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Have you ever had a friend who has simply everything going right for him or her? Have you ever had the same friend having everything going right not for a period of time but FOREVER? I had, but I never reacted with jealousy. I don’t want to seem like the moral police here, but I think there can be plenty of postures to take that are much more beneficial than jealousy.

30-year-old woman runs out of the headspace she needs to handle the jealousy she feels towards her decade-old best friend: 'I’ve started resenting her for always having it so easy, always being just “lucky” and absolutely every single aspect of her life;

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Man cleans up after girlfriend's 21-year-old son for months, sets clear boundaries together, then she tells him the rules don't apply to her or her son: 'It starts to feel like my effort isn’t respected.'

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Consider this your warning to leave the scissors in the kitchen: 25 Haircut fails to prevent you from being in charge of your makeover

Artificial Intelligence vs Organic Slyness Sometimes I believe the robots are overpowering us, and then I come across stories like this and realize they still lack the flexibility and the sharpness it takes to adapt to ever-changing human demands. At least the ones who know a little about coding can find ways to slip through the cracks.

Frustrated gym user sets up an automatic response for every time he gets a late fee notification in revenge for the one time they charged him an extra $11: 'I did what anyone with too much free time and a mild interest in how systems work would do'

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Woman brings Tupperware to a restaurant to save leftovers, friend feels embarrassed and confronts her, woman doesn’t see the problem: ‘I was like "Please calm down”.’

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Angry male Karen customer enters a hotel demanding to know the room number in which his family member is staying, the front desk worker denied: 'He got very angry and started saying she was the one who recommended our hotel to them.'

Some things we can only figure out in retrospect. People often act in ways we deem incoherent and irrational, and only after everything ends can we see the underlying motives for their behaviour. Becoming too close way too fast with someone might be a cause for concern.

Resentful manager goes from bonding immediately with new server to sabotaging her every move: 'Looking back, it suddenly made a lot more sense why she seemed to go from friendly mentor to treating me like public enemy number one'

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‘I love my job, I love my job…’: Skip this 9-to-5 mantra, it's time to clock into work memes

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Hiring managers reveal telltale signs of AI-dependent job candidates: 'Buzzwords like 'leveraged cross-functional collaboration''

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A desperate out-of-work employee opens up about the dehumanization of the interview process till he actually got a job: 'Be human, trust in yourself, and good things will come.'

It's all about the way you say it When we try to obtain something from someone, for example, a seat exchange on a plane, we should be mindful of the way we ask for it, because it can change everything. We're not supposed to go about the world feeling entitled to seats or to other people's kindness, and this Redditor gave a man who felt like that a lesson.

'Your seat?': Young woman crafts the perfect revenge against a man whom she had to switch seats with on an airplane and was very disrespectful about it

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Grandson refuses to spend his weekends maintaining his grandparents’ investment property in Las Vegas after being guilt-tripped into regular 5-hour repair trips: ‘This isn’t my house’

Boss refuses to admit they underpaid employee after they quit, then proceeds to blame them for their lack of empathy for the business: ‘The working conditions are not sustainable’

Boss refuses to admit they underpaid employee after they quit, then proceeds to blame them for their lack of empathy for the business: ‘The working conditions are not sustainable’

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Neighbor’s fencing contractor destroys Oregon homeowner's irrigation system and landscaping, they both deny responsibility, so he plans to sue them both: ‘The damage is around $4,500’

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Manager demands that "employee log every moment" of their time, employee complies, spends so much time filling in their timesheet that their billable hours tank: 'After 3 weeks my overhead total was sitting at 18.75 hours for a 40-hour week'

Sometimes a relationship ends but one part is unaware of it I’ve been in this situation so many times, almost always on the aware part, but either way, it never ceases to be heartbreaking. Friendships, sadly, sometimes take the worst part of romances, and people in them exhibit behaviours such as nagging and jealousy outbursts; or you find out one day that you are much more important to your friend’s life than that person is to you.

33-year-old woman is trapped in an unwanted frienship because she is unable to say no to her very insistent friend: 'Every other time, I cook up a lie to say no. The annoying part is she doesn’t even ask or request'