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'She said "I forgot that I worked here"': Employees reveal the most unusual excuses they've ever heard from someone calling off work

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‘What's the C-suite's play here?’: Company lets go of 40+ high-performing employees, then immediately posts 40+ better-paying jobs on a job board, leaving employees dumbfounded

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"‘I have no interest"’: Manager's new elderly employee refuses to complete his job duties simply because he doesn't want to do them, upper management fails to re-train or fire him

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'I was just trying to exit': Karen threatens to call law enforcement on her neighbor, who has to make unavoidable 3-point turns to get out of their tight parking spot, then accuses them of burglary ideation

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Manager threatens to write up employee if they don't call their coworker next time they fail to show up for their shift, employee refuses: ‘That's not my responsibility’

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Employee reports 2 remote coworkers who fail to complete their daily tasks because they're too busy babysitting their children and grandchildren, upper management threatens RTO mandate in response: ‘The company is not paying them to be a SAHM’

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Apartment complex hooks up makeshift pool plug to renter's electricity, costing them over $250 in utility charges: 'The HoA and the rental company are both slum lords’

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Neighbor repeatedly calls law enforcement on apartment resident for parking in front of their house, even though the street allows public parking use: ‘Man, I'm ready to be just as petty’

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17-year-old forced to babysit stepmother's kids for 6 hours on his day off, he leaves the house instead, forcing the stepmother to cancel her plans: 'She was trying to guilt-trip me about canceling'

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‘It is not my responsibility to fund someone else's child’: Self-supporting woman refuses to make monthly financial contributions to her brother and his pregnant wife, her mother ostracizes her as a result

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Customer demands restaurant server to open their establishment when it's closed for the day, but karma has other plans for her when she instead orders for delivery: ‘[Her] delivery never comes’

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Tenant is banned from apartment complex's public pool after she distracts the young lifeguards and tries to sell counterfeit Disney merchandise on the premises: ‘She uses her daughter to guilt money from people’

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28-year-old freeloader brother expects successful sibling to let him live rent-free in their apartment while they're abroad, then gets their parents to pressure them, too: ‘He acts like it's already decided’

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‘I'm done being the reliable one while people like her lie and get away with it’: Coworker asks for emergency shift coverage, employee finds out they took a beach day through selfies she posted on Instagram

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17-year-old refuses to invite her stepmother to her graduation party, leading to the resurfacing of older disagreements in the family: '[Her dad is] threatening not to show up at all if [her stepmother] isn’t welcome'

Brad Dickson

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‘If you didn’t order takeout and it arrives at your door, it is clearly NOT YOURS’: Neighbor repeatedly rummages through other residents' misdelivered packages, then begins to steal and eat the residents' misdelivered food

Lana DeGaetano

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