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Would you do something like this? Boss denies PTO time to two employees who have tickets for a concert, as this boss and another employee are going to be off that same day

Texas man returns home after 6 weeks out of state, spending the summer caring for his father, finds that his neighbor has sold his $7000 motorcycle for $2,800, claiming it was “abandoned”

Neighbor sells Texas man’s $7000 motorcycle for $2800, claims it was “abandoned” because the owner spent 6 weeks of summer out of state caring for his father in hospital: ‘He had it towed to a friend's garage first, then sold it’

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Worker lands job at employer’s main competitor after being fired when CEO’s decision to use his personal notebook as an official work manual backfires because new unskilled workers can’t follow the handwritten notes

It was about time. You know what they say: when a product is free, it’s because you are the product, or something like that. We’ve enjoyed LLMs very much up to this point, and while we were enjoying them, we also helped them learn how to fix the logical and ethical problems that arose in the process.

Anthropic launches new model that imperceptibly watermarks texts made with their Language Models: ‘The load-bearing question is, how would anyone know if it was watermarked?’

An employee wearing headphones smiles as he sits in an office eating salad.

Employee constantly takes 2 hour lunch breaks, gets upset when coworker stops working in protest: 'I work faster than you. It's not my fault you're slow'

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An employee handing in their resignation letter.

Employees share the final straws that made them quit their terrible jobs: 'The boss told us to take waste from our job and dump it into an open Walmart dumpster.'

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Company demands employee fix coworker’s mistakes after he does a bad job, but refuses to pay for the extra work, employee responds: ‘I don't have to take on his workload for free’

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Entitled girlfriend demands sister-in-law let her use her house to have a girls’ night, doesn’t even ask for her permission, and gets offended when the house isn’t available.

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We have to accept it, sometimes, we have oddly specific things that we consider deal breakers that not only are way too niche, but are also a bit frivolous. I’m not sure if everyone has these standards or just these people on Reddit, but of course they have the right to hold them.

‘What completely superficial thing makes you not want to be friends with someone?’: Frivolous or irrational reasons that are a deal breaker for a friendship

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Groom invites a group of old friends, including his ex-girlfriend, to his wedding, the ex is acting weird towards the bride, so she wants to uninvite her: 'I didn't realize she was a recent ex rather than a distant high school ex.'

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Woman starts dating one of her high school classmates’ ex-boyfriends, people give her the side-eye for dating a friend's ex and and is accused of not being a ‘girl’s girl’

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Some people think cents are not money, and I think that’s OK To be fair, in this story, I think the lady was just trying her luck, and I stand by that. The person writing the story is just too angry over something only mildly infuriating, or even not

Entitled customer expects cashier to cover for what she can’t afford: ‘The EL says “I’m a little short.” But in the most bizarre, matter of fact way, like as if this is fine and the dollar store’s/cashier’s responsibility to pay for it’

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Disrespectful uncle ruins his niece’s engagement party, she leaves, and her family blames her for making a scene: ‘He embarrassed himself and humiliated my fiancé's family’

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Mom orders cake for her 6-year-old girl's birthday party, sees the name misspelled, asks politely for a redo, but the teenager taking the order starts crying

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Were they entitled, or were they raised in a world with less individualism and more flexibility around seats in a flipping movie theater? Yes, I’m going to play devil’s advocate

Entitled boomer couple expects man to change movie theater seats with them because they bought the wrong ones: ‘Just mind bogglingly irritating because we are in a dark theater and this is disturbing other movie goers’

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Employee turns off his work phone during his PTO time, and you won't guess what his boss did! He said that he was being unprofessional by setting up that boundary, now he wonders if he needs a new job