Even toward the end of the summer, neighbors know just how to end the busy outdoor season with a bang. Since last December, the neighbor featured in this story has made a new homeowner's life a living nightmare as they try to settle into the neighborhood and feel at peace with their new living space. Some neighbors might bake the new homeowners who just moved in a decadent apple pie, or possibly cut them stems from their rose bush in the front yard, but these neighbors prefer to surveil 24/7 and blame the homeowners for simply existing.

The truth of the matter? You cannot appease people like this. Even if you walk on eggshells for the rest of your time living in the neighborhood—which you should not have to do—they will find a way to accuse you of their washing machine breaking down or when their dog gets excited seeing a stranger. You are their object of degradation, and because of that, you will never get a positive reaction from them. No reaction is pegged as a negative reaction, but any reaction is also a negative reaction. You see what I mean? It's a losing game—so the only way out is to document, document, document.

On the surface, Happy Gilmore 2 is a certifiable hit. The long-awaited sequel, which stars Adam Sandler as the titular ex-golfer who comes out of retirement to pay for his daughter's ballet school, was released exclusively on Netflix on July 25th. The following week, the streaming platform reported that the "nostalgia-bait" sequel earned the biggest opening weekend numbers for a Netflix film.

That sounds impressive until you contextualize its success against its budget and release strategy. A recent report revealed that the budget for Happy Gilmore 2 was allegedly greater than $150 million, a significantly higher number than the previously reported $30 million figure. You would think they were making a superhero movie with this kind of budget! That's about $50 million more than the budget of Ryan Coogler's vampire epic Sinners, which included large set pieces, period costumes, and special effects. To put it plainly, there is no legitimate reason why a direct-to-streaming sequel for the small screen needed to be budgeted higher than a film like Sinners.

The original Happy Gilmore was budgeted at $12 million and grossed over $40 million worldwide at the box office, a significant profit for a studio comedy. Of course, there was no way for its sequel to earn money at the box office, given that it was a streaming release, which begs the question: Could that $150 million budget be a more justifiable figure if Happy Gilmore 2 were given the full theatrical treatment? After all, it took just three days for another recent nostalgia-bait sequel, Freakier Friday, to earn back its budget because of its theatrical release.

Far too many managers underestimate the consequences of denying well-deserved raises to their hard-working employees. What might seem like an unrealistic amount of money that isn't worth it in the short term might actually save the company money in the long term. That certainly proved to be true at this particular company. After two coworkers who tripled their clientele were both denied raises, they left high and dry. To make matters worse, the replacement, Reggie, ended up being more than incompetent. He turned out to be a complete scammer, successfully stealing over $300k from the company's clients. 

One can just imagine what those coworkers' manager was thinking after uncovering Reggie's scheme. What could have been just $2,400 spent on validating the superb efforts of the company's top employees ended up being 125 times that amount. Of course, no one could have predicted that Reggie was going to do what he did, but the two coworkers certainly felt vindicated when they learned just how much money the company was forced to shell out to pay back its clients. 

Thankfully, these coworkers were able to find better jobs elsewhere as soon as their raise requests were denied outright. Not everyone has that luxury of being able to "up and leave" the minute they're disrespected in the workplace. Still, we can try and live vicariously through these guys, as they rare experience of seeing karma rear its ugly head on their former manager. Keep scrolling below for the full story and for the best reactions from members of this online community!

Having insensitive and inconsiderate neighbors is always a drag. But inconsiderate neighbors who don't even have to deal with the reality of their own disruption because they're essentially leasing their property as a hotel are on a whole other level. There's some real kind of torture associated with living next to what is basically a hotel in a residential apartment building. Witnessing a constant stream of people who are there to live it up for a couple of nights and have little to no regard for those around them. You know these types from when you've stayed in hotels yourselves: Loud, intoxicated conversations in the hallways after 2 AM, slamming doors, music blasting from their rooms. A couple of nights is tolerable, but when hundreds of people are doing this for one or two nights a year, it becomes a drain for everyone living close to them. 

There's a reason why there are zoning restrictions for hotels, and it's mysterious why this same logic was never applied to homes that are being permanently rented through short-term homestay apps. Leaving the neighbors of those places living in a perpetual disruptive agony. Many people who live in destination areas have come to deride those places, their owners, and their occupants for this exact reason.

This apartment-dwelling homeowner, who purchased their apartment before their hometown became a popular destination area, found that the apartments around them were being bought up by those who were seeking to take advantage of the rising real estate and need for temporary accommodation by advertising the apartments on popular leasing applications. They soon found that there were frequent times when these guests would come to loiter and hang out on their private patio, which belonged to their apartment. After some investigating, they found that the owner of these apartments had been advertising their property for guests' use, which explained the repeated occurrence and the confused looks they got from guests. They shared this story, unsure of what they should be doing next to tackle this problem with their neighbor.

Sharing isn't always easy. We learn that lesson repeatedly throughout our lives. It's first discovered through our siblings, then 'dibsing' our first boyfriends. Then it's eyeing out another mother for our little boy's spot on the soccer team, and before you know it, we're fighting off an 85-year-old woman, named Barbra, for the last seat at the Bridge table…

And just like that, a lesson taught so excessively is never really learnt. This entitled neighbor is hear to prove that. After this loony woman saw her neighbor collecting groceries on their shared driveway, emphasis on the 'shared', she stormed out of her house and started yelling at both the woman and the driver for taking her driveway, and even threatened to call the police. I kinda wish she did, cause I have no doubt they would laugh in her face…Driveways are for driving, it's in the same, and if she doesn't know what the word 'shared' means, I highly recommend investing in an Oxford English dictionary…

Most folks don't get the opportunity to have a one-on-one business lunch with their CEO, but be warned: that meeting might not necessarily go as planned. Sometimes, the people in charge can surprise you and turn out to be far better leaders and humans than you could have ever predicted. Other times, they turn out to be exactly what you feared. Perhaps they're even worse than you thought.

In theory, a CEO choosing to take an hour out of their busy schedule to meet with a new hire at the entry level is the kind of hands-on leadership most employees hope for in their workplace environments. A lunch like that could lead to strong first impressions and might even help employees get on their CEO's radar when it comes to promotional opportunities down the road. 

However, there are downsides to this kind of one-on-one interaction as well. What if your personalities do not mesh at all? What if the CEO's true intentions reveal themselves and they end up being not so great a person? In some ways, one could argue that learning the truth about your CEO from the get-go is actually a blessing in disguise. That kind of transparency, for better or for worse, could help clarify where you see yourself in terms of your future in this workplace. If that means that you don't see yourself at all, it might be worth it to start planning your exit sooner rather than later. Sure, it's unfortunate to have that kind of epiphany so early into a new position, but in some ways, it's better to learn the truth about the person in charge from the start than after years of investing your time and energy there.

Keep scrolling below to find out how this business lunch between the author and their CEO went south super quickly!

When looking for a new job, the general recommendation is not to let anyone in your current workplace know that you are intending to leave. Otherwise, you can find yourself in a similar situation to that of the employee in the story below.

This employee was interviewing for other positions and didn't let anyone in their office know, especially their boss. That was until the company they were interviewing for asked to talk to their current boss as a reference. Most people would have told that company that they would rather not have their boss know they are quitting before they have a solid work replacement, but this employee agreed and gave the hiring manager their boss's email.

Before the employee could give their boss a heads-up about the reference request, the hiring manager had already contacted the boss, who was not happy to discover that her employee was quitting through a hiring manager for a different company. This led to quite a dispute, and we highly doubt the employee will get a glowing recommendation after everything that went down.

Scroll down to read the full story, and let us know which valuable lessons you learn for when you start looking for your next job.

As employees, we should know our rights, but there isn't always a Harvey Spector available to get us out of all our work-related dilemmas, and even if there were, we probably couldn't afford him. This employee is left in a vulnerable position after overhearing her boss and coworker discussing her possible termination…The worst part is, the grounds for her dismissal are based on inaccurate and dishonest fabrications! 

She is being accused of insubordination after already completing an unnecessary Performance Improvement Plan, and documenting her thorough completion of all of her "demanding" boss' requests…Perhaps the boss has a niece fresh out of college who is ready for her first big girl job, or just a plain and simple personal vendetta against this employee…or, maybe we are seriously missing a piece of the puzzle here, and this employee isn't as 'ambitious' as she's made out to be? 

Either way, how can one cease wrongful termination made by the main decision-makers?