FAIL Blog - Page 16 - Work Life and Social Dilemmas - Employment, Life, Work, Culture - Cheezburger

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A man looks out a window while standing beside a curtain.

Man sits on windowsill with coffee every morning, neighbor accuses him of 'enjoying our beautiful garden': 'I don't understand his problem'

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Employee gets laid off and is asked to train the recent grad replacing him for $12k less, he refuses to play along: ‘They decided to let me go so they could bring in someone cheaper.’

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Homeowner removes neighbor's gate after discovering they cut it into the fence he paid for himself: ‘I got my drill out and left the gate leaning against their car’

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Coworker calls HR over desk mate's 'inappropriate' 3D-printed tea steeper: 'It's just a dude holding a fishing pole'

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Sister refuses to give her engaged sister the dress her mom bought for her, as it is for her wedding to wear, not to give out to her sister, now she is furious: 'She got really upset and said I was being selfish because I’m not even engaged and she is'

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Boss Demands Employee “Stop Thinking and Follow Instructions” After Accusing Them of Working Too Slowly When Checking Orders for Errors, It Immediately Backfires When Employee Complies and Ignores Obvious Errors

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Woman refuses to lend anymore money to unemployed friend after discovering he spends all of it on video games: ‘He couldn’t manage his own money’

Melissa Knudson

Being so ridiculous trying to save some money is funny The woman in this story should simply laugh it off and move on, honestly. There is no way in the world this is logical reasoning for anyone. Her sister is simply trying to pay less than everyone else using a random justification. If I were her, I would look at my sister in the eye and laugh.

Woman says she and her husband should pay half the price for a family trip since they count as only one household: ‘Her logic is that she and her husband should count as "one" unit since they are a married couple’

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A boss and an employee sit at a table with coffee cups, a laptop, and notebooks, discussing something.

Manager offers employee promotion, gets offended when he rejects four direct reports and no salary increase: 'You would have thought I set the building on fire'

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Manager gives employee fake ‘growth opportunity’ because she dumps weeks of her own work on him before taking all the credit: ‘She framed it as a gift to me. And then she erased me from it entirely’

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New in-office policy incentivizes coworkers to snitch on each other, ruining remote work for everyone else: 'Hall-monitoring coworkers just ruined remote work for our entire company'

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Affluent parents pressure 17-year-old daughter to take out $400K in student loan debt to get her undergraduate degree: 'I love my dream school, but I love my future more.'

Office Snitch Apocalypse Nothing is worse than a snitch at the office. Seriously, there are other ways to get what you want. How does negating a privilege for everyone else make you happier? It literally has no positive impact

Hall-monitoring coworkers ruin WFH for everyone by being petty: ‘These colleagues started going directly to my boss to ask why they "haven't seen me around much" and literally logging my office attendance’

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Overworked executive assistant finally resigns after 15 years of work to search for a new path: 'No regret. Just relief'

Giuliana Tiscioni

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Not everybody has the same aspirations No, not everybody wants the same thing- shocker! Right? Some of us only want a simple job for a few hours, then go home to relax without stressing about big responsibilities.

Manager offers employee a promotion, and he turns it down: ‘[He] told me that turning down added responsibility shows a "disturbing lack of ambition and loyalty’

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Wife always agrees to help with things she doesn’t have the time for, and then she’s stressed about it, now her husband is tired of that habit: ‘You keep saying yes to things you don’t actually want to do, then you get angry at everyone’