"This gets met with more attitude so I ask if I’ll be getting paid sick time for the day I missed yesterday. He says no, not without a doctors note. . ."

What would we ever do without our neighbors? If you've got kind neighbors, it can be such a blessing. If you've got a few cranky neighbors making your life miserable, however, you'll wish you lived miles from any other people! U/PaludisVulpes had a bad experience with their neighbor. For those living in any downstairs apartment , they're always going to have to hear some sounds. If the neighbors are having a party, they'll hear music and tons of feet walking around. Maybe they'll hear the dog s…

We rarely take a moment to appreciate the overworked managers who have to answer to the ridiculous demands of the higher-ups. Here , we have the manager of an understaffed pizzeria who was taking on the responsibilities of virtually everyone after both cooks showed up late. He took a moment to collect himself after working on his feet and going non-stop all day. His break was literally for only ten minutes, but the owner took note and prepared his payback. The next day, the manager could not he…

Tipping culture these days has gotten... a little out of hand, hasn't it? It feels like someone's asking for a tip everywhere you turn—whether it's your barista, the takeout app, or even the self-checkout machine at the grocery store. And it's not just about the ask. It's the guilt. That little screen that pops up after you pay, staring at you, daring you to pick anything less than 20%, even if you just ordered a single donut. Sure, tipping for good service is a no-brainer. We want to support...

This story will ring all too true for many an overworked employee: Watching an overworked team spiral downwards as attrition leads to more team members leaving and not being replaced, leading to even more work being piled onto the remaining team members. Meanwhile, middle and upper management are looking at their decreasing cost of labor and already counting the bonuses they're going to be receiving for increasing profits. Meanwhile, their teams approach ever closer to breaking, and their pleas…

Salesfolks know that people don't want to be upsold , but that only makes them try harder. For people who work on commission , getting some extra cash in their paycheck at the end of each month is irresistible. And all they have to do is sell their customers add-ons that they don't really need, like insurance for expensive electronics. Just anecdotally, there are two types of people: those who never break their devices, and people who can't go a month without cracking their iPad screen wide ope…

"This ended up with another lawsuit against the HOA president personally by the original homeowners, who also filed to dissolve the HOA completely."

That's the thing about buying a house: you can do all the research you want, but you never know what the neighbors are going to be like until it's too late. You can spend countless hours touring all the homes for sale in your city until you finally find your dream home, only to have that dream crushed by a couple of entitled neighbors. Neighbors can really set the tone of your daily life, for better or for worse. You might expect it to be like the movies, where you move into a new neighborhoo...

Let this story serve as a friendly reminder to all you job seekers out there to know your worth. No matter how tempting it may be to settle for less, especially in this market, don't let recruiters make you feel unreasonable for demanding a higher salary based on your experience and knowledge of your field. This candidate clearly has dealt with this kind of shady behavior from recruiters more than once, so when he discovered after three rounds of interviews that he was being offered $15K less t…

"We live on a street with no sidewalks, so everyone has ditches for drainage. She never cleans her despite having huge trees dropping sticks and leaves into it, so her yard floods when it rains. She's blaming us for that."

We all have that ONE coworker… you know, the one who likes to push everyone's buttons, gets on everyone's nerves and seems like they intentionally dance on a razor's edge over HR technicalities. They're entitled as heckin' heck and it's as if their agenda and opinions are the only ones that matter in the workplace. I like to call this type of person an ‘extroverted steamroller’.

I'm convinced that some customers return to the same fast-food restaurants over and over just to mess with the employees. When a customer comes into the store announcing how bad the service was last time, and how the employees were so impolite, and the food was just awful… It makes you wonder, why are they even here? Do they know that there are a million options for fast food , including the same exact food from the same chain a mile or two away? Do they know that they have free will, and no on…

The things homeowners will do for a good tradesman!

Prom is too important to miss just because your fast-food boss says “no.”

Back-to-school season is among us, which means that we are officially dealing with the best and worst teachers among us. Look, as the child of a teacher, I have an immense amount of sympathy for most educators. However, in every industry, there are people who are straight-up trash at their jobs. You can find these individuals in business meetings, behind the front desk of a doctor's office, and in our classrooms. Unfortunately, there is no known cure for stopping some people from being bad at t…

No matter where you work, security checks are always important, and should not be taken lightly. We should be grateful that we are taken care of in that regard, and that we feel safe when we go to work every day. That being said, security checkpoints can get a little bit annoying, especially if the guards there are not nice people. For example, the employee in this Reddit story found a clever and funny way to get back at a demanding X-ray guard at their place of work. OP (original poster) works…