'What workplace habit became normal after 2020 and isn't going away?': Employees discuss things that have completely changed, for good or bad, after 2020 and never went back to normal

María Cetra

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Employee gets tired of coworker taking 2-hour lunch breaks and leaving him with most of the workload, so after confronting him multiple times, he takes action: 'Today was the first day he took a 45-minute lunch.'

María Cetra

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New employee is forced to spend $53 on a surprise birthday party for a mean coworker, when she asks the others to pitch in, no one does: “I hate that this was pushed into me”

Giuliana Tiscioni

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‘Got a masters degree in something I was truly passionate about and not what was expected of me or where the jobs were at the time’: Redditors share the major life decisions they made based entirely on a gut feeling that turned out to be 100% right

Olivia Arocena

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Guest discovers he missed his hotel booking by a full year, proceeds to blame hotel for his mistake and demand a room anyway: ‘That's not how anything works’

Bar Mor Hazut

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‘If this is your attitude, you will lose a son. But if you change your attitude you won't just keep your son but you will gain a daughter’: MIL causes chaos at wedding ceremony by doing everything she was asked not to

Olivia Arocena

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Girlfriend saves 7-year-old boyfriend’s daughter's birthday by doing a last-minute birthday cake for her, at the party, when offered food, she denied it as she had to go to work: ‘My actions at the party were seen [badly]’.

María Cetra

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‘Oh, we are completely done’: People discuss the moment they realized, with just one single sentence, that their relationship had to be over and there was no turning back from it.

María Cetra

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Statistics professor demands improbable equal effort for 4-student group project—1 doesn't help, all 4 claim an impossible 33% equal share—group invents new math making 132%=100%: 'The professor was confused. "That adds up to 132%, how is that possible?"'

Brad Dickson

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Bad boyfriend tries to financially manipulate his girlfriend and guilt-trip her by accusing her of being petty for enrolling in college: ‘He told me that he allows me to be in college’

Giuliana Tiscioni

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21 Cooking Fails for Optimistic Home Chefs Learning to Trust the Process (August 19th, 2026)

Cata Holmes

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Employer demands all employees return to the office 4 days a week despite there not being enough desks or even seats for everyone—this marks a brutal end to the previous 2-day flexible working policy: 'People often have to work at the cafeteria'

Brad Dickson

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Top-performing worker resigns after 7 years when company passes him over for a promotion without even considering him, hires an outsider with no experience in the industry instead: ‘Got another offer within 9 days’

Cata Holmes

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Startup boss demotes new employee in front of their coworkers with no warning: 'I haven't even been here for 2 months, but this is all getting to be a bit too much'

JR Atkinson

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Entitled neighbor sells man's $7k motorcycle for less than $3k while he's out of state, claims he thought it was “abandoned”: ‘He actually admitted it over text’

Cata Holmes

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Guest throws a fit over a security deposit needed to make the hotel reservation and confronts the front desk employee, causing a scene over it: ‘Why are you being so difficult? I say, annoyed and over this clown.’

María Cetra

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