. We dream not only of being given the opportunity to stop going to our boring jobs one lucky day, but also of being paid to do it.

Recently fired employee uses the perfect tactic to collect a bigger severance: ‘I send a thank you and it doesn't register as sent, seems he immediately blocked me’

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We all want to leave our day job, but we have to be realistic Nobody directly told us it had to be like this, but in a way, we still complied. We went to school, we graduated relatively early, and then dived headfirst into corporate.

24-year-old corporate employee decides he wants to leave his job but doesn’t know what to do instead: ‘I’m already realizing that I really don’t want this to be my life for the next 30–40 years. The problem is…I don’t know what the alternative is.’

In what universe is cutting pages from a book you borrowed normal behavior? People say you shouldn’t expect books you lend to even come back, but nobody said anything about them coming back with fewer pages. If we had to explain the most basic,

Woman lends cookbook to friend, and she cuts the pages she likes to keep them: ‘She says I never specifically told her not to remove pages’

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Homeowner leaves 2-star review after appliance repairman refuses to return to finish the job, they update their review to include that the repairman was only willing to refund their $240 if they took the review down

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Manager asks employee to clock them in 30 minutes before they arrive, ices them out when employee refuses: 'I'm not risking my job for someone else'

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Guy remembers a story from his childhood when he saw a guy dressed as if he were from the 18th century disappear in front of his eyes: ‘I personally lean ghost. My friend says our revolutionary friend accidentally clipped into the other's timeline’

I thought this was an unspoken rule of copying, but time and again, it turns out I’m wrong, and it seems you can’t assume people will behave coherently. All in all, this example is rather righteous, and the bad guy of the story only made matters worse for themselves. So to each their own!

Employee Who Stole a Coworker's Project to Get Promoted Then Tried to Expose Him for Not Helping With It: ‘Apparently, he told them that the project was falling behind because I was withholding information...’

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Someone wanted to have an espresso every morning And that’s okay. Everybody is allowed their own little luxury; the thing is, if you can’t afford it, you shouldn’t try to drag everyone around you to help you get it.

Woman buys a $349 espresso machine without consulting her roommate, who then refuses to pay her share: ‘She said I’d end up using the machine, so I’d be getting it for free, and that you can’t opt out of something that is already in the apartment’

Unemployed lawyer visits McDonald's, gets offered a job interview: 'A job's a job'

Unemployed lawyer visits McDonald's, gets offered a job interview: 'A job's a job'

“Hope you have a lonely weekend”: 25 work email typos that will haunt the senders forever

'Hope you have a lonely weekend': 25 work email typos that will haunt the senders forever

Melissa Knudson

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Entitled husband chooses to waste his money on unnecessary things, demands his wife pays his half of the mortage they both split, and gets upset when she refuses: 'He called me selfish'

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A nail technician files the nails of a client with a shelf of nail polish in the background.

Woman chastises friend for getting nails done at newly opened salon, protesting when there's no friends and family discount: 'It's $12 cheaper than my normal salon'

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Hair salon stylist, Chin, butchers gentelmans' hair cut on purpose to get revenge due to his mistreatment towards her: 'Man walked out looking awful, but Chin had the last laugh because he still paid'

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A female server takes the order of a female diner sitting at a table with a coffee.

Food service employees and their most embarrassing mistakes on the job: 'Spilled 6 glasses of water on a girl'

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An essential developer looks for advice on how to leverage a raise after becoming the last one remaining at the company capable of maintaining the company's legacy backend: 'How do I turn this into a raise without looking like I am holding them hostage?'