Ahh yes… Parking disputes. A source of disputation between neighbors for as long as man has employed means of vehicular transport that needed to be stored somewhere in times of disuse. The need for storage space has long been a source of petty territorial badgering, especially when your neighbor has stored their carriage in the most convenient part of the communal space where you had been intending to store yours. The level-headed thing to do would be to park yours in the less convenient place until a more convenient area opens up, but then what other mild inconvenience would you blame for your unhappiness?

This Karen neighbor complained to this biker about how they had been parking multiple bikes in a single parking space, accusing them of trying to keep the best spot permanently reserved when really it was just an attempt on their and their roommate's part to conserve space and not take up additional parking. After handling enough of the Karen's complaints it was time to get even and have a little fun doing it…

A man was housesitting at his partner's parent's house when he got the late night munchiess. At 1 a.m., he decided to browse through his food delivery apps to see what could satisfy his craving. His choice was a Slurpee and candy from a nearby 7/11. While waiting for his food, he fell asleep. The next morning, he went to check on his food only to find it missing and the police at his door. Apparently, the food was delivered to some unsuspecting neighbors who thought the police needed to be involved in this mishap. Some commenters claimed they wouldn't complain if a free bag of candy showed up at their door. The Original Poster (OP) made the point that his full name and address were on the bag, so it shouldn't have caused such a debacle in the first place. The best part of the whole story was during his police interrogation, he had to recount everything he ordered, reliving his late-night cravings and struggling to remember his choice of Laffy Taffy flavors. We think the clear takeaway here is that we need to see the body cam footage.

Talk about a cheap company! This HR department had to let go of seven employees as a result of budget cuts, but it gets worse. When one of those employees brought up the fact that he would like to be reimbursed for the flights he already purchased for the upcoming work retreat (which he obviously will no longer be attending), HR denied his request! 

Their so-called "explanation" was that the former employee could instead get a flight credit with the airline for a future trip of his own. How ignorant can these people be? This guy is not going on vacation any time soon; he needs to get a job! That's $225 that could be used for groceries. 

Keep scrolling below for the full story and for the best reactions from folks in the comments section. When you're done, take a look at this similar story about a student worker whose schedule was not respected by his manager.

If you're going to be a Karen, you better be able to face the consequences of your actions. 

The willingness of superiors to apply rules to themselves that they make for others speaks volumes to the character and quality of an organization. An undercurrent of issues surrounding fairness in leadership can give you a great indication of the toxicity of the workplace. This reaches levels of ridiculousness that can't be rationalized when it begins involving matters that aren't even specifically related to your performance or time that you spend at work and begins leaching into personal and public matters that your boss shouldn't have any say over.

Take, for example, the below situation, where this contractor, who didn't normally drive to work, parked in a space on public land that wasn't really intended for parking a car but a purpose that the space had found itself frequently used for. They thought they'd found a great solution to the normally chaotic parking situation around their workplace in Cardiff. That was until they were told by their boss that a higher-up had taken offense to them taking the parking space since the higher-up themselves normally used that spot. Going as far as to mention that their job had been threatened by the disgruntled upper manager.

In a petty, purpose-driven act of defiance, the contractor actually went and rented vehicles just to leave in the space. If we found ourselves in this situation, we probably would have called a towing company to remove the boss's improperly parked vehicle.

Job interviews are never easy. It can be exciting after searching countless job listings for one you like, submitting all your application materials, and finally hearing back that you got an interview. But how do you prepare? You don't want to overprepare because, at the time of the interview, your nerves are high, and it can be hard to remember every detail you want to say precisely. But you also definitely don't want to be underprepared and get stuck with questions about the company's values or something of the sort. So you find that sweet spot in your interview prep, you're ready to go, but then you find out: you're interviewing with AI. How would you react?  Do you think it would be easier because there's a chance for fewer biases than interviewing with a human, or do you find it harder to speak to a blank screen, finding the experience to be highly impersonal? Well, the job applicant in this story shares exactly what it was like to interview with AI. Including all of the small details he had to follow, like the outfit he wore, the types of questions he was asked, and the strategy games he had to play. Read all of this and more below. 

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We love our dogs. For some people, their dog is more important than any friendship and the dog's position in the household has been firmly secured as a bone-a-fide family member. Contrarily, the Karen in our next story never imagined that a dog would ever surpass her own self-imposed importance and she had the audacity to challenge a woman's claim to the plane seat she paid for for her service dog. 

Selfishly, the Karen approached the dog owner from the plane's aisle during boarding. Noticing that there wasn't a human companion in the seat beside her, she rudely demanded that her son be allowed to sit there. When the dog owner declined, the Karen went on a humiliating tirade attempting to slander the dog owner with comments like 'you're going to prioritize a dog?!'–to which the answer was a resounding yes. 

Scroll for the entire story of a Karen who had a bone to pick with a traveling service dog and how she got put in her place (the back of the plane) as a result of her tantrum. 

What was this school's administration thinking? Not only did they decide to suddenly and without warning increase the weekly rates for its boarding students, but when they finally informed the student population, they fully lied about how big the increase actually was.

Clearly, these board members could not do math on their own or they wildly underestimated the strengths of their largely STEM-oriented students. These folks were quick to calculate that the weekly price increase was not 2% as the board had stated. Instead, the prices had increased a full 33%. Talk about a manipulative and wildly unethical way of justifying the policy changes.

Thankfully, the school was located downtown among various restaurants where students could go get their own meals for a much cheaper price. So, the students began opting out of meal plans in droves, draining the school's resources in the process and forcing them to go back to the old price structure within a few weeks. That's called collective action, folks! For more stories like this, check out this one about another penny-pinching school administration.

If you have good neighbors, count your blessings. As the people in this thread below can tell you, having bad neighbors can interfere with your life in endless ways. 

U/Collins71514 was curious to know people's stories of the pettiest things their neighbors ever did. There were a surprising amount of stories with a common theme: neighbors who were determined to move their property line. It doesn't matter if it's just a couple of inches or a few feet. These people were utterly determined to get back the property they were so sure was theirs. Odd! 

Others volunteered their neighbor stories that involved loud noises. One person had a super loud neighbor, and they eventually got some incredible revenge by playing the same song on repeat. How long on repeat, you ask? Four days. Four whole days of the same song! That's enough to break anyone's sanity, and sure enough, the constant loud noise from that dude stopped immediately after. Everyone has a breaking point, but luckily for most other people who shared tales, they didn't have to keep the music going for quite that long. 

Check out these great neighbor drama anecdotes below. Then, read about these homeowners who kept having to deal with their annoying HOA manager. 

Everyone has had that moment of panic when you send a gossipy text about someone and worry that you accidentally sent it to that person. Nine times out of ten, you're just being paranoid, but every so often, you find yourself with a ton of explaining to do.

Now, what would you do if this situation occurred but it wasn't about a family or friend and instead this was about a coworker? What you do if the roles were reversed and you didn't send the unkind message, but this time, you received it? Would you confront the coworker? Would you wait until they made the discovery on their own? 

This employee got a teams message saying, "she really grinds my gears." Based on the meeting that just wrapped up and the coworker who sent the message, the Redditor immediately knew that she was the "she" in the message. While the coworker was apologetic, the Redditor did not stop herself from telling her how much the message hurt. She also stopped listening to the apologies and the lame attempts on her coworker's part to justify her actions. What was said could not be unsaid, and the coworker knew she just made the dynamic tense and awkward for the foreseeable future. Good luck to her the next time they bump into each other in the elevator again!

Keep scrolling below for the full story and for the best reactions from folks in the comments section. When you're done, check out this story about a long-time employee who was denied a bonus package.

If you ever find yourself talking to someone who is not from the US about college, they are always shocked by how much college students have to pay for tuition. Some countries in Europe have actual free universities, and here in good ol' America, people carry their student loans for literal decades. 

That is why when we hear of stories in which colleges and universities take even more money from their students, without an actual valid reason, it simply makes us see red. For example, can someone explain to us why, for the love of god, students still need to buy textbooks? Have professors not heard of PDFs? Why is that still something that literal teenagers have to spend thousands of dollars on every single year?

The IT employee at a university in California was asking the same type of questions. Only they were even more annoyed at the situation because they had a view from the inside on how much colleges take from students, without ever giving back. Not wanting to stay silent throughout the injustice that was happening, the IT employee found a small but significant way to pay students back some of their money.

Scroll down to read the full story. After that, click here for a story of a new hire who refused to accept his company's payroll system.

Anyone who ever took a class in Communication that talked about the concept of reality TV shows knows how much the need to know what is going on in other people's lives is set in human nature. In social studies, they call it 'Peep Culture', and the name is pretty self-explanatory. 

But even after sitting through those classes, the amount of energy and time people waste in being unnecessarily invested in other people's businesses can still boggle my mind, and even more so when they feel the need to get involved.

This is exactly what the woman in this Reddit story has been doing to her coworker. OP (original poster), told Reddit about how her coworker keeps timing her bathroom breaks and complaining when they are "taking too long". The entitled coworker also keeps gossiping about OP in meetings and calling her different names. OP is lost about what to do with her, so she turns to Reddit for advice.

Scroll down to read the full story. After that, click here for a story of a university employee who printed free textbooks for students.

At some jobs, there is no winning solution to the boss's problems. It's often an issue that management has, then insists on passing down to their workers. This malicious compliance story is a great example of that dynamic. 

This person shared that as a college student, they needed a new gig, and found one with a manager who was "one of the biggest Karens you have ever met." Off to a great start! As a new employee, this person was swamped. While Karen was changing the procedures, it meant that this worker now had to stay hours past closing time. 

Clearly, the Karen manager was given a bunch of tasks to complete at closing time, but she wasn't given enough employees to make it happen. It puts a lot of pressure on an employee when they're told to close the store by 8:30, with no exceptions. They'll find themself staring at a crazy messy kitchen, and they know that if they leave it that messy, they'll anger the openers. Plus, you can't just leave things like sandwich scraps overnight. The only positive aspect of that will be all of the happy roaches and mice who will have a delectable meal overnight. No, trying to close a restaurant by yourself while under pressure to clock out at a certain time is frustrating. At least this person got back at their irritating manager!

Next up, this neighbor wouldn't stop tattling to the HOA… all because she could see her neighbor's boat from her yard. 

There are things in life that you'll encounter, and you'll find nothing you've encountered previously has properly prepared you for it. Usually, these things will be so off-the-wall that there's no way anything could have properly anticipated them.  

The very idea of being flown out to a final interview and accepting a position, enjoying lavish dinner with the company's owner, only to go into the office and meet the guy who has just started working in the role you thought you had been accepting, is so unreal. It makes you wonder if part of the plan might have been trying to get an insider involved in the purchase of this worker's current company. That's the only narrative that makes any logical sense in this entire thing. It is simply not like any organization to spend that sort of money without any sort of goal in mind, but maybe the sheer nonsensicalness of all of this just speaks to the gross incompetence of the son who was set to take over his father's company… "Tommy Boy" type situation indeed.

When you purchase a home, unfortunately, the neighbors come with it. And you never know what to expect. Are they going to be extremely friendly neighbors who bring over a welcome basket when you first move in, or are you going to get the neighbor who keeps to themselves, leading you to think they could be a possible secret spy but you'll never find out because they never come out of their house? Either way, either other is better than getting stuck next to an entitled Karen who will call the cops on you over your grass being too long. 

The Original Poster (OP) is dealing with that now. He's owned his house for three years now, and an entitled boomer moved into the neighborhood just about a year ago. You know, the kind that isn't afraid of confrontation or speaking their mind. And, well, she did. Let's say this witty Gen Xer's reply left her speechless and us nodding in approval on the sidelines. Keep reading to get the full scope. 

Cutting in line is always a dangerous game. Not only are you showing that you lack any sort of moral code, but also you are likely making enemies out of the other people in line, and their retaliation may be far more intense than just an eye roll. 

This thread was posted to Reddit's r/pettyrevenge subreddit by u/turtlesh0es, who was waiting to refill his tires at his local Wawa when an entitled Karen asked if she could go before him. The Redditor had already been waiting for some time and politely declined. You would think that would have been the end of the interaction, but then you'd be wholly incorrect. This woman proceeded to cut him off when it was his turn and risk a small accident in the process. Thankfully, no physical damage was done, but the emotional betrayal ran deep. So, the Redditor decided to pull out the air compressor from his trunk, pull up right next to her so she would be blocked in, and keep her blocked while he was filling his tires and those of the other patient folks in line.

Keep scrolling below for the full story. When you're done, check out this post about a bridal stylist's petty payback on an entitled mother of the bride.

Going to the grocery store around rush hour is a universally dreadful experience. You have to maneuver your cart around the tens of people rushing in every which way direction, tired from a long day at work and just trying to get home for dinner. No one is having a pleasant experience. And then you get to the checkout lines. The lanes are never all open at once, with lines piled up at each open register. You think about going to the self-checkout, but those lines are even longer. 

So, imagine you're already irritated, and then an entitled Karen joins the line behind you, only to demand that you allow her to cut in front of you. Her reasoning? She has more items than you, and she has somewhere to be. Any reasonable person would understand that this request is ridiculous. But you have to be careful when you're dealing with a Karen; you never know what is going to put her into a full-blown rage. So what did this man do? He put his Airpods in while she continued on with her complaining. Once she realized that he couldn't hear her, she finally quieted down. This innocent bystander saw the whole ordeal and thought this man deserved recognition for his great reaction. Luckily for us, he detailed the full story below. 

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There's this weird thing that happens in customer service where sometimes customers begin to misunderstand the relationship.

To be fair, in jobs like retail and service, you're expected to wear a smile and put on a bubbly persona—as if you wouldn't rather be doing anything else than making an aging dead-eyed finance bro his daily latte. People, usually those who have never had the pleasure of working one of these jobs, don't appreciate this performance for what it is and tend to mistake the fact that you're being kind to them because you have to—not because you have any real personal interest or investment in them.

And let's be more realistic here: it's not as if you don't enjoy bantering with regulars and building little relationships with them. However, even outside of the customer/servant dynamic of customer service exchanges, it's important to remember, in all areas of life, that no one owes you anything or is contracted to any more meaningful relationship with you just because they're being pleasant towards you. 

These interactions are an original everyday example of "parasocial relationships," as we now discuss them when it comes to celebrities and other public personas. Just because someone's performance stirs up thoughts and feelings within you doesn't mean that there's any possibility of those feelings being reciprocated. The act is a means to generate wealth—a marketing ploy.

It can't be simple to work in the hospitality sector. There's something about the entitled vacationers that never fails to stun the dedicated crew. Having said that, how would you respond if a haughty client barged into your establishment expecting to be taken advantage of and let down? Would you face the hard truth that this isn't a conflict worth waging, or would you try to prove him wrong and give him the trip of a lifetime?

The story that follows is the story of a confused hotel worker. The original poster (OP) works at the front desk of an upscale hotel. When a haughty guest storms into the hotel and demands to check out the room before deciding to stay the night, the story starts to take shape. The problem arises, though, when OP informs the couple that they booked their reservation through a third party and are therefore unable to cancel or receive a refund for their purchase.

That being said, be sure to read the story below if you're interested in learning more about what happened and whether OP was able to communicate with the haughty customer in a composed and orderly manner! After you've done reading, don't forget to check out the story of the helicopter company that is humiliated by a client who leaves a negative review!

No one forgets a horrendous haircut experience. It's the kind of story from your past that occasionally creeps its way into your memory out of nowhere and instantly causes you to cringe and shiver.

If you are lucky enough to have never had a bad haircut experience, imagine sitting in that chair and having your barber swivel you around so you can finally see yourself in the mirror. Then, imagine not being able to recognize yourself or anything you instructed your barber in what you see in the reflection. All you can think is what was this dude thinking? 

What's even more remarkable about some of these hairdos is that they actually were not accidental. That's right. Apparently, some customers genuinely walk into their barber shops asking to have their hair morphed into the shape and look of an uncooked hamburger patty. Keep scrolling below for this collection of barber flops. For more content like this, check out these ridiculous pizza flavors.