Catching a thieving neighbor is not as easy as it looks. First of all, without evidence, it's kind of an audacious assumption to be made. It's certainly not the kind of thing you can accuse someone of face-to-face unless you have concrete proof. In this instance, the only concrete evidence this Redditor had was that her neighbor was a miserable human being. That's certainly enough to suspect, but it's not enough to prove. For a little backstory, the Redditor started to create distance between h…

Nothing is better than seeing a Karen face the consequences of her actions.

If you've ever seen even one episode of the show Succession, you must have wondered if rich people really do act this way, and if they truly are so detached from the reality of the plain old regular life. To be fair, I am sure some nice billionaires don't allow their money to go up to their heads, but most probably do get numb to other people, and to everyday problems their money easily solves for them. But can we really blame them for it? Well, yes, we surely can. Rich people who completely fo…

The world is filled with laws, in all shapes and forms. We have legal and state laws, civil laws, we have laws in science, common laws, laws of philosophy, and so on… However, there is one law that we all know firsthand, as we all had to deal with it at one point or another – Murphy's Law. Murphy's Law, by law, is always there when you least expect it, and you are never happy to encounter it. It is annoying, makes your life much harder, and is totally unavoidable by nature. Here at FailBlog, Mu…

Some bosses call emergency meetings because of a work crisis, some schedule one-on-ones to discuss important matters, and others just want to start some drama. In theory, folks on the internet would align their sensibilities with this toxic employer, but in practice, no one wants their boss sewing seeds of doubt in your brain. That's exactly what this boss did to a manager who had been working for just three weeks and was buried in tasks and responsibilities. On top of this very difficult trans…

"Why office potlucks in the first place? Are not people stressed and stretched to the max?"

Some people are legitimately named Karen for a reason. Of course, in this day and age, one would not understand why a new parent would consider that name for their child, given all the connotations accompanying it. However, it seems that there is some cosmic force at play here that manages to name certain people Karen precisely because of those connotations. If this story serves any particular purpose, that purpose would be its role as evidentiary support for this philosophy. Here, we have an a…

It has got to be tough living next to the president of your local homeowner's association. Not only do you have to go out of your way to engage in trading fake niceties every time you see them, but also you have to deal with the paranoia that they are watching you at all times. Unfortunately for these new residents , who had just moved to the neighborhood, their next-door neighbor really was watching them at all times. In fact, he almost immediately started issuing violations regarding their ba…

We all know a TV tyrant

How can one differentiate between people who act and make decisions out of selfishness and people who simply try to look after themselves and their own needs? As a society, we are constantly being flooded with contradicting messages when it comes to self-love and care: ‘Be kind to others’, ‘Love thy neighbor’, ‘Put yourself first’, ‘Love yourself before loving others’, etc… These messages make it impossible to know when we're supposed to put ourselves first and when we need to put ourselves asi…

Let's talk about mandatory, after-hours work events. We all have mixed feelings about them. On one hand, we spend a minimum of 8 hours with the same people at the office, if we're lucky enough, we actually see them as friends, but more often than not, they are simply colleagues. Sure, they might be nice people, but we have no desire to see them after we clock out of the job . Being forced to spend more time with them at another location, is not something many of us appreciate. Once we clock out…

A good manager keeps their word. This applies to all aspects of management, whether it's expectations and responsibilities for employees or respecting employees' rights and boundaries. Here, we have a coordinator at an airline service provider who wanted to take off work for the Holidays and had been saving up his PTO to finally use in December. He followed standard protocol, put in his request months in advance, and that request was rightfully accepted. Flash forward, of course, to December it…

When a teacher asks a student what they can do to better prepare for the next exam, there are a few standard answers they are probably expecting to hear. The most obvious answer would be to study harder. Another would be to work on memorizing key terms, doing more practice, reviewing the homework assignments, etc. The last thing a teacher expects to hear in this scenario is this Redditor's answer. He said that all he planned to do next time was bring a watch. That's because, during the midterm,…

Sometimes, the only way to properly explain yourself to your micromanaging employer is by sticking to your principles. This employee had actively been trying to gain management experience over the years but was repeatedly denied the opportunity, which already left them feeling undervalued, under-appreciated, and underpaid. Matters were made worse after the employee , who was working checkout at the store, noticed an error when scanning a customer's item. They replaced the item with something si…

Working at a drive-thru means dealing with the full range of human behavior. That means handling customers who are everything from impatient to entitled to unkind. Every so often, you'll get a generous customer, but that's about as common as an eclipse, so you might as well figure out how to talk to these wretched individuals. Here, we have a new hire who was working her second shift ever when a group of entitled men were passing through and talking over one another while ordering. Naturally, t…

College presents many challenges to young adults, but nobody talks about the struggles of the first few nights sleeping outside your childhood bedrooms. While we all had sleepovers and trips with friends and school, that is not the same as completely moving out of our home and regularly sleeping in a different bed, and that is not an easy experience for young people. On my first night in my dorm room, the first thing I noticed was how loud the street outside was, mainly because of all the cars…