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People react to not having money in the most random ways. Sometimes it’s easier to have a fight with someone than for them to admit they don’t want to pay you back because it’s too much money for them, and not because of some rationalization about a cat’s health, lol. Either way, when someone pushes back t

21-year-old woman drives her friend’s pet to a vet appointment at 4am, pays for it, and her friend says she isn’t going to pay her back: ‘ She thinks we should split the bill because I made a financial decision on his medicine that she didn’t agree to’

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Hotel guests seem to understand everything the front desk employee is telling him, except for the fact that he has to pay for a room reservation: ‘Eventually he seemed to understand that this was leading nowhere and he tried another direction.’

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54-year-old woman is prompted by her 22-year-old niece to co-sign her student loan: ‘I've never had any type of indepth conversation with her. The longest sentence I've ever gotten from her was a text message asking me to cosign her student loans’

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27 Skills That Are No Longer Relevant in Today’s World and Workplaces, Shared by Workers Who Were Really Good at Them

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18-year-old teenager with a $14-an-hour salary has to take care of the car payment their parents got for them, as they cannot financially help anymore: ‘Are there any options to try and consider in this situation?’

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27 Photos of People Having a Much Worse Day at Work Than You to Make Your Thursday Feel Like Friday

I don’t get it; this would be a total fantasy for me. We’re talking about a fully paid week of labour, in which we don’t have to work at all, and you get to prepare

Manager waived off employee’s notice period, and she got offended: ‘She had planned her farewells and was spending the last few days socialising with co-workers, etc. Additionally, she said that she is feeling like she is being let go’

Honestly, I would never miss something like this. First of all, the fact that this therapist is a friend of the family is extremely weird; I don’t even know if it’s ethical. Second, wouldn’t you want to know what the vibe is and stir the pot a bit? I understand this is a very strange way of being the center of attention, and it’

A woman, her ex-situationship, and his therapist are all invited to a wedding: ‘Will I make very awkward small-talk with the therapist who’s heard way too much about me? It is all yet to be seen’

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New manager demands employee dress professionally or “go home” during an office Casual Friday—employee complies, goes home, still gets a full day's pay—HR sides with employee, and the whole team is mad at the manager

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Older sister waits 6 months for younger sister to pay for thousands of dollars in damage after crashing into her parked car, parents keep making excuses instead of holding her accountable: 'The car is legitimately unusable'

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Someone is flying in business class for the first time and is afraid there could be unspoken rules they're unaware of that could cause awkward situations: ‘What are the unspoken rules that I should be aware of?’

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Neighbor's family repeatedly cuts through homeowner's yard, rides ATVs across the property, and lets teenagers gather in the driveway: 'It makes me nervous'

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Homeowner discovers neighbor has been secretly using their outdoor water spigot to supply the landscaping crew, removes their own faucet handle to avoid paying: 'I know she was doing it on purpose'

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Landlord threatens Wisconsin renter with a lease violation over parking a Corvette in the home garage: ’Just saying "you're being loud" in an arbitrary manner with nothing in a lease to back it up is an empty threat’

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Sometimes we’re so caught up in a relationship that we start questioning the unquestionable. Some things, looked at from afar, seem ridiculous. Of course somebody can prioritize love and family over education, but getting a scholarship to a prestigious university means one, in one way or another, worked for it, and

‘I worry I’m really going to regret it’: Student gets offered a scholarship to Harvard, but girlfriend states it threatens their relationship so he considers missing his opportunity

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Person found a grocery list on the floor of a market and decided to frame it and sell it as quirky decor: ‘Has anyone else ended up making money from something so oddly specific?’