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Posted by Lana DeGaetano

A man proposes to his now-fiancée and an angry elderly woman decides to interrupt the proposal with unwanted comments. Though the proposal took place in a public space, the now-fiancée explains that nobody else in the area had a problem with this self-described prompt proposal, which took place at a Halloween event in the area. When you enter a public space, of course you sign up for a stranger's intervention in whatever you're doing. The proposal, despite the elderly woman's anger, meant everything to the woman who shares this story, and it seems like it touched a few of the scare actor's hearts… So much so that they decided to give Grandma a fright she'll never forget. Scroll below to read all about it.

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Posted by Ben Weiss

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?

Soapy Thursday

Oct. 23rd, 2025 11:23 am
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Posted by Josh

Comics Curmudgeon readers! Do you love this blog and yearn for a novel written by its creator? Well, good news: Josh Fruhlinger's The Enthusiast is that novel! It's even about newspaper comic strips, partly. Check it out!

Judge Parker, 10/23/25

I don’t know if I’ve actually spelled out the current Judge Parker situation, but it goes like this: April vanished after her Norwegian spy encounter and Randy vanished after going off in search of her, leaving their daughter Charlotte in the care of her increasingly drunk and depressed grandparents and, once they got too drunk and depressed, Neddy. Charlotte has been rather shy and withdrawn under her semi-competent care, until she got wind that Neddy and Sophie had a pet squirrel at one point in their youth (possibly in their foundling days before Sam and Abbey took them in, this is deep lore from before my time) and went absolutely berserk. You never know what’s going to trigger a child who’s experienced significant emotional trauma, but that face in panel two is one of the most terrifying things I’ve ever seen in the comics. I assume that Neddy is holding onto her temple because Charlotte’s shrieks are growing so intense that she’s afraid her skull is going to shatter like an eggshell.

Mary Worth, 10/23/25

Speaking of terrifying children and their mental powers, I am dying at Jeff’s dialogue here. You have to imagine that “Did that really happen, Mary?” was put in a painfully neutral tone, and then, when he had to come back with “I agree with you. I’ve been around enough to have seen things in life that cannot easily be explained!” he took it to the next level of neutrality, because he knows he needs to be very careful if he wants to get back to shore alive.

Dick Tracy, 10/23/25

Hey, remember Silver Nitrate, who last we saw a year and change ago was having a hard time in prison? Well, he’s still having a hard time, and now he’s got to decide if he trusts the prison infirmary to dispense psychopharmaceuticals that will actually soothe his mind instead of potentially making things worse. It’s a real downer! I think this strip should go back to violent gangsters with weird shaped heads shooting tommy guns at people, personally!

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Posted by Etai Eshet

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.

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Posted by Etai Eshet

This story sums up how fast hard work turns into a bad idea when management gets weird about pay. The job setup sounds simple enough. You get a zone, a list of tasks, and a time limit to finish each one. The catch is those time limits are huge. Most jobs only take half an hour, but they hand out two‑hour schedules like candy. Everyone used to just log the full time anyway, because it kept pay fair. Then new management showed up and said nope, if it takes less time, you earn less.  

So yeah, everyone started "running the clock." Finish a job in twenty minutes, then stretch those two hours doing normal stuff. Grab lunch, hit the store, scroll social media, kill time until it's safe to clock out. It wasn't laziness, just matching the energy of a company that punished getting things done too fast. The smarter you worked, the dumber your paycheck looked, and that kills motivation fast.

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Posted by Bar Mor Hazut

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.

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Posted by Lana DeGaetano

A front desk employee has to deal with a lot of tomfoolery, but dealing with an entitled hotel guest who believes it's not their fault their reservation was canceled has to take the cake. What do they expect if they provide an invalid credit card, then fail to update their payment method before the deadline the hotel provided for them before cancellation? We're not sure, but does it matter? The rules are the rules, and an entitled, impolite guest doesn't get favors given to them; a little kindness can go a long way. Somebody should have informed the entitled guest of this in the story below.

Just when you think you'll have a nice, easygoing day on the job, customers will knock you down five notches before lunchtime. Hospitality workers can hope and pray that they won't have any uncomfortable, potentially dangerous run-ins with random strangers, but it kind of comes with the hospitality territory. Unfortunately…

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Posted by Remy Millisky

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! 

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Posted by Ben Weiss

Parking is always a bit of a headache, but it shouldn't be a problem on your own private property!

This resident lived in an apartment complex in which folks were given designated, assigned parking spots. Seems like a dream scenario to anyone who has become accustomed to trying to make street parking work on a day-by-day basis. 

The only aspect of this agreement that can cause conflict is if all other residents in the building comply with the rules and accept their assigned spots without complaints. But that's the issue. Some people don't care to follow rules, and all it takes is one person to disobey the guidelines for a full-blown domino effect to manifest.

In this instance, the author of this anecdote came home after a long shift, only to discover that his entitled neighbor (he knew exactly which one it was… you always do!) had taken his designated parking spot. Perhaps someone else took his and that's what set off this chain of events, in which case the author would have been willing to give this guy the benefit of the doubt. But that's not what happened here. This entitled dude knew exactly what he was doing and totally did it on purpose.

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Posted by Remy Millisky

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! 

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Posted by Ben Weiss

This entitled guy tried to guilt his sister into going against her parents' wishes.

There are several common phenomena that tend to stir up conflict among family members without fail. Holiday planning, different ways of parenting, and sharing limited space are just a few. However, it's safe to say that inheritance inevitably can unearth hard feelings of guilt, resentment, and envy.

Ideally, parents can anticipate the sibling rivalry that can result from arguing over the contents of a will. If they're decent folks, they will make things as clearly 50/50 as possible. However, there are always going to be valid exceptions to the equitable division of assets. 

In this instance, this author's brother alienated himself from his entire family over a decade ago. His fractures relationship with his parents remained beyond repair long after they were gone. It should have come as no surprise to him that he wasn't left much in the will given that they hardly spoke over the course of the last 10 years.

Yet somehow, this brother still felt like his sister did not deserve to walk away with her total portion of the inheritance. Keep scrolling below for the fallout of his actions!

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Posted by Elna McHilderson

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. 

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Posted by Brad Dickson

When this company established an unpopular return-to-work policy, they attempted to use pizza to soften the blow, but this approach to employee engagement fell as flat as the dough, the cheese, and the sauce were baked on.

There are cliches and then there are cliches. When it comes to the workplace, the pizza party is one of the biggest, cheesiest clichés out there. 

Employers often treat the pizza party as a band-aid solution to every morale problem that could have been solved by actually addressing the issue. Yet, this employer couldn't even do that right, only purchasing 5 pizzas for the entire 25-person team.

Arguably, the only thing worse than blatantly disregarding employee quality of life and morale is rubbing salt in the wound in the form of empty, greasy pizza boxes.

Nothing quite says "we value you" like cold pizza and an empty break room, anyway. Especially when it is curtailing a blissful and productive period of remote work and is supposed to kick off a new era of boring office chitchat, awkward bathroom encounters, and time spent commuting when you could otherwise be seated comfortably at home on your couch. 

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Posted by Remy Millisky

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

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Posted by Emma Saven

There's nothing worse than being accused of something you didn't do…and the thing about miscommunication is that it allows for both sides to endure that frustration and blame. When the marketing team's employee, who has been with the company for 8 months, is tasked with joining another coworker in producing a client pitch, she is asked to take control of handling a few slides of the presentation. However, when her responsible coworker goes to check the deck, she notices that her allocated slides were blanker than our faces when trying out a new mathematics equation…there's just nothing there. (Who cares, we're writers…okay, back to the story)

When she confronts the newbie for her inability to follow the instructions, she absolutely flips her lid, accusing her coworker of deleting all her work in an attempt to sabotage her part of the presentation. In a moment of rage, she even goes on to complain to their manager, who calls them both in for a much-needed meeting. She claims she did the work, but the presentation's white screen does not lie…When she logs on to her computer, showing her coworker and manager that it's been done, she is humbled to learn that she was working on the wrong document the whole time….and all the blame she put on her coworker, alongside the involvement of their manager, had no leg to stand on…

 

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Posted by Bar Mor Hazut

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.

Wednesday quickies

Oct. 22nd, 2025 11:27 am
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Comics Curmudgeon readers! Do you love this blog and yearn for a novel written by its creator? Well, good news: Josh Fruhlinger's The Enthusiast is that novel! It's even about newspaper comic strips, partly. Check it out!

Mary Worth, 10/22/25

“Sure, she can predict the future and bend animals to her will, but not in a big showy way that would attract attention! Sort of like how you own a boat large and powerful enough to defeat entire navies from anytime before about 1850 but you just use it to putter around the harbor once a month or so, if the weather’s nice.”

Dustin, 10/22/25

I’m pretty sure we’ve never seen Dustin express any interest in comic books or geek culture before? Despite what I said yesterday about nerd stuff, this makes his personality more interesting than I frankly find plausible.

Mother Goose and Grimm, 10/22/25

Yeah, so these guys are just staring into big bowls of brown … soup? Chocolate? Dog food? I don’t know if it’s fattening, but it’s definitely not appetizing.

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Posted by Ben Weiss

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!

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Posted by Emma Saven

Most people in this day and age have been kept up at night fearing that artificial intelligence is going to sweep in and take over their jobs one day. The problem is that we expect it to be blindsiding and immediate, without often realizing that it can affect other elements of our working lives first. A slower, yet damaging approach. 

This high-performing team has been bringing in more revenue than ever before, so there is no doubt they were completely surprised by the news that they would not be receiving merit raises this year. Management was forced to explain that the money would instead be used to invest in growing the company's artificial intelligence. Deep breaths, we know. People often think about termination due to the rapid rise of AI, yet how often do they consider AI cutting into their raises and promotions beforehand?

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Posted by Etai Eshet

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.

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