In the summer comes the dreaded heat—the kind of heat where you don't even want to step outside without fear of profusely sweating. No one likes that uncomfortable feeling, which is exactly why these parents chose to go and visit their son to escape the heat in their hometown. Their city was experiencing the kind of heat wave where, if you were lucky enough to have air conditioning, it could barely keep up. So, they chose to visit their son, where the temperatures were 15 to 20 degrees cooler. And for good reason. Their son was fine with this and, in fact, kept his house really cool in the summers to escape the heat. His parents visiting was no problem…until they undid all of the cooling measures he had in place to keep his house at a comfortable temperature. He was gone one day because he couldn't get off of work, only to come home after a long day to an 86-degree house. 

Don't get mad, get even! That's clearly the motto of these folks, who were able to whip out some hilarious zingers on the spot. 

Some folks are just naturally hilarious. They can turn any conversation into a laugh riot, and the more you hang around with them, the more you pick up on their sense of humor. Well, people across the internet shared the funniest things their clever friends have ever said. More than 9,000 people responded to this person's query: "What is the funniest smart-*** comment you've ever heard?" 

One person who works in retail had one of the best comebacks. They reveal that they love to tell customers, "I hope the rest of your day is as pleasant as you are." This is a completely genius remark, because if the customer feels offended, they're telling on themselves! Maybe if you had a pleasant attitude, you wouldn't be bothered, now would you?  I wonder how many people make complaints to management upon hearing that… Let's hope that person can continue to quip that at their annoying customers for a long time to come. 

Up next, this person's dad really dislikes his brother, and he chose the worst time possible (the middle of a wedding!) to make an "extremely embarrassing announcement" about his own kid. 

No vacation ends up going according to plan. Sometimes, what tarnishes the experience of a trip is completely out of your hands.

Recently on a trip to London, my partner and I discovered while about to board our return flights that our flight was overbooked and our assigned seats were merely taken as a request. We ended up not getting seats on that flight and found ourselves temporarily stranded abroad at the end of what would have been the first trip of mine to go according to plan. We should have known that something was bound to go wrong. Luckily, we got a pretty good deal out of it and ended up with better seats than we could have ever afforded on our own as well as money back. We knew there was absolutely no way we would have gotten that kind of special treatment on a domestic flight.

Keep scrolling below for this collection of mildly infuriating vacation moments. Some of these travelers also had to endure miserable flight experiences, while others had drama happening while they were gone that they ended up discovering upon their return home. For more compilations like this, check out these workplace pranks.

Who doesn't get embarrassed by their parents from time to time? Probably everyone was embarrassed by their parents as a teenager, and then you grow up and learn to embrace their quirks. But sometimes their behavior still makes you cringe really hard! U/cmarie22345 had a brief but interesting story to tell to the r/weddingshaming community. 

This person's dad just couldn't resist bragging about his kid a bit. Many dads love to do this, it must just come with the territory of being a loving father brimming with love for your child. This person was heading to a wedding with their dad. This wedding, however, was for Dad's nemesis's son. That meant that Dad was automatically ready to stir the pot: since he dislikes his brother, he's willing to mess with the brother's son's wedding day. Commenters agreed with the original poster that Dad took things way too far here. Let's hope that everyone else at the wedding barely registered the moment, as so often happens with embarrassing moments. 

Next up, read about the lawyer who refused to update the phone number on his business cards, leading to one dude getting dozens of random calls each day until they "had a great thought of how to get my petty revenge." 

Imagine being infuriated by a mystery person for years only to discover that this mystery person is also your boss. It's a bizarre coincidence that is both surprising and unsurprising, in this case, given this dude's temperament and behavior at work.

Before we get into the employee's revenge, some backstory is necessary first. When the Redditor got their new phone, they immediately started getting a barrage of calls and messages from the phone's previous owner, who lived in the same town. He ended up blocking those numbers (for now). Not long after, the Redditor started working under a demanding and difficult manager. We'll let the Original Poster (OP) explain how he figured out that his new manager was also the previous owner of his phone. Keep scrolling below for the subsequent revenge and fallout when OP learned that his boss was up to no good. For more stories like this, check out this post about a feud between Karens over a loud phone conversation at a restaurant.   

We can all agree that no one likes making a trip to the emergency room. It's highly inconvenient, usually overcrowded, and let's not even get started on the cost. But what's almost just as bad as visiting the emergency room yourself would be the poor workers who have to deal with irritated patients all day long. They are already unhappy to be in your presence, not to mention they are in immense pain (I mean, they are in the emergency room, for crying out loud). And when you're in a lot of pain, you hardly have regard for others around you. The OP (Original Poster) in the story had to take his mom to the ER after she started exhibiting signs of a stroke. As soon as they got there, a nurse quickly took his mother back to get checked out, much to the dismay of the patients who had been waiting hours to be seen. But don't worry, one brave employee put all of the people complaining right in their place. And it's oddly satisfying. 

What was this manager thinking? Working for a union, you'd think you'd know your way around labor laws–especially when it comes to your own team of hardworking employees and their overtime shifts.

When this overworked employee was faced with a last-minute project after a long double shift, they were shocked when their manager pulled out an out-of-pocket request. They were working in a union center where they processed employee paperwork for other companies, but each project could plausibly take the duration of an entire shift to complete. So when this guy was only minutes away from clocking out after a long day, he was floored when his militant manager said he had to stay in the office until the job was done. 

Overworked, exhausted, and ready to maliciously comply, this hardworking employee did what any petty worker would do and he worked through the night to complete the job, despite his 7 AM shift the next day. Scroll onward to read the entire story of how this employee's diligence resulted in some major fallout the next day when his manager's OSHA-violating request reached the HR office.

After this, here's another story of someone falling from graces–a landlord who faces legal action after failing to protect his tenant from an explosive kitchen sink.

In decades past, getting constant phone calls was a real nuisance. I mean, it's still kind of an issue today, but at least now our iPhones tell us who's calling and if there's a likelihood the call is spammy. We now know exactly who's calling us, and the newest feature is that you can read a transcription of the voicemail someone is leaving you in real time! 

This is very cool and useful tech, and it would've dazzled people in the 1990s who were used to getting bombarded with phone calls. These calls often happened during the dinner hour, since callers knew people would be home. Back then, you wouldn't know who was calling your landline, so you just had to answer every phone call as if it was your grandma or a guy who's calling about your car's extended warranty. 

This dude, u/ethidiumbrimide, was completely fed up with calls, but they had a whole different issue than the above problems. They were getting calls from people who thought the original poster was a lawyer! This poor dude was just fielding calls from a lawyer's office day in and day out, directing them to the correct number. After trying a bunch of different ways to solve the problem, this person enacted a brilliant evil scheme, which you can read all about down below. 

Up next, this person held a grudge against their unprofessional boss for years before acting on it!

People tend to get a little bit nutty over their dietary preferences. Still, there's a difference between a preference and a requirement… "I don't eat legumes because they make me a little gassy" is an entirely different ballpark than "Even a speck of gluten will cause my immune system to attack my organs or "All the liquid in my blood will leave my blood vessels if this prawn touches me." Still, some dietary preferences are deeply rooted in staunch and steadfast religious beliefs or ethical quandary, so there's an argument there that these are perhaps more serious than just simple preference alone. 

As commenters have suggested in their replies to this thread, their description of their anemia isn't really how anemia works. It's far more likely that they're just being a little dramatic about the situation and are one of those delicate "manly" types who think their testicles will shrivel and fall off if they touch tofu. That, or they're so dependent on the rush that their high blood pressure gives them that they think even going one day with red meat will cause their body to fall to pieces.

Photography is just pushing a button, right? WRONG. Being a professional photographer means brandishing complicated and expensive equipment knowledgeably, managing lighting, ISO levels, composition, and a whole slew of entangling factors to capture a beautifully candid moment. And that's not even putting into consideration the time that goes into post-production… 

Put simply, it's not easy to be a good photographer. 

But for some reason, people with no knowledge of the photography world love to lend their opinions of the value of this challenging art form, claiming it's just 'pushing a button' and standing in the middle of the action. Okay then, Grandma, why don't you give it a whirl and see how the photos turn out? 

One girl recently went head to head with her own granny when she had to defend her craft. Although she was only 15 years old, u/harryshousee had already been professionally shooting weddings under her sole proprietorship, paying taxes, managing clients, and taking pride in her work for two years. However, when it came time for her uncle's wedding (which she had agreed to do at a discount as their wedding gift), things took a turn. Her grandma seemed to think that any untrained monkey could hold a camera at a wedding and capture perfectly the love and intricacies of a complicated event and decidedly slandered her own granddaughter for having the audacity to ask for a measly $300 to pay for her time and efforts. 

Keep scrolling to read the family drama that unfolded when this naive grandma feverishly slung mud at her own granddaughter, slandering her in front of the whole family for refusing to do her job for free.

This manager has no one to blame but himself. How much more do we need to evolve culturally for managers to understand not to question employees when they tell their bosses they are sick? It's simply not worth the risk.

This thread was posted to Reddit by u/Retired_DG_Key, who got the stomach flu from his roommate's kid and tried to call in sick to the managers of his four jobs. Two of those managers were decent humans. The others forced the employee to get a doctor's note or find a replacement on short notice. He ended up coming into the office and, although he spent most of his shift away from others, as he predicted, everyone got sick including his manager. That's what you get, sir!

Keep scrolling below for the full story and for the best reactions from folks in the comments section. For more stories like this, take a look at this post about a bartender's zero weeks notice.

Kindness can go a long way, but so can pettiness. 

Jobs in customer service are never simple. Yet the task is made even harder when a client is trying to take advantage of you in order to earn a fast profit. An employee of customer service recounts his frustrations in the story below.

The original poster (OP) has a long history of employment in the hospitality sector. Therefore, he acquired the ability to interact with an extensive selection of people. But after a particularly entitled customer sought a free supper for the third time in a row, OP understood he needed to take action in order to prevent this from happening a fourth time around.

So, make sure to read the story below if you're interested in learning more about what happened and how the customer attempted to trick the waiters of the restaurant into giving her a full reimbursement for her meal! After you're done, don't forget to read the story of the manager who, in an attempt to increase sales, cancels the company's social benefit—only for the staff to outwit him in his own game! It makes for some lighthearted entertainment in between your afternoon meetings!

Giving your overworked employees even more work: what could possibly go wrong? This person, u/TheMightyGalah, found out exactly what happens, but they were glad to watch their boss get her comeuppance. 

Good managers will be beloved by their team. You can tell when someone's an exceptional supervisor by the way their team talks about them: do they dread that manager seeing their work and results, or do they look to the manager for support and help? Some managers don't really manage much at all. They're happy to have a team and let them do their work, and then they just react to whatever is put out. If they had a good month, the boss will take credit for that and brag about it. On a bad month, the whole team is taking blame, and let's face it, that manager probably isn't offering the most sage advice for how to move forward from there. This is a really difficult type of boss to have, and this person felt slighted by their manager for years before they managed to get back at her. 

For this customer service representative, setting a plan for their boss to fail also came along with a sweet vacation. You can check out this great tale of grudge-holding and exacting revenge down below. 

Next up, these workers had a really fun bonding moment in their insurance job when their boss insisted they start overstating all of the damages they came across. 

We've all had a poor experience with fast food at some point. When you get that late-night craving for a burger and fries, the last thing you want is to receive a half-eaten delivery, a major missing ingredient, or uncooked meat. 

Unfortunately, this is far more common than any of us would like to admit. When it does happen, we hopefully catch it before it's too late… you don't want to discover raw chicken after you bite into your nugget. If you're lucky enough to catch it early, you throw your food away immediately and perhaps you pursue a refund from the establishment. Regardless, we wish we could say that when this kind of debacle occurs, we vow never to eat from that chain again. That would be the mature thing to do, but our maturity cannot overcome the next big fast food craving. Instead, we try to laugh it off, and we forgive and forget. Besides, if you play your cards right, you're likely going to get a free meal out of the whole thing.

Keep scrolling below for these top fast food flops and delivery mishaps. For more content like this, check out these sign fails. 

These workers had a fun "moment of brilliance" while still following their boss's directions. 

If you drive, there's a strong chance you have car insurance, and that's the industry this person worked in. U/un0hu was one of the many employees working behind the scenes after a person gets into an accident. From tiny scratches to fender benders to totaled cars, the employees at this firm saw everything. Their job was to rate how badly the cars were damaged. You know how you're supposed to snap a bunch of photos of your car after an accident? These people are the reason why. They're able to slap a price tag on the accident to report how much each person involved in the accident should be paid by their insurance. 

Photos are pretty crucial to this job, but for some reason, the boss at this person's workplace just did not care about that. He's one of those managers who are so blinded by money that they care about nothing else, and he let his employees know it. But there's only so far that kind of attitude will take him before it comes back to haunt him, as you can read about in the story below. 

Up next, these people shared their very creative workplace pranks, like some employees who gleefully froze their coworker's bike to the freezer floor. 

Getting unjustly fired has never felt so good. Here, we have a fast food employee who saw a half-finished soda can and asked everyone working, including his manager, if it belonged to anyone before he tossed it in the trash before the end of his shift. Apparently, his direct manager was not paying attention because he was too busy talking on the phone with his girlfriend while on the clock. So, when he was done with his personal call, he went looking for his soda only to learn that it had been thrown away.

Instead of letting it go like a normal person, this manager decided to throw a temper tantrum directed at the employee, accusing him of insubordination. He ended up giving the employee an ultimatum: go get the manager a new soda or go home entirely and never return. Well, it turns out that this dude was not in a position to fire anyone; that would be the job of the general manager, his supervisor. When he found out what went wrong here, he immediately reinstated the employee. One can imagine what a glorious moment that was for the employee to return to work and inform his manager that he couldn't be dismissed like that.

For more stories like this, check out this post about a customer's petty payback. 

What do you think would happen to your workplace if your manager was fired out of the blue? Are there people in your office that you know would be ready to take over, or do you think your company would dissolve into chaos?

For most companies, there must be a few people who can take over a manager's daily tasks in case they unexpectedly leave. But the real challenging duty that must be taken over is usually the actual management job, and managing other people within the company. With the lack of a clear manager, things can very well derail, so it is crucial that someone will be ready to guide the rest of the team back on track.

In this Reddit story, OP (original poster) was ready to take over her manager's job after they were fired, but they were not ready to start managing their coworkers. Specifically, one new coworker who still hadn't really settled into the job. That caused a lot of stress for OP, who didn't know how to handle all the attention this coworker was demanding.

Scroll down to read the full story. After you are done reading, click here for a story of an overworked employee who got fired after refusing to take on more work.

Exhausted from work and hunting for the perfect meal to satisfy your munchies, you might not bother looking over the bill to ensure you were not billed more than is needed. However, there are times when you do notice, and what do you do then? Do you give up and brush it off as simply another example of something that 'is not worth your aggravation' or do you fight for a refund?

The story below is an account of a clever consumer. The original poster (OP) relates how he managed to outwit the nearby fast-food restaurant. OP made the decision to treat himself to a fun and filling fast-food restaurant after a long workday. He pulled his car up outside the building and waited for assistance. When that time came, he was excited to place his order. However, as the cashier yelled out a higher bill than expected, things quickly shifted from wholesome to petty.

The cashier overcharged OP and refused to refund the difference, stating that the company was unable to process reimbursements. Because of this, OP decided to take the initiative and resolve the matter with the entitled cashier. As a result, OP devised a scheme that would take everyone by surprise. If you want to know the specifics of what took place, be sure to read the story below! After you're done, don't forget to read the story about the employer who refuses to pay back a worker's business travel expenses, citing excessive spending, which leads to the worker's resignation and $1000 in retribution!

When people get tattoos, they often consider what they love and cherish, and avoid thinking about the opinions of others. That's all well and good; if an art piece is forever inked onto your body, you should love it with all your heart. But there's an asterisk here: you should love it, because people are going to ask about it constantly. If you have a name, people will ask who that is. If you have a symbol or a little animal, people will ask what that means. It's the kind of experience you won't understand until you actually get tattoos, and have to look at them every day, and deal with the constant questions. 

The more public of an area you choose for your tattoo, the higher the chances are you'll be explaining it. Like there's one person who tattooed "Jason" on his own face. He's Jason. He probably gets asked constantly if Jason is his husband or son! Then, the follow up question: why would one tattoo one's own name on their face? Why choose the face instead of an arm or leg? There are many follow-up questions that Jason is going to spend hours of his one short life explaining to random people who have a burning desire to find out. 

Other people made the mistake of getting a tattoo in another language without double-checking the spelling first…yikes! You can check out a bunch of different ways not to get tattooed down below. 

Up next, read about "the most expensive phone calls on the planet," which were taken by an hourly worker with a confused boss.