New hires are almost always bound to mess something up during their first weeks on the job, but these folks made mistakes that simply could not be ignored. Of course, you cannot expect your new coworkers to get everything right on Day One. They have to adjust to a particular workplace's way of doing things, so it's only natural that they will do something incorrectly. Those kinds of mistakes can be easily forgiven because these newbies do not know any better. However, every so often, you come a…

As the saying goes, the punishment must fit the crime, and if the repercussions are too severe, no one is learning anything, and you're simply going to create a bad memory and lifelong resentment that will get brought up in 20 years at tense family dinners and when your kids attempt to talk to you about the trauma that you unintentionally caused them. Of course, as a parent, even if you have the best of intentions, you're not going to get everything right all of the time . And as teenagers, we'…

There is only one reasonable way to get back at a micromanager, and that is to make them regret breathing down your neck. Here , we have a new high school principal who decided that he needed to approve every little idea this science teacher had for lab experiments. This approval process would go far beyond a quick email or conversation to run something by the principal. In fact, the micromanager expected to go through all lesson plans prior to approval. This, of course, is extremely frustratin…

Difficult people often find themselves dealing with difficult consequences. At the end of the day, they have no one to blame but themselves for being, well, difficult . Here, we have an entitled Karen customer who didn't like the fact that the bank's printing machine smudged two numbers on her new debit card (this did not affect whether or not the card worked). Now, if this happened once and the customer politely requested to have it reprinted, that would have been fine. However, this lady coul…

Part of being a human is wanting something, not getting it, and learning how to deal with that reality. These are the experiences that typically help you grow and mature. However, at any age, there will always be the entitled individuals of this world who refuse to understand and accept that they just might not get what they desire. In that same vein, these are the types of people with enough symptoms of Main Character syndrome to think that their problems are the most severe ones in this world…

"I know not all posts here have happy endings, so I figured I’d share this one for the holiday season!"

It's not every day that you get to call out an entitled customer after the fact. Most of the time when this happens, employees choose to be the bigger person and smile through the pain instead of giving the aggressor a piece of their minds. However, every so often, you get the opportunity of a lifetime to stand up for yourself and say what you couldn't say in the moment. Here, we have a bartender who was repeatedly never tipped (not even a cent) by an entitled Karen customer who worked at the n…

No one enjoys getting assigned a new task at work right before the end of the day. The reality of the matter is that most tasks can wait until tomorrow at that point, and if it cannot, then that's on management for holding off on assigning said task for so long. This story serves as yet another example of how communication within a strict corporate hierarchy can lead to bad business. Here, we have an employee who was asked to complete a task at 4:50 pm that was evidently urgent. This would be f…

Here's a friendly reminder to respect your teachers no matter what or it may end up costing you. Here , we have an immature high school student who frequently mocked his English teacher during class while he was sitting in the back with his mates. After receiving a serious warning, his best friends stopped joining in on the mockery, but the student refused to stop. Halfway through the semester, the student had the audacity to sleep through the midterm and ask to retake the exam. His teacher den…

The holiday season might be just around the corner, but this family does not have much to celebrate these days. After the 17-year-old daughter of the family managed to convince her parents to let her go on a trip with some friends, her father mentioned that he would be on a “business trip” in the same city that weekend and could check in on her. Well, it turns out that she needed to be checking in on him because, on the final night of the trip, the Redditor went out to dinner with her friends,…

Shopping for the Holidays often brings out the worst in people. This could not be more apparent than on Black Friday. Hopefully, we all survived this tumultuous day by staying home and doing all our holiday shopping online this year like a sane person. However, who can't resist hearing about the crazies who still run amok in retail stores the day after Thanksgiving as if their lives depended on that 40% discount? Here , we have a retail worker who was unfortunately scheduled at the start of Bla…

We all want and need an advocate in the workplace, someone to have our backs in case other coworkers or authority figures start taking us for granted. Of course, in an ideal world, that's what human resources should be, but let's be realistic for a second. Human resources is all about protecting the company at the end of the day. Sure, they might project an image of solidarity with employees but always be careful not to be fooled by this facade. Now, this manager was against their boss's reques…

Sure, confront the person fixing the problem instead of the problem itself. That makes sense!

Some class rules are meant to be challenged. In this day and age, it's simply most convenient for students to take notes on their laptops. While of course, we understand the concern teachers may have about playing games, texting, or online shopping, the truth of the matter is that if students aren't going to pay attention, that will be their loss both in the short and long term. Forbidding all students from using their laptops in class because of a few students who cannot help but misbehave is…

You can't have it both ways, lady! You can't cheat on your partner and then expect to maintain the life you had before you got caught. Thankfully, this was not a situation where young kids and disputed property were involved, so the separation was easy to make for the Redditor… but not for his now ex-girlfriend. She expected that the original poster (OP) would have the so-called “decency” to keep bankrolling her and her new beau's lifestyle while they get on their feet. As OP makes clear in his…

Many folks have been traveling this long weekend, which means that the vast majority of these individuals have had to deal with entitled, annoying passengers on various modes of transportation. Sure, this is part of what makes the movie Planes, Trains, and Automobiles stand the test of time because the truth of the matter is that the strangers we come across as we travel to and from family for the Holidays can strongly impact the entire holiday experience. Here, we have a Redditor who was in th…