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Dad gives the family business to brother-in-law instead of his son, who has worked there for 17 years since he was 15 years old, son starts a new business, forcing dad to beg him to come back: 'The business is now 100% my brother-in-law’s'

Brad Dickson

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Colleague micromanages their office's bagel orders and singles out the employee who is in charge of placing said orders: 'There are bigger things to focus on in an AEC firm'

Lana DeGaetano

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Mother draws backlash for telling her 15-year-old son that he couldn't take his stepmother to his mother-son football team event: 'She's not his mom, nor did she have the respect to call/text me and ask how I felt about it'

Brad Dickson

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18-year-old refuses to pay rent when her parents demand it after she has already moved out: '[My aunt said] my parents really needed this and deserved it for raising me [but] I want nothing to do with them'

Brad Dickson

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'Chores are valuable, but they don't build equity': Man refuses to give live-in girlfriend 50% equity on their first home because she refuses to put any money toward the mortgage, she insists that doing 60% of the cooking and cleaning is enough

Lana DeGaetano

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Identical twin sister decides to start a life of her own after her parents encouraged an unhealthy, codependent familial relationship for years, family implodes as a result: ‘I just can't be enmeshed with her for the rest of my life’

Lana DeGaetano

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Employee's colleagues fail to respond to their emails, Microsoft Teams chats, and other methods of communication, sparking a discussion about non-communicative coworkers in the workplace: ‘I can walk into their offices and scream it at them I guess…’

Lana DeGaetano

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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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