Being a college student already puts you at a difficult starting point when it comes to your financial state. There is simply so much one has to pay for in college, and physically being in school also means you can't really work to pay for everything college demands.

One of the most infuriating things colleges usually take money for is parking. Apparently, the tuition is not enough to secure a place to park on campus, so colleges resort to asking even more money for parking passes or permits.

That is where this clever discussion comes into the picture. Initially, this started as a Reddit story from the subreddit 'Malicious Compliance', which tells the tale of how one college student followed the rules and maliciously got out of a parking ticket. Then, people in the comments also share some clever ways they got away with parking on campus without having to pay ridiculous amounts of money for parking passes or tickets.

Scroll down to read these helpful stories. After you are done, click here for a story of a band member who put the entitled lead singer in his place.

Let this job candidate's story serve as a reminder to stand your ground in an interview. If you come across a passing comment from a hiring manager that directly contradicts what was expressly written in the job posting, that's a red flag certainly worthy of questioning. 

Here, we have a candidate who was honest about needing to go to a doctor's appointment for valid medical reasons once every three months and that these appointments would be a full-day commitment. Based on the job posting, he assumed that this would not be a problem. However, the hiring manager brought up a strange, previously undisclosed policy in the interview that employees were not allowed to schedule doctor's appointments during work hours for more than two hours every month. What about emergencies? What about routine checkups if you have a condition, as this candidate did? Thankfully, the candidate was empowered enough to call the recruiter out on her nonsense.

Keep scrolling below for the fallout. For more stories like this, here's one about a boss who called his employee's wife about coming into work while they were on vacation. 

Keeping a friendly rapport with your supervisors and fellow employees is crucial if you want to progress in the company. Having said that, is this truly a place you want to be if a manager is continuously criticizing you?

The story below is an account of a frustrated employee. The original poster (OP) worked on a video production shoot. At first, everything was well as he enjoyed working the set and made a good impression. But things turned sour when a few weeks passed and he was still unpaid. In an attempt to find out why he hadn't been paid, OP contacted the production company. He encountered other cameramen who were in a similar situation while looking for answers. But when they found out they hadn't been paid because the producer didn't think their work was good enough, they were all astonished. Once the first shock subsided, they came up with a scheme to settle the score and teach him a lesson he would never forget.

So, if you want to find out what happens next and how OP gets revenge, then read the story below! Additionally, after you're done, don't forget to check out the story about the woman who stands firm and says no to free housing after her sister's dream vacation leaves her homeless!

This prospective homeowner nearly fell for a realtor's 'catfish' home listing that cleverly misled buyers from seeing a horribly unappealing reality–a vermin-ridden, shack rotting next door.

When you're in the market to buy a home, it's tough not to get stars in your eyes and imagine your life in every listing you see online. Especially when it comes to the rustic charms of colonial builds and 19th-century architectural details, some buyers can put the horse before the carriage, planning to drop half-a-mil or more on a home where they can only see half the picture. In the case of the guy in our next story, he learned through a mild deep dive that he was literally only seeing half the picture... Because the realtor had cropped out the worst part of his listing.

U/secondhandnews_ fell in love with this adorable duplex almost instantly, imagining what it might be like to own a house that looked like a real-life doll diorama. But before he got too hasty, he did his due diligence of researching the street a little bit more to get a lay of the neighborhood, and he was absolutely disgusted with what he found. Keep reading to cringe at this catfish moment when a buyer nearly leapt into bed next door to the crypt keeper.

You never really know what kind of neighbor you're going to get until it's too late. For some, it's a friendly wave and a chat over the fence, but for others, it's dealing with an entitled Boomer who thinks he's owed your plants. That's right—one woman found herself in the middle of peak neighbor drama when her Boomer neighbor demanded she dig up her own garden and hand over the plants just so he could spruce up his yard.

You've got to hand it to him for the sheer audacity. Not only did he ask for the plants, but he seemed to think he was doing her a favor by suggesting she just dig them out and put them in his yard. I mean, who wouldn't want to spend their Saturday giving up their plants and doing free labor for their neighbor, right? Boomer drama like this is all too real. Whether it's over parking spots, property lines, or, in this case, plants, there's always some entitled request brewing. But when someone decides they'd rather take from your garden than hit up a nursery? That's when you know you've got a real winner living next door.

After putting in countless hours of extra work on a big project, this employee thought a promotion would be his ticket to finally being compensated for all the extra effort. His managers gave him plenty of praise, so when the senior-level role opened up, he threw his hat in the ring. But what should have been a reward for his hard work quickly turned into a nightmare.

After multiple rounds of interviews and weeks of waiting, he landed the promotion—only to find out there wouldn't be a raise to match his new responsibilities. Instead, he was told he'd have to wait a full year for them to "reevaluate" his pay. More work, no extra pay, and lots of empty promises. He tried to stick it out, but after three months of feeling completely disrespected, he decided enough was enough. When he resigned, his manager had the nerve to call him "unprofessional" during the resignation meeting, as if expecting fair pay for hard work was somehow out of line. But in the end, he knew he made the right call—because respect shouldn't have to wait for a yearly evaluation.

As you lay your head on your desk in your cozy 4x6 cubicle, dreams of the weekend fill your mind.

You're disrupted by the sound of a dreaded Slack notification, and your momentary amnesia subsides. It's Wednesday, and it's only two o'clock in the afternoon. "Maybe next time, the dream will become a reality" you whisper to yourself. Employee burnout is real. Especially when you realize you have a number of things to do with no real motivation to complete them.

The mid-week slump is also very real. Wednesdays' equidistance to Mondays and Fridays makes the middle of the week that much more difficult. Do you remember how you feel when you wake up every Wednesday? Probably like you're okay with being unemployed just for an extra few hours of sleep. Luckily, the occurrence of another Wednesday means the promise of another Friday. Don't worry, fellow employees. We have some extra hilarious work memes that'll perk you right up and hold you over until the weekend arrives. Work blues be gone!

One restaurant greeter learned a valuable lesson about how people should treat them in a work setting. 

When you start your first job, you don't exactly know how you're supposed to be treated by management. Some places yell at their workers, others are passive-aggressive towards them, and others have super strict rules that they stick by no matter what. Your first job teaches you a lot… so by the time you get your second job, you're a little wiser and more experienced. 

This person was holding two jobs at the same time. This is quite common in the food service and retail industries: even with higher minimum wages, lots of people need to work way more than 40 hours per week to get by. Many workers will pick up a night shift and a day shift each day, coordinating between the two jobs to avoid any overlap. 

That's why it's so surprising that this manager decided to talk down to his employees about their second job! Is he new here, does he not know how common this is? Check out the full story below and see for yourself. 

After that, read about some people who aren't great at spelling, so they sounded it out, with some very funny results, like one person who labeled their delicious chocolate desserts as "Browinese." 

There's no better day than payday! 

The collective 'woohoo' of the workforce can be heard all the way down the halls into the accounting office and there isn't a single employee on earth who doesn't celebrate the fruits of their labor. 

Obviously, we need money to function. But after a lifetime in the workforce and with a pile of bills stacking up on the counter, the workingman (occasionally) rues the existence of such convenient wares, like cash. If there were some way to get by on trade alone, trust me, minimum-wage employees would have made it happen by now. Alas, we live in a society where the wheels turn via those greenback dollars we work so hard every week to accumulate. Even while the 'shareholders' and 'silent investors' are watching their millions stack up in the treasure troves in Geneva, they'll never understand the simplest pleasures of their lowly workers: Payday. 

So if you're a biweekly paycheck kind of employee or a salaried type of worker, you'll understand the pure bliss of the upcoming paycheck hitting your accounts. Because when the direct deposit hits, we'll be riding the gravy train all weekend. 

If the opportunity of a lifetime comes along, you may as well take it! This person certainly did: u/NALORpod had an incredible tale of petty revenge that took them years to actually act on. Still, it was worth the wait, not just for them, but for another person who was caught up in the drama. 

This story revolves around a boss who was cheating on his wife. He didn't even try to hide it very well! It left his employees in that awkward situation of knowing about the affair, but not knowing what to do about it. They couldn't just contact the boss's wife to tell her about it, and they were just trying to mind their own business. But at the same time, it's hard to ignore an affair when the couple is flaunting it openly. 

Well, this person bided their time and got some really fantastic petty revenge on their boss when the timing was right. Check out the full story down below, as well as comments from people who couldn't believe how everything played out. 

Next up, check out some hilarious online shopping mishaps, like one person whose package was apparently left at their Acura with their dog nearby… but they "don't have a dog or an Acura." 

Sometimes, the sweetest revenge is accidental. Sure, perhaps you've been fantasizing about the different ways in which you can get even with your unapologetically noisy next-door neighbor, but the conflict-avoidant part of you has kept you from acting upon those fantasies. All you can do in these situations is to hope for karma to rear its ugly head, and in this case, it didn't even have to.

This tenant tried numerous times to keep both his adjacent and upstairs neighbors quiet. These were a group of entitled parents who refused to stop their kids from running up and down the halls repeatedly at 3:00 in the morning. The tenant tried to shake it off and avoid more drama. However, when his friend got him a soundbar as a gift, he lost track of time and unknowingly gave his neighbors a taste of their own medicine in the middle of the night. Perhaps they interpreted this act is a purposeful form of petty revenge. Regardless, they stopped their kids from making so much noise from that point forward.

Keep scrolling below for the full story and for the best reactions from folks in the comments section. For more content like this, check out this post about a flight attendant's petty revenge on her now ex-boyfriend.

Don't you love it when people act like they are a much bigger deal than they actually are? As if the whole world revolves around them even though all they do is sing in a small-town band nobody knows? That's right, no one likes people like that, and someone has to tell them that, otherwise they would keep wandering around thinking they are entitled to everything and everyone.

Luckily, there are good samaritans out there who are willing to put entitled people like these in their place, like the guitarist in this Reddit story. He was a member of a small band that was popular in his town and had to deal with the lead singer's self-centered behavior, like demanding the guitarist drive him around for shows. After a few incidents where the lead acted like OP (original poster) was his chauffeur, the guitarist decided to put him in his place.

Keep scrolling to read the full tale. After you are done, click here for a story of tenants who found out their roommate is actually the landlord.

It doesn't hurt to be nice or at least kind to people who are just doing their job.

Oftentimes, your complaint with their service will have more to do with the organization and its cost-saving policies rather than with the individual themself. And this is important to remember because a lot of people—well, they don't think about it at all. Customer service agents are no strangers to verbal mistreatment from customers.

Don't get it wrong; customer service agents can be prone to being just as miserable as anyone, you don't have to be a paragon of human virtue in order to get the job. In fact, customer service reps who have dealt with the public for a long time often become hardened to the behavior, defaulting back to the letter of company policy to the point of pettiness when faced with mistreatment.

This traveler kept their behavior in check when they missed their flight and benefited greatly from it, doing much better than the passenger ahead of them who was pettily booked for a flight 12 hours later in response to their tantrum.

This dude's former boss had an interesting idea of what loyalty meant. 

It's an odd query: should you shop where you work? If you work at a restaurant, would they expect you to eat their food? Or if you work at a clothing store, would your boss be offended if you showed up wearing clothes from a different store? It depends on the workplace, but it's a bit strange to force requirements like this on your employees. I mean, don't show up to your retail job wearing the competitor's clothing… but what about if you work at a car dealership and you have to purchase a vehicle? 

This person shared a story about their workplace act of malicious compliance. It seems like u/Dwardo225's boss had a mean streak in his sense of humor: he "fired" his employee as a joke. If you've ever been fired for real, you know how upsetting it is to suddenly lose your income. A lot of people live paycheck to paycheck, and that's no laughing matter! You can check out this person's story below and see for yourself how they handled their boss's unkind words. 

Next up, check out these hilarious online shopping mishaps, like one person who received some fake Airpods in a case the size of wallet!

This family man was completely flummoxed when he paid cash for his order after his server boldly suggested he should leave more than his original tip. Because, apparently the standard 18% gratuity which is automatically included on nearly every bill nowadays was not enough. 

If you've ever worked as a server, you get it---tips are really important to your income. However, nowadays, servers are no longer completely reliant on tips to bring home the bacon yet there's an enormous amount of pressure on customers to leave a tip for everything. But that brings us to an even more important question: Should we be leaving tips for effectively completing the tasks in your job description? Or should tips be directly correlated to your upstanding service?

Well, when the family in this next story decided to go out for a meal at a restaurant, they were faced with an entitled server who apparently thought that their average work performance deserved more than a standing ovation. You can read on for the weird and insulting request from a server that'll make you want to join the tipping culture rant in the comment section never to set foot in a restaurant ever again. 

When you're renting, it's important that you document everything. Even when you think you've struck gold with your "seemingly nice" landlord, it takes a while for their true colors to show. Landlords are usually against you more than they're with you. It's a constant power struggle. At the end of the day, you are reliant on them for housing and utilities, and they can take that away from you in an instant. If you don't comply, you'll end up getting screwed over when it's time to move out and you're charged thousands of dollars worth of damages that you aren't responsible for.

The tenant in this Reddit story dealt with this a while ago when they lived in Germany. They lived in this apartment for seven years and the landlord privately owned the entire structure. A mom-and-pop landlord, if you will. The original poster (OP) writes that the landlord was always "super responsive" and got things done when needed. The OP expresses that he was nervous to move out, especially given the fact that he's heard horror stories about legal battles between this landlord and former tenants.

Well, upon moving out, the OP gets slammed with thousands of dollars worth of damages, one of which was price-gouged to the extreme and the other, completely untrue. With the help of their fiancé, they managed to get the damages down to 50 euros (56 USD). But, to prevent this landlord from exploiting current and future tenants, he compiles stories, photos, and documents to defame his landlord-ing character. Scroll to read the entire story and additionally, some stories from Redditors who've had their fair share of shady landlords.

Rules in the workplace can be hard to follow, but in some instances, it's best to resist the temptation to question protocol. Sure, in theory, we all want to have the autonomy to follow our own rules, but when it comes to making unauthorized purchases in large quantities on the company's dime, perhaps think twice and get your supervisor's approval before doing so.

Here, we have an employee who tried to make it seem like the new hire was at fault for questioning these purchase requests in the first place. The new hire was tasked with reporting the requests to his manager, and so a human resources crisis was born. The employee refused to be interrogated by a new coworker, but once his own supervisor got involved, it became quite clear that these purchases were, in fact, for personal use. 

Keep scrolling below for the fallout of this tale of workplace revenge. For more content like this, check out this story about retail managers who banded together against an irrational customer.

Why is it that there is always that one customer every single day that feels entitled to personal pleasantries from you? Like, Karen, please, I just found out my partner of 5 years has been cheating on me the entire time and now I'm here working for minimum wage. Can I please just scan your items and continue reevaluating my life? Maybe if this were the 80s I could call out of work and use it as a sick day or have an understanding boss. But not in today's society. If I called out I wouldn't get paid, would maybe even get a write up for calling out last minute, and thus risk being fired… Anyone who has worked in retail or the service industry know these kinds of customers all too well. They want you to pretend like you're excited to be doing work for them. It's annoying and employees have come to Reddit to add their two-cents on the subject. It would appear Gen X is starting to take over the Karen population… See for yourself below! 

Neighborly disputes happen all the time. Getting into arguments and disagreements with folks you live in somewhat close quarters with is inevitable, but you always hope that you can come to a win-win agreement on both sides. This cannot be said of neighbors who do the most outrageous things and expect others to turn their cheek.

Nobody wants to think their neighbors are burying things in their yard. For example, "things" such as water heaters. Now, the neighbor in this story was admittedly unaware of the fact that his property line was short 15ft, so the nice couple did a rough survey (but not official) of the land themselves. They go to the neighbor and inform them of his new property line, and the neighbor agrees to remove his "junk" from the 15ft of space that likely belongs to the couple.

Yet, when the neighbor claims he is "filling the trenches" with dirt to leave the newfound property in a better condition, the couple catches him burying a water heater underground. Scroll to read the entire story and advice from commenters asking the original poster (OP) to get a real survey done to confirm and possibly take legal action.

Don't look a gift horse in the mouth. Meaning that you really shouldn't go around criticizing and finding fault with a gift or assistance that has been given to you for free... It's not every day that someone gives you something of considerable value without expectation of anything in return, so in these cases, it would be especially foolish to throw it back in their face and demand they give you more. But this isn't logical reasoning and critical thinking that the woefully entitled are prone to.

It's probably worth noting here that there's really not a lot of horse gifting going on these days… and $15k cash doesn't really have a mouth to look in. Though, one would have to imagine that you could buy a horse for $15k, if you wanted to. But, I can't claim to be an expert in the buying, selling, trading, nor the appraisal of horses—so don't take my word for it. In fact, I'm of the opinion that horses are quite frightening… though they are fantastic creatures.

But, that's quite enough talk about horses, so I digress. This uncle shared how he had offered to help his niece with her wedding, thinking that he'd offer something to the tune of $15k. Well, his niece went swinging for the fences and went and booked an eleaorate affair totaling $50k, expecting that her uncle would pay for it; no checking in updates, or confirmation, nothing to let him know what her progress and estimated tecosts would be. When the gap between expectation and reality was revealed, it caused an argument and rift in the family that left the uncle wondering whether or not he was wrong for not giving her the money. 

Read his story below, along with some of the responses in the comments, and decide for yourself.