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Parents sabotage daughter’s dream school scholarship acceptance, secretly committing her to a local university: ‘My parents have a whole separate plan for my life’

Etai Eshet

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6 months of ‘model behavior’ is ignored after employee is 8 minutes late, boss takes away her breaks for the day so she leaves for lunch and never returns: ‘I clocked out and went “to the deli”… I quit.'

Elna McHilderson

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22-year-old refuses to surrender her first $2.5k paycheck to her family, against cultural tradition: ‘[I need] to protect my own survival’

Lana DeGaetano

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'I'm the one who ended my own interview': Recruiter lowballs job candidate and demeans their resume over zoom, so candidate wishes them ‘good luck’ and abruptly ends the call

Elna McHilderson

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‘It was an infuriating but liberating feeling’: Under-appreciated employee finally quits after 10 years, company realizes he's holding the whole place together and matches his new offer, still walks away

Elna McHilderson

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Job seeker finds out "networking" advice is useless after going to endless events full of empty promises: ‘This strategy doesn’t work, it’s just an opportunity for mid-career people to revel in having their egos stroked’

Etai Eshet

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‘I thought he was joking…’: Mediocre tech who's worked for the company for 3 years preaches about flat earth to the new manager of 2 months, gets fired

Elna McHilderson

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'[He] got chewed out for that for sure': FAA facility manager gets humbled after his rule forbidding airplane techs from talking to the clients gets him on a ‘Performance Improvement Plan’

Elna McHilderson

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'I REFUSE to work if I’m not getting paid': Overworked employee goes part time, leaving entitled coworkers to fend for themselves

Elna McHilderson

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Person finally lands a job interview after 2 months of unemployment, ends up laughing in their faces after hearing the farcically exploitative proposition: ‘[They're] Glassdoor rating is 2.1…’

Elna McHilderson

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'It all started when...': Pour a dash of these laughs into your morning coffee to energize you for the work week ahead (November 29, 2025)

Elna McHilderson

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Guy gets last laugh after being fired as ‘non-essential,’ 6-weeks later that company implodes and he has a new job with a 20% pay raise: 'It's a great feeling.'

Elna McHilderson

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'It all started when...': Pour a dash of these laughs into your morning coffee to energize you for the work week ahead (November 22, 2025)

Elna McHilderson

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Woman unemployed for 4 months finally lands her dream job and uproots her life for it, 3-weeks in she gets fired after inexplicably failing her background check: ‘If they don't [explain], I will hire a labor lawyer.'

Elna McHilderson

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‘You deserved all of that': Catty woman laughs and ignores coworker to the point of quitting, so coworker sends a “tell-all” email to the managers, team members, and CEO that gets her “made to leave” aka fired

Elna McHilderson

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‘Today she got burned': Busybody colleague nitpicks projects she's not even on, points out a mistake that was actually her own fault in front of entire office and CEO

Elna McHilderson

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