There aren’t many things in life that feel better than knowing you’re about to amaze a person underestimating you. Waiting quietly, letting them speak while thinking about how much fun you're going to have watching them realize they undervalued your worth. All the more when it lands you a better job and with it, more money. That’s exactly what happened to one guy at the start of his career, some twenty years ago, who had to take a test following a group interview for a tech support position at…

Is it just a thing that hospitals must have the most inaccessible parking around? I'll never forget the irony of having to walk (hobble) 10 minutes down the road and across the adjacent park and across the adjacent park on my freshly broken ankle away from the local hospital where there was the closest parking available. And, of course, this was in the early hours of the morning after waiting 8 hours in the emergency department and in the not-so-nice part of town. To make matters even worse, yo…

This worker has been dealing with a stage-5 clinger who's now escalating things even further. Next, read about the reasons these CEOs ran their companies into the ground, like one boss who realized that “Almost 3/4 of the employees had quit by this point because paychecks kept bouncing .”

When a teacher asks a student what they can do to better prepare for the next exam, there are a few standard answers they are probably expecting to hear. The most obvious answer would be to study harder. Another would be to work on memorizing key terms, doing more practice, reviewing the homework assignments, etc. The last thing a teacher expects to hear in this scenario is this Redditor's answer. He said that all he planned to do next time was bring a watch. That's because, during the midterm,…

Photo via Andrej Lišakov for Unsplash+ There’s no need for science fiction when we have a reality as interesting as the one we’re currently living through. The current state of livestreaming goes quickly from trend to trend, like the Tiktok NPC trend of 2023 where creators said things like “ Ice cream yum yum,” in a hypnotic loop. But some creators constantly push the limits while the cameras are on. What is livestreaming and why is it so popular? As the name implies, a person turns on their ca…

Sometimes, the only way to properly explain yourself to your micromanaging employer is by sticking to your principles. This employee had actively been trying to gain management experience over the years but was repeatedly denied the opportunity, which already left them feeling undervalued, under-appreciated, and underpaid. Matters were made worse after the employee , who was working checkout at the store, noticed an error when scanning a customer's item. They replaced the item with something si…

Grinch-like behavior

Everyone likes free stuff, and what's not to like? It's free! However, some people really like free stuff—like, really, really like free stuff—and they'll go to great lengths to ensure they get it, even fighting dirty and using tools such as guilt and anger to do so. This is one of the reasons why it's, unfortunately, best not even to bother offering free stuff online; you're bound to be inundated with people who have too much time on their hands and are combing buy/sell pages trying to be the…

You've got one chance to wow the university of your dreams! The pen is in your hand (or more realistically, your fingers are on the home keys) and you're trying to find the inspiration to write the perfect admissions essay. Suddenly, you forget everything you've learned in the last 12 years of school … what could you possibly write to a college admissions office to get them to let you into their esteemed school? College applications can be a big stressor for high school seniors. They have to su…

The end of the year in the corporate world is full of holiday cheer (whether it's forced or not) and mild panic. Half the team is out using up their PTO before the New Year, while the rest of us are trying to make up for their absence while pretending to care about the work holiday party. Between the buzz of what Secret Santa gift you're getting this year, questionable holiday-themed potluck contributions, and wearing your coat inside the office while you struggle to defrost from the outside...

"As for me, not only did I get a promotion a few weeks later, but my spreadsheet became a bit of an office legend."

Working at a drive-thru means dealing with the full range of human behavior. That means handling customers who are everything from impatient to entitled to unkind. Every so often, you'll get a generous customer, but that's about as common as an eclipse, so you might as well figure out how to talk to these wretched individuals. Here, we have a new hire who was working her second shift ever when a group of entitled men were passing through and talking over one another while ordering. Naturally, t…

College presents many challenges to young adults, but nobody talks about the struggles of the first few nights sleeping outside your childhood bedrooms. While we all had sleepovers and trips with friends and school, that is not the same as completely moving out of our home and regularly sleeping in a different bed, and that is not an easy experience for young people. On my first night in my dorm room, the first thing I noticed was how loud the street outside was, mainly because of all the cars…

Neighborly parking disputes are no new thing, but they almost constitute “friendly fire” when they take shape between members of the same household. Still, this just speaks volumes to the propensity for people to be petty and selfish, trying to shape the world and those around them into a form that best suits them independent of any moral or even logical reason. At this point, you probably already have someone in mind who fits this description, it's probably even a former roommate, as rooming s…

Just because someone throws a fit does not mean you have to give in to their demands. On the flip side, just because you threw a fit does not mean you have earned what you want. You would think that these sentiments would be common knowledge to any decent, empathetic human being. But alas, you'd be surprised. Here, we have a Redditor who specifically booked a window seat for her upcoming flight because the one thing she genuinely enjoys about flying is looking at the clouds. Of course, this exp…

The worst part about the Holidays is always coordinating logistics with difficult family members. Nearly everyone has that one person in their family who makes Holiday planning extra challenging. There are, of course, a plethora of reasons why someone might be difficult to deal with during this time. Perhaps they are merely disorganized and can't commit to a schedule in advance. Perhaps they are too particular about how things need to be done (looking at all you picky eaters out there who are n…