FAIL Blog - Page 26 - Work Life and Social Dilemmas - Employment, Life, Work, Culture - Cheezburger

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26-year-old employee was told by a boss that he has to have a doctor's note to miss work when he's sick, so he started to get 4 days' rest instead: 'They can give me the 1 or 2 days I ask for, or they can give me the week the doc gives me.'

Breaking up in your twenties is one thing; in your thirties, another; in your forties, another, but at 68? That’s wild, and I’m totally here for it; it’s never too late to change your life and try new stuff. I suppose marriage at that age is also about helping each other with tasks that were much easier when you’re young but

68-year-old man wonders how to properly break up his 35-year-long marriage: ‘I don’t want to hurt her but I don’t think I can stay. This is going to be life altering for both of us’

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Could it be that they were using their age to take advantage of this young woman? Or was she just petty and should’ve given them her seat? I think both things can be true at once, lol. What I don’t understand is why this moral issue stayed with her forever; they were just some annoying elderly couple. I know I woul

Woman yells at two elderly passengers over a train seat: ‘They both started yelling, and I yelled back. I also told them it wasn't right for two people to gang up on one young woman travelling alone’

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‘What is a [bad] habit that people in their 20s think is harmless?’: People +40 discuss things young adults need to start doing to avoid setting themselves up for failure

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Legal assistant refuses to apologize for pushing back when a coworker demands she drop a client mid-call and then skipping an unpaid Saturday event

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Front desk employee uses her abilities to separate the rooms far away for a family that reserved 2 just because they were mean: ‘We booked these rooms expecting them to be next to each other!!!’

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Instead of firing employee, manager demands that they resign and offers a good reference in exchange, employee claims: ‘I don't know if I can trust her’

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Maliciously talkative coworker finally gets payback for her actions: ‘Lunch break she's pacing round the building on her phone, talking, or sitting in her car, talking. But yesterday. yesterday she finally got what she deserved’

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Parents are leaving their children up to their aunt to care for a few days, she asked for all their information, which made them realize how little they had organized that part of their life: ‘Felt like a kid on an adult's body.’

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Manager ignores employee's written requests, then blames everyone else for work mistakes, leading employee to confront him in front of client: ‘I stopped letting vague instructions become my responsibility’

I wasn’t familiar with this concept until a few months ago. I don’t know why I ended up reading about it, and now it appears all the time across multiple platforms. People around me don’t get married anymore; it’s like a foreign concept, or a rather vintage one. In my circle, getting married is something upper-class people do

Ex-MOH who used to complain about expensive wedding trips and parties gets engaged and changes her personality completely: ‘Now she is getting married and is asking for crazy amounts of time and money’

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Wisconsin renter loses power after new landlord forgets to set up the duplex's utility account, then claims he thought it was the tenant's responsibility: 'I have a lot of units, I forgot'

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Supervisor discovers friend secretly hired a freelancer to do her job and gave them access to confidential company data, reports her after she refuses to come clean: 'Our friend group is calling me a traitor.'

I felt really identified with this story because I’ve had to deal with this issue multiple times in my life. I don’t mean with my body odor, lol; I mean with being very sensitive to smells in general. Of course, this story is not about one person’s sensitivity to smell, because everyone could smell it, but it does touch on a

Employee gets laid off due to extreme body odor: ‘I genuinely felt bad for him. He had only just started the job and hadn’t really had the chance to show what he could contribute. You could tell he felt embarrassed and ashamed’

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A company decided to pass on a new rule: no more meetings before noon, though some were skeptical, it worked out: ‘Turns out a lot of "quick syncs" existed because they were easy to schedule, not because they were needed.’

'Quitting and not regretting it': Coffee shop manager takes employee off schedule after claiming they're not “excited to work”, employee resigns immediately

'Quitting and not regretting it': Coffee shop manager takes employee off schedule after claiming they're not “excited to work”, employee resigns immediately