What's the drama going on in your workplace? 

Every workplace has some drama going on! No matter where you work — from the back of house at a restaurant, to the boujie conference rooms of C-suite offices — there will be some kind of tea to spill. 

When you work with the same group of people for 40+ hours each week, you get to know each other way too well! Friendships form, and just as quickly, so do cliques and little feuds. 

These people were eager to share the little rifts going on in their workspaces, and the stories are wild! 

Some people started pilfering from their job before selling off their ill-gotten goods, like this first person here. 

All this student was trying to do was help out a desperate friend.

This author noticed that their classmate was behind academically after having to miss class for several weeks due to being sick. When she volunteered to give him a helping hand, she had no idea what she was getting herself into.

It turns out that this manchild was looking for more than just a little academic support. He was basically looking for a personal assistant. It started simple. The author met up with him to walk him through what he missed in school during his absence. 

Quickly, however, this escalated into a morally ambiguous dynamic in which the classmate became increasingly dependent on the author to do literally everything for him.

Why shovel your own way out of the snow when you can wait for someone else to do it for you?

I don't live anywhere near a snowy climate, so it's been years since the last time I saw snow. This also means that I am not versed in the etiquette of living in a snowy neighborhood, and I would not know what to do if I got caught in a neighborly dispute about it. The only way I learn is by reading stories like the one below, and educating myself in case I even find myself in a similar situation.

If you are also unfamiliar with how one should behave when their neighborhood is covered in white, here is one example of a simple rule: If you clear a parking spot of snow, that spot is yours and should remain yours until the snow melts. This means you should never park in a shoveled spot if you were not responsible for shoveling it. 

You want to park in a shoveled parking spot? You have to ask for permission from the person who cleared it, and you have to accept it if they say no.

That is what happened between the neighbors below. One resident needed to use their car, despite the snow around it, so they paid a young teen to clear it so they could enjoy a snow-free car and parking spot. Another resident saw the cleared spot and left a note on the car asking to use the spot after the owner drives away. The neighbor who cleared the spot thought this request was quite odd, and didn't love the idea of letting someone else use the parking spot they paid to clear. This led the neighbor to debate whether or not they should let someone else use the spot while they were gone, but by the time they had made a decision, it was too late.

Scroll down to read about the dispute that happened between the two neighbors after the resident didn't move their car to allow their neighbor to park in the snow-free spot. 

Someone using their property to strong‑arm an older couple is already bad enough, but this Tool‑hoarding, Rent‑chiseling, Workshop‑wrecking landlord‑slash‑space‑renter really hit a nerve

This client did a chargeback over a $5-$10 drawing, and there's a major flaw in their logic. 

Commissioning a real human artist is good for the soul, and in this day and age, it's one of the nicest things you can do to help an artist grow. 

There's just something special about paying an artist to create an item just for you, whether it's a custom drawing of character you love, or a portrait of a friend or a loved one. You get to see their interpretation of it, and the little details and their signature style just seems extra special. 

Gondor calls for aid, and memes will answer. 

Whenever I'm feeling blue, I like to plop on the couch, kick up my feet, and get buried in the fluffiest blankets in front of a 4k extended edition Lord of the Rings marathon. Don't get me wrong, I may have left out the parts about eating my feelings with delivery pizza and wearing my coziest 10-day-old sweat pants, but that's not the point. The point is that LOTR fans have a special connection to Middle Earth that transcends time, space, and the bandwidth of human emotion. As if Aragorn, Legolas, Gimli, and Mr. Frodo live rent-free in our souls, Tolkien has a way of reaching out through a Silmarillion-spawned portal, melting our minds time and time again with a well-loved story of Fellowship, adventure, and a well-traveled cast iron pan. 

No one likes feeling like their hard work is being taken for granted.

This employee had done the bulk of the work in preparation for an important meeting with a prospective client. The team had decided beforehand that the employee's charming, male coworker would be handling the majority of the presentation. The reason behind this was that he had strong public speaking skills and, therefore, presenting was his strong suit. The employee agreed to this arrangement.

What she did not agree to was the notion that her coworker would proceed to take credit for all of her work during said meeting. At first, she thought he made an innocent mistake by using "I" language instead of "we" language. However, it did not take long for her to realize that this was not a slip-up. He was trying to make it seem like he was responsible for the entire presentation. The employee decided that she was not going to let him get away with it.

If they can't get their AirPods back, at least they can ensure no one else's gets stolen by the same person.

Have you even managed to retrieve something you know was stolen from you? I have, and let me tell you, it was not easy. A few years ago, I accidentally left my phone in an Uber, and by the time I realized where I left it, the next passenger already claimed my phone and taken it with them. It wasn't long before charges from my Amazon and Uber Eats accounts came flooding into my email inbox, and I was forced to cancel everything I could to keep them from getting me into so much debt. 

They didn't consider the fact that when they ordered food from my Uber Eats account, I could see exactly to which address the food was going. At first, I tried reporting them and having someone else fetch my stolen belongings back, but since no one was willing to help, I decided to do it myself. 

I drove over there, along with a few friends to back me up, knocked on the thief's door, and demanded my phone back. And you know what? They were so shocked that I was there, they gave it right back to me, and even apologized. 

While this could have gone in a hundred different ways, I am happy I had the chance to confront this person and get my phone back. But even if I couldn't do that, there are still ways to teach someone a lesson, like the one in the story below…

Don't you love a manager who punishes the whole team over one employee's mistake?

Bosses have many responsibilities when it comes to managing their employees, and like everyone else with a job to do, they tend to love some responsibilities and hate others. 

After you've had a few bosses, you notice exactly which tasks they enjoy doing and which they avoid at all costs. When it comes to calling out individual employees for something they are doing wrong, we've noticed that some managers do it with passion, while others refrain from it as much as possible. But this task is something every manager has to face at some point. Nobody's perfect, and it is a manager's job to correct their employees when it's necessary. 

As unfortunate as it may be to be on the receiving end of that, it's much worse if managers actually do refrain from correcting their employees, because then you face something similar to what happened in the story below.

This manager decided to enforce a strict "clean desk" policy with the idea that employees would stop leaving important company documents on their desks overnight. While, on paper, this seems a reasonable request to demand of your employees, the real reason this policy was introduced was because of one employee. This employee's desk was always a complete mess, but instead of confronting her directly, the manager decided to loop in the rest of the team into this policy.

One employee, who saw through the manager's plan, decided to prove to the manager that the policy wouldn't be necessary if she'd just address the problem head-on instead of tiptoeing around it. The employee proceeded to clear out their desks completely at the end of every day, taking everything that they could home with them, then spending precious company time every morning to put it all back. This led the manager to understand just how strict her policy was towards her team, while the one employee who was the real issue still didn't improve.

How should a good manager handle this situation? Do you think it's fair to enforce a policy on a whole team when the problem is only with one person?

The best perk of remote work is supposed to be chilling in your house all day! 

Now for this worker, they're losing several hours a day to an inadvertent commuting situation. 

Remote work is really the best! You can wake up just a few minutes before your shift starts, eat a full breakfast and enjoy your coffee, and then get settled into your workflow from your own comfy couch. Everything is perfect. You don't have to deal with an annoying commute, or coworkers who have long, loud phone conversations with their friends all day, or being so hungry by 3 PM and having nothing else to eat. Remote work solves basically every work-related problem. 

Working double sections without double tips? No thanks. 

Working in a restaurant is a brutal business. On their feet all day, slinging trays and reckoning with the stubborn, yet mysterious sauce stains on their apron, servers suit up for battle every day before a shift. If they're lucky, they'll score a grip of cash in the form of tips, and if they're unlucky, which happens more often than not, a coworker will call in sick, and they'll be in the weeds for the rest of the shift. 

Walk a mile in these non-stick shoes, and you'll see exactly why their polite smiles are so well-rehearsed. 

This has been a snow-filled winter! And there's more where that came from…

For us young folks, this has been the snowiest winter of our lives! It's hard to recall a winter that had a more long-lasting snowfall than this. It snowed in mid-January, and well over a month later, most of that snow is still happily in place. It's accumulating lots of dirt from the roads, so a lot of it remains in massive gray ice piles along the sidewalks.

It was fun, at first, but after weeks of slipping and sliding on icy sidewalks, a lot of people are losing their cool. They've been showing everyone exactly what it's like in these snow-filled weeks, and guess what? There's more snow on the way! Ah! 

This young woman spent the majority of her teenage years saving money. Now, her mom wants half of it.

Parents can occasionally be needy, and naturally, children have obligations they need to fulfill for the people who raised them. If a parent asks their kid to do something for them, chances are you'll do it to the best of your ability. However, the vast majority of the time, these favors are about doing a chore for them or giving them a helping hand with a task. 

There is a limit to what parents should ask their kids to do for them, and giving up half your hard-earned savings is certainly past said limit.

Treating a friend like a doormat, then throwing them under a bus, and then expecting them to be a stepping stone for your career is actually crazy to me. Not sure what this guy was thinking, but maybe he climbed so many people's backs he has back altitude sickness. And if I were a friend, I'd refer him to the nearest mirror so he can reflect on why he's now friendless

A sleep-deprived sibling secretly manipulated the household WiFi in order to stop his brother from having late-night Call of Duty rampages. 

I love gaming. Have my entire life. But, after suffering this from many roommates over the years, I think it's time we address an important subject: Yelling at games, especially in the middle of the night when others are trying to sleep, and there is nothing but the quiet of the peaceful resting world for your frustrated, exasperated cries to echo out into like a great void.

After investing 6 months into a relationship, this boyfriend is only just now finding out about his influencer girlfriend's online presence. 

This teen somehow hid her online life from her BF for a really long time, and he's not thrilled about her reveal! 

Do you ever look up people's social media accounts before you get to know them? If you dig too deep, you start to develop a parasocial relationship with them before you've even formed a friendship! But if you don't search at all, you might miss some major red flags. 

This 19-year-old somehow didn't reveal to her BF that she had a pretty big social media following, and many follow-up questions abound. 

"Dear employees, everyone must come to the office now, except for me. See you never!"

That is basically what the boss in the story below told his employees. After two years of working fully remote from home, this company decided that "in-person collaboration is essential", which means that every single employee must now come to the office every single day. 

Now, try to imagine yourself in the shoes of someone who, for two whole years, did not set foot in an office—having to go from working from home all day, every day, to the cruel reality of the morning commute, boring office desks, a terrible kitchen, and a bathroom line. Not only that, imagine the surprise when the employees got to the office and lo and behold, their boss was not there. Apparently, every Friday, the boss works from home, claiming he has strategic planning to do and can't afford the distraction of a full office.

You know who else would love to work without the distraction of the office, boss? Every single one of your employees!

This resident was right to take issue with a bunch of kids playing on her trampoline without asking.

Some folks seem to disagree about what constitutes "neighborly" behavior. This resident purchased a trampoline for her own kids. Sure, she probably would have been fine if the kids next door asked politely to play around in her backyard and use the shiny new toy first. However, they didn't.

Instead, this entitled group of children thought they could climb over the new homeowner's fence and jump around on the trampoline for hours while the author was away at work. Now, as the author points out, she had brought up the first instance of this boundary violation to the parents of these kids. They said they were going to do something about it, but they neglected to do so. 

When it happened again and again, the author knew that she needed to put her foot down, even if it meant that she would become the most despised resident in this tight-knit community.

How dare this employee leave at 4:57 PM, leaving his workplace short 3 minutes of work? 

Micromanaging bosses are a dime a dozen. They sure love to worry about how employees are spending their time! 

Although the remote-work lifestyle was popular for a while, bosses now are demanding that employees return to the office. 

They seem to think that employees who wake up early, do a grueling commute, eat leftovers for lunch, and sit in the office until the sun goes down, are somehow more productive than employees who work remote, doing everything on their own terms. Remote workers are more productive, and they're a lot happier, but bosses feel a lack of control over these employees. 

The "who pays on a date" debate is as old as dating itself. But what the girl in this story should do isn't up for debate because the guy she met is obviously undateable