Any potential step-parent knows that it can be difficult to gain the approval of your partner's kids. This is especially true if those kids are in the midst of their teenage years. This Redditor may need to learn the important lesson of not taking this treatment too personally, as her boyfriend's daughter probably would not be satisfied with anyone for her dad. The original poster (OP), of course, was trying to get her approval when she got the 13-year-old a necklace, a gift the teenager almost…

"He's also a landlord for another property and knows that you need to keep heat on at least 60 to be legal and up to code."

Full anarchy

It's hard to forget the moments in life that made you never want to go out in public again. Sure, we are often scarred by embarrassing memories from our teenage years, but the truth of the matter is that life never stops getting occasionally embarrassing, and you can really have these “face palm” moments at any stage of your life. A friend of mine recounted their own embarrassing moment from just last week when she was on a plane and trying to press the button to get her seat to recline. The bu…

Let this story serve as yet another relevant reminder that paternity leave deserves to be taken seriously by employers. You would think that in this day and age, this would be common knowledge, but you would be surprised. Here, we have an employee who initially only asked for one week of paid time off to help take care of his newborn baby. Apparently, the timing was not convenient for his boss, not that this should really matter. However, according to the boss's warped perspective, it was reaso…

Looks like they'll be receiving 600+ texts a day about the beautiful King County, Washington.

Golden retriever behavior

Imagine landing an interview, doing all the necessary preparation, making the 30-minute journey for an in-person meeting, and arriving only to discover that you have suddenly been rejected. That's exactly what happened to this Redditor, who found out in the lobby of the popular hotel chain she was hoping to work at that she was suddenly no longer qualified. A person whom the original poster (OP) assumes was the manager scanned her resume for about 20 seconds and then denied her the interview th…

Being the source of some really ‘juicy gossip' at work is never a pleasant experience, especially if what people are saying about you is true. It can be surprising how much an office an look like a high school, with real-life adult mean girls who can really make your work life difficult if they want to. Like Mean Girls, sometimes all you want to do is give an entitled coworker a taste of their own medicine, and show them what it feels like to be the talk of the office. Well, that is exactly wha…

Just because he makes a 6-figure salary, doesn't mean your FRIENDS get a free dinner...

Sometimes, you have no choice but to treat people how they deserve to be treated. Reason and kindness can work with sensible strangers, but this insensitive dude was anything but sensible. If anything, he was just insensitive. Not only did he leave the door to his driver's seat open in such a way that blocked the Redditor's vehicle from leaving the parking garage, but also when the Redditor tried to signal to this guy to close his door, the guy refused to listen as he was on a so-called “import…

Karens exist in all industries, so it makes sense that they might not pop up in an army reserve unit. These male Karens insisted that the folks who managed processing logistics requests were taking too long with a specific order they made. They even tried to embarrass the reserve unit team at a big meeting with several higher-ranked individuals present. Well, that plan backfired as one of the members of this team, who shared this Reddit thread , looked up their processing request during the mee…

Realtors... amirite?

When you’re renting, you never expect to be stuck footing the bill for long-term upgrades on someone else’s property—especially when it comes with a hefty price tag. That’s exactly what happened to one couple who casually mentioned to their property manager that it would be nice to have grass in their front yard instead of dirt. When they moved in, they were told the dirt yard was due to pipe maintenance and thought that was the end of it. But soon after their impromptu conversation with the la…

They say you should never mix family and business, and this story might just be the perfect example of why. After his son struggled to find work due to a legal incident 15 years ago, a retired father stepped in to help. He hired his son at the family business, hoping to set him up for success. The father, now 74 and mostly retired, still enjoys working occasionally and earns a commission for his efforts. But things have taken a turn. The son, now running the business, has started withholding hi…

This manager was clearly not in his right mind because the flight attendant he thought was his employee was wearing a completely different color than the store uniform. Of course, entitled people do not like to be proven wrong, so when the flight attendant tried to explain that she didn't work there and was a customer, the manager dug his heels into the ground and doubled down. Finally, when he realized that she was not, in fact, lying, the manager reprimanded the customer for trying to play tr…