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‘I can't handle the guilt if anything happens’: Family next door repeatedly leaves their elderly parent on a neighbor's porch without asking, sparking the neighbor's worry that if she ever gets hurt, they'll be liable

Lana DeGaetano

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Boss refuses to allow part-time employee to work a second job on his days off because he must be available if a colleague calls out, but does not give him on-call pay: ‘I have to show up no matter what’

Lana DeGaetano

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‘She's literally holding [grandmother's] things hostage’: Aunt convinces her aging mother to sign over the deed to her house before she passes, then isolates anyone in the family who opposes her

Lana DeGaetano

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32-year-old coworker demands that 25-year-old employee give her his scheduled PTO days so that she can vacation with her 2 young children, telling him it's more important for her cause she's a parent: 'It's not my responsibility to fix her mistake'

Brad Dickson

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Next-door neighbor's 3 kids repeatedly play in and trash homeowner's front lawn, the mother of the children refuses to accommodate: ‘One of them knocked over a planter and just left it’

Lana DeGaetano

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Neighbor throws garbage and weeds onto homeowner's lawn, claiming she has an open building permit that entitles her to a certain amount of greenery, so fellow neighbors call the city on her: ‘Karma is catching up’

Lana DeGaetano

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‘You can't make me play’: Disrespectful high school band teacher uses teen student's medical absence as a chance to lecture class on ‘selfish band members’, then pettily tries to force the teen to stay in the class, but the teen fights fire with fire

Lana DeGaetano

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Overbearing parents insist college-bound teen to keep her Life360 location on so they can see what she's doing at all times, teen wants to disable the feature so she can stop feeling surveilled: ‘They're a bit overbearing and controlling about where I go’

Lana DeGaetano

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Parents force to 19-year-old college student daughter to keep her Life360 tracking app turned on, she tells them that she is turning it off after they track her every movement: 'It's uncomfortable knowing that wherever I am, they're probably looking'

Brad Dickson

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Neighbor asks homeowner if he can dig a creek through their property, but homeowner refuses, only for them to come back from vacation and see the creek, ruining their fence in the process: ‘I told him no’

Lana DeGaetano

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Coworkers dress like it's 1996 to get back at the new manager's dress code mandate, showing up in increasingly formal garb to make a point: ‘The office was a time capsule by Wednesday’

Jesse Kessenheimer

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Licensed builder replaces mother-in-law's roof without a written contract, and she fails to pay them the $18,800 they are rightfully owed: ‘She comes up with excuses and gives the runaround every time I talk to her about payment’

Lana DeGaetano

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Employee suggests all staff gather their financial contributions before purchasing a joint farewell gift for their boss, so no one is expected to contribute an amount they're not comfortable with: ‘Maybe my coworkers think I’m being cheap or stingy’

Lana DeGaetano

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‘She goes through my calendar hoping she [can] find things to “manage”’: Manager insists employee fakes their productivity for the sake of seeming ‘professional’, but employee hypothesizes that their manager isn't as productive as she seems

Lana DeGaetano

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‘She was "jealous of my motherhood"’: Coworker becomes ‘obsessed’ with colleague's pregnancy and sneakily attempts to make an ultrasound appointment to find out the gender of her baby, despite the colleague repeatedly declining her ‘help’

Lana DeGaetano

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Concerned mother refuses to financially support her daughter's acting aspirations in Los Angeles for a year, despite paying for her other children's college expenses: ‘We agreed to support our kids through college’

Lana DeGaetano

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