There are plenty of great opportunities to reach out to your network and enquire about open positions—with friends, family, and former colleagues all being solid possible leads. You can volunteer, attend industry events, utilize contacts through shared interests—even turn to social media. Heck, just about the only person you shouldn't reach out to for a job is a candidate you're supposed to be interviewing. It's bold, for sure, but bound to land poorly. The interviewee already has so much going…

Everyone should be required to work in the service industry at least once in their life. Then maybe everyone can gain a little empathy. Because the types of entitled customers that these servers, bartenders, hosts, etc. have to deal with is absolutely insane. The antiquated saying “the customer is always right” has been long gone tossed from work cultures once millennials entered the workforce—and Gen Z is only help keep it out. So why is it that every server still experiences some kind of inco…

Giving someone instructions that you don't actually want them to carry out is foolish and bound to make you look like one when they follow through with your commands. It's crazy how common power-tripping bosses use this tactic, thinking their power is absolute over their subordinates. They risk everything on a single ego-fuelled order, daring their workers to call their bluff, only to be surprised when they do. This worker shared their experience working for a boss who frequently would wield th…

One has to wonder if the boss was willing to take the same pay cut!

When are we going to get the 4 day work week situation dialed in? What will it take to wipe Mondays off the work-week map? It seems like ever since you graduated, you can help but count down the minutes until Friday at 5pm only to waste away 1/3 of your weekend on Sunday afternoons when you're stressing out about starting to work again. It's a vicious cycle. Maybe if you had 3 days to do your weekend chores (party, drink, socialize, vacuum, groceries) you'd be more rejuvenated every week. But n…

It never ceases to amaze me the ends that entitled people will go to and the mental hoops they will jump through in order to justify their behavior… “Hi! It's your old pal from Kindergarten here. I don't know if you still remember me, but I'd like my Pokemon cards back that I traded you for your cookie since I'm not using the cookie anymore, and the fat cells it gave me have long since gone away!” With that logic, anyone could ask for a refund for anything—at any time.

Here we have a terrible roommate who is doubling down on his reasons for pilfering from the person he lives with. When you get caught in a lie , you have a few choices. You can own up to what you did, or keep lying, or deny it all. In this person's hilarious tale about their roommate, this person doubled down on their lie about food they were going to eat. U/DeadShipsDwell wrote to r/badroommates with a tale to share. They wrote that they share a deep freezer with their roomie in a garage, whic…

When it's happening to you, it's mildly (perhaps majorly) infuriating. But when you're watching it happen from a third-party lens, you can't help but laugh.

It's surprising the lengths people will go to impress someone in their social circle. When you want to fit in with a social group, it's easy to begin dressing like them or talking like them as a result of spending so much time together. This woman, Michaela, did something similar when she met her coworker Sheila, who's a strict vegan. Michaela then also began to have a “ vegan lifestyle ,” and started posting about it on social media. However, her boyfriend, who wrote the post, noticed that Mic…

This bully is going to regret some of his decisions. Sure, what the Redditor did was harsh, but you know what’s worse? Being relentlessly bullied for years. In our book, this dude got what he deserved. The hero who got his much-deserved revenge shared his story via this thread on Reddit’s r/pettyrevenge subreddit after it was originally posted on the AITA subreddit. Our only real concern here is that the bully might discover that the Redditor had something to do with this. OP should not have wi…

With the way the housing market is going these days, many people are opting to live with roommates in order to afford a comfortable pace to live. It's not ideal, but it's better than struggling to pay rent for a one bedroom or moving back in with your parents. Sometimes, roommates can be the best—we've all seen Golden Girls ! But sometimes it can be your absolute worst nightmare. One of the main arguments that roommates tend to get in is cleanliness, so it is important to find a roomie on the s…

When you're doing great at your job, taking on extra duties, and performing admirably, the last thing you expect is to be replaced as a cost-saving measure—especially by your boss's (presumably unqualified) daughter. But, this can happen when your profession is a necessity that your bosses don't understand… and there are certainly some old hats hanging around in various institutions who still don't quite “get” the point of social media marketing. It's akin to the common adage about the catch-22…

While on a family vacation , no one wants to worry about money. After all, the whole point of a vacation is to escape from reality for a little while, soak up the sun, and unwind. This man wrote to r/AmItheA**hole with a vacation related question. As he describes, he and his husband, their two kids, and their sister in law, are planning an expensive trip to a resort. The price is so high that the OP's sister, Camila, was wondering if he could pay her way. Camila is a college student who's not w…

Weddings have an eloquent way of stirring up family drama and ruining bloodline relationships for the rest of your lives. Ironically, though marriages are supposed to bring people together, they somehow make everyone feral Bridezillas of epic proportions. That's why people elope.

A job interview is a two-way street: you're testing the waters to see if you want to work there just as much as they're trying to feel you out and see if they want to hire you. Interviewers and candidates often forget this fact, being so used to the power imbalance offered by the employment markets of the last twenty years and the general desperation unemployed candidates experience. But it's important for both parties to act with respect and extend professional courtesies to one another; while…

How are these people wired to think that yelling at an underpaid teenager is going to change anything?