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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’

Giuliana Tiscioni

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’

Giuliana Tiscioni

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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

Giuliana Tiscioni

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

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After coworker refuses to stop taking employee's office chair, employee forces him to stop by swapping the chair with a broken one: ‘He hasn’t touched it since’

Some people simply don't notice that someone couldn’t care less about their family member’s wedding. They only know they want to show the pictures they took, so they do it, and that’s about it. Not everyone knows how to have an interesting conversation.

Woman is taken aback when a lady starts showing her pictures of the wedding she was uninvited to: ‘All that time she was shoving the wedding photo album in my face saying "look, look at all the young people that were there!"’

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Girlfriend is tired of boyfriend being disorganized and untidy, so she blocks her card, causing a scene at a shop when he tried paying with it: 'The cashier became suspicious, and they were considering calling the police.'

HOA and their shady tactics There is a pretty universal truth behind all this: goodwill and reasonableness often get you nowhere with institutions like the HOA. Apparently, a specific, cited, enforceable threat is the only thing that does.

‘I just served them with an $8,800 Small Claims lawsuit’: HOA tries to blame main sewer line root invasion on an ‘improper cleanout’ to avoid reimbursing the $1200 plumbing bill they owe

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Friend group goes out for birthday dinner, spends $340, wants to split it all evenly, and calls another friend ‘cheap’ for refusing to pay $57 when she only ordered $14 worth of food: ‘Money is tight at the moment’

Giuliana Tiscioni

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After a neighbor falsely claims ownership of a shared entrance and bolts a gate to his property, so he pays her back by ”accidentally” severing her TV cable on move-out day: ‘I “cut” ties with an awful neighbor'

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Employee gets reprimanded for ending their shift as soon as it ends, but nothing happens when other employees start their shift late every day: 'Am I wrong for thinking the real problem is the people who are always coming in late'.

Judging by what this employee said, I don’t see any reason why he thinks he is being monitored, but I see reasons to think he is overreacting. Frequent or recurring 1-on-1s are totally normal, and might be a part of ‘office culture ’.

Employee is alarmed due to coworker arranging a recurrent 1 on 1 meeting with him: ‘I feel uncomfortable like I'm being monitored because I did something wrong. Is this normal or is this weird?’

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Boss blocks employee from all workplace channels after receiving their resignation letter and notice, employee stops coming to work: ‘Too bad I'm a coward’

Apparently, asking how much someone makes is the worst thing you can ask Honestly, I’ve never heard anything like this, and I was really surprised to see the comments under the post siding with the offended party

27-year-old man abruptly leaves friend’s birthday party when they ask him how much money he makes: ‘I wasnt enjoying myself anymore. Told the person next to me I was heading out, paid for my food at the front and left’