Living with a roommate can be hard. There is no doubt about that. You are sharing your space with another human being who is not your boyfriend or girlfriend, nor a family member, and sometimes they aren't even your friend. They are just someone that need to share an apartment due to their financial situation. That's it. Taking that into account, it seems obvious that roommates are going to have arguments. It's a part of it. You can't even agree on everything with a friend. Why would you with an almost unknown person?

In the story below, we just see one of the million arguments that two roommates can have. It's normal. The thing that isn't is the fact that the female roommate expected the other to read her mind. She had her long-distance boyfriend coming over, and instead of simply asking if the male roommate could stay at his girlfriend's apartment for a couple of days or live there one night alone at least, she just expected him to do it without her asking. The whole problem isn't only the fact that she didn't want to share the space during her boyfriend's stay, is the fact that she was unable to express what she thought and what ideas she had. If she had told her living companion this, maybe he would have arranged something. Of course he could have denied anyway, but it would have been better to ask than just say little hints, expecting him to do something with that.

What is the problem between people and having conversations? Can't we just express ourselves to avoid having miscommunication problems? There is no need to start a scheming plan to plant an idea on somebody else. You can simply tell them. Is easier to tell them. But still we get these kinds of situations that could have been avoided with simple communication. Next time, speak your mind! Is easier than all this hinting and scheming. I can assure you of that. 
 

Nobody broke a rule, nobody staged a protest, someone just filed paperwork early enough to make it airtight. The fact that it worked says less about cleverness and more about how rarely anyone bothers testing whether policies actually apply evenly.

This sort of pettiness is something only siblings can understand, and I think one has to dabble in this type of silly revenge from time to time when it comes to brothers and sisters. The mature thing would've been to deny feeding the cat or to confront her about the pricey shower somehow, but the $20 resolution kinda cracks me up. What would you have done?

Weddings and bachelorette parties can get very expensive. Between the shoes, the dress, the hair and make-up, the gifts, and who knows what else, a lot of money is needed. Some brides have crazy expectations for their parties, and not everyone can meet them.

A bridesmaid shared on r/bridesmaids her story, describing the crazy demands from her best friend, who is about to get married. The bride wanted to go to Paris for her bachelorette, and her friend explained to her that it was not realistic, no one could actually afford it, and convinced her to do a weekend at the bride's lake house. So far, so good, but the next part of the story is at least questionable. The friend refused to pay for decorations, a night out for dinner, groceries for the weekend at the lake, and made the bride pay for absolutely everything for her and the rest of the guests. No one paid for accommodation, food, or presents. 

At first glance, it is understandable that not everybody has the same budget to pay for everything that goes into a bachelorette, and it sounds unfair when a bride demands that her friends spend a fortune. However, in this case, the bride completely disregarded her original over-the-top plans and settled on something suitable for everybody. She was perfectly reasonable.

What doesn't sound reasonable is her having to pay for everything for a bunch of people just because. The dinner could have been split among everyone. Each of them could have brought a little something to contribute to the decoration of the house, and the groceries they ALL shared. That way it wouldn't have been a burden to anybody. 

What seems to be happening here is a severe case of what experts call "envy." The bridesmaid says the bride is rich, her parents are rich and don't have money issues, so it's okay for them to pay for everyone, since they can afford it. The thing is, what's fair for one is fair for all. It's unfair for a bride to demand her friends spend a fortune, but it is also unfair for a bridesmaid to refuse to contribute with ANYTHING and force the bride to pay for everything.

What do you think? Should the bridesmaids contribute something when brides ask for reasonable things, or should they always take care of absolutely everything on their own?

The person in the story below did something that could be deemed as a social experiment. This person realized that most men don't receive compliments on a daily basis. Most of them go by with months of nobody saying something nice about them. This stuck with this person. They thought this wasn't only sad but also easy to fix. They saw it as an opportunity to do better. They decided to start saying aloud all the good things they noticed about others, whether it was because of a new piece of clothing, the way they did a task, or simply because they looked good that day.

This had an impact almost immediately. Not only did they discover that men were looking happier after hearing the compliment, but they also started to treat this person better and trust them easily. These compliments weren't in excess. They were simple things that this person noticed, as if it was just highlighting the positive aspects of these men. And how they acted after hearing the compliment motivated this person to do it even more and to also start having more friendly relationships with these men. For example, in the gym, they just told someone that their grip in a certain exercise was great, and that made the two people closer. This person wasn't inventing anything. It's just saying the good things you think about other people.

Maybe we need to pay attention to stories like this one, with actual emotional value and a good teaching moment. We need to be more like this person. Bringing kindness and friendliness to every place we go. Telling compliments just to say them without expecting anything in return is something so kind and heartwarming. We have to start doing it, make it a trend, make 'being nice' our whole personality. 
 

We did it; we finally lost the plot. I can't believe friendship requirements are getting so bizarre, and nobody can step out of their own heads or their specific set of "needs" to meet another person where they are. Is it that difficult to understand that your friends are not perfect and that sometimes they are going through stuff and can't be there for you in the way you'd prefer? Especially if that same friend later shows remorse and an honest willingness to repair, is it that hard to empathize? If we are going to live by this rigid standard, we have to know that when we make a mistake or go through something and let's say we forget a friend's birthday, they are going to cut US off; is that the world we want to live in? I'm genuinely so tired of living and reading stories like this. I truly think therapy speech has gone way out of hand and we need to return to simple humanitarian values.

The way we've always seen it, a job interview process is a two-way street that is not only meant to determine whether a candidate is fit for a job, but also if the job fits them. 

For some reason, people think that since there is only one job and usually hundreds of applicants, the hiring process is meant to find only someone who can do the job best, but they fail to understand that the job should also meet the top candidate's criteria. If it doesn't, then it's simply not going to work.

So, why is it okay for a company to waste job applicants' time by making them go through multiple interviews and assignments, only to eventually reject 99% of them, but then complain when one candidate does the same and pulls out of the hiring process when they realize they don't want the job? If they don't care about wasting others' time, they shouldn't be surprised when others waste some of theirs.

The reason why the recruiter here was so mad has more to do with just his wasted time and effort; he also struggled with keeping his massive ego at bay.

It all started with one job candidate, who decided that they did not want to keep going with the hiring process because they realized they were content with their current job. A day before their second interview, they emailed HR and the recruiter, informing them of their withdrawal and thanking them for their time. The candidate expected that to be the end of the process, but they were shocked to receive a stern message from the recruiter, accusing them of handling the situation all wrong and wasting everyone's time. 

The candidate shared the entire message online, and we could not believe what we were reading. The complaints the recruiter made were so unbelievable, we actually feel bad for the company that has to keep working with them.

I'm going to be very careful because this is a little funny, but it's also very serious, and there is a slight element of inversion that's interesting to me. On the one hand, we've got a man telling his partner she is "beggy" after she asked for something, and on the other, we've got a woman who got legally married, still calls her husband her "boyfriend," and thinks the legally marrying part is the least official bit, whilst the party and the kneeling down are the 'real thing'; all that sounds a little backwards to me, but well.

Manners are so important. They are learned when we are children, but still some people don't have them. They are something that is almost too obvious. Don't eat with your mouth open, don't talk while you eat, don't spit the food that you don't like. This Reddit story had all of those. It actually baffles me that a customer could think that doing this is fine. You wouldn't do it at a friend's house or in front of your mother, but you think it's okay to do it in front of a server that is just trying to do her job?

These kinds of people are the reason why working in the servicing industry is so hard. If you think about it, being a server is mostly that: serve. Take an order, pass it on to the kitchen, bring it out when it's cooked, and later on bring the check. Easy peasy, right? Well, no. The job involves having to talk to people, and that is almost always a problem. You have the customers that complain about everything, the ones that expect you to read their mind, and even the ones that think that they can completely mistreat you just because they will pay a bill for their food. People, that is the problem of being a server. Isn't it crazy that a job that seems so simple can become so awful by just having customers that don't know how to behave?

Can't we, customers, be better? Can't we stop expecting to be treated as kings and queens and act normal? Be kind? Have manners? Is that really so hard? If we all thought before speaking and treated people with the respect they deserved, then jobs like this one could go back to being simple. Servers deserve that. So if you act somewhat like these examples, stop it, take a look at yourself, and be better. Nobody deserves to be putting up with this kind of attitude, no matter what their job is. 
 

It began on an ordinary morning. A fifteen-year-old girl took the family dogs outside to do their business, and before she could grab the doggy bags, her next-door neighbor approached with an unusual request: could she have the family's Disney+ login so she could catch up on a show she'd missed?

Only thing is, entitlement rarely announces itself directly. It shows up disguised as a small, reasonable-sounding request, one that assumes the answer will be yes simply because asking felt easy. 

While most of us are loners who take care of ourselves, some people enjoy the idea of living within a community of some sort. Whether it is in a small town where everyone knows everyone, or in a big city where people form a community of their own, there are plenty of ways to find people who seek companionship and want to work together for a common goal.

But the thing about community, which might be why some people avoid it, is that it demands responsibility. If you want to be a part of a group, you accept that you will have commitment to the group and to the reason that brings you together. If you're not committed, well, then you cannot be part of the community. 

If someone is part of a book club, for example, but they fail to read any of the books or attend any of the meetings, then they are not part of the book club. If someone signs up to take care of a community garden plot, but they fail to take care of the garden, they shouldn't be considered part of the community. It all depends on how much work is put into the common goal.

The woman below, named Diane, had an assigned garden plot for years, until one day, she disappeared from the city due to a family emergency and hasn't been seen for two whole years. The gardener who took care of a nearby plot noticed the state of the abandoned garden and offered to take over it in the absence of Diane. When Diane finally returned two years later, she saw that someone else had taken over the garden, and threw a fit in response. According to her, no one had the right to care for her garden, and everything that grew there while she was away technically belongs to her.

Pretty bold move from Diane. Unfortunately, she is not letting her garden go without a fight…

Being in the lowest position in a company can be really bad. You think you are starting to build your career and putting effort into bettering yourself, and you are, but you also occupy a space that most employees will deem as invisible. You have a job at the company, but you will soon notice that people with higher positions won't know that, or care. You will say hi or do something for them, and some won't even look into your face. As if they were some kind of god that you don't deserve to speak to. Not everyone will act like this, but some will, and it's going to hurt. You will start to feel like you are less than them, but you aren't. You need to use this kind of situation as an opportunity to build your confidence and stop taking things personally. If someone who has already climbed the career ladder and is so successful can't even say thank you when you bring them coffee, then they are nothing but entitled.

When you have an entry position as the one in this story, it is important to watch and learn. You are in the front row watching your future, and you need to take advantage of that. Not only learn how to do your job, but also how to act. Once you climb that ladder, you need to remember where you were before, and how people treated you. Don't be like the ones that couldn't even talk to you. Be the ones that said thank you, the ones that cared enough to learn your name. The ones that actually inspire you to not only build your career but also to stay grounded.

Use your current entry job, grow a thicker skin, learn to take what everyone has to offer, and don't let it affect you. Use all that mistreatment so that when you are on top, you aren't like them. You are better. Use your experience in your favor, and everything will get better in time. If more people do it like this, then maybe in the future we won't have so many finance dudes thinking it's fine to not acknowledge a colleague just because she's the receptionist. 
 

But I think more often we will find that more often than not, when it comes to compensation systems that rely on worker productivity, it's more likely that the game will be changed under your feet. 

When you're consistently earning bonuses by consistently hitting KPIs or other production figures or otherwise getting a high payment rate through flat-rate payment structures as a productive worker, eventually someone, likely green with jealousy or otherwise indignant that one of the "tall poppy" worker ants is rising above the rest, is going to start asking questions. And as soon as they start asking questions as to why a base-level production worker is raking in the profits, everyone else is going to start wondering why that money isn't simply going to their own bonuses, and the board will be wondering why it isn't going toward their company's bottom line. 

So, the productive worker will suddenly find the bonus structure altered, their compensation slashed, all with little explanation outside of some weak excuses about consequential process changes.

And, not only that, but even in a normal role that is paid hourly, being an overachiever who is great in their productive role actually can get you pigeonholed and stuck in a production role permanently, meaning that you will never be promoted to management because of the fear of losing your productive work and hurting your earnings and career progression greatly over time.

So, all of that time you spent grinding, all of those extra hours, all of that extra energy you put into your job, evaporates and reveals the flaws in that linear thinking and that belief that your hard work was getting you somewhere.

It really goes to show how small changes to company productivity reward systems, which basically amount to employee pay cuts, can become completely destabilizing to the organization and demotivate the workforce.

Upper management apparently lives in the clouds, like they don't understand normal earthly rules or needs; they don't care about our silly little goals or our silly little surpassed objectives. They need us to be present at every single pitch about granola bars or new policies over restrooms. The work doesn't matter anymore; it's all about the office 'culture'. We might as well stop doing work-related stuff and start attending mandatory ridiculous meetings and cocktails; I bet work would be much more relaxing. Honestly, if that's what they want, why shouldn't we give it to them?lol.

Do the work well enough and people start treating your energy like a subscription service that auto-renews forever, no cancellation option, no customer support line.

Say no to someone and watch how fast "you don't care" comes out of their mouth, like caring was ever supposed to mean infinite availability. Nobody actually believes that when it's their own boundary being tested. Try telling your boss you need him to stay late for free because you really care about the project and see how far that gets you.

A job candidate shared his bizarre interview experience from early in his career with this Reddit community. He had turned down a job offer due to how disorganized and unprofessional the interview was. The level of problems in the company became clearer when he got a call from another manager at the company demanding to know why he hadn't shown up for his shift. 

This candidate for a retail job had an interview scheduled for 11 a.m. However, she showed up an hour earlier, and instead of going to a cafe until the time was right or waiting patiently for the arrival of the manager, she started demanding to be interviewed right away. Workers told her that wasn't possible, and when the manager finally got there, the candidate was furious, claiming they were wasting her time. Shocked by her entitlement, the manager politely told her she needed to adjust her attitude and that the interview would no longer be happening. 

Being nervous over a job interview and wanting to be on time is perfectly understandable. Looking for a job is an arduous task that oftentimes takes months and consumes our patience. Still, when the chance of an interview finally comes, it's important to remember that the interviewer also has a fixed schedule to stick to and other tasks to complete. We expect them to arrive on time for us, and we do it for them. But it's not fair to demand that they go out of their way to tend to our whims. Getting there early is alright. What is not alright is wanting the rest of the world to adapt to what we expect. 

Working in retail and dealing with people constantly is complicated. If that is the attitude this job candidate was going to show up to work with, it was wise for the manager to dismiss her. If you're acting as the face of a business and have daily contact with customers, your image must be calm and collected, especially because you might encounter plenty of complicated people along the way. You can't lose your mind over something that you consider unfair, even less if it was your mistake in the first place. Customers won't tolerate it, and you'll make yourself and the company look bad. 

Scroll down to read the full story and tell us: do you think that the manager should have given her a second chance or should the candidate do a little self-reflection on her attitude?

Karens seem to be a common occurrence, and a neighbor shared her story with her own Karen on Reddit. She goes around telling people where to park, when to paint their fences, or when they can have a barbecue in their own backyards. To avoid having issues with her, her neighbor asked her if she could repaint her side of the fence, since it needed painting. Karen said yes at first, but then apparently changed her mind and painted her side of the fence a completely different color. The neighbor went to finish painting their side of the fence, carefully not to spill anything on her side. That's when Karen showed up again and claimed they had no right to do anything to the fence, not even paint. It sounded awfully close to a threat. 

It's very hard to win with people like that. The priority is to keep the peace in the neighborhood, but even by letting her do or say whatever she wants without any retaliation, she continues to bother everybody. If taking legal action is not a real option, there is not much more that can be done, except for establishing clear boundaries. People like that enjoy feeling they have control over everybody. It is only a matter of time until someone gets sick of her attitude and puts her in her place. 

My family used to say that, no matter how crazy you are, you will eventually come across someone crazier. Maybe that's what this lady needs: another neighbor who's even more entitled and bossy, who's not willing to take her attitude or put up with any kind of mistreatment or threat. Until then, this Karen will continue to act as she already does, and the rest of the neighbors will have to keep enduring it, or stand up to her as a group. 

What should he neighbors' next steps be: should they retaliate and take legal action or leave things alone?

When you're sick, you're sick. There is not much story. You feel bad, or have something contagious. You either go to the ER if it's something serious or just take a hot bath and go to bed if it's something simpler like the flu. You don't actually need to see the doctor every time you feel bad. Sometimes you are just so stressed that your defenses get lower and you get a fever. Is nothing that a good sleep and some soup aren't going to solve. Going to the doctor is for the more important illnesses, is for when you feel so bad you can't even move or when you have something you don't even know what it is. 

In the story below, the employee doesn't get provided with health insurance, so the fact that they ask him to bring a doctor's note to justify the sick days seems to be more like a way to make him go to work even if he feels bad. That is what an awful boss would do, jeopardizing not only an employee who could end up getting worse from overworking when feeling bad, but also the staff. By not letting the sick employee stay home, the manager is providing a place for his coworkers to also catch what he has. With just two days of being understaff he could avoid having a bigger issue where almost every employee can't do their job properly due to illness.

What this employee did is great. He went to the doctor to get the note, so instead of having the two sick days he originally asked for, he got four days from the doctor. This showed the boss that he could not manipulate him into coming to work when feeling under the weather, but also that it is better to believe him and give him the sick days he asked for instead of asking for the doctor's note that will provide him with extra days that he doesn't necessarily need and just make the company be understaffed for even more days. It's kind of sad that they would do this kind of tactics on employees who do not have access to doctor's appointments. But let's hope that the attitude this employee shows is enough for them to stop requesting it.