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Frustrated homeowner describes how people use her front garden as a shortcut to get between public pathways—one entitled visitor even uses her driveway as her own parking space: 'People constantly trespass on my lawn just to save a few minutes'

Is it delusional to want work conditions to change in this day and age? If we received a reward for hard work, most of us would most certainly make the effort, but in most cases, that’s definitely not the case.

‘They effectively have negative incentive to work. They’ll only be punished for work’: Reflections on why Gen Z has gone the minimum effort route

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Texas tenant gets billed $5,887 after flood damage forced him out and cost him $9K, refuses to sign management’s lease release demanding he waive all claims for his losses

An employee takes his glasses off as he looks at his laptop screen.

Manager cancels employee's 2 week vacation a day before it was due to start, employee considers quitting: 'I gave notice 6 months ago'

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Neighbor repeatedly raids woman’s front yard vegetable garden without asking, pushing her to put up signs and a fence despite her being happy to share if asked first: 'My front garden is not a community garden!!!!'

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Massage client gets upset after therapist follows her exact orders, accuses her of a lack of customer service, therapist smiles: ‘The session is paid for already’

We all know it: screens are making our attention spans shorter and making us dumber in general. Given the chance, our brains prefer putting in less effort into almost anything. And that’s the main issue: We’re now being given the chance, so it will be incredibly hard to resist, as we are ‘biologically wired’ to prefer saving energy resources.

‘She genuinely does not think for herself anymore, and she has a young daughter who is being raised on ChatGPT’s advice’: Elementary school teacher realizes that principal relies entirely on ChatGPT for education

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Cousin gets mad because during their family vacation, it was hard to see each other due to their different schedules with their 2-year-old children: 'Now she’s [mad] at me, saying we ruined their vacation because she said we were just doing our own thing'

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Manager presents his team's project as his own in front of impressed senior leadership, but nobody dares to correct him: ‘The actual team gets zero visibility for it’

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18-year-old roommate wants to stop sharing dinners with his flatmates as he is now spending $100 a week on just dinner food when he knew he could eat for less: 'I even suggested that I could buy my own food and still cook with them once a week'

Is this ‘singleness’ trend meant to last? I suppose we can confidently say that nowadays more and more people are choosing to be single. Plenty of new discourse is forming online about new types of relationships. Right now, there are situationships, low-commitment long-distance relationships, open relationships, ‘eyecontactships’, and a long list of other types of ships navigating the sea of romantic attachments.

‘Why do you think staying single is becoming more common these days?’: Redditors debate whether people really prefer this lifestyle or if it’s imposed on them

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HR publishes leaderboard to show how much PTO each employee donated to coworker and shame those who didn't: ‘People who donated 0 had their number highlighted in red’

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Man pranks AI recruiter by spouting nonsense in a job interview: 'Every pharmacist is a hallway'

This new hire began a new office job and thought that they'd be receiving some on-the-job training. Instead, they found themselves only with two short onboarding sessions. The two days' worth of company-values videos and tests. This continued, with no real work assigned to them and no practical instructions being given. They started trying to train themselves, searching around company files for procedure manuals. Their boss still told them to "work more" and to learn by doing.

New hire left abandoned with no training or assigned work—boss starts insisting they get more work done and "learn by doing"—they consider quitting: 'I told him that I didn't get any proper training'

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New hire with “20 years of experience” refuses to listen to coworker training her, reveals confidential information after being told not to: ‘I know what I’m doing'

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Mother refuses to let 30-year-old son move back home after a lifetime of being irresponsible to teach him a lesson: 'It's called tough love for a reason'

Giuliana Tiscioni