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This tenant, who is based in Pennsylvania, found himself in a heated dispute with his landlord over a new provision he discovered in his lease renewal that the property managers failed to mention when they sent over his lease renewal via email. No, it wasn't a simple oversight on their part. They were clearly banking on the tenant's laziness and the hope that he wouldn't read what he was supposed to sign. 

Thankfully, they vastly underestimated him and would now pay the price.

How do you handle an entitled manager?

Anybody who has participated in the workforce at some point or another has encountered these kinds of managers. And if you haven't, you are one lucky person! There is always someone along the way who was given too much responsibility and is in management and uses that to power play rather than get actual work done. It's frustrating and such a waste of time and assets. There are so many ways to deal with these types of incompetent, egotistical managers. This team decided their best tool to defeat their entitled manager was to follow the paperwork. 

"From 1-10, rate how awesome you think the company owner is." 

If the CEO of the company you work for decides to one day have an anonymous survey and demands that every employee fill it out, you should be aware of these facts: 1. The CEO can go on and on about how the survey is meant to "help the company improve", but improvement is the last thing the company actually does with the information they collected. 2. The survey is never actually anonymous. If they want to know who said what about the company, they will find out. 3. They might say that they want you to answer truthfully, but truth often leads to consequences. Remember that before you actually circle number "4" on the scale of how happy you are with how the company treats its employees.

So, apparently, "adults-only pool party" was interpreted as a personal attack by the entire extended family?

This woman honestly sounds exhausted, and after hearing the full story, it is not exactly hard to understand why. For years, she basically turned herself into the unpaid hostess of her husband's massive family gatherings. We are talking cooking, cleaning, organizing holidays, and somehow watching random extra relatives keep appearing every year like NPCs spawning into a video game lobby. At one point, Thanksgiving ballooned into forty people inside her house, which honestly sounds less like a holiday dinner and more like surviving crowd control at a small convention center.

Things finally got awkward after she and her husband hosted an adults-only pool party at their new backyard setup. The rules were simple enough: no kids because the house was not childproof, the cats get stressed out, and previous gatherings already involved children damaging things while parents apparently entered spectator mode. Instead of just declining normally, most of the family reportedly started complaining in group chats and refusing to attend altogether. Then, somehow, the few relatives who actually did show up still spent the night making weird comments about the couple's finances, vacations, and pool setup. Now she is seriously questioning why she keeps putting energy into people who only seem supportive when everything revolves around them.

This sister is wondering: why should she let her brother put a stop to a family vacation? 

Doesn't a vacation sound amazing right about now? Relaxing, sleeping in, spending time with family, getting to see new sights and eat delicious food… For most people, getting to travel is a big luxury, and a dream come true. Taking that nice break from work and stepping away from your to-do list for a week or 2 makes you feel brand new. 

But there are some people who don't like vacationing. This woman's brother is like that. He has a bad attitude about travel, even when going to some real bucket-list locations. When his sister shared a detailed post about why she wants to leave him home for the next trip, it all started to make sense. 

Is this sister overreacting, or should her brother really stay away from the upcoming family trip to Paris? 

If you were the property owner, what would you have done?

Purchasing property comes with an untold number of hidden pitfalls just waiting to catch you out. But I'd be willing to wager a hefty sum that very few, if any, of us ever dealt with something like this.

It's a strange situation with the fire and everything, to be sure, and I think the suggestion that the landowner simply counters with a suit for storage costs to the exact dollar value is a good one. 

When you win a car, is it legally yours? 

Lottery winners, gold star earners, and people on a winning streak in Vegas would argue that no matter what you win, once your winnings are in your pocket or in your possession, it's yours. Yet, this winner in our next story, a humble man who'd entered a random car lottery, things weren't so simple. 

He won a car, decided he didn't want to keep it, and sold it for less than market value to a couple of friends. And although he literally paid taxes on his winnings, other friends in the group chimed in with negative comments, claiming he was a "bad friend" because he "profited" off of the folks he sold to. 

Sure, he ended up with an extra $10k in his pocket, but if he had sold to strangers, he would have doubled his earnings. Was this winner ultimately a loser? According to the criticism of his friends, he was, but in my eyes, this man was turning lemons into lemonade and getting scolded for selling at 50-cents a pop. 

This husband seems like the kind of neighbor most people would appreciate. Helping a neighbor with small tasks out of courtesy is a nice gesture, especially when the person is elderly and may need assistance. But he helps because he wants to, not because he is responsible for maintaining someone else's house.

That's exactly what the elderly woman failed to understand. Kindness should not become an expectation. At first, she started asking him to fix things and offered a small payment. But over time, her requests became more frequent, and her sense of gratitude seemed to disappear. She assumed she was entitled to this husband's time and skills. 

What should you do when you're asked to fill in an anonymous company survey at work? How do you respond? Do you respond at all? If it were truly anonymous, how would they know if you didn't?

If you've ever been invited to submit an anonymous survey at work, you've probably cast a long and wary gaze at the email. Whether for a conscious reason or for reasons not entirely clear, it just seems like a bad idea. Right? Everything electronic has a fingerprint of sorts.

The reality is you have to think this kind of thing through. You can't take something like the word "anonymous" at face value and simply assume that whoever wrote that in the email is telling the truth. The reality is that truly "anonymous" isn't going to stop everyone from going around guessing who submitted what anyway.

It was his project all along, and she wanted no part of it. 

Alas, it's not as if she had a choice to partake or not when 100lbs or rotting, gnarled, nail-filled wood planks piled up in her backyard. 

This woman wasn't at all a DIY-type. She is the kind of woman who is happy to hire a handyman to hang a photo and prefers to keep her manicured nails out of the mud. Honestly, I get that. Construction and all varieties of manual labor are difficult, laborious, and sure, yeah, okay, it's often cheaper to harbor a do-it-yourself mentality, but sometimes avoiding rotting splinters is worth the extra money. 

However, this woman's neighbor was 50/50. He wanted to save money the DIY way, but he also didn't feel like doing all of the work that it required. After she approved of his plan to remove and replace their shared fence, because his dog had destroyed his side of the wall, she went on vacation. When she got back from her relaxing trip, she noticed a massive pile of rotting wood piled up in her yard, smothering her grass, and giving her a DIY project of her own. This isn't what she bargained for, but the neighbor insisted that the wood pile removal was her responsibility, as she was the beneficiary of the fence he built, and therefore, she had to carry her weight in wood disposal. 

What do you think? Did she deserve this rotting wooden surprise when she came back from her vacation? Or was the neighbor totally off base with his half-baked DIY idea? Sure, she was benefiting from the new fence, but it was never her idea to replace it in the first place… Scroll onward to read all of the details of the divisive story, and you can be the judge of who's right, wrong, or splintered somewhere in between.

Is there any worse feeling than realizing you got quietly removed from the friendship group chat?

This girl genuinely thought she and her college roommate were locked in as best friends. They met freshman year, instantly clicked, traveled together, and even survived the natural horrors of sharing a living space with another human being. Honestly, surviving roommate life without police involvement already feels like a strong friendship foundation in itself these days.

Things got messy after the two of them took a birthday trip to Puerto Rico with another college friend. From her perspective, everybody had a great time together. They talked about returning someday, visiting more places, and making it a longer vacation next time around. Very normal friendship behavior. Extremely wholesome. Absolutely full of future-group-trip energy.

Then months later she casually asked her friend to hang out for Saint Patrick's Day and accidentally discovered both girls were literally in Puerto Rico together without her. Not only had nobody mentioned the trip beforehand, but they were also visiting all the places the three of them originally talked about seeing together. That "oh…" text message probably carried enough emotional damage to power a small city.

To somehow make the situation even worse, the two friends also got her ex involved during the trip by having somebody FaceTime him and insult him "in her honor." Which honestly sounds less like friendship bonding and more like the kind of idea people come up with after exactly three airport margaritas and zero critical thinking skills.

Have you ever tried using the Uno Reverse card to break up with someone?

Not literally using the card (though that would be hilarious), but we mean using their toxic habits back at them. This wife, now-ex-wife, used the manipulation tactics she learned from her manipulative husband to convince him to divorce her. And it worked! She was more than happy to sign those papers since she had discovered he had been cheating on her with several different other women for about a decade. Finally, she was moving out, and this man had the audacity to bring his newest flavor of the month. They were both horrible to her during a very difficult time, both physically and emotionally. So you know what she did? She got back at both of them in an insane way… 

What would you have done to get yourself out of this nightmare interview as soon as possible?

This job candidate thought he had found the perfect company. The position was well within his skill set. The salary was decent. The benefits were exactly what he was hoping for in his next role. Even HR seemed excited about his potential at the organization. 

There were seemingly no red flags…. until he met the business manager who would be leading his team. Pretty soon into the meeting, it became clear exactly why he had such trouble maintaining loyalty among the folks who worked for him.  

Nothing says "you were underpaid" quite like your old company collapsing without you immediately after you leave.

This employee thought he had done everything right before leaving his old company. He gave an entire month's notice, documented his work in painful detail, and made sure the people staying behind had everything they could need. Honestly, he probably prepared more carefully for leaving that job than most people prepare for moving across the country. After years of dealing with micromanagement, zero appreciation, and management acting like basic salaries were charitable donations from the heavens, he finally landed a much healthier and better-paying position somewhere else. Freedom at last. Or at least that is what he thought for approximately one peaceful week.

Almost immediately after leaving, messages from the old company started appearing in his personal inbox. At first, they seemed harmless enough: little questions here and there from his former manager asking for clarification about procedures and files. He tried being polite and helpful because, you know, basic professionalism and human decency still exist. Unfortunately, that tiny bit of kindness accidentally opened the floodgates. Before long, the requests became increasingly bold, including instructions for him to directly fix problems himself despite no longer working there. Then came the truly unbelievable part: one message arrived containing confidential customer data attached to a shared file sent directly to his personal email address.

What would you do in this situation when your boss has given you a repeated, direct order, but others are expecting you to help?

I think any of us who have worked and are currently working service jobs know what it's like when you're in the middle of a rush, and someone is not with the fast-moving pace that the rush necessitates. 

Orders are steaming through, and there's a queue of customers out the front door. There, the FNG (Fun New Guy/Gal) is just standing there totally in the way and without a clue. To be fair, they're trying to help, and they could definitely use some more training when there's time, but right now is not that time. Especially when the only thing standing between the present moment and a customer complaint is complete organization and pure efficiency. It reaches a point pretty quickly when it's just better if they're out of the way, so it's not uncommon to give them some other task that they can handle somewhere out of the way.

This diner was utterly stunned to realize that her entire anniversary dinner had been secretly recorded without her knowledge. 

We're in a whole new age of surveillance. Or is it entertainment? It depends on who you ask!

If you haven't heard of smart glasses, or seen someone wearing them already, you probably will soon. They're everywhere these days. They look pretty ordinary, just like regular glasses you'd wear to improve your vision. But they actually record everything around you… which is a surprise to everyone in your vicinity, who can't even tell they're being recorded. 

Did you know that gardening can be a very handy tool even beyond growing things for your kitchen?

That's right, it appears it can be used as a tool to get back at people in your neighborhood treating you poorly as well. This woman decided to use her gardening for evil, and I support it! She is a military wife, often finding herself on her own at home. If you know anything about military families, they travel often and are assigned housing by a board through the military. This board, however, seemed to be useless. She would have to beg them to help with the home upkeep, but when she did anything "wrong," it would be the top of their priority list. Finally, the last straw was had, after they told her she couldn't use potted plants. Oh, no potted plants? I guess she can just put her invasive herbs straight in the ground then…

Becoming embroiled in a potential lawsuit over a hidden camera uncovered in an Airbnb was likely not on this traveler's bingo card.

This man was traveling in Florida with his spouse and rented what appeared to be a charming Airbnb in a quaint neighborhood. However, one unfortunate evening, the tourist found a hidden camera in the bedroom that was pointed directly at the bed. While he did not necessarily have proof that there was foul play going on, he certainly was justified in suspecting that something sketchy was afoot.

Could you get away with coasting at your job for 4 years? Was it really the answer to keeping your boss happy all along?

Synopsis: An employee stopped caring and started simply giving the simplest, quickest responses to any task they were given. Instead of getting fired or put on any performance improvement plans, they coasted for years, eventually even getting promoted.

I think, whether stories like this are true or not, there is a lesson to be learned somewhere in here.

Often in life, what your boss, client, or whoever you answer to wants from you isn't the best answer; it's just a quick answer. If you could get 85% of the way there in 30 minutes, but getting to 90-100% would take another 3 hours, chances are they'd take the 85% every time.

Of course, this doesn't go for anyone who is building bridges, doing important medical procedures, or something important like that. Please, you lot all keep on getting to 100%. But the point is, for most of us perfectionists who want every detail and possibility explored, we'd probably make our bosses happier if we just thought about things less and just got them finished and submitted in time. 

The unprofessionalism displayed by this company drew millions of eyes after a scorned employee put them on blast. 

A lot of people travel for work, and they'll tell you: it's no walk in the park. It's all of the work that goes into a 9-5 job, but your time is bookended by long flights and a stay in a random hotel far from home. 

This guy was super excited to accept a job that would require some travel. 

It was for DreamHack, an esports convention taking place in Atlanta, Georgia. 

Since this guy is from Nevada, that was a cool job offer, but it would require some 2,300+ miles of travel. 

But literally the moment they touched down in Georgia, there was crickets from the team. 

This person started asking for details, and the rest you'll just have to read to believe.