Shout out to this manager for defending his assistant the whole time!

Nine times out of ten, when upper management enforces a bogus policy, middle management has no choice to swallow their pride and follow suit. However, in this instance, the manager in question refused to allow his boss to force those who were on vacation to join virtual team meetings.

This boss clearly developed an obsession with the idea that he was allowed to require everyone to sign onto team meetings, especially when work hours are over and regardless of time zones or paid time off. This was likely a means of control for him and something he refused to let go.

However, the hotheaded employer met his match when this author rejected his so-called "requirement." His assistant had been working non-stop for that already limited vacation time, and the author wasn't going to ruin that time off by making him attend a meeting that didn't seem to be very important to begin with. In fact, let's be real. It probably could have been an email!

Having a small and intimate business means being a tad bit closer to your coworkers…Sometimes, it makes it harder to separate work from friendship and ensure boundaries are not blurred. When businesses are still in their fetal stage, it means a stretched cycle of long days and nights, spent trying to discuss the ways in which the founders and co. wish to nurture and parent their company towards success. Naturally allowing for bonding between coworkers. But when does comfortable become too comfortable?

Let's ask this business owner, who has unfortunately just to just uncovered the answer to that question! She is running her small business from her home, and has thus invited her group of 2-3 employees to come work from there too. She is naturally a host, and wants her employees to feel comfortable in her space, telling them to make themselves at home…a phrase she will soon regret ever letting leave her lips. Especially regarding her one employee's impolite habit of going snack-hunting in her cupboards without permission, and even taking some "for the road"…

In complex modern family structures, boundaries can be difficult to define, especially when infidelity has played a central role in their creation. One woman described such a situation after her ex-husband, who engaged in a two-year affair during their marriage, asked her to begin babysitting his partner's child every Friday. 

The request came not from him directly, but from the woman with whom he had the affair.

Will the property disputes ever end? Well, so long as there are entitled individuals roaming the earth in their arrogant, coy way, disputes of many kinds will live on for centuries to come. Repeat offenders make you wonder if you've been too kind and considerate the entire time you've lived your life, but don't let these subpar interactions and situations sour your polite etiquette. The entitled individuals win once they've created one of their own inside you, like that alien in Alien.

Though your impolite next-door neighbor doesn't burrow themselves inside of you like some intergalactic extraterrestrial, they're repeat behavior has a funny way of wearing you thin. What else is there to do if John from next-door decides that he wants his dog to do their business in your yard instead of his own. "He picks up after himself!" some might say, but that's not the point. It's the principle… It's always the principle.

When a resident's neighbor decides to take his dog into their yard without their consent, they decide it's alright to continue doing so. The neighbor even tries to defend themselves against the resident's warranted anger, but to no avail. Like we said, it is always the principle. Not picking up the dog's business would just be a bonus offense… Scroll to read about how this plays out, including a weird dance the neighbor does caught on a Ring camera.

Have you ever heard the saying, "work your wage?" It means that you shouldn't work more than what you are paid for, and that goes at any age. So when this 18-year-old, senior in high school student was getting belittled at work, she acted fast. She didn't stick around to think, "if I work harder, I'll get more respect!" because we all know that is a pipe dream. 

It started when the restaurant she hostessed at was short staffed (red flag #1). They put the bartender in charge and now she was hosting and bussing tables. After bussing a table, the bartender marched up to her, in front of a guest, and demanded to see her purse. She was accusing her of stealing a customer's phone. Now, we're talking about a teenager, the most definitely already have their own phone. And yet she was being accused. She tried to resist, but ultimately, it was just easier to let her go through her bag. However, after that kind of disrespect there was no going back.

Even though she knew the holiday rush was coming, she turned in her two-weeks on the spot. Guess you're going to be under staffed for the holidays now too!

This argument is as nonlinear as it is complicated. Both sides show points that raise them, while simultaneously pulling them down. But we guess that's the key component to a good debate: Seeing both sides for the good and the bad. A management role is hardly smooth sailing, and oftentimes requires a lot of awkward conversations and demanding decisions…Management is not always there to be your bestie, but rather for the benefit of the company. So if you have a manager who cares for you deeply, it's best you show up for them and hold onto them tightly…because if you don't, they will pick favorites!

However, when those managers do choose, they should be sure to have valid reasons…Unless they want to end up like this manager, who's recently received a bucket of backlash from HR, accusing him of "unfairly" reviewing and providing raises to his team members… One, a hard-working single mom who completes her work precisely, but holds strict boundaries on flexibility…and the other, a man who's not so flexibility-specific, willing to work after-hours and weekends (unpaid) just for that extra CEO hallway-half-hearted smile. Can you guess which of the two is the manager's golden employee? 

We can't imagine how frustrating to must be the only member of your family that can speak the native language of their residing country, because when you are, you automatically become responsible for everything. Labelled the 24/7 translator, except this time, it's unpaid! In this family, it's the daughter…however, her frustrations have tripled in size as her parents are demanding she skip a final exam to translate for them during a shoplifting trial her troublesome brother got involved in! Because of her brother's reckless behavior, she is now forced to lose out on something she has spent the last year preparing for. Absolutely not. And so, she agrees! 

Riddled with a mixture of frustration and guilt, this younger sister is finally putting an end to being the family's Google Translate! She does not feel like it is her responsibility to bail her brother out of trouble, to fall behind in life…But as you may have already guessed, this is not a conversation that goes down very well at this family's dinner table. Suddenly, she's the one being blamed for the outcome of her brother's trial, before it has even begun. 

When your job is on the line, you can't mess around — and that's exactly why this delivery driver went straight to the top, calling corporate to explain what went wrong. 

Food delivery has never been more popular! You can get almost any food, or product, delivered to your home in the blink of an eye. Food delivery from restaurants is especially fast. You can order pizza or a burger and have it show up within 40 minutes. A lot of people have gotten used to this level of convenience, and order from food delivery services constantly, even multiple times per day. 

Because food delivery is so popular though, and because those costs do add up quickly, sometimes delivery "hacks" float around online. For a while, a popular delivery "hack" involved getting your food, then claiming that you didn't get it at all. You could get your money back on the app, and you probably wouldn't get penalized for it. But you know who does get punished for that? The driver. And they get punished pretty severely, with consequences as bad as losing your job entirely. The customer is just thinking about getting that free food, never considering what would happen to the very person who delivered their food to them. It's very impolite for a customer to do this, and obviously unethical, and this is the type of customer who should be banned from the app ASAP for all the trouble he caused. 

Many people claim that the early bird catches the worm, but in this case, the early birds in question chose to destroy a disgruntled neighbor's lawn instead.

This lady had been arguing with her neighbor over the free street parking outside of his house for months. First of all, he had more personal parking spaces than she had, so it's not like he needed that space, nor was he entitled to it according to any documentation.

Now, you have to hand it to this author because for a while there, she was doing everything in power to avoid her neighbor's wrath. She would always find other parking spots, and she even told her friends to avoid that space when they came to visit. However, when her boyfriend parked there, the neighbor lost his mind and threatened to call the police on him. Of course, he was in the wrong, so the author's boyfriend just ignored him.

One day, he actually did call the police, and that is what finally compelled the author to get back at this guy. Since he tended to watch that empty space outside of his home like a hawk during the daytime, she knew she needed to think of a creative way to get back to him. That's where the crows come in…

Boss-types have a nasty habit of assuming they know how to do everyone's job better than them, but oftentimes, they have no idea what they're talking about. Ideamen at heart, they love to imagine they know more about servers, databases, and system admin protocols than their computer engineers, but just because you listen to one podcast about tech, it doesn't make you proficient in computer science.

Alas, this smug boss thought he knew better than his computer engineer, firing him when a complicated server transfer was taking too long. However, only three hours after his termination, the boss came crawling back, begging for help... Except this computer tech wasn't so interested in bailing him out.

It took 12 hours of groveling, 2 lost clients, a personal call from the CEO, a senior job offer, and $85,000 up front for this computer wiz to come in and fix the problem. 

Oh, and he got his old, snooty boss fired in the process.

What is a toxic manager's hardest pill to swallow? They never want to admit that their direction might be the reason why everything is hitting the fan. A leader who cannot admit to their own faults cannot be classified as a leader; true leaders can internalize criticism for the best interest of their employees and themselves.

Looking inward is challenging for most of us, and that's because it's easier to think that we're perfect instead of analyzing what we do and theorizing how we can make those things better. When someone is in a position of power, though, that excuse can only work so much until they cost their company some big bills, all because they couldn't be bothered with what their employees needed them for.

The pharmacy employee in the next story explains that their pharmacy's drive-through medicine drawer wasn't opening properly, so they submitted a help ticket to ensure that it was fixed promptly. The repair never came, so they reached out to their direct manager, who told them to keep submitting tickets. Well, the drawer was now completely useless because it couldn't open at all, and these repairs ended up costing the company much more than the hourly wage of the direct manager. Scroll to read.

When this 18-year-old boarded an airplane alone, she knew exactly how it would impact her family, but she still chose to fly on her own. 

In many families, the eldest sibling is expected to take on the burden of caring for the younger kids. In this 18-year-old's case, that means her 3 and 6-year-old siblings — ages that are notoriously exhausting to care for. At 6, kids are usually pretty well-behaved, and they may even be in their "helpful" stage, which is both cute and makes life easier for the caregiver. But at age 3, kids are still bouncing off the walls, possibly potty-trained but also possibly still in diapers, and they're going to be racing around at full speed. All you can do is try to chase that little one as they dart around the crowded airport while you carry their luggage and hold hands with the 6-year-old! It's no wonder this teen was reluctant to take on babysitting duties from her mom. 

As she shared in her story below, she got back at her family by simply boarding the flight while they made a last-minute bathroom run. It's odd that they stayed in the bathroom for so long that they missed their boarding call altogether, but for this teen, it was totally a blessing in disguise. Commenters also agreed that she did the right thing — and that setting hard boundaries is a good thing, even if it stuns her Mom and stepfather. 

When it comes to dealing with a family will, inheritance can get messy. This is where you start to see some family member's true colors. In the case of this family, is was the aunt whose entitlement started to ooze once the grandmother passed. You see, this grandmother was very close with her grandson, and she promised him her vintage vanity with mirror and all to him when she passed. She clearly wrote that in her will. And yet, the aunt decided that she deserved it "more" because she was more of a caretaker to her than her was. Except, was she? She just happened to spend more time there because she lived nearby and had nothing else to do. The grandson was there as much as he could, even though he had a full-time job and lived far away. But he was always the one taking care of the yard work, carpentry, and anything else that needed repairs. 

Still, this aunt threw a hissy fit. She demanded that the vanity was her's and it didn't matter what the will said because she got "caretaker" rights. Sorry, bestie, that is not how it works. The grandmother very specifically left the vanity to her grandson, she made this choice, and the fact of the matter is, she never liked you anyway… Probably something to do with your entitlement. 

Being responsible for someone else's misfortune is usually not a great feeling; who wants to cause someone else to feel sad or frustrated?

Unless… Well, unless they absolutely deserve it. Then you can say that they brought that misfortune upon themselves, and you were just the one to get the ball rolling.

The residents in the story below definitely were the ones who brought their misfortune upon themselves, even if their neighbor doesn't fully feel like it. They were responsible when they refused to move their car from the neighbor's driveway the first time they were asked, and they were responsible when they parked there again and again despite the polite request.

When the neighbor gave up and sent pictures of the entitled activity to the neighborhood council, they didn't expect much to come out of it. However, the council was fast to respond and immediately sent a tow truck to get rid of the car. 

The question is, who was responsible for the misfortune then?

Don't you just love it when an employer reframes their own mistake as if it's your fault?

This job candidate arrived at the retail store where he was going to be interviewed five minutes before opening. He was meant to be interviewed right at 10:00 AM sharp. This was confirmed via email. When he arrived there, it looked like no one was inside, so he waited on a bench right next to the front door for several minutes.

By 10:02 AM, nobody else appeared. The candidate took another look at who was there, and finally, an employee let them in. By the time the manager showed up, it had been an additional 10 minutes. That's when the manager showed her true colors. 

She proceeded to blame the delay in the interview start time on the candidate for not being inside at 10:00 AM despite the fact that no one was there to let them in… not even the manager herself. Keep scrolling below for the full story and to find out what happened when the candidate reported the incident to corporate!

One of the main perks of being a childfree millennial is being able to go on vacation whenever you want (and can afford it). You work hard, and play hard, right? So when this childfree 31-year-old decided it was time for a vacation, she made sure it was exactly what she wanted. She did her research, saved up her money, and booked a beautiful ocean front hotel room. It wasn't too far from her distant relatives, but it was far enough that she was ready to have some much needed me-myself-and-I time. Unfortunately, she made the mistake of sharing her hotel info with her mom. She was excited about her trip since she hadn't been on a real vacation in years! Her mom did what moms do and sent the info to the entire family chat, which included her entitled aunt. 

Two weeks before her trip and she finds out her aunt booked the same hotel on the same week she is there. Now, as this hardworking 31-year-old was seeking solace, she had to figure out how to avoid her aunt, uncle, and their small children. Unfortunately, the first hour she was there, the aunt called her frantic because they got a parking lot view and they wanted her ocean front view. Of course, the entitled aunt demanded she switch rooms with them. Keep dreaming, auntie! 

The only thing worse than an entitled manager is a manager's entitled manager. Stay with us.

For better or for worse, employees in supervisor positions often find themselves being the picture-perfect leader. They have high standards for their employees, yet they don't punish them for the one-off misstep. How do good managers become good managers? Well, they want to be nothing like their superior, who makes every day another reason to allow the checks and balances in place to do their thing.

Not all superiors end up being the best of the best, but it's crucial to find one who will take a stand against their bosses when faced with workplace adversity. Not only is their role on the line, but the best interests of their employees are also at risk.

That's why the manager in the story below gives their supervisor a sweet taste of malicious compliance when their site supervisor tries to dictate what goes on at their restaurant. Not all of us can do the heavy lifting, so this manager decides to show their boss just how ridiculous their requests are. If you're not a part of their kitchen, don't try running it—simple. Scroll to read the full story.

Workplace dynamics often leave a lasting imprint, especially when an employee leaves under strained or opaque circumstances. One employee described an experience at a small nonprofit where, despite the organization's outwardly positive mission, she faced what she characterized as a deeply dysfunctional internal culture.

After making a mistake on a public-facing project (one she acknowledged and apologized for), she was told the issue was resolved. Yet over the following weeks, she noticed her responsibilities quietly reassigned, messages contradicted, and communication from leadership becoming increasingly inconsistent.

Eventually, she was informed her position had been eliminated due to "budgetary concerns," only to discover weeks later that the nonprofit had hired a new employee to perform nearly identical duties under a slightly altered job title. 

Corporate warriors, you've done it again. Yet another week has gone by in the brainwashed cubicles of the nation, and what do we have to show for it? Dark bags under our eyes (and no, they aren't Chanel), and a little bit less of our human spirit. But hey, at least we have two days off, two weeks from now. Beggars can't be choosers, or so that's what our supervisors tell us.

The holiday season has the potential to amplify the existing stress you all might have because of your jobs. The end of Q4 is historically scary for every company in the history of the world, so it's crucial that you find time to take a breather in the breaks you have. Not all of us are blessed with "unlimited" PTO, so we have to hide in the custodial closet and weep quietly until someone notices that we're gone.

In all seriousness, it seems like all of us need a break. What better way to unwind than to partake in some not-so-doom scrolling to try and replenish some of our holiday cheer? Grab some hot cocoa and unplug your Wi-Fi router, but not until after you finish scrolling through these much-needed work funnies we've been using to cope.

A woman endured a nightmare roommate situation recently, but was able to turn the tables. It all started when she discovered some pretty weird things in her room after returning from a work trip. Her new roommate tried to play dumb and act like she had no idea. But when the woman kept calling her out and smashing down all of her excuse the roommate finally confessed: She has been renting out her room on Airbnb while she was away. Completely flabbergasted, that wasn't even all of it. She also was renting out her wardrobe. What?! 

Obviously, the woman was furious. The roommate simply tried to gaslight her into thinking it wasn't that big of a deal and since she was so upset about it, she won't do it again. The woman decided then and there she was going to move out. Not just move out of the apartment, but out of the state. However, this didn't feel like a fitting end to this entitled roommate, so she went one step further. She calming spread the information about her roommate to others in the building. This then leaked to the landlord, who then went to the leasing company and now this entitled soon-to-be ex-roomie is getting kicked out, she's also blacklisted from all the local leasing companies. Good luck, bestie.