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New in-office policy incentivizes coworkers to snitch on each other, ruining remote work for everyone else: 'Hall-monitoring coworkers just ruined remote work for our entire company'

FAIL Blogby JR Atkinson8d ago

- 01Image shown for illustrative purposes; person depicted is a model. A remote worker types on a laptop at a desk - When you have a long commute, this can drastically impact your relationship with...

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Affluent parents pressure 17-year-old daughter to take out $400K in student loan debt to get her undergraduate degree: 'I love my dream school, but I love my future more.'

FAIL Blogby Emmy Pratt9d ago

Affluent parents pressure 17-year-old daughter to take out $400K in student loan debt to get her undergraduate degree: 'I love my dream school, but I love my future more.'

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31-Year-Old Tenant Surprised When Her Live-in Landlords Demand She Cook for Them After a Single Shared Dinner— She Makes Them Regret It

FAIL Blogby Brad Dickson9d ago

In her original post, this tenant, a 31-year-old woman, shared how she moved into a basement unit with a shared kitchen with her landlords and fellow roommates.

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Couple both earn $110k, woman expresses disappointment when he demands to split the cost of her birthday dinner: 'This is gonna be a bigger bill than I thought'

FAIL Blogby Ally Perry9d ago

A woman had been with her partner for 8 years and recently celebrated her 30th birthday. They both earned the same decent salary, and she had taken him out for a meal when it was his birthday.

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Sister's husband wants to flex his promotion by inviting breakfast but then gets upset about paying for what the brother ordered, even though he always eats the same thing: 'I would have happily paid the bill, like I usually do'

FAIL Blogby María Cetra11d ago

Sister's husband wants to flex his promotion by inviting breakfast but then gets upset about paying for what the brother ordered, even though he always eats the same thing: 'I would have happily...

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Team lead publicly humiliates employee and tells her to stop "overstepping" after previously expecting her to do her work, then the lead’s boss tells the employee to apply for a new senior job

FAIL Blogby Brad Dickson11d ago

This employee found herself the target of her lead's wrath, who called her out publicly and humiliated her for the contributions she had been making above her own position.

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Employee procrastinates all day then works until 7, judges coworker for leaving at 5: 'Must be nice to leave on time'

FAIL Blogby Ally Perry11d ago

An employee with a 9-to-5 office job was getting irritated by her colleague's behavior and how it was affecting her.

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Woman gets 2 HOA violations for the same thing at a house she moved out of, goes DIY and sparks a ‘Defund the HOA’ discussion: ‘I can promise you it’s going to look worse than before!'

FAIL Blogby Elna McHilderson11d ago

A woman recently moved out of her home that was in an HOA-controlled area. However, she was still getting silly little infractions on the property.

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Guest tries to enter a closed campground to park their car, and instead they end up blowing their tires with the spikes, now they are upset the front desk won't fix it: 'They were SHOCKED that I said they needed to figure it out themself'

FAIL Blogby María Cetra13d ago

Guest tries to enter a closed campground to park their car, and instead they end up blowing their tires with the spikes, now they are upset the front desk won't fix it: 'They were SHOCKED that I...

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Mother-in-law insists on organizing a baby shower for DIL on the non-negotiable condition that the guest list includes only her friends: ‘[She is] having us pay to feed these people’

FAIL Blogby Cata Holmes13d ago

Mother-in-law insists on organizing a baby shower for DIL on the non-negotiable condition that the guest list includes only her friends: ‘[She is] having us pay to feed these people’ When does a...

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Manager threatens to take away 2 week's pay and bonus if employee doesn't disclose the company they're leaving to work for: 'Does she really have the right to withhold money?'

FAIL Blogby JR Atkinson13d ago

I gave my two-week notice after accepting a better job in medical sales in another state. My manager clearly didn't expect this at all.

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Freelancer gets tired of being paid late by accountant Connie, when he complained, Connie said to ask the CEO for the expenses money, he complied: 'This left poor little Connie out of the loop, and she wasn't too happy about it'

FAIL Blogby María Cetra14d ago

Freelancer gets tired of being paid late by accountant Connie, when he complained, Connie said to ask the CEO for the expenses money, he complied: 'This left poor little Connie out of the loop, and...

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California employer drains employee’s bank account, leaving it -$3200 for 2 weeks after accidentally overpaying him, then withdrawing way more than the overpayment without warning

FAIL Blogby Etai Eshet14d ago

- Employee checking his phone with a serious expression Image is representative only and does not depict the actual subjects of the story.

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Texas towing company tows a resident's vehicle out of his assigned parking spot claiming that his parking pass was backwards, then demand $420 in cash payment: 'I thought it was stolen'

FAIL Blogby Brad Dickson15d ago

This tenant woke up one morning to find that his car was missing from his assigned spot. He thought that it might have been stolen.

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Friends tell 26-year-old who has never had a job and lives at home with his low-income parents that it's morally wrong for him not to seek employment: 'I have anxiety.'

FAIL Blogby Emmy Pratt16d ago

Am I the bad guy for still not having a job at 26? I'm still unemployed at 26. I have never worked a day in my life. I've gone to a few interviews and sent one or two applications, not many.

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Golf ball manufacturing company loses millions after ignoring technician’s warning and refusing to spend $500K to replace faulty equipment: ‘[They] drained the entire production budget for 2 years as I sat smiling. I left shortly after'

FAIL Blogby Etai Eshet16d ago

- Equipment too expensive? Wait a few years and pay double instead.Smiling golf ball technician Image is representative only and does not depict the actual subjects of the story.

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MI Employee, a woman in her 40s, learns her new boss has tried to have her fired, when that fails he restructures 15% of her salary into an impossible bonus and begins giving her direct report her own tasks: 'My boss had gone to our CEO to have me fired'

FAIL Blogby Brad Dickson16d ago

A Michigan employee in her 40s alleges that her new manager tried unsuccessfully to have her fired.

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Employee tells current boss about the opportunity they have been offered with another department, boss jealously insists salary cap for department transfers is 12%, employee gets offered a 28% pay increase leading their boss to consider them a traitor

FAIL Blogby Brad Dickson16d ago

I'll never understand managers who are utterly determined to keep their subordinates in their place.

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Business owner shames customer for not tipping on $500 microblading service: 'I have always been taught you don’t tip the owner of a business.'

FAIL Blogby Emmy Pratt16d ago

I understand the common cultural sentiment that tipping has gone too far. I don't think we need to abolish the system altogether because, under a tipping system, waiters and bartenders can actually...

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Biker that went grocery shopping with his bike found that the bike rack had been removed to discourage bikers from shopping there: ‘So I shopped using my trailer as a shopping cart, took it through the checkout, and then rolled out’

FAIL Blogby María Cetra18d ago

Biker that went grocery shopping with his bike found that the bike rack had been removed to discourage bikers from shopping there: ‘So I shopped using my trailer as a shopping cart, took it through...

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