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You've heard about the dangers of AI and machines taking over humankind (Terminator meets Black Mirror type of thing), but there is an invisible thread that has already started to take over our lives. Autocorrect. It poses as your best friend, promising to make you look professional at your new job, or to save your reputation when faced with the most letter-filled words of the English language. It even goes as far as to give you suggestions that will make your grammar sound more glamorous and engaging, truly making you feel like you can trust it.

Nonetheless, make no mistake. It will betray you the moment you have to send an important communication to your most intimidating boss, or when you're attempting to introduce yourself as the new office hire. When you least expect it, it will change your spelling and help create a core memory in your brain that will keep you up at night every once in a while, until you're a hundred years old. If it makes you feel any better, you are certainly not alone on this ship. 

We've all been there. It doesn't really matter how much technology has evolved in these past few years; work emails really have not. You double-check, you triple-check, you call a friend to proofread it for you, and still, as soon as you revisit it after you have just pressed the send button, you feel the sudden urge to crawl under your desk and disappear for the day (or the rest of the week, depending on the severity of the typo). You ended up changing a "u" for an "a" and an "r" for an "f". Might not feel like such a big deal, but the final result is just pure comedy gold.

Fear not. We can help you. Not really with any solution or something of the sort because, if we are being completely honest here, we made most of these mistakes on our morning emails alone. However, we have built a collection of the funniest, most embarrassing email typos, so at least you won't feel alone in your fall from grace. Which one do you think deserves the typo golden crown?

When it comes to the handling of money inside a marriage, both parties need to agree on big expenses so it doesn't cause strain or financial problems.

When two people choose to marry or move in together, they both need to make compromises to maintain harmony inside the house. Those compromises may entail many different things, but finances are definitely something to keep in mind and one really important issue to discuss beforehand. Couples choose to approach budgeting in different ways, but the most important part is that both are in agreement and stick to what they've decided for the sake of their wallets and of the relationship. 

The issues begin when one of those parties actively chooses to go over budget, provoking problems and/or showing that they don't care about their joint financial stability. It's even more problematic when they already have big fixed expenses, like paying rent or a mortgage. 

This couple went through an issue of this kind. They both split all their expenses 50/50, including utilities and mortgage. They both cover half of the mortgage every month, but this time, the husband was making some extra big expenses without talking about it with his wife. He bought a gaming console, a set of new golf clubs, and went away for a weekend with his buddies. He spent so much that he ran out of money to pay for his part of the mortgage and asked his wife to cover it. In other words, he expected her to pay for the entire mortgage by herself that month. Naturally, she refused. He was supposed to take care of half of the payments and be responsible for his own finances. He didn't, and now he feels annoyed because his wife doesn't want to take responsibility for his missteps. He claims that they're 'supposed to be a team'. Well, if they are a team, each of the members has to take care of their own responsibilities for the entire system to work smoothly. 

No matter whether you have joint finances or individual finances. One is always responsible for their own money and can't demand that others take care or our own mess-ups and reckless behavior. 

Is a small business owner always going to be obliged to offer their friends and family a discount on their services?

No doubt about it, making the decision to run your own business is usually a tough one. It requires a person to be incredibly dedicated to what they do, and usually to accept a significant period of struggling to turn a profit before the business in question actually manages to make some real money. It is no wonder so many prefer to be an employee, despite its numerous downsides.

When we are close to somebody who is starting a business, it is prudent to expect that they are going to be having a hard time for a while. It may be a passion project, but that doesn't automatically make it easy. Still, there are many ways to be a good friend and support somebody who is facing the challenges of entrepreneurship; we can be a shoulder to cry on, and perhaps even more importantly, we can offer them our custom. More than anything, a new business needs some exposure, and for people to be paying real money for whatever it is that they are offering. That is how it works.

Sometimes your actions say more than your words.

Working in the service industry can be so hard. People who have never worked in customer service love to assume that it is easy. As if it were just smiling and being friendly. It kind of is, until the customer finds your "friendliness" annoying and starts mistreating you, or thinks that you are being mean because you are tired, or just wants your life to be as miserable as theirs. We can think of millions of reasons why customers mistreat the personnel working in customer service. But there is no way of end to that list. People are just mean to employees. And that is exactly why working in customer service is SO hard.

In this story, we can argue that this mistreatment is worse than any other. But the truth is, it has become so common. This kind of behavior from customers toward employees. When I read the story, it didn't even surprise me. This is how A LOT OF PEOPLE behave and treat the staff that is working. It's unbelievable, and it shows how bad we are as a society. This kind of attitude is not only inadmissible, but they should be ashamed of themselves. This is not okay. And change should be made immediately.

Unfortunately, as I said, this kind of behavior is common, so common. But that doesn't mean that it is acceptable. This comeback that the hairstylist made is great, funny, and smart. But in her case, I would have simply thrown them out of the salon. That kind of person should be denied service. If they can't treat people right, then they don't deserve anything. You get what you give. So, let's hope that this word turns into a better one in the future. In the meantime, we are stuck with awful people who find joy in bringing others down. They love to mistreat and mock other people just to feel superior or better about themselves. In reality, they are just miserable beings who do not deserve anything. 

Sometimes the best thing you can do during a shift is go home.

Messing up at work is something that everybody does now and then, and dealing with the fallout doesn't always get that much easier. While all workplace mistakes come with their fair share of embarrassment, it has to be said that the potential level of mortification is multiplied when we talk about customer-facing jobs. These are the roles where employees don't just have to prove their professionalism to management, but also to random members of the public. Failing at that means double the consequences.

Some people will be more understanding than others when their server or similar seems to be having a bad day, but it isn't always easy to predict who is going to take a mistake in good faith and who is going to give a hard time about it. In times like these, the worker in question is going to have no choice but to find out what kind of customer they are. It can feel a lot more difficult to own a slip-up than it can to deal with a time when the customer is in the wrong, as it is a matter of competency. 

In a viral online detailed account of their situation at work, this developer looks for advice on how to turn their new status as the sole caretaker of a fragile legacy system into fair compensation without making the request sound like a threat.

 It's my home, my rule, isn't it?

Sometimes homeowners are right in their decision-making. It's not always when I side with them over a neighborhood dispute. But when I do is because they definitely have a valid point. Like in this case. This homeowner decided to take down a wall that was making his parking space smaller. As he bought a new car, he needed the space. So he did what everyone would have done in his case: take down the wall. Now, everything was fine until his neighbor, who was taking advantage of the wall as if it was his parking space to use, got mad at this.

In this story, I don't believe that anybody would side with the neighbor. I get that it is not ideal to lose your parking space all of a sudden. But that is not reason enough to make a complaint. He was never entitled to the parking space. And the homeowner just did what he wanted with his house, which he is entitled to do. So, in this case, this neighbor will just have to accept the situation and shut up.

Starting a new job usually means getting paid… not handing your employer $1000 before you've even made it through training.

By now, I've read multiple stories about a new position or a new job. Most of them talk about how a hiring manager leaves the candidate with no response for months, or how the initial salary expectation is not met once the person is employed… But this is the first time that I'm reading a story about a candidate who has to pay to be able to start working at the company that just hired him.

According to what they told him, this has to be paid on his first day, either in cash or by check, and the only way for him to get it back is by staying for a full year and being in a good position. Also, there's a disclaimer that states that the company can keep the money if they decide to terminate his contract for any reason. Have you ever heard of something like this? Because this is my first time.

The employee thinks this job is a legitimate one, and he doesn't feel they're trying to scam him. Actually, he met the team, is a small one, but he feels they're honest. He thinks this might be because the company wants to hire someone who's going to stay for the long run and wants people to commit and to put their 100% into the job… but charging $1000 is not the way to go.

A lot of things can happen in a whole year, and that doesn't mean that someone is going to be quitting. If I were in that position, I don't think I'd pay that amount of money to start working… it doesn't really make sense. Besides, I'd be very hesitant about the fact of not being fired, and that would make me anxious and not be able to concentrate properly. 

The employee hasn't made a decision yet, but many people are telling him that it is not a legitimate job because no company made their employees pay just to start working. 

I don't want to be prejudiced, but brothers are complicated, to say the least, when it comes to household chores

I know this story is complicated, and the sister who has a daughter could be living outside her mother's home, but I feel like that's the easiest way out of the equation.

Sometimes, mothers don't know what to do about their son's untidiness, and they decide to make it anyone else's problem. I get it; it's not on purpose, and most of the time, it's not even a conscious decision.

They want to solve an urgent matter, and they will do what's easiest for everybody. And when somebody never cooperates, it's easier to stop trying to make them change and work with those who do.

The problem is that this way of solving things can't be sustained forever. At some point, something has to occur that forces a person to learn to do their chores. And if you don't learn that when you're young and living at home, life will teach it to you the minute you get out.

But what happens when you're still living with your mom and sister and you're making everyone's life harder? Do mothers have a tendency to forgive boys' mistakes more easily?

I know a lot of families that follow this exact dynamic. Are we going to fall into the common place of blaming the mother? Or is it the sister in the wrong here?

Are there any proven techniques that work to discipline a full-grown adult into doing what he's supposed to do? Is he a lost cause?

Is jealousy in the workplace dangerous? Is there anything we can do about it?

Jealousy is a controversial emotion. We all feel it at some point, but none of us wants to admit we do. I believe jealousy, when it's ours, can help point us toward our desires and, if we play our cards right, transform into admiration.

It's definitely much more fruitful to relate to the people we look up to through curiosity and compliments than through jealousy and bitterness. The chances of reaching our goals become much, much higher, and we even create an opportunity to be helped by those who are currently in a position we'd wish to be in.

It's much easier to do something about jealousy when it's an emotion we're feeling, but when we suspect someone else feels jealous of us, things get a little more complicated.

First of all, most likely we can't confront the person with what we think is going on, precisely because it's an emotion nobody wants to admit they're having, and even more so if it wasn't communicated directly to us.

Jealousy coming from someone at our workplace, taken to its extreme, can be pervasive, but in everyday work life it's mostly harmless. We have to find a way to ignore it, since our coworkers' emotions are not our responsibility.

Of course, we'd be more than willing to help them reach their goals if they related to us more positively, but when all we receive is negativity and pettiness, there's not much we can do.

Our kindness and overall neutrality should become like a fortress where all the bitterness bounces back. Maybe after some time, the person will understand that the only way to get a promotion is to learn from those in a higher position, and if she doesn't, well, that'd be on her.

At least that'd be my tactic for confronting this issue. What would you do in this situation??

Aren't we all just a hash brown away from family drama?

What seemed to be a joyful and unexpected family breakfast gathering turns into a massive disagreement when the bill comes back higher than expected (at least, for half the party). Here's the context: A sibling, their sister, and their brother-in-law decided to go out to their usual diner to have some breakfast. Here's the thing, though: The sibling is usually the one to pick up the bill (for the past 8 years, may we add). This might already be a problem starter on its own, as efforts might feel a little unbalanced.

Money has always been a delicate subject, especially when it comes to family and friends. This story is certainly not the exception. Let's just be glad that there is some love involved in this unfortunate encounter. However, there are two perspectives here: when someone invites you to do anything, it might be polite to hold back on the expenses a bit, out of consideration. Nonetheless, if you have been the one paying the bills no questions asked, it feels like you get a free pass when it comes to testing the other side of the waters.

If you told me several times not to do something, I'm not going to go against your wishes. Especially at your wedding…

If I were told a thousand times NOT to do something, you can be sure that I'm not going to do it. I don't know if that is just the kind of person I am or if it's common sense. In whichever case. I do believe there is no need to tell someone that they shouldn't do something if, in the end, you are gonna wish they had. Be straight with your ideas and what you say. Nobody knows how to read minds. Maybe someone does, but that is not something you should be expecting people to do. It's just a type of entitlement to assume that people are going to do exactly what you want, even if you didn't tell them to. Especially if you explicitly told them not to. You should be mad at them if they did something that you told them not to, not if they obey your wishes.

In this story, my first thought is that people need to get better at communicating in that family. There is no need to be so weird. Secondly, I thought that if I had a family member who was a photographer, I would love it if they offered to take the wedding pictures of the wedding as a gift. It would mean that the pictures would most likely be the way I want them to be, as this person knows me much better than any other photographer that I could hire. But I do know that sometimes that doesn't go very well, so I also understand the bride asking her aunt to get involved in the picture-taking part and to just enjoy the wedding.

In general, I have a lot of thoughts about this particular story, but they can all be summed up in this: the bride is entitled. She expected her aunt, whom she explicitly told multiple times not to take pictures, to have taken photos of the wedding. She told her she didn't want that. Why would she now be mad that she complied with what she was asked? She is a bridezilla, full and full!

At one point, we all had a friend or family member whom we thought was trapped in a very bad relationship

It's obvious from the outside: the person isn't good for our friend, plus being in a relationship isn't mandatory; they can totally do life on their own and avoid unnecessary suffering, but when you are the person in a relationship like this, everything is much more complex.

It's like that metaphor people use of the boiling frogs. Bad things don't happen right from the beginning, and they also don't happen all at once. They usually come mixed with very good moments, nice trips, beautiful gestures, and one is often too deep in the relationship to back out once they start becoming more frequent.

Back-to-school routines are back, and so are the parents adjusting to the new schedules and responsibilities. Drop-off is at 8, so you get the kids up at 7, make breakfast, pack lunch, and then go. But every family's morning routine is different.

A Reddit user, Kristaboo14, shared a misunderstanding that happened in her family during the school routine. She is a working mom, and for the past three years, she has worked in the office every Friday. She leaves at 6, before anyone else wakes up, to begin work at 7. During that entire time, her husband has taken their 7-year-old son to school on Fridays. His schedule has recently changed because he now has a new job, but his shift doesn't begin until 9… This made him responsible for taking their son to school on Fridays. 

He forgot about school drop-off and went to work like any other day, leaving his son at home alone. The working mom found out about this when the school sent her an absence alert. Naturally, she panicked, and a lot of things came to her mind, except that the father had forgotten to take him to school. The worst of it all is that when she confronted him, the father's only argument for leaving his son alone all morning was, "Why didn't you remind me of this?" 

The mom's reaction, my reaction, and everyone else's reaction is the same: Are you even serious??? Even if his new schedule created some uncertainty, he was the last adult in the house. Can't you send a text to clarify everything before you leave? And didn't it seem strange that your son was still at home by the time you were heading out? 

Years of gardening turned one couple's yard into something beautiful enough for a stranger to mistake it for a neighborhood park.

I can imagine how I would feel if I came home one day and saw strangers enjoying - and destroying - my beautiful garden. The problem is not that they thought that this was a public park… Honestly, I'd feel good about my gardening skills if I were told this. The problem was that people didn't realize how hard it was to get in. According to the story, they had to walk through parked cars and two gates to access the yard.

But imagine that maybe a public park has that amount of security… fine. Don't you see that's next to a house? And what about the parked cars? I don't get it, truly. 

I'm getting mad, but I have two things to add. Firstly, these people weren't being careful about keeping the place nice and as pretty as they found it. And more importantly, if this garden was indeed a public one, you should be twice as careful and not let your kid destroy the planted flowers. Secondly, when the man asked them what they were doing in his garden, their response was mean and disrespectful! Come on, you have to understand that this is not a place for you to sit and enjoy the day!

After this anecdote, I'm sure that the homeowners decided to put up a fence claryfing that's private property, because I wouldn't imagine how crazy it would be to come home every day and find strangers in your yard. 

Now, how pretty that garden must be, and how good his wife should be at gardening, for having people mistake it for a public place? I'm sure it must be beautiful indeed, and as I said at the top, I'd feel good about myself and take this trespassing problem as a good compliment! But only after I got angry at the ugly response they gave…

There is no way this was done with good intent

Or maybe it was done with good intentions, but intentions aren't what counts. Concrete actions count, and these actions are rather questionable.

Maybe they couldn't find another way to try to convince their friend to forgive this third person, but if they couldn't find a way other than forcefully inviting him into their home, maybe it was because there wasn't one. And it doesn't have to be one.

Sometimes we don't want to forgive a person, and luckily, we don't have to. We're allowed to decide who gets to have a place in our lives, and that place is sacred.

Frankly, after this incident, I would question the place the other two people have in the unsuspecting host's life.

Guilt is not always an emotion one should listen to. Sometimes it's there to remind us that we've done something bad, but other times it's there because we don't know how else to process an ugly emotion we're feeling.

We don't need an excuse to refuse to open our door to someone we don't want to let in. Simply not wanting to is a completely valid reason. It's not really necessary to overexplain ourselves, especially if the ones listening would be those who forcefully brought an unwelcome guest to our home in the first place.

That said, this incident deserves a follow-up, but I don't know which would be best. Should she simply tell them she wasn't home and ignore it altogether? Or should she confront them about what they did?

I'm not sure somebody who does something like this deserves to explain themselves over conversation to begin with, but that's just me.

Mowing the lawn makes quite a bit of noise, and it can be a bit annoying sometimes, but giving your neighbor nasty looks for taking care of his property is simply ridiculous. 

Yet, that is exactly what happened. A man was doing some gardening chores around his own house, more specifically, mowing the lawn, like he does every Sunday. No neighbor has a problem with that, since it's part of the weekly routine. But this time, one of his neighbors' daughters was visiting and having a pool party right before the end of summer. The neighbor, Daniel, has never had an issue with the noise of the lawn mower, but his daughters do. They approached the man mowing his lawn to tell him that he was making too much noise, that he was inconsiderate, and that he had ruined their weekend with their dad, since they couldn't hear the music they were playing. He quickly apologized, but it wasn't enough for the two women. Daniel, on the other hand, was not upset at all and even tried to put in a good word for him to his daughters, but they weren't having any of it. 

It's understandable that the daughters were upset over the noise if what they wanted was to spend a peaceful and relaxing day, but if that was the case, they could have kindly asked the neighbor to tone it down a little bit for a few hours. Accusing him of being inconsiderate and being impolite to him, even after he apologized and their father interceded for him, is a childish and immature way of behaving. The neighbour is not a mind reader, and he had no way of knowing that Daniel's family was visiting. In fact, as we mentioned, he apologized for the noise. He was not entitled or inconsiderate to them, so the daughter's reaction is greatly exaggerated. We feel bad for Daniel having to deal with such capricious daughters, but there's no going around it; he raised them after all. 

Nepo babies can be found EVERYWHERE. Even at your job!

You can be at the most normal job ever, like a family restaurant, and you may still find yourself being a victim of nepotism. Some brother, sister, or nephew appears in the shop one day, and suddenly they become manager and start bossing you around. They have been at the job for 2 months, and you have been there since the beginning. Nothing matters. They are close to the owner, so they get all the benefits without nearly doing any effort. They are just "lucky". Or at least that's what they tell themselves to avoid explaining that they just went over actually good employees and stole their benefits from them because they are family.

Hiring family is probably the worst thing you can do for your business. They may not work hard enough, and you can't say anything without creating a family feud. They may be dumb or awful at their tasks, and you can't fire them. And they may ask for a raise, and you have to give it to them to avoid more family issues. So why would somebody even do that? I get the whole helping out family. But there is a difference between giving someone you know a job and making them manager or giving them the best hours over other employees just because you know them. Like the people in the story below did.

When you manage your business badly and do things like prioritizing family members over great employees, you get a bad business. The family won't work as hard as any other employee. You will regret having hired them in the first place. And it would be too late. The great employees may have even left because you, the owner, decided that people who don't have any abilities on the job deserved better hours and positions just because they are family. When there was a great employee who did, in fact, deserve it in the first place. So next time you are thinking about hiring a family member, think harder. I promise you it's not the great idea you think.

A week away was all it took for one homeowner to return to a tree bearing a mysterious new scar…

A Massachusetts homeowner was happy to return home from a long vacation. They enjoyed the summer and decided it was a good time to come home and start getting ready to get into a routine again. Right when they were approaching their house, they could see that the tree they share with one of their neighbors had a huge gash that, of course, wasn't there when they left.

They were desperate: they had read all of the stories about other people returning home from vacation and finding gardens, trees, or homes destroyed. And they were upset that it was them, this time. Immediately, they knew that someone did this, not only because of the position the gash was located, but because it was a small neighborhood.

The tree is located 2.5ft from the curb of the street, and their home is 5 feet away from it. They had security cameras, but when they checked, they realized that they didn't show the vandal or what really happened there. 

After giving some extra thought, the homeowner realized that maybe their neighbor was the one who injured the tree. According to what they said, the neighbor complained about the tree and how it blocked the view and things like that, so it's more than likely that it was him. But they don't have any proof that confirms this, so it's really a difficult situation. 

Something important to talk about in these kinds of stories is how people return home from vacation and have to be paranoid about something bad happening. As the OP states in the story, they were reading things like this and weren't shocked when they understood it was their time. People should be more respectful of others' property, but not only that… this is a tree, a living being, and being respectful of nature is also important. We hope that those responsible for the damage can pay for their actions and help restore the tree. 

Should a finder's fee be a legal right?

There are not many inconveniences that are more upsetting than losing something that has a lot of sentimental value. Some possessions feel like they should be with you for life, and opening up to the possibility that this might not be the case can be an unpleasant shock. They are the kind of things that some will happily do anything to get them back.

The unfortunate reality that many people in these situations have to face is not just that they may never see this precious belonging again, but that the price they have to pay to have it returned to them is far greater than seems fair. Not everybody is going to be fortunate enough to find the thing themselves when they retrace their steps. All kinds of suspicious happenings can take place with a lost possession, not least if it happens to be somewhat valuable. You never know who might be the first person to come across it, and what they will think is the best way to proceed with it. Of course, there is every chance that they will decide that they want it for themselves.