Forget about your biggest gripe, I want to know your smallest complaint. What's the tiniest thing that bothers you in this world? The people replying to u/shazulmonte's query had some interesting answers. This person asked to hear about the “pettiest, silliest, most meaningless hill you are willing to die on.” Plenty of people weighed in—more than 51,000 of them!—with the teeny tiny life problems that really grind their gears. Next up, this teen coffee shop worker had their day go up in flames…

There are plenty of perks to working out regularly, but for many of us, they simply do not match the satisfaction that comes with not moving from the couch and eating the entire contents of a pint of ice cream in front of the TV. Of course, exercise gives you endorphins, as Elle Woods famously taught us. However, the process of getting off one's behind, putting on exercise clothes, and going to the actual gym can feel like a Sisyphean undertaking. It doesn't matter how many good-looking people…

This customer decided to throw a huge fit at the exact the wrong time. Not that there's a right time for a customer to throw a fit… Unless you're a literal toddler or baby, no one is going to care about your hissy fit. You've got to “use your words,” as they say to children. When you're an adult, you're expected to act like one, yet so many adults just have total meltdowns when they're faced with issues that require them to talk to customer service reps. Customer service reps should get a lot o…

Sometimes just quitting isn't enough. If you have been working in an unfair, unjust, and just all around unprofessional work environment for a long time, merely saying “Sayonara” isn't going to give you the satisfactory exit you deserve.

It's commonly believed that it's improper to mix business and pleasure. However, what would you say if, after all of your effort, your sibling refused to compensate you for your labor and time? The story below is an account of a frustrated brother. For a living, the original poster (OP) remodels houses. So when his brother asked whether he would be willing to refurbish his house, he immediately said yes. OP even gave his brother a discount in exchange for his devotion and good name. However, th…

". . . despite it being in absolute black and white he refused to accept any fault or offer anything to make things right."

Management doesn't always make the best decisions for their team. Next up, read about some outrageous HOA rules that'll make you roll your eyes, like one that decided “They want a $10 fee for overnight guests.”

The age-old workplace practice of requiring workers to go to the doctor after missing a day of work to get a sick note feels a little strange; it's infantilizing in the sense that the only other thing like it in our lives is when we had to bring a note from your mommy into grade school after missing class. If your boss wants to treat you like a child, you might as well act like one and act like you don't know a thing. The real problem comes in the form of the fact that it's impossible to get in…

When doing something that is considered good for other people, it is often not just about the act itself, but about the intentions behind it. If all you care about is what you gain out of your good deed, then is it really a good deed at all? Yet, does it have to be pure of any selfish intention for it to have a positive effect on someone else? When someone decides to donate some of their clothes to charity, their intentions are usually a mix of selfish and selfless. They seek a way to get rid o…

Why is the interview process so unnecessarily drawn out these days? If you get to the point of an interview, it should not take long for a recruiter to understand if your resume, cover letter, and initial application match well with the actual person interviewing. It should also not take long to see if it's a “personality fit.” In other words, cards should be on the table from the get-go and that goes both ways. This means that salary expectations and benefits should be clearly explained before…

Every person who grew up with siblings knows that parents always have favorites. They can deny it as much as they want, and try to hide it so the kids would not be able to tell, but unfortunately, kids are always able to tell. However, there is a big difference between parents having a favorite child and parents playing favorites between the children. It is somewhat understandable that parents care for one kid more than the other, but it is absolutely not understandable when they act on it clea…

This bad-mouthing Betty might think twice before disrespecting anyone in the workplace

Who doesn't love a little drama at the local church's annual Labor Day BBQ event? This Redditor is in the midst of an ongoing divorce with his wife after she cheated on him four times, one of which was a more serious emotional affair with her husband's married close friend. Since the separation, the Original Poster (OP) had been attending a different church and started dating someone new. Still, many of his close friends were still members of his previous church, where his wife was still very m…

Getting caught in between the demands of different authority figures within the same company is not always easy to navigate. Not only are you catering to the needs and requests of your direct supervisor, but now you have found yourself having to cater to the whims of the person who signs your paycheck and your micromanager's paycheck. That is the conundrum that this Redditor found himself in and it triggered a lot of insecurity from his direct manager, who insisted on getting an extensive updat…

"What happens now is that for the last 3 months I’ve been doing her dirty laundry, and she had the audacity to ask me to wash her clothes in the sink with a natural soap because my machine is giving her allergies according to her."

Sometimes you don't know what you're getting into as a new hire at a business, and you only find out when you're in too deep. U/TechnicalViking knows that all too well after realizing they'd been duped into working on an absolutely massive project with basically no guidance or help whatsoever. When you're desperate to find a job, you stop looking out for red flags and just start searching for a paycheck, any paycheck. Even if a company seems sus, you might still take the gig just out of necessi…