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Everyone has that one coworker who seems to think that they are the most aggrieved individual in the office no matter what.

This is the type of person who always complains that they are more swamped, stressed, and overwhelmed with both professional and personal responsibilities than everyone around them, regardless of the fact that they likely have no clue what other people have on their respective plates.

This author's coworker frequently pulled the single mom card in order to mooch off of everyone else's lunch. This was not a one-off occurrence. In fact, she wasn't even just doing this to the author. She was doing this to multiple members of the team. She even convinced a team member to let her gain access to his streaming passwords so she didn't have to pay for Netflix, since she was so overwhelmed with the demands of motherhood.

The problem is that this lady was surely not the only single mother in the office. Not to mention, the author learned that this woman had enough money to afford luxury vacations. Why couldn't she then afford to make herself a sandwich for lunch?

A 24-year-old marketing employee works on a project with Chris, a quiet, polite guy who barely speaks on calls and keeps to himself. He's the textbook low-profile professional until one harmless social media connection reveals the twist: Chris isn't just a teammate, he's a secret millionaire moonlighting for fun. From what it sounds like, this office story could double as a modern fairy tale about quiet coworkers and hidden millions.

The entitled assistant in the story below had the nerve to completely ignore her boss's words, and it caused quite a dispute.

Setting aside the fact that she never works weekends and refuses to cover for anyone, even if they cover for her, that was not the reason why her boss is currently furious with her. The reason is that she decided to request time off for her wedding at the very last minute, and refused to listen when the boss told her she cannot take that week off because the boss is already on vacation during that time.

Instead of accepting her mistake and moving the dates around, the assistant decided to turn to upper management, lying that the boss agreed to switch their time off with hers. When the boss found out about the lie, they immediately set the record straight with management and confronted the assistant for her blatant disrespect.

If you microwave mackerel every day at the office because it's a delicious "brain food," I have news for you: everyone else wishes you'd knock that off. 

In this office, there's a dude named Brian who cannot help himself: he apparently needs to heat up his fish lunch every day. That results in the whole office smelling fishy all afternoon, and in a lot of offices, you can't even open the windows to air out the stench. May I suggest to Brian that he try combining rice, salmon, and sriracha mayo? This is a delicious combo that you can eat cold, I assure you. It smells very faintly, but unless someone's sitting next to you, they won't smell a thing. 

There are many things that you shouldn't bring into an office kitchen! Just consider the smell of the food before you bring it. However, some people literally do not care about other people's feelings, even their direct coworkers. Brian seems upset that everyone else is really tired of his fishy ways. He's been asked multiple times, directly and indirectly not to bring it, and nothing has worked. 

I'm hoping this person will update their story at some point, because Brian doesn't seem like the kind of level-headed person who will back down from his fishy fight. The worker who shared this story wonders if he'll start bringing shrimp in to boost his health or whatever instead. I'm willing to bet that he'll get a doctor's note insisting that he needs to eat fish every day for lunch. Read the full (ridiculous) tale below, and see what you think his next move will be! 

These managers all remember the worst employee they've ever had to fire, and they shared their stories, telling exactly how it all went down. 

Every job has that one employee who just cannot stay out of trouble, try as they might. They're the one that the manager dreads seeing, because they're probably going to be late, or they're going to spend the whole shift on the phone arguing with their terrible boyfriend, or they're going to be taking constant breaks to sneak outside and avoid actually working. But some do even worse things than those relatively harmless actions — instead, they're stealing money or committing serious offenses that will absolutely lead to punishment, if not an outright firing. 

Some employees find ways to skim money and avoid getting caught for years. If they take a dollar or two per shift, who's going to know? Well, with cameras set up in most workplaces, they're bound to get caught eventually. One clever employee took this a step further, and set up a shell company with his sister, which he then referred his business to. Of course he got caught, though. Why? He was insisting that his current company run things through his shell corp, and no one else. Sigh… the unethical things people will do for money are never-ending! 

Have you ever worked under a manager that literally has no idea how things actually work in the company?

Funny enough, that happens quite often. You can find countless rants online of employees having to teach their own manager how to do things efficiently. The best case scenario with this, is you get a manager who is willing to learn from you or perhaps you're given a promotion! The worst is when the incompetent manager doubles down and continues to just makes things more difficult for all of the employees. Luckily, for this IT employee, he was able to show his micromanaging manager the way via malicious compliance. It took one unhappy CFO for his manager to change his tune. 

This person quit an enviable job — National Park visitor center worker — over a rather petty dispute with his direct boss. 

There are some people in this world who have a big ego and cannot handle any criticism at all. This makes it difficult for them to work… well… anywhere. There's no such thing as a job without a boss telling you what to do. Some people will say, "What if you're your own boss?" There's no such thing — that just means you have clients telling you what they want instead of a boss. 

Ideally, your managers are easy to get along with, but truthfully, a lot of bosses have big egos themselves, and are often on power trips while telling their employees what to do. This person claims his boss was micromanaging him by… telling him to stop talking to his friend and get back to work. I can't even count on one hand how many times a boss has told me to do that at a minimum wage job. Real yappers know how satisfying it is to talk to your work bestie while on the clock! You're literally getting paid to talk to your friend about your latest relationship drama, or listening to them tell you about their car troubles, and the only thing you have to deal with is a little slap on the wrist from whichever manager catches you. "Stop talking and get back to work," is the price you pay for some excellent gossip and basically getting paid to talk for like 5 minutes. 

But some employees, like this guy, take that super personally. There may just be some nuance we're missing, but commenters were a bit confused why this person was so upset, too. Check out the full story for yourself, and see if you agree with the employee, or with his so-called "micromanager" boss. 

If you have ever worked as an unpaid intern at a workplace, then you know how impossible it is to navigate your role within that office.

On one hand, you were "hired" to do a job, which allows you to gain enough experience to get an actual job in the future, which is something anyone should be grateful for. On the other hand, you're technically not an employee, so no one can demand anything from you or expect you to follow the same rules as a paid worker, especially when it comes to attending mandatory off-the-clock events, like a Halloween party.

When the unpaid intern in the story below was told he had to attend the office Halloween party, he was actually ok with it; he even had a costume prepared. However, this intern did not get the memo that no "scary" costumes were allowed, since he is not in the office email chain or even allowed in the break room. 

When he showed up to the party with his scary clown costume, the CEO was not happy to see him, but the intern refused to apologize. Keep scrolling to read about the dispute that happened in the middle of the party.

When you're a kid, it's hard to listen to authority figures, especially when that person is a random substitute teacher.

Let's be real. Unless students are in the middle of a large assignment and already know exactly what they need to be working on, there is no point in expecting much from a class where the teacher is absent. Expecting a substantive hour of learning under these circumstances places way too much pressure on both the substitute and the students. Just put on a tangentially related documentary and call it a day!

The least a teacher can hope for is decorum and mutual respect. This, of course, goes both ways. Students regardless of age should not take advantage of a stranger to purposely cause mayhem in the classroom. At the end of the day, this always backfires, so it's a far better use of everyone's time to maintain one's best behavior.

However, substitute teachers need to be just as respectful. Punishing students for ridiculous reasons is not going to be a way to earn the respect of middle school students. This substitute learned that the hard way!

A woman shows up at the ER, gets checked out, and is told she needs to be admitted. Instead of following the plan, she decides her stomach and cleanliness come first. She heads home for a shower and dinner, then reappears hours later expecting the same bed, the same pace, and the same priorities. The staff treat it like any other Monday, explain how hospital systems actually work, and move on. From where I see it, this whole thing plays out like a medical drama only without any Doug Rosses or McDreamies.