This head manager is acting as if his employees are on-call workers, and he's about to have quite the wake-up call. 

Some bosses act like their jobs are their whole lives. They simply cannot fathom why an employee isn't available to cover a shift, or why a person might request a few days off. This type of manager only thinks about the store and its bottom line, and they expect everyone else to do exactly the same thing. Unfortunately for them, that work ethic just isn't realistic for most people, and it's not even healthy to think about your job 24/7, no matter how much you adore your work. 

This boss is so adamant about the workplace being properly staffed that he basically wants his employees to be on call. I wonder if he's just unfamiliar with workplace laws because what he's asking is, to use the technical term, a big no-no. You can't just insist that your employees do on-call work without paying those on-call wages. It'll be interesting to see if anyone reports this behavior, or if the manager will backtrack with haste to avoid any trouble. 

Next, read about what happened when a boss denied an employee's vacation: "I fail to understand how that is my problem." 

The moment this thirty-year-old woman heard her name floating through her boss's office door, she walked straight into her own professional autopsy, complete with management conducting the examination and zero anesthesia for the patient.

We all know workplace gossip operates on the same principles as middle school rumors, except the cafeteria has been replaced by conference rooms and the mean girls wear business casual while dissecting your performance like amateur surgeons. Modern offices have perfected the art of therapeutic complaining, where supervisors treat closed-door meetings as group therapy sessions and employee evaluations become communal entertainment. The unwritten rule seems to be that any grievance can be shared with anyone except the person who might actually fix it, creating a feedback loop of frustration that would make a therapist rich and an employee miserable.

Imagine being lied to your entire relationship, with the feeling that every single person is in on the deception except for you. 

Marriage is built on honesty and trust. And of course, there are times when little white lies are acceptable, such as: 'Yeah, babe, I'll take out the trash in 5' or 'Omg, honey, I don't know how the rims got so scratched.' Those innocent, some could call 'fibs', are harmless and are not a breaking point for any relationship. 

But… a secret child, now that's a pill they may not be able to swallow, or even begin to forgive. 

And the worst part, imagine being blamed for their secret life. Being told that confronting the situation would only 'destroy the peace.' Suddenly, the pill just doubled in size! The skeletons are falling out of the closet almost as fast as your life is falling apart. When someone can look you in the eyes every day for 4 years of marriage and just 'forget' to mention they have a 5-year-old daughter, forgiveness is no longer on the table, especially for this loyal wife.

Neighbors do not have the right to infringe upon your privacy, no matter how hard they try. This couple took over their parents' house, had it renovated, and recently moved into their new neighborhood, only to be immediately confronted by an entitled man next door. He was evidently not a fan of the new gates they had installed, as they interfered with his preferred walking route. As a result, he tried to get them in trouble with the local HOA in order to get them to take down the gate.

However, much to this man's surprise and chagrin, the couple's home was not part of the HOA, as it had been built prior to the association's founding. So, although the neighbor was initially successful in getting this couple fined with a slew of violations, they had the documentation to prove their story and get those violations immediately waived. This left the old man with no choice but to accept what his neighbors chose to do with the front of their own home. Keep scrolling through for the full confrontation!

Humans have chased youth since the industrial boom—heck, probably even before that! Getting old isn't easy to accept sometimes. Wrinkles grow deeper and deeper on your face, your body aches more, and your hair doesn't have that same bounce as it used to (if you even still have it!). But that is just a part of life, and everyone ages at a different rate. It's dependent on many different factors, but some people are just born that way. Sure, many are jealous of these people who seem to have a Dorian Gray complex, but it can be frustrating for these people. For example, this guy who looks way younger than his age. This got to be annoying when he was a professional bike mechanic, had almost a decade of experience, and is still not taken seriously because he looks so young. 

Manufacturing engineers occupy that unique corporate position where they understand both theory and reality, making them dangerous witnesses when management decides to ignore physics in favor of wishful thinking and interdepartmental finger-pointing becomes more important than actual problem-solving.

This particular battle started when design engineers decided that a 20% failure rate must obviously trace back to the testing station, because blaming the new guy requires less paperwork than admitting design flaws. Their solution involved the corporate equivalent of closing your eyes during a horror movie: if you can't see the problem happening, it must not be happening.

It should come as no surprise that some bosses are in it for the wrong reasons. Those who have risen the ranks at their respective companies ideally should have done so because of their qualifications and their knack for leadership. A genuine interest in what they're doing and a desire to inspire confidence and passion in others are certainly other benefits to being a good manager as well. 

However, we have all come to learn the hard way that not every employer has a strong combination of these attributes. In fact, you're lucky as an employee if you have a boss with just one of these qualities. Most folks end up having to endure the consequences of managers with big egos, major insecurity complexes, and other poor leadership skills.

This author had the audacity to tell a senior executive "no" when he heeded to hear it. What transpired after this encounter was a full-blown attempt on the part of the executive to get this employee transferred to his department, just so he could remind him who's in charge. Can you imagine being so insecure that you feel the need to upend the entire organizational structure of your company just to assert dominance over someone several ranks below you? Talk about a wounded ego!

Is there a greater match made in heaven—or perhaps the opposite of heaven—than a collaboration between Lady Gaga and Tim Burton? A few weeks ago, the Grammy-winning pop superstar and legendary filmmaker were spotted clandestinely shooting a new music video together… and the location was as creepy as anyone could have guessed. 

Gaga and Burton were filming on the Island of the Dolls (La Isla de las Muñecas), a notoriously unsettling tourist attraction for lovers of horror and ghost stories located just south of Mexico City. It's both surprising and unsurprising that they picked this "cozy little spot"—surprising in the sense that it's so specific, but unsurprising in the sense that these two artists are often the most comfortable in macabre settings. 

As soon as behind-the-scenes footage from the video shoot leaked, Gaga fans across the internet immediately began speculating as to what this project could be. Could it be the video for a new single off her recent album, Mayhem (an album we have discussed before on this site)? After all, the song "Zombieboy" seems like a strong fit for such a ghoulish place. Or could this be an extension of Gaga's confirmed cameo in the second season of Netflix's smash hit Wednesday, a series that is executive-produced and occasionally directed by Burton? That seems unlikely, since production on the new season reportedly wrapped already and is set to drop on the streaming service this August. Or could this video mark the start of an entirely new pop culture era? One that leans further into the nostalgic, campy darkness that was, at one point, synonymous with the work of both Mother Monster and the auteur behind Beetlejuice and Edward Scissorhands?

The "manifestation" crowd and your boss have at least one thing in common: Thinking that by saying or thinking something, it will come to fruition. No matter how much you want it, you can't always say something is and have it be so; the demand or expectation itself doesn't bear fruit. Like I'd be so happy right now if even $50,000 dropped out of the sky and landed on the ground at my feet, but that's just not going to happen. There's no amount of "manifesting" or demanding that's going to bring that into being.

The same goes for more mundane tasks. If a task, like getting a machine up and running, takes 10 minutes, it takes 10 minutes. You can't have your boss come in saying, "Do it now," and have it take 1 minute. Nor can you necessarily give that task to two people and have it take them 5 minutes each. That would be like expecting two pregnant women to be able to birth a baby in 4.5 months.

It is true, however, that having a clear goal in mind and a chance of getting there will make success far more likely, and those who believe that their effort will make them successful are seemingly more likely to be. But this is saying more about successive consecutive effort and attempts and energy being put toward something, rather than demand or wishful thinking.

You can't just go and give your subordinates something to do "this instant" when it's simply not possible; at any rate, it will lead to some sort of disaster, like it did for this boss who was forced to eat the cost of their mistake.