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Make it go 20% faster. sure. | So this happened around 2010 in Australia to my brother who is a tradesman who worked for a small engineering firm.

'Make it go 20% faster? Sure': New supervisor insists machinist make their machine operate faster, predictable outcome occurs

Businesses have a habit of hiring people who don't understand how the thing they're managing works. It's almost laughable how often this occurs. Not to say that it can't be done, but the good managers who enter a new organization gracefully aren't making it into these stories. It takes a real egotistical and incompetent individual to enter an organization and think that they immediately know better. Luckily, these clueless leaders leave us with a never-ending wealth of stories in which their ri…
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store managers sings to Karen customers when they throw tantrums

‘Whenever a customer is rude to me… I just sing to them’: Store manager uses a harmonica and sings to Karen customers whenever they throw a tantrum

When Karens go full Karen, their tantrum is even worse than a terrible-two-year-old's. So why stoop to their level? Don't let the hate from entitled and rude customers get you all worked up and yelling at someone who obviously doesn't have the capacity to own up to anything. One man recently shared his technique in dealing with Karen customers without having to stoop to their level and it is absolutely genius.
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‘It’s Just So F-up Up. I Work So Hard for $15/Hour’ : Drama Ensues After Jealous Sister in Law Cries and Makes Scene When Her Brother’s Fiancé Shares Her Salary

‘It’s Just So F-ed Up. I Work So Hard for $15/Hour’ : Drama Ensues After Jealous Sister in Law Cries and Makes Scene When Her Brother’s Fiancé Shares Her Salary

Too much information or nah?
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For context: set up an interview the previous day for 2 pm. Prospective employer called me at 3pm when I was unavailable. Rescheduled the interview for 2pm the next day and still did not call at the scheduled time.

'Do not contact me': Idiot interviewer misses job interview then tells candidate it's their fault, gets progressively more unhinged

What should you do if you miss a scheduled appointment? Apologize? No! That would be far too simple… Attempt to gaslight them into thinking it was actually their fault instead?.. Now you're thinking!
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AITA for telling my coworker to stop baking me stuff?

'Stop baking me stuff': Entitled guy demands coworker bake him cookies, returns dirty tupperware

Who doesn't know the tupperware rule?
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AITA for Pausing My Husband’s Game bc He Wouldn’t Give Our Baby a Bath on Time?

Wife unplugs the internet when bad Dad won't log off to give the baby a bath, things escalate and HE demands a divorce

Some people have zero self-awareness and totally expect themselves to be in the right when everyone else would gladly tell them that they are, in fact, totally wrong. This husband probably was thinking this exact thing when he decided to ask his wife for a divorce after she pulled the plug on his gaming session over his unwillingness to help out with the couple's child. The wife made a post to Reddit's r/AmItheA**hole subreddit in which she appealed to readers of the online community to see whe…
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20+ Criminal cats and dastardly dogs who were bad to the bone

20+ Criminal cats and dastardly dogs who were bad to the bone

Here we have a whole zoo of animals who committed crimes, ranging from shoe theft to backyard hole-digging to scaring toddlers. Having pets is the best, even when they're naughty ! Pets become family when you adopt them. You suddenly find yourself becoming the person who puts sweaters on your dog and takes 1738739 photos, because you just love them SO MUCH. It's the reason we still love our kitty cats, even when they turn their noses up at the $7-per-can wet food that that was the only thing th…
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The Life of a Hybrid Employee: Memes and Fails that pretty much sum it up

The Life of a Hybrid Employee: Memes and Fails That Pretty Much Sum It Up

We all know those in-person days and those WFH days look very different.
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30+ Building blunders from people who don't even know which end of a hammer to use

30+ Building blunders from people who don't even know which end of a hammer to use

Designing and constructing a building - how hard could it possibly be? Draw a few blueprints here, toss a few bricks and cement there, easy peasy. Joking, of course, but these 35 structures below have suffered from some poor planning. It looks like a lot of these buildings , staircases, and a surprising amount of bathrooms, were all just thrown together as quickly as possible. It's like the construction crew just cared about completing the building ASAP, and didn't even worry about the people u…
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Get rid of my vacation? Have fun replacing me.

'Messing with people's vacation time': Ultimate malicious compliance story after vacation days are significantly reduced

Best way to make enemies? Reduce their PTO!
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AITA for letting my dog poop in someone else's yard?

Update! 'I'm the a**hole': Dog owner lets pet "go" in neighbor's yard, wonders if they're wrong, internet sets them straight

An excellent sign of an obliviously entitled person is someone who refuses to control their pet. Fido might be your best friend, but that doesn't mean you should be letting it roam endlessly onto other people's property or taking off the leash at an explicitly leashed park. It's not often that people actually return to take accountability for their actions on the internet. We're so set in our ways, polarized in our beliefs, and utterly convinced we're right that we tend to struggle to take othe…
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‘You’re Single Because of Your Ridiculously High Physical Standards’ : Man Comes Clean to Delusional Friend Who Believes Most Women Are Out of His League

‘You’re Single Because of Your Ridiculously High Physical Standards’ : Man Comes Clean to Delusional Friend Who Believes Most Women Are Out of His League

When people think that they're God's gift to the world...
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AITA for telling my old boss I don't believe in loyalty and it's unreasonable to expect me not to quit for a better paid job?

Update! 'He said I couldn't have left at a worse time': Employee tries to reconnect with boss after quitting goes wrong

One person shared their experience reconnecting with an old boss after an emotional departure from the job. The OP shared to Reddit, asking if they were in the wrong with the interaction. This person describes how they worked for a company for six years, rising through the ranks and eventually even doubling their salary over years of hard work. But then they got an offer they couldn't refuse. It would more than double their salary! The OP quit with what they thought was an appropriate tone, and…
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‘You Won't Get Away With It’ : Two Frat Boys Blissfully Dine And Dash, Not Realizing One of The Customers Who Witnessed The Deed Know Their Parents

‘You Won't Get Away With It’ : Two Frat Boys Blissfully Dine And Dash, Not Realizing One of The Customers Who Witnessed The Deed Know Their Parents

Tough luck.
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My colleague has some trouble respecting boundaries and lies about one of our company's co-owners

Idiot coworker lies about boss's fake directive to make guy help them while on leave, guy gets the boss involved

There's nothing more infuriating than being relentlessly contacted by an annoying coworker while you're on leave. I mean, they're not even your boss, and for some reason, they feel entitled to having you do your work for them. This goes to another level when this coworker lies and makes up a story about how they're contacting you because the boss asked them to. This is a hard reach and easily verified by asking the boss themself. This is exactly what Redditor u/ver03255 did when a new coworker…
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AITA for asking my cousin for the wedding gift back after she said I wasn't welcome at the reception?

Update: Unhinged bridezilla doesn't let cousin attend wedding reception, cousin asks to take her gift back

Some people have zero class.
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