The world cannot evolve past allowing entitled people's behavior to slide because that means we would be eradicating a social hierarchy that is integral to keeping those on the lower end, low. Customer service jobs often feel like a humiliating ritual because customer-facing roles usually require you to go against your better judgment, flash a smile, and take everything from just about anyone. It's unfair, but that's just the way it is.

You know when you wake up, and you just have a feeling that the day is going to fight you, vigorously, until you submit to the unluckiness of it all? The employee in the next story had prayed that their shift at the grocery store would be seamless, ensuring that no entitled customers found their way to their cash register. It seems like when you speak things into the universe, they might come back to you in the way you didn't want them to.

A customer decided to police the employee's speech after nitpicking their niceties with another customer, exclaiming that their "you're welcome" should have instead been a "thank you." I'm sorry, but were they even talking to her? Scroll below to continue reading the full story.

It's challenging to find ample privacy when you live in an apartment, especially if that apartment is situated in a much larger complex with more than 20 units. You kind of have to suspend belief when you're thinking about how much all of the neighbors you share a wall with can hear you, and if their doorbell cameras are picking up on the once-in-a-blue house guest. Either way, you are never prepared enough for a nosy neighbor who takes it upon themselves to police your comings and goings.

The neighbor in the next story is using her Ring doorbell camera to spy on the tenants who live next door. One of the tenants, who shares the story, explains that the woman goes above and beyond to make their lives exceptionally difficult. Sometimes, loneliness turns into resentment and obsession, which is what this neighbor is displaying tenfold. The neighbor even goes so far as to tell them to stop covering their faces when they pass by her doorbell camera, which they started doing after they caught on to her snooping. What would you do in this situation? Scroll to read the full story.

When pushed to the brink, employees start "quiet quitting," and if things don't improve, they might actually quit!

Quiet quitting has become quite the phenomenon in recent years, and it's not hard to see why. It's harder than ever to get a job, so leaving just because you're unhappy can take years. It may take you hundreds of applications and dozens of interviews before you finally get an offer that appeals to you. In the meantime, you might keep showing up to your old job… but you're not bringing your A game. You're bringing like your C- game, perhaps. You're caring about the tasks that keep you employed, but at 5:00 PM on the dot, you're putting on your coat and walking out that door. A lot of employees share that the moment they knew they were beginning to quiet quit was when they silently brought home all of their personal belongings, leaving just a plain desk. Although that's a fairly obvious sign for anyone in leadership, these bosses pushed their worker even further than that by leading them on with promises of a promotion. Unfortunately, by "promotion," they actually meant "mandatory overtime for several months, and no promotions at all."

This person acted their wage, and I applaud them for it. Life is too short to be worried about $250k/year problems when you're making $75k/year. Let your managers fret over these things! And according to this person, their managers certainly are fretting — they're lost without this person giving 200% effort every day. To avoid burnout, and to impress your bosses at the same time, try to give like 80% on a day-to-day basis. Then, when times get busy, you can give 100% without expending too much extra energy. 

Returning to work after maternity leave should not be treated as if you're just coming back from vacation.

Anyone who has spent any time near a new parent knows that this time off is anything but restful. Furthermore, it's not just strongly preferred that parents have that time with their newborns; that time is more than necessary. No one should be retroactively blamed for their absence either. If companies and workplace environments are not set up in such a way that they can proceed without an employee on temporary leave, then that is more reflective of the flaws within the company than any one person's choices. 

This employee returned to work and received the expected slew of missed emails from her time away. However, a large portion of those emails pertained to mandatory training she "skipped" during her time off, as if it were a requirement for her to complete said training while on maternity leave. She attempted to explain the situation to her new boss, who only doubled down and reprimanded her in an email chain with other coworkers attached. 

That's when she absolutely felt compelled to call him out to upper management. Keep scrolling below for the full story and for the best reactions from several members of the online community.

This flyer claims that an airport worker stole their pair of pricey sunglasses, and they're questioning how to retrieve their property when security doesn't seem to care. 

As if airports haven't created enough ways for a person to lose their items while traveling, this person has discovered an infuriating new way. We all know that putting your luggage into the trust of an airport doesn't come with a 100% guarantee that you'll get that suitcase back at the end of the trip. Bags get lost in the shuffle, end up on the wrong flight, and sometimes get taken off the conveyor belt by the wrong person. 

However, most of us don't expect our belongings to get lost while we're in the TSA line. I mean, you basically have eyes on your belongings the whole time. I like watching my belongings go through the X-ray machine! What other times in life do you get to watch an X-ray machine in real time? For this person, though, that was the moment that they lost a super expensive pair of shades. While they were going through the x-ray for humans, a TSA agent apparently swiped their sunglasses. And of course, since they had a flight to catch, this person couldn't just wait around until they were found. Their shades remained in Miami while they had to fly to their destination, and now they're asking for help with getting their glasses back (or at least getting justice). I hope that their investigation results in someone getting fired — you just know that if that worker has stolen once, they're probably a habitual thief who has no business rummaging around in people's belongings. 

This resident knew he had to put a stop to this lady's completely inept driving skills!

It all started when the resident returned home and noticed scratches on his car. He couldn't prove that these were caused by his next door neighbor's daughter, but he had seen her driving before and was pretty convinced. First of all, before we start making any assumptions here, the daughter was in her 40s. This is not someone who is just learning how to drive. She is fully deserving of the revenge that was coming for her.

After the misfortunes of his car getting damaged, the resident knew that with the increasinly difficult weather, this lady was bound to cause some more wreckage given just how reckless her driving was. So, he installed cameras to catch her in the act. As fate would have it, a terrible snow storm went through the area and caused everyone to be snowed into their homes.

Keep scrolling below to find out what happened when the daughter tried to back out of her driveway without shoveling the snow out of the way first!

At work, more often than not, you do not get the proper credit you deserve for the hard work you put in. You can spend countless hours at work, even lose sleep on a certain project, and never even get a pat on the back after you hand it in.

What's even worse than not getting proper credit is to be forced to sit back and watch as someone else takes that credit instead, like the boss in the story below. Not only was she not properly appreciative of her employee's hard work on a project, but she actually demanded that they stay quiet during the project presentation. She wanted to get all the credit for a job she actually had not part it.

The funny thing that happens almost every time someone tries to take credit and present a project they took no part in is that it becomes quite clear as soon as they open their mouth. So when the VP in the story below asked the boss questions during the presentation, everyone there became fully aware that the boss didn't have any idea what she was talking about…

Most of us are pretty much glued to our phones most of our waking hours. That's nothing new by now. And that's why, if you ask me, our time away from it: hobbies, habits, whatever activity we do without it is kinda sacred at this point. For this woman, it's her weekend hike.

Once a peaceful escape from screens, it now doubles as a behind-the-scenes documentary for one woman's influencer dreams. The organizer just wants to enjoy the forest, breathe the air, and maybe share some trail mix. Enter Cora, whose cardio begins and ends with finding her light. The first hike was tolerable. She posed with trees. She adjusted her hair. She crouched dramatically near a rock. By the third outing, she brought a tripod, platform sneakers, and a full commitment to method acting as someone who hikes.  

Every five minutes, the group halts while Cora records herself "walking naturally in nature." The result is a hike that takes three hours longer than scheduled and generates more frustration than endorphins. The hikers start moving ahead. Cora sulks. When told to plan her own photo day, she claims suppression of her creativity. Apparently, the woods exist not for wildlife but for her engagement metrics. 

When you decide to dig in at the office potluck, you do so at your own risk!

They say you can't eat at just anyone's house, and when you've visited a few questionable kitchens, you'll understand. Sometimes, even if you're starving, you just cannot eat at at certain person's home, because they don't abide by the health codes that are recommended to avoid falling ill. Some people let their pets crawl all over their kitchen surfaces, and then have no problem cooking on those same (unwashed!) countertops. Other people don't feel the need to refrigerate things, thinking that if they can't see visible mold, the food must be perfectly okay to eat. And some folks will simply never throw out any condiment or ingredient, even if it's expired by several decades. 

It's hard to get out of eating food when you're expected to, though. You may have to conjure up an allergy, or insist that you've already eaten and can't fit another bite into your stomach. You've just got to do whatever it takes to avoid eating a piece of cat-hair-infused pie or unwashed salad that's crawling with bugs. These people below will never eat at the office potluck again after their unsettling culinary discoveries, and it's a good reminder that we should probably just do away with that, and let the office cater food instead. There's no need to put an extra burden on the employees, anyway — just let a local restaurant do what they do best. 

There's no such thing as a flawless, problem-free property. There will always eventually be aspects of a home that require a homeowner's or rentor's attention…But how many property problems are too many property problems? And if your name's not the one signed across the bottom line, should any of the problems truly be yours to solve? Well, this is the back-and-forth debate between these two cousins…Their shared grandmother owns a little "granny flat" in which this older cousin was living previously. During that time, he decided to spruce up the place and renovate it! But with sprucing comes high costs…meaning he was forced to take out a loan of $100 cover it! 

Although by the time the other younger cousin was set to move in, there was still $30k remaining in debt. He agreed to cover the payment for his older cousin, and all was smooth sailing…That was until this new 'resident' started to discover endless defects rising to the surface, that would take a lot more than $30k to fix…So, going back on their verbal agreement, he tells his older cousin, as the one who started the renovations, he should be the one to financially finish it!

When you're born and raised in New York, like I was, you are privy to the rapid changes each neighborhood faces as more people and corporations move here. Having grown up in one of the most rapidly gentrified neighborhoods in Brooklyn, Greenpoint, you stop feeling surprised when you see a local bodega get swapped out for a Sweetgreen. It's not a shock that there's an affordability crisis in New York, especially regarding housing and grocery store prices.

Walking down the aisles of a grocery store in high-cost-of-living cities is one of the top ten most nerve-wracking situations to experience in 2025. With prices of goods skyrocketing at your mom-and-pop shop, you have little faith in picking up ingredients for a weeknight meal that amount to less than $20. So, instead of grabbing some fresh produce and a pack of chicken thighs, you grab some Top Ramen and call it a night. Certain tax brackets don't need to worry about this at regular grocery stores, but I'm sure they'd rather shop at a luxury gourmet market instead, anyway.

When you become available to your employers at all hours of the day, regardless of whether or not you are technically working, you are essentially giving them permission to disregard your boundaries.

Of course, any decent manager would elect not to bother employees after hours unless it was an absolute emergency. It should not be entirely on the employee to establish boundaries when they should be common sense. However, far too many bosses have forgotten the meaning of common sense and respect for other people's time, so there inevitability comes a time when those messages need to be sent.

For this author, she was essentially set up to fail on a series of projects after being reprimanded for needing to miss work. The reason? She had a serious medical emergency and needed to be admitted into the hospital. Instead of giving her time to ease back into a regular work flow, the employee was punished and forced to take on a series of responsibilities within an unrealistic time frame. 

It got to the point where she was overwhelmed and worked into a tizzy at 3:00 in the morning. After a discussion with her spouse, she made a decision that might seem impulsive to some but was really reflective of what she needed to do a long time ago…

Working for a company with a small team can feel a bit like working on a group project you can't escape. Everyone's close, everyone's tired, and everyone's pretending they don't hear each other's Slack notifications. At my last job, we all ate lunch together every day because "that's our culture," which mostly meant performative small talk and pretending we were all best friends. When a company is tiny, the walls feel even tighter, and the pressure to bond (especially with management) gets heavy fast.

And the truth is, as fun as it can be to vent about shared suffering or the coworker who loudly takes credit for breathing, you never really know who's listening. Or in this case, who's watching.

At no stage of our lives do any of us enjoy being disciplined. We hated it when it happened with our parents, and even more when teachers called us out. But as adults, we hate it even more when we get called for a disciplinary talk, especially at work. It's awkward, it's unpleasant, and it makes any adult fear for their livelihood. 

Sometimes, you might find yourself being disciplined for something you didn't even do. As kids, it happened all the time, when our parents blamed us for things our siblings did, for example. And just as when we were kids, when we were accused of something false, we must set the record straight. We must refuse to be accused of something we are not at fault for.

The employee in the story below was called for a disciplinary talk with HR and their manager for missing a mandatory meeting at work. But when the employee claimed they were never even invited to that meeting in the first place, it became clear that the employee really couldn't have known about the meeting, and that it was all HR's fault.

Being a downstairs tenant sometimes means you no longer live in an apartment but in an experiment testing the limits of human patience and structural engineering. Above this lucky apartment lives a family of what they call three "kids," although these "kids" are high schoolers built like they were made in a sports lab. Every step overhead sounds like a stampede auditioning for a Michael Bay action movie. The floor shakes, the lamps vibrate, and quiet time is now a myth from a gentler past.  

When one particularly ferocious thud hits at 10 p.m., it feels like an airborne linebacker just landed mid-bedroom. The tenant trudges upstairs to look for logic and instead finds the father shrugging it off with a classic line: "They're just kids." No remorse, no awareness, just pure acoustic terrorism and a man confident that gravity will handle the rest. The family knows exactly how their thuds travel, they lived downstairs before. Which means the stomping is not ignorance, it's a live-action reenactment of their favorite Lion King scenes

Every so often, we come across a story in which an employee has a decent manager ready to defend them when the situations calls for it,

This author worked part-time hours and was frequently allowed to leave her shifts early to take care of her children, provided that all of her work was completed before her departure. She was a beloved member of the team, and everyone understood her predicament. She made this arrangement with her manager and her teammates, and none of her work ever suffered as a result. It seemed like she had a good thing going there… that is, until upper management stepped in out of nowhere and made some sweeping changes.

When this happened, the higher-ups enforced a new rule that employees were no longer allowed leave early, even when their work was completed to the best possible standard and even when there was nothing left to do. It's a classic "all talk, no show" policy, considering that productivity and efficiency were not affected either way. 

Although there was not much that the author's manager could do given that her hands were tied, the author did find a clever loophole in the new policy. This allowed her to clock in and discreetly amend her hours so that she was never scheduled for more than she used to be and could still leave early. On paper, there was nothing upper management could do about it because, well, her shift was always a five-hour one and not an eight-hour one. Given her productivity, there was no reason for them to fire her either. Besides, her manager actually had her back.

This boss is telling an employee that they must not want their new job badly enough, all because they won't work for free!

That's quite ridiculous; you should never work for free if you can help it. Volunteering is one thing, but doing an unpaid "trial shift" at a job to see if you're the right fit for the role is kind of crazy. 

This barista was starting a new role… until the manager informed them about this "industry standard" of working a pretty long time for free. Spending 4 hours working, even at minimum wage of $15, is still missing out on $60 plus a bunch of tips. If this manager is happy to watch an employee labor for 4 hours, making hot drinks and shaking iced lattes for customers, then going home with empty pockets, it's a huge red flag. That indicates a work environment where the boss is trying to pay as little as possible for the most amount of work they can extrude from each employee. It's not exactly the warm welcome a new hire might hope for. 

Check out this person's story below and see if you agree with their decision to walk out the door on day one! It'll definitely teach a lesson to that manager, who will most likely incur a hefty fine for the way she treated this barista. Some folks just like to learn the hard way! 

There is nothing more amusing than watching an entitled stranger throw a tantrum in public only to be proven wrong.

This lady clearly had no desire to wait in line at the grocery store, so much so that she insisted that the employee working behind a closed checkout lane reopen said lane just for her. The problem was that the lane was closed for a reason. The belt was malfunctioning, and they had called a repairwoman to fix it. That repairwoman just so happened to be the person working there. In other words, she wasn't an actual employee at the store.

When you're dealing with entitled shoppers like this woman, there is no such thing as rhyme or reason. So despite numerous attempts to correct this lady, she was fully unable to comprehend the fact that this person simply was not an employee there and the lane was closed because of a legitimate technical issue. She would have to wait in line like every other customer at the store.

Still, this lady would not relent. She ended up getting the manager involved. Little did she know, the manager was sick and tired of her antics. It seems like she had thrown a fit like this before… we don't doubt it!

Older people don't like change. Don't get me wrong, none of us do, but once you reach a certain age of physical maturity, any slight bend to your normal schedule causes you to snap. A grandma in this family was accustomed to hosting the entire family holiday feast, but once her granddaughter became a vegan, everything changed. 

Of course, the vegan girl knew that her dietary restrictions made large family meals complicated, so she was happy to bring her own plate. Common courtesy would suggest that this would be normal practice if your meal plan disrupts the larger menu. However, Grandma's hospitality instinct wouldn't have it. Granny insisted on cooking for her vegan daughter, making special plates and special versions of the meal. 

However well-placed her intentions, she always seemed to miss the mark, throwing butter, cheese, or other non-vegan ingredients in otherwise worthwhile dishes. After one too many family meals spent picking away at the only vegan dish, this young woman took her fate into her own hands, offending Grandma in the process. 

While both sides are perfectly reasonable, this mini family tiff sparked debate about hospitality, loving efforts, and dietary restrictions. You can be the judge on this particular debate and see where you land on the spectrum of familial politeness…

Being constantly connected is a double-edged sword. On the one hand, you can work in ways that were never possible before. But this comes at the cost of being always available, always exposed. Never nurturing, resting… disconnecting.

There's this expectation, too, that you're always passionate about what you're doing. It'll come up in meetings and performance reviews. Employers discuss it as if it were the secret key to success. And there is a point to this. Passion is, after all, an incredible thing, an intrinsic motivator. A belief that what you're doing is important. But there are those employers out there who know this and seek to weaponize it, distorting it as a replacement for proper.

Here's the rub: When you have a passionate workforce, you can get away with paying them less for longer hours. Their passion for the work more or less subsidizes their motivation for the work, where motivation from proper compensation is lacking. 

But, as with our constant exposure, nothing saps passion like being constantly, continuously, endlessly exposed to something. Working long hours in unsustainable ways, and even working when you're not. It's like being pushed up against fine-grained sandpaper, slowly wearing away and removing the defining features of everything that made you so impassioned in the first place.

And as soon as productivity dips, the questions and demands will start. They'll demand specifically that you're "passionate" as if anyone has ever been passionate about something after being told to be.

What they should be doing is doing things to nurture the things that lead to passion, fostering organic buy-in by making the . But these types of things aren't easy and are going to take some real investment and a real concerted effort to pull off. As so many of us do, they take the easier route instead and just rely on burning through the reserves of passion that their employees walk through the door with. And then when those employees are all out of passion and burn out, they just replace them with new ones and resume milking that passion all over again.