The Lord of the Rings always has a way of making fantasy fans happier, and if plebeians and non-LOTR fans gave The Fellowship, The Two Towers, and The Return of the King just one simple binge-watching weekend, they would feel the same way: Enchanted, enthralled, and utterly captivated by the Tolkien universe. 

Clock starts now, you have 12 hours and 6 minutes.

Imagine bringing in $7 million of business to your company, only to be rewarded with a cheap plaque that was likely purchased online for under $20. Talk about all that hard work leading to nothing!

Most employees, especially those who work in sales, expect more than a shoutout during a company meeting for their efforts. The best way to reward these hard-working individuals is to validate them monetarily. After all, they brought in all that business. Shouldn't they be able to benefit from that increased revenue as well?

It is said that a mother's love is unconditional. However, it turns out that just is not true for some mothers, like this one who pressured her daughter to borrow $40k from her to buy an apartment and become a homeowner, but then used said debt against her. Family drama always tends to sprout when money is involved… Now, the family dynamic is donezo, and the only interaction they have is for her daughter to make her monthly payments. 

You can only hold onto your patience for so long before you walk out of your workplace, never to return. When workers quit on the spot, it's rarely over a single incident. Usually, there's been a pattern of managers not listening to them, customers saying anything they want to them and getting away with it, and sometimes the long hours of the job really take a toll, too. Not to mention that a lot of managers seem to think their employees have no life outside of work, and that they should be dropping everything at a moment's notice to take on someone else's shift. 

Once the smiling face that greeted every incoming employee, this retired security guard found a new way to make everyone smile. 

There's office politics and there's office Survivor remake where only one coworker tries to get someone else voted off of Job IslandThis guy is the human version of a pop‑up ad. He is not your boss the project is low on your list his knowledge is shallow but he keeps inserting himself with long dramatic messages hoping someone in charge will notice his performance. The funniest part is that the people he is trying to impress keep ghosting the entire show.

This coworker is the definition of petty 

Some workers have that mentality where they want to climb the career ladder. Speed run it, in fact! They don't come into work to make friends or to waste time socializing. They have a singular goal in mind: to become the boss somehow, some way. And until they acheive that goal, they'll settle for bossing around everyone in their path!

This worker shared that their coworker is just that — a dude who they work with. He's not their boss, and they don't report to him. And yet, he's acting like a major tattle tale. 

Interestingly, though, I wonder if his petty move is just going to annoy the boss instead of doing what he wants, which is to belittle his coworker and make himself look competant. 

Wow, another story about an HOA being a bunch of no-brain fools. What a surprise… NOT! Why is it that when there is a story about a property owner having a problem, there tends to be an HOA involved? In this case, it is a property owner who isn't even part of the local HOA and hasn't been for over 25 years. Except that every decade, they still try to extort money out of him. He wins every time, and it's almost like a small passive income for him, but it's still super annoying. Like, do these HOA boards not know how to read??

Some clients are simply not worth the effort.

When you work with clients, as the employee in the story below does, you know that they always come and go. No matter what line of work you do, there is always at least one client who is sure they can find someone cheaper and better to do the work for them. So they leave you, they insist they would be fine without you, and you never hear from them again.

… Until you do.

They can whine about your prices and go looking for someone else who would do it for less, but they seldom find that. Instead, they end up spending months looking for someone who can do what you did, until they realize they made a mistake and come crawling back to you, demanding you take them back. The question is, should you? Should you spend more time and effort on a client who doesn't appreciate you, and would drop you the moment they find a cheaper service? 

When the nonprofit client below decided they didn't need the employee's expensive hours, they easily dropped him from the project and ghosted him for over a month. The employee didn't fret over it much and proceeded to find other clients to take up that lost time. In the meantime, the old client realized their mistake, as they failed to take over the employee's important work. At the beginning of this year, they reached out to the employee, basically demanding that he be brought back onto the project. The employee, however, is not in any rush to go back to work with a client who has no respect for him, and who would ghost him the second they think they can do better.

 While the client is facing a $500k nightmare because they refused to keep hiring the employee in the first place, he is contemplating the best course of action to proceed. Should he agree to take the client back, should he raise prices, or even demand to be paid in advance in case something like this happens again?

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Anyone who was picked on in school dreams of what would happen if they were in a position of authority over their former adversary in the future, but few of us actually get to see that dream come to fruition

When you're working a temporary job, there's always a certain level of uncertainty about what comes next. In this case, one employee found themselves facing a pretty straightforward decision: stay in a temp role with no benefits or accept a permanent position with higher pay and stability. After receiving an offer for a full-time job that paid $10K more and included benefits, they chose to give three weeks' notice and move on. The timing, however, happened to fall right before their current team's busy season, which left their managers disappointed. 

According to them, there had been vague plans to possibly extend the temporary role and maybe consider making it permanent later. Still, the employee felt that passing up a guaranteed opportunity for a hypothetical one simply didn't make sense.

 

After dedicating 15 years to the company, expecting a nice pension, HR turned the tables on this worker. Imagine dedicating your entire career to a company — your entire 20s, 30s, 40s, 50s — but as you creep upward in age, that company is only viewing you as a number. You're the person they have to pay a pension to. And they simply don't want to do that when they could save money by firing you for dubious reasons.

Don't let them know your next move… or where you will be working from tomorrow.

We all know that bosses and managers never abide by the same rules as their employees. It doesn't matter where you work or what you do; the boss always gets treated like they are at least a little bit above everyone else. And everyone else gets tired of it really fast.

If someone climbed their way up the corporate ladder to reach a management position, it makes sense that they get to enjoy some extra perks, especially considering how hard they worked to get there. But as soon as that manager decides to purposely separate themselves from their employees, one might realize just how much these management positions can get into someone's head.

The boss in the story below, for example, has made it clear that she does not follow the same rules as her employees, or more accurately, they do not get to enjoy the same workplace conditions as she does. Even though the company offers all employees the option to occasionally work from home, this boss refuses to approve any WFH days for anyone on her staff. While other departments get to enjoy this perk, her staff is forced to come to the office five days a week.

Not only does she refuse her staff, but apparently, while her staff comes into the office every single day, she allows herself to work from home at least once a week. Her own rule does not apply to her, apparently, and whenever someone questions it, she refuses to explain her actions.

A new homeowner was confronted by a neighbor demanding that he move his car out of a spot on his own land. The neighbor insisted that it was her parking spot that had been given to her by the HOA. The HOA declined to support her story, leading the homeowner to suspect this was a story that had been concocted by the neighbor to push previous tenants out of those spots. 

These retail employees couldn't stand another second at their jobs, so they quit on the spot. Working in any kind of customer service requires a superhuman level of patience. 

Living in an apartment often means learning how to coexist with the sounds of other people's lives. But when those sounds start happening in the middle of the night, things can get tricky. One exhausted renter decided to write a polite letter to their upstairs neighbors about the noise their dog was making, and asked Reddit if the message sounded fair before sending it.

Who else has had the excruciating experience of accidentally sending a text in which you are complaining about a particular person to that very person?

Most of us have experienced this with friends or family members, but this college freshman, who had recently landed a side hustle as a barista at his university's local coffee shop, unfortunately, had this happen in a workplace environment. 

Yes, the person he was complaining about also just so happened to be his boss, and the group chat he thought he was sending his message to was actually a wider group chat that included, you guessed it, the boss in question.

When you work in a profession that requires skill, patience, and experience, people sometimes assume they can get that service for free. One pet groomer found herself in that exact situation when her roommate expected complimentary cat nail trims just because they lived together. What seemed like a small favor quickly turned into a question of boundaries and respecting someone's work. After refusing to provide the service for free, the internet overwhelmingly sided with her, pointing out that professional grooming exists for a reason.

 

May we offer you some LOLs during these trying times? It's not easy out there, so sick them looky-loos at these memes to get a quick laugh break from it all!

Retirement is supposed to be when you finally mind your own business. Some people hear that and decide, actually, no, they will be promoted to unpaid regional manager of Everyone Else's LifeEvery office has a Jeff. Used to be a legend in sales. Lived off that reputation long after the last meaningful deal. Spent the final years walking around like middle management spirit Halloween. No real authority. Endless commentary. A human reply all.