Most high-achieving students have had to deal with slackers in the class. They might ask for your input on a writing assignment, only to try to get you to write the entire essay for them. They might mooch off of your study guide. They might contribute next to nothing on a group project and attempt to take all the credit. And of course, they might look over your shoulder during a class test. Here, we have a student who understandably had enough of the slacker who sat next to him in class and rep…

Don't just get petty— get creative. Try to become so petty it strikes fear (or laughter) into the hearts of those around you. Become formidable and unchallenged by societal norms! Communication comes easily for some people, but for others it can be intimidating. Instead of asking for what they want, they'd rather use passive-aggressive behavior to get what they desire. In some cases, it's the safer option: you never know how a stranger might react to you asking them to switch seats with you on…

When one university student reached out to a classmate for help with her paper, she had no idea she was about to walk right into an epic prank. Desperate to finish her report before the deadline, the student asked for a look at her classmate's work, claiming she just needed some guidance on structure and presentation. What happened next was nothing short of astonishing. After receiving the original paper, she sent back her version for proofreading—only to have her classmate discover that she ha…

Group chat decorum can be a source of plenty of tension among teams in the workplace. Sometimes, people spam channels with far too many messages that end up only affecting one or two individuals. No one needs to be getting all those notifications. Then, there are folks who choose to take the opportunity to criticize someone else's work as an “example” rather than privately messaging them. Nine times out of ten, this is not actually about giving the whole team a worthwhile lesson. Instead, it's…

Your devotion ought to always be to your family. Having said that, what would you do if someone in your own family consistently mistreated you? The story below is an account of a frustrated nephew. The original poster (OP) grew up in a fairly traditional setting where the most important rule to abide by is respecting the elderly. Consequently, OP offered his aunt and kids a place to stay when the storm hit as they couldn't find a secure location where they could go. But as soon as they settled…

"He screamed, I mean screamed, ‘You agreed to work on this project weeks ago!’ I repeated his words verbatim."

Some neighbors really think they can get away with just about anything. We've seen various iterations of this problem, whether it's stealing packages to spying on one another. However, this neighbor really took things too far and managed to build an entire house on the wrong side of the property line. We're pretty shocked that this Redditor had no idea this was happening until months down the road. It turns out this was not his primary home, so he didn't notice during the winter months when con…

"Well. If that's how you want to play it, sure."

Overhearing your coworker gossiping about how long you'll likely stay at the company on your very first day does not exactly inspire confidence. For many people out there, an incident like that on day one will inevitably make you feel like your days are numbered. However, for this new hire, it made her grow a thicker skin. This employee wound up staying at the company longer than the Karen coworker who claimed she would last only three months. In fact, the employee stayed there for more than tw…

How's this for lawn care?!

It turns out that the best way to get back at one's nuisance of a neighbor is to get the HOA involved. Of course, homeowner's associations are typically the enemies when we cover them here at FAIL Blog, but every so often, we come across a story where people manage to use HOAs for good. In this case , the righteousness here was getting rid of a frustrating neighbor who refused to leave this Redditor alone. It got so bad that the Redditor decided to document every HOA violation he witnessed. Nat…

There's always a bigger fish… No matter how big or small you are, you can almost take solace in the fact that there's always going to be someone bigger or better than you at something and will soon come to take your place. This is a real worry to the big fish out there who are desperate to maintain their status as top dogfish. In this way, sometimes being the smallest fish is beneficial because all the other fish are so much larger than you that they consider you to not be a threat or even wort…

Instant karma is one of those magical phenomena that makes you think the universe really does have a sense of humor. It's when the cosmos delivers a swift dose of payback right when it's needed, and it's downright satisfying to witness. We've rounded up 20 of the funniest real-life instant karma stories from Redditors who caught it all in action.

If you've ever suffered the effects of living next door to someone entitled, loud, Karenish, unaware, creepy, or just downright insufferable, you've probably laid awake in bed at night thinking of ways to get your revenge.

Who else thinks the pink apartment is way worse? Clearly, these “besties” are not exactly the friendliest to one another because these pranks are far from innocent. This Redditor detests the color pink, so when she was away for the weekend, her BFF sought an opportunity and painted her room pink, along with replacing furniture and decor with pink-colored items. This isn't exactly the kind of prank that can be easily reversed. As a New Yorker, my immediate first thought was how is she going to g…

this is more like r/WholesomeRevenge