Bitey Bite Bite

Sometimes it really doesn't matter how hard working you are as an employee. If you aren't willing to play the power dynamic that the ego of your boss wants you to play, you'll still be treated like you're lazy and unimportant. This, of course, is only when you have bad management, which, unfortunately, is often. Everyone experiences a bad working situation at least once in their life. (Actually, if it's just once, then you're lucky!) 

The best course of action in this situation would be to quit, but strategically. Like this employee who was threatened to be fired. He was sent to take a yearly safety exam and his entitled manager told him that if he didn't pass, he would be fired. So, the guy took the test and immediately after decided he needed to quit. So, before he even got his test results back, he started drafting a resignation letter. Right before he was going to turn it in and leave, he got the test results. He passed! So, he stapled the certificate of completion to his resignation letter as an extra dash of salt to the burn. He was a hardworking employee and was not about to just stand there and allow himself to be threatened by some dude's ego. 

New neighbor arrives with the subtlety of a marching band and an attitude calibrated for maximum inconvenience. Day one features a borrowed lawnmower, returned empty enough to trigger gaslight flashbacks. The grocery loan request lands before introductions are finished. Packages become a community responsibility. By month three, the boundary-pushing blossoms into a display worthy of a neighborhood showcase.

Some people treat proximity like a permanent guest pass. A glance at a carefully built tool arsenal turns into a bid for a garage code, as if the line between neighbor and roommate dissolves the minute someone remembers where the sockets live. Organized storage isn't just for admiration, it's apparently an open invitation for unscheduled scavenging. The playbook is obvious: grab a wrench, then aim higher. Claim inconvenience, drop references to mythical "community standards," and hint that past neighbors were basically enablers with power tools.

These days, companies have prospective employees in their pockets. The job market is at a halt, the hiring pool is as competitive as ever, and companies are lowballing candidates left and right because, currently, it's an employer's market.

Though it is better to be safe than to be sorry in most cases, there's nothing wrong with exploring other career options while you're still employed elsewhere. Companies rely on the illusion of loyalty to excuse their stingy practices, then choke up when a talented, underpaid employee leaves because they know they are worth more.

Since the employee in this next story started at their now-former company, they've felt over-utilized and underpaid. The employee's role was significant, and they were called on to complete multiple projects simultaneously despite not having access to the payout they rightfully deserved. Naturally, this employee decides to scope out the job market after a stellar performance review with no fiscal reward in sight.

Not everything is about money, but a company that fails to compensate at the level of an employee, especially relative to their specific field, who works tirelessly every day? That is not only a money issue, but also a company culture issue.

The employee scores a $170k job offer and implores their other colleagues to follow suit. Now, the company is tens of thousands of dollars in the hole and down seven stellar employees. Scroll below to read the full story.

Most of us dream of giving our landlords a piece of our minds, but very few of us get to see those dreams become a reality.

This small business held its offices in an old, broken-down building. Most of the employees would likely admit that they probably should have moved office spaces years ago. However, those moving plans suddenly accelerated when their awful landlord informed them that he would be doubling the rent. Not only did this ridiculous announcement come out of nowhere, but he also gave them the "heads-up" with less than 30 days' notice. As written in their contract, the business would need to give their landlord that amount of time to let them know if they were not planning to renew their lease. How could they do that when they only found out about the new monthly rental increase just 24 days before their lease was up?

Many of us have found ourselves in similar situations with our personal residences. I remember when landlords began trying to make up for "lost money" from 2020, and I found out how much my apartment was now going to cost without much of a heads-up, either. Thankfully, I was already planning on moving to a different neighborhood, but I remember thinking that day that this energy only deserves reciprocal pettiness from the tenant. This author was confident enough to know that there was no way this landlord could argue that the tenant was not holding up their end of the bargain when all the facts say that the landlord had been exhibiting the same shady behavior. Shadiness begets shadiness, people!

Keep scrolling below for the full story and for the best reactions from several members of this online community!

There's no use crying over spilt milk…or pasta sauce… or any other foods ranging from liquid to semi-solid. 

There's nothing worse when you've already made a mistake than having people piling on. And it didn't take much for this neighbor to launch into berating them, lecturing them for their mistake as they scrambled to clean up the mess.

This apartment dweller might have dropped his groceries, but that didn't mean that the neighbor was willing to drop the subject.

Undoubtedly, this neighbor has other issues going on in their life and is already walking a razor-thin edge of mental equilibrium. Still, it's difficult living with or near anyone who seems to be looking for any slightest excuse to react. And, when you live in such close quarters with strangers, with only a paper-thin wall separating your existence from theirs, you're going to run into issues, since any unnecessary noise draws immediate attention.

The neighbor could have stopped to help out, which would be the neighborly thing to do regardless of their other feelings toward their neighbor, but instead they chose to kick them while they were quite literally down. After some hand-waving and attempts to de-escalate the issue, the apartment dweller finally had enough and snapped, putting their neighbor in his place.

Every kid's sports team has a handful of parents who love to coach from the sidelines. Instead of just letting their 7-year-olds run around and play, they get red in the face from hollering at the coaches and referees. 

My favorite ages to watch kids play sports are when they're in pre-K or kindergarten, and they have 0 idea what's going on. Some of the players have no focus. Some will sit down in the grass to pick flowers and point out bugs. Some will get stage fright and retreat to their parents' arms to watch from the sidelines. And best of all are the determined little sluggers who will do things like proudly kicking a soccer goal into their own net, scoring a point for the other team, but still celebrating valiantly. Or if it's a T-ball game, they'll run to first base, then refuse to run any further, even with all the encouragement in the world. At this age, no one takes the game seriously. So it's fascinating to watch the same parents, just a few years later, get super worked up over children's sports. 

This person shared their "coaching nightmare" happening with their local 1st graders (a group of kids who are certainly still in that aforementioned age range who can't take sports seriously). They're a volunteer coach, but they're growing weary of the parents who can't stop coaching from the sidelines, with some parents going so far as to "trash-talk" them. That's so ridiculous! As one commenter noted, "Sports parents have been embarrassing since the beginning of time." I promise, your child is not going to lose a potential college sports scholarship just because the coach didn't put her in the game at age 6, but these parents will never learn their lessons. 

Up next, read about this pastry chef who ruined their stepmother's 50th birthday cake after an impolite remark about cake quality: "Stepmom was livid." 

When someone keeps preaching the same rule over and over, like it's the only thing they've ever learned how to say, it's natural to get a bit tired of hearing the sound of their voice. Nagging is one thing, but constantly changing your rules and decisions like clothing? That just makes it 100% more infuriating—especially when you hold a position of leadership and guidance. 

This manager insists that his IT developer restrict coworkers' access to the system portal, stating it should only be available to those who require daily access. So, like any employee who wants to keep their job, the developer follows instructions to a T, removing the majority of users from the system. You can imagine how that goes: a company with thousands of employees, most of whom suddenly can't access the very system they need to do their jobs. And the blame? Of course, it all lands on him. So, what does he do? He reverses it, as per the manager's request. But a few weeks later, the manager circles back, nagging his original demand again: "Too many people have access. Time to remove those who don't use the portal daily."

Okay then, Sir, you're one of those people, so your access has officially been denied.

It certainly does not take seven hours to buy deodorant!

This lady might be naive, but she had a right to be worried. Her fiancé had gone out at 10:00 PM to replenish on deodorant while she was taking care of their young child. After approximately one hour, the author was wondering what was taking her husband so long to return. She tried to reach him, but he wasn't responding to her texts or calls. 

Two more hours passed, and it was now one in the morning. The author became convinced that he was missing. She ended up calling her mom over so she could have some help looking for her reckless spouse while her sister would watch the baby. This took all night, as her husband was nowhere to be found and the radio silence from his end continued. 

By the time the author called the police to report her husband as a missing person, things actually started to get serious. The police arrived at the author's home and began their formal search process when her husband finally showed up. Let's just say that his claims were far too suspicious. Several members of this online community pointed this out and confronted the author with the cold hard truth: This man was dishonest at best and adulterous at worst. There were simply too many holes in his story for him to be trusted. Keep scrolling below for the full account of what happened and for a look at some of the reactions. 

If you think workplace culture is bad now, imagine the early aughts! Y2k was freaking everyone out, technology was advancing rapidly, and boom ego was still at an all time high, and they were the ones still running things! Times were tough and they keep on changing. 

Here we have some Gen-Xers working during the turn of the century. As hourly workers, they had to clock in and out every day, which is normal. But for this company, their entitled boss decided they all had to call her to clock in, with the one phone in the office… A landline that they all had to take turns using. Which meant, if you were the last one to use the phone, it didn't matter if you were on time or not, you're now late because you were last in line. Did the boss care about this? Nope. So the coworkers decided to team up to make this boss' voicemail the most annoying place.