It's hard to be efficient at your job when the technology you have been given to complete your tasks is wildly outdated.

Unfortunately, that was the predicament that this team of consultants founds themselves in at this pharmaceutical company. For the record, the author of this anecdote no longer works at this place, which is why he felt compelled to share the story of his team's successful act of malicious compliance.

Apparently, the consultants were treated like the bottom of the barrel at this place, and the old computers they were given to work with became the physical manifestation of this treatment. The problem was that they had to run the debug and update the same code as some other employees at the company, who were all given the latest Apple product. I guess that aspect of their jobs was actively ignored when HR made the decisions as to which teams were given which laptop models. 

Eventually, it got to the point where the consultants could not take it anymore. They were sick and tired of being held accountable to meet unnecessarily strict deadlines while working with interminably slow computers. So, they decided to mimic the pace of their laptops in order to prove a point. Let's just say that said point was ultimately proven…

Blending families is more complicated than your average marriage. For starters, there are more financial assets, kids, and career benefits to keep in mind, while simultaneously juggling the family dynamic on two sides. With enough baggage to make LAX jealous, a 50-year-old woman found herself cornered by her new partner after refusing to sell her late husband's belongings. While it may not seem like enough to rock the boat in this family, her late husband's life's work just so happened to be a vintage car collection worth $800,000. 

Now, that's a lot of skrilla! 

A non-negligible amount of money stood between this woman's future stepkid's college fund and the inheritance right of her firstborn son, a 26-year-old to whom her late husband left everything. 

With a few well-polished grease buckets sitting in the garage with her son's name on them, she made the tough call. Instead of disrespecting her late husband's legacy, she followed his final wishes and gave her son full access and full ownership over the vintage cars. By preserving that legacy, she may have driven a wedge between herself and her future, but instead chose to honor the past. 

Automating repetitive tasks is a common approach to maximizing efficiency and productivity in the workplace, but this IT specialist may have been more focused on serving his own interests rather than those of his company.

It's hard not to marvel at this guy's ability to automate his daily tasks and responsibilities so effectively that all he needed to do day in and day out was sign on for ten minutes. The rest of his morning and afternoon was comprised of video game playing. Hey, before you judge, this guy clearly is living his life the way he wants to without even hurting his company. 

Let's be real: there are far too many individuals out there who spend the majority of their work days procrastinating or straight up shirking their responsibilities entirely. It's not like this guy was actively ignoring his KPIs or anything like that. In fact, one could argue that he was so good at his job that he managed to successfully pull this off without anyone finding out for a full year.

Even to this day, no one within his department or company at large has ever raised a single concern about his work ethic. Hats off to him!

Usually, after someone experiences what it's like to work in customer service, they make a point to always be nice to other workers, because they know what it feels like to be on the receiving end of that.

Not the girl in the story below. No, the fact that she is a server in a restaurant seemed only to fuel her entitled behavior as a customer. 

It all started when a new server was assigned to her table, which she shared with a group of friends. This entitled customer must have recognized that he was new, because he was fairly nervous. But instead of showing some empathy, especially since she knows how it feels, she did the exact opposite. Every time the poor server passed by their table, the girl demanded something. For their entire stay, he kept fulfilling their non-stop demands, until eventually, another server and the manager stepped in and decided to give her the customer service she deserved.

That was when the entitled girl revealed that she was a server at another branch of the same restaurant and demanded an employee discount. Instead, the manager reported her behavior to her own boss and refused to give her any discount.

Hopefully, she will learn a thing or two from this experience.

This dad is a little confused about why his 14-year-old son isn't getting along with him, but the answer is clear to the people answering his question! 

When you're a teenager, it's natural to disagree with your parents on, well, almost everything. You're learning about the world while growing from a kid into a very young adult. If parents are able to do fun activities with their teen that the teen actually enjoys, they should lean into it! Too bad that's the opposite of what this dad is doing. All his son wants to do is carry on a tradition that he used to do with his late mom, who passed when he was 12. He loved going to the British Museum in London, which Dad describes as both his "favorite place in the world" and the center of an ongoing passion project he had with his mother. This passion project sounds so cool — the teen and his Mom would sketch out different things they saw in the museum, recreating them together. It's an activity that could inspire a love of art, a deeper understanding of the world around him, and an appreciation for history (and not to mention that it was a tradition he kept up with his mom, which is probably the key element here for that 14-year-old). 

Dad doesn't see it that way at all, and commenters ripped him a new one for the way he treated his son. Oh, and he provided an update, which is almost as infuriating as the original post he shared. He's really letting his new wife run the show, and commenters were quick to express surprise at how quickly he'd remarried, even deciding to have another child with her, all within a couple years of his wife's passing! 

While obviously no one can predict the future, numerous commenters warned that this kid is going to go no-contact with Dad as soon as he can, and who could blame him? I hope he surrounds himself with friends who want to continue on with he and his Mom's legacy project, as well as just people who listen to him and respect his wishes. 

How are we supposed to focus on end-of-year performance reviews when most of us mentally checked out on December 1? It's holiday season, which means we're spending the entire month celebrating. And by celebrating, I mean using tinsel and peppermint mochas as emotional support tools to cope with year-end burnout. Meanwhile, our bosses are convinced this is the perfect time to evaluate our performance and offer constructive criticism, as if any of us have the cognitive bandwidth to absorb feedback that isn't "go home early."

We're too busy shivering in offices that are legally indistinguishable from meat lockers, calculating how many gifts we still need to wrap, and anticipating the inevitable sibling drama that will explode the minute we're trapped in a living room together. The last thing anyone needs is a 45-minute meeting about personal growth.

So, instead of trying to pretend we're fully present and professionally thriving, let's lean into the collective delirium of December.

Working "above and beyond" doesn't work, it's a harsh reality that everyone one day must understand. Unfortunately, if you show you place of employment that you are happy to be paid the same amount for more work, then they will just keep paying you that same amount. Now, if you get more money along with that above and beyond workload, then that's fine. But this employee, wasn't given more money or a promotion, even though he deserved it. He worked "above and beyond" every single day. He would take on a lot of the managers' duties just so he could be seen as a good employee, which he was. But he was too good and not fighting for higher pay. 

After he got passed up for a promotion and then given mandatory overtime, he said enough was enough. He was basically doing all of the work of his managers and not getting and kind of recognition for it. So, he stopped. He simply stopped going above and beyond and just started doing exactly what his job description said and nothing else. Low and behold, it turns out that the managers hardly even know how to do their own jobs… We all need to work our wage. 

There are a number of decent ways a boss can deliver a difficult message to an employee. This lady, however, threw all decency out the window.

She clearly was holding a grudge against this employee for months. Perhaps she felt threatened by his competence, or perhaps she simply decided that she didn't like his personality without giving him a fair chance. Regardless of the reason, she decided that the best way to handle this was to delegate task after task and to fill his plate with as many responsibilities as she could so that they would essentially be impossible to fulfill.

After overloading this author with one assignment after another, she marches over to his desk and asked how he was holding up. Naturally, she did this with an insincere look of "concern." This is what finally set the author off. 

He responded by confronting her directly and calling her out for her obvious agenda. After all, he knew that he was valued by others at the company. He also knew she would try to deny her own behavior. So he left her no choice by stating that if she wanted to get rid of him, she was going to have to fire him herself because otherwise, he wasn't going to give up on his own. The battle lines were drawn!

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

It's common knowledge at this point that corporate life never fails to reward the wrong behaviors. Most of the time, we get stories that are pretty much infuriating, but this one is sort of the opposite because when someone learns how to rig the system and game their way to promotion, I for one think we should all cheer for that person.

So, after a messy reorganization splits the office dream team, one employee decides to stop trying altogether. Work from home becomes gaming from home, and quiet quitting turns into full-blown digital escapism. A single "catch-up day" handles two weeks of tasks, while the rest of the time goes to swapping spreadsheets for controller batteries. The result? A shocking career twist that proves effort and visibility have officially divorced.  

At home he's playing Balatro, running Ironman grinds with friends, and losing entire days to new releases without a moment of guilt. But on office days, he transforms into the model employee: well-dressed, charming, available for small talk, and pretending to type like productivity itself is contagious. Management eats it up. Efficiency looks identical to engagement when no one's actually tracking outcomes.  

The irony lands in the form of a promotion. new title, more money, and a glowing reputation as one of the team's best and brightest. Nothing changed except the attitude. The less he cares, the more they love him. It's not fraud, exactly, just a flawless demonstration of how office culture runs on perception, not performance. 

We don't think there's ever going to be a valid excuse for keying another person's car…Like if they're blocking you, call a tow truck. Because what will keying their car actually do to help the situation, besides labelling you a bit of a…? Let's keep this PG, but use your imagination to fill in the blank, we know we sure did! Finding your car devastatingly keyed is one thing, but catching the criminal red-handed is a whole different league of 'what in the world do I do next?'

This man knows the feeling, after finding his car keyed for the FIFTH time, he decided enough is enough. It's time to catch the culprit! So he set up a dashcam and patiently waited for the criminal to be unmasked…Turns out it was someone a lot closer than he thought, a resident living in the same building. The audacity! He phoned the police and showed them the footage. But due to the camera's lack of clarity and limited angles, they responded with the 'There's nothing we can do' line…Now it's solely up to him to get her successfully reported and hold her accountable for her car-hating crimes. 

A part-time restaurant worker in Finland learns that quitting politely isn't an option when your boss tries to guilt you for exercising basic labor rights. The student has a firm grasp of local employment laws thanks to Finland's strong union culture, so when December hits and the restaurant schedules 40-plus hours during exam week, they do the sensible thing and resign. The contract allows immediate resignation during probation, end of story. Or so it should have been.  

Instead, the recruiting firm boss calls to deliver a moral lecture about work ethic and responsibility, lamenting how unfair it is to leave the restaurant short-staffed. The irony burns hotter than the fryers, the restaurant can't apparently keep hygienic. She insists the contract means something else entirely, until the student points out that maybe she should read it before calling. That conversation goes quiet fast.  

Companies that underpay and overwork employees still manage to sound wounded when someone leaves. The boss tries guilt instead of gratitude, confusion instead of compliance, and it lands flat on someone who actually understands their rights. For once, the script flips. The student doesn't grovel or apologize. They simply remind her it's not their job to fix broken scheduling or bad management. 

Are you feeling thin, sort of stretched, like butter scraped over too much bread? That's how many people are feeling this time of year. Although the autumn and winter season came upon us faster than a pair of Nazgûl horsemen chasing after an elven princess and a woozy hobbit, there is one way to revive your spirits and replenish your soul: Another rewatch of LOTR. 

As sure as the light of Eärendil's star from Lady Galadriel and the might of a stubborn dwarf, Middle Earth proves to be the only place in our world that consistently provides Fellowship, triumph, and a whole pint (a WHOLE pint) of ale at the Prancing Pony. The tales of the hobbits, the Ring, and the fight against good and evil are sometimes the best cure for our daily ailments out here in the real world. So practice your hooded, elfish mystique and warm up some rabbit stew in your not-so-travel-sized cast-iron pan, because you're clearly overdue for a rewatch of the One Movie to rule them all. 

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Many businesses have fallen on tough times this year for numerous reasons, and like clockwork, higher-ups have their sights set on blaming their subordinates for things out of their control. Without proper guidance, employees below the higher-ups have no idea what they are allowed to do, control, and what have you. The easiest way to fail a business? Expect subordinates to fix everything without any pushback, even if "fixing" things is virtually impossible.

Bosses have a funny way of blaming everyone but themselves, which we're sure you've experienced first-hand at least once in your lifetime. When higher-ups and executives hide the important information from their employees, how are the employees supposed to prosper and excel? Without the essential information that should be the driving factor for all of their work, they are left with very little to base their tasks on.

In the next tale below, a boss informs his employee that the revenue plan for the upcoming year is nearly $350k too short, despite having looked at the employee's plan earlier and not batting an eye. Now, the employee is expected to wave a magic wand and crunch the numbers, but the numbers just aren't there. Scroll below to continue reading.

Quit your job right now if these stories resonate with you, because these people had some excellent reasons for quitting ASAP. 

You don't have to be a detective to spot the signs of a sinking ship. For example, if everyone's paychecks bounce on payday, that's a great reason to immediately start a job search. If the employer can barely keep the lights on, there's no guarantee you'll have a job for much longer. Or if your boss has started to demand that people work overtime more and more and more, cutting into the employee's actual lives outside of work, that's an unpleasant environment to spend time in. Better seek work elsewhere before things get even worse!

These people have been through the wringer, and they're sharing the interesting stories of the reasons they chose to quit. If some of them resonate with you, well, it's never too late to start all over and reevaluate your career path. Sometimes you're unhappy at a job and you don't even realize until you find a new place that values their employees, prioritizes a work life balance, and provides you with a boss who cares about their workers. You never know what you could accomplish until you try! 

This man should have far more important matters to be dealing with in his life than his neighbor's pile of leaves. But alas, that is how he has chosen to expend his energy.

Unfortunately, this inevitably means that his neighbor was going to have to find a way to appease him. Quickly, this proved to be impossible. 

What's amusing about this neighborhood curmudgeon was that he was particularly fixated on any pile of leaves that obstructed the view from the window of his home. It's not like these leaves were piling up on his own property. Furthermore, no one else in this small suburb seemed to take issue with how the neighbor's was raking his lawn. In fact, the neighbor was fully in compliance with HOA rules and regulations, so it's not like he was breaking any rules that made him worthy of such treatment.

Still, the curmudgeon persisted and refused to give up. He even went so far as to trespass onto his neighbor's property and movies the leaves away from his window view. The fact that this man felt compelled to follow through with this and justify his actions simply because some leaves were "disturbing" his view just goes to show how much of a life this man needs to get. Hats off to the neighbor for finding the exact way to get him to stop.

When a retail employee catches a thief in the store, suddenly, all of their wildest work fantasies come true. They no longer need to remain quiet and polite in the face of an angry customer, unleashing the pent-up retail rage of the last few years in one fell swoop. After this cashier noticed something fishy about a repeat customer's return, and they realized that they had been stealing, returning, and re-stealing the same $50 board game for months. 

Caught red-handed, this thief wasn't going to be getting freebies anymore from the local game store, and a retail employee finally got to see some justice. 

Stealing from a small, family-run store is not just petty crime, but it says a lot about who you are as a person. Any adult living in our modern society knows how tough it is out there for small businesses, and with a dwindling interest in pricey board games, their sales margins are not great to begin with. Come on, we've all seen the Hallmark movies where the big city corporate girl goes back home and falls in love with the local shop boy. It's not pretty out there for the mom and pop shops! 

That's why, when this cashier turned into a SKU detective, they simultaneously became the best vigilante in town. 

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Medical leave is an essential benefit when you're working a full-time job. Not everyone has a generous savings account and a village to fall back on when the going gets tough, so having paid medical leave keeps their lives afloat while they focus on resting, healing, and making their new normal work.

Some places in the world have more employee protections than others, but we're not here to give you a rundown of that; this is a mere fact. The employee in the next story explains that they're from Germany, where their PTO continues to accrue even if they are on medical leave for a certain period of time. Whether you agree or disagree with this policy, that's up to you. But the proof is in the pudding, and this employee has the court rulings to back up their decision to cash in all 75 of their PTO days when their HR forces them to do so upon returning to work.

So, who's to blame here? Well, there's not one single person to blame, but rather, policy (if you think it's crooked). Us? We think the employee is exercising what's allowed in their country. Scroll to get the details.

Gift-giving can be a challenge, no matter how close you are with the recipient. Even if you've known someone for decades, when you're tasked with giving them a present for the holidays, it's like you suddenly forget everything you knew about them. Not to mention that some people kind of do have everything already… What do you get for a person who doesn't have any new hobbies and has all the money they need to buy themselves everything they desire? 

You can't go wrong with a hand-written card and a gift card, or something small and generic, like a hat or a some gloves. It's not great — it's just okay — but it's also not a bad present. And trust me, these people below have been given some hilariously bad gifts throughout the years, and they told all in their stories! 

For some gift-givers, taking an old present from years prior and re-gifting it is the easiest solution. However, it's often far too easy to tell when you've been given a regifted item, and it doesn't feel good. Other gifters take it upon themselves to mold the receiver into the person they wish they could be, like giving a football to your nephew who only cares about doing science projects and reading, all in the hopes that he suddenly races to the yard to play catch. These unfortunate presents usually just end up in the "donate" pile a few years later, having never been touched.  

At the end of the day, sometimes that awful present turns into a hilarious story, and you could call that the gift that keeps on giving. Long after your terrible aunt has given you a shirt that's 3 sizes too big, and the shock of it has worn off, you and your cousins will have something to reminisce and laugh about for years afterwards. 

It's meme o'clock and we're not messing around. Stop what you are doing and let's laugh. We're tying to have some LOLs right now, homie. Is that cringe to say? Don't answer that, we don't care. To be cringe is to be free. We're just here to have a fun time and provide you a daily dose of some dopamine. It's tough out there! Nobody can afford to pass up an itty bitty tiny little thing that might help them crack a smile. What? You're just going to go home and what? Study a new language or do your taxes or something right after work? No way, we don't think so. It's time to turn that brain off and giggle your guts out. What is life without laughter? It is that episode of The Powerpuff Girls where that clown gets poisoned with bleach and then tries to turn the entire town big sad with no color. Memes are like Bubbles who sings the color and life back into everyone!

"Love-love-love la-la-love la-la-love makes the world go round!" Right? Am I right or is my millennial showing a little too hard right ow? Whatever, quit dilly dallying, let's LOL, scroll on to the memes below! 

A lot of workplaces blur boundaries, but this one asked the question: why not take it a step further and just erase them completely?

A 22-year-old employee leaves work early feeling sick after trying to power through yet another day of unexplained stomach pain. Nothing dramatic, just a quick message to a team lead and a quiet exit. Home, rest, recovery. At least that was the plan until her father calls an hour later sounding startled. Her supervisor, a 58-year-old man, is standing at their doorstep asking for her by name. No warning, no call, just pure intrusion disguised as concern.  

It is the kind of boss behavior that sounds unbelievable until you realize some people treat authority like a universal key. The visit is justified to no one and unwelcome to everyone. Her mother ends up handling it and says exactly what anyone with common sense would say, that no healthy professional relationship involves surprise home visits, especially to an employee who is homesick. The awkward detail is that he even asked for the mother by name, raising questions no one wants answered.  

Now the family is unsettled, and the worker is stuck between protocol and gut instinct. She plans to report it, but the bigger truth hovers. No one should have to define where privacy begins to someone who writes performance reviews. Showing up at a sick employee's house is not commitment, it is a boundary violation dressed up as management interest. Respect is calling first, not knocking like an HR horror story in progress.