One IT contractor got paid thousands after a senior attorney stubbornly refused to give up his laptop for a new system installation. The law firm had hired OP to install new systems on 800 field laptops after a major data breach,  and OP admitted it was a complex logistical operation that required a lot of time… and work. After fixing all the laptops, OP had one laptop left to refurbish. The senior attorney was taking his sweet time and driving OP crazy, which eventually led to inevitable curiosity. The attorney knew about the security concerns. Was he hiding something? Why wasn't he giving OP his laptop? What could possibly be on there?

Despite multiple attempts to persuade him to switch to a secure device, the attorney persisted due to personal reasons, which you can read about by scrolling down. Then, here is a funny story about a customer who returned albums to a record store that had locked him into a 36-month contract. The catch was that he sent everything back… with cement. Yes, like actual cement.

If you've ever lived near a construction site, you know that the noise can be unbearable at times. Unfortunately, there isn't anything you can do about it. The world cannot come to a halt because of your inconvenience. But with that being said, living wall-to-wall with construction noises all day long while pregnant does sound like an absolute train wreck. But life has a funny way of driving us nuts. You have to accommodate.

In this story, the OP notified his neighbors about a month before their rebuild and apologized for the inconvenience. But for these entitled neighbors, the news did not sit well. After pleading with the OP to delay the construction to match up with their timelines, the pregnant girlfriend spent the entire meeting crying, unhappy that the OP would not change his plans for her. Keep reading for the full story and to see what people in the comments had to say.

These job candidates really needed a job, but they weren't desperate enough to stay at interviews that were totally wrong for them. Sometimes you can just tell right away that the job isn't going to be the right fit for you. Most of us would just stick out the interview and call it a loss after the fact. But these folks just walked right out, saving themselves both time and dignity. 

A major red flag during most job interviews is the ratio of how much you're allowed to talk, compared with how much the hiring manager talks. It's one thing if the hiring manager explains a bit about the position, and then spends a half hour asking you about your experience. But it's a whole other issue if the HR person gives a lot of caveats about the work, or seems like they're trying to prepare you to deal with the company's shenanigans. Plus, if they're spending so much time trying to convince you to work there, that might mean they just need a warm body to be in that role. It makes the candidate feel like their qualifications don't even matter. 

Check out these very satisfying tales of mid-interview walk-outs. Then, read about these workers who avoided getting fired even after making outrageous mistakes. 

There's petty revenge, and then there's virtuous revenge. Although this thread was posted to Reddit's r/pettyrevenge subreddit, we consider this story to be the latter. 

This automotive technician was laid off just before Christmas in such a ruthless, inhumane manner. By the time he returned to the shop to pick up his tools and collect his final check, he met his replacement and realized how low their new wage was. That's where the virtuous revenge comes in. The Redditor pulled the new guy aside and told him what his old salary was for comparative purposes. Soon thereafter, the new guy drove off without looking back, leaving the Redditor's former boss absolutely furious at what happened. The truth is, however, he had no one to be furious at but himself. We call that karma.

Keep scrolling below to read the full story and to see what people had to say in the comments. For more, here's a post about a coworker who was unjustly fired. 

Sports brings people together, and it also creates lasting rivalries. For some people, celebrating their favorite sporting event is the highlight of their week. Whether it's tailgating for a football game with a group of friends, or watching a soccer match at home with their family, people get so into the game. Many folks take their teams' winning or losing streaks very personally. A loss for their hometown team means a grumpy week for them! 

These days, we have social media to tweet about sporting events in real time. Plus, a lot of athletes have their own social media accounts where they can tweet at other players or write about their performance. This week, @PowellAnalytics asked, "If there were a "Sports Twitter" Hall of Fame, honoring the best sports-related tweets of all time, what would be your nominee?" and the answers did not disappoint. People replied and QT'd with plenty of the most hilarious and off-the-wall sporting tweets they could find, with many people saying they thought about these tweets all the time. It's a great collection of sporting moments, and you can check them all out below. Then, check out what happened when a trucking company implemented salaried pay for their workers instead of hourly rates. 

High school reunions almost never end well. If you managed to survive your own reunion unscathed, please feel free to share any advice on how you pulled that off in the comments. However, if you're like the rest of us and you were also silly enough to attend yours, you probably had at least one awkward encounter that still makes you cringe when you think about it. After all, high school reunions are one of those bizarre phenomena where old dynamics resurface almost immediately. You might end up reconnecting with an ex, a crush, a former friend, or a former enemy. You also might end up having to suffer through a conversation with someone whose name you cannot quite place. 

All of these types of awkward encounters and more were shared by these Redditors via the following r/AskReddit thread. Keep scrolling below for the full anecdotes. For more content like this, here are some funny stories where people watched their enemies make colossal mistakes.

Companies nowadays look at their employees like fodder. If you work in a warehouse, you're likely just a numbered employee with a badge, a clearance level, and a faceless name. Unlike the 'family companies' of yore, corporations now are only worried about the bottom line of sales trajectories, net profit, and the pockets of their shareholders. This is why when faced with the dilemma of health and safety concerns in the workplace, employees have to look out for each other– because their boss certainly isn't. 

In our next story, a forklift operator in a warehouse was flabbergasted by. the conditions of the workplace. After several months of safety infractions and dangerous workflow, he finally snapped. His nitpicking boss dared to point out that he was on his cell phone on the service floor– the least of anyone's safety concerns– and u/gliixo369 lost it. Scroll for the full story that includes rage quitting, OSHA reports, and a cold dish of revenge. 

There are unwritten rules and workplace politics in the corporate world that you have to abide by if you want to keep your job.

The story that follows is from a tech consulting company's team lead. OP was in charge of two teams, each consisting of three members, for a total of six persons. OP was given a project at the time that required the assistance of all six members of his team. The company decided against pursuing new, cutting-edge technology in favor of sticking with what they knew in order to complete the task at hand. A few team members were somewhat surprised by this choice, but MaxPowers in particular was crushed. MaxPowers recently graduated from college and is eager to dive headfirst into the tech industry. As a result, this choice completely ruined his drive to succeed and advance within the organization.

When OP voiced his concerns to higher-ups, he was informed that MaxPower was the actual problem, not the company, and that it was up to OP to figure out how to 'motivate' his workers. By taking this advice to heart, OP inspired MaxPowers to pursue his passion and his goals all the way to a new company. Having said that, don't forget to read the story below if you're interested in learning how OP influenced MaxPower! After you're done, remember to read the story about the web developer who leaves the company high and dry after higher-ups shut down his concerns regarding the launch of a new product!

Adults don't get to have snow days nearly as often as they should. 

Kids used to have snow days all the time in decades past. There was nothing better than the feeling of waking up for school to a blanket of snow coating every surface. In the past, you'd have to turn on the TV and watch the scrolling ticker at the bottom of the screen to find your school's announcement (but these days, there's an app for that). When you got to see the name of your school with the word "closed" next to it, it was time to jump for joy! You suddenly had an entire weekday to spend playing in the snow, making snow forts, and having snowball fights with the neighbor kids. 

As an adult, snow days look a little different. They involve cleaning off your car's windshield and shoveling your driveway enough to get your vehicle to the street. But imagine if you had a snow day where the weather was so bad there was no way you could get to your place of business. Then, you could spend the entire day curled up on the couch drinking hot chocolate while you watch the snow fall from your window. That is the kind of rejuvenating day we all need every now and then. 

Scroll down to read u/gloggs' story of what happened when their company sent out a mass notice. Then, check out some stories of workplace foolishness, like one person who "photocopied a slice of pizza." 

Life is good when you're an aunt or uncle. You get to hang out with your nieces and nephews whenever you feel like cosplaying as a parent, but when you're ready to play video games, go to a bar, or if you just want to be a lazy, childless lump on the couch, you can check out and go home. Plus, you become the perfect free babysitter for your sibling's kiddos!

However, in our next story, an uncle learned that his involvement with his sister's three kids wasn't appreciated. To find a babysitter for hire costs $150/hour in some cities, and in this economy, u/smellycatandthebat wasn't about to be walked over by his sister's entitled boot.

Playground logic persists in adulthood in many ways. There's always a king of the hill, some kid with glasses getting annihilated on the dodgeball court, and a snarky class clown running around screaming 'nana-nana-boo-boo'! When you're at odds with another 'kid' on the blacktop, the mature thing to do is walk away and let it go. But in a world that's not so different from Lord of the Flies, sometimes the only way to get proper payback is to stoop down to your bully's level– which is exactly what u/leditstuffforfun and their buddy did recently on an online sales platform. 

After reaching out to a seller regarding a coveted video game (Dark Souls) that they had listed on their sales page, OP was baffled when the seller replied with disdain and rude remarks. Annoyed that the seller was acting childish towards them, OP and their friend plotted a perfect way to get back at the sassy seller– by hitting him right in the collector's box. 

Keep reading to learn how a buyer with an attitude got a taste of his own medicine after messing with the wrong kids on the playground. Next on the agenda, here's a story of another version of petty revenge, where a delivery guy gets payback against his micromanaging boss.

No one enjoys taking calls at work, but that doesn't mean you should offload those responsibilities on your coworkers. That's an easy recipe for making enemies on the job. 

At this office, everyone has to take the occasional call from disgruntled customers, and in this instance, we don't have a situation where the customer was the problem for once. Instead, we have a coworker who always happens to be "unavailable" when it's her turn to pick up the phone. Her colleague, who shared this thread to Reddit's r/MaliciousCompliance subreddit, decided they had enough of picking up the phone and doing their coworker's job. So, they decided to maliciously comply and take a message for the customer but to ensure that this message was not only relayed to the coworker but also to management. That's what you get, ma'am.

Keep scrolling below for the full story. For more, check out this post about how the office prankster finally went too far.

Some people weren't ever taught that they can't always have things their way—and it shows…

These days, being a preferred platinum, premium, premier, or bumbercrum-level customer really doesn't mean much of anything. Companies don't even really go through much to disguise this, either. Back in the day, if you did enough business with a company to achieve bundersnoot-level status, they'd give you actual upgrades and treatment that meant something. These days, you'll be lucky to get a pen, but it's more likely they'll just send you an email or two telling you how glad they are that you've spent so much money with them. To make it worse, there are even "fake" levels of service appreciation where all you have to do is click a button or give your email address, and you're in. Giving boomblecruts, like this entitled dude, an inflated sense of ego when it comes to dealing with customer service representatives. 

When you're applying for jobs, usually the hiring pipeline is pretty straightforward: You apply, they interview you, and then you're hired! However, in the era of online headhunters and recruitment sites, things can get a little topsy-turvy in the hiring department, especially when recruiters have no idea what they're doing. This kind of job market tomfoolery left u/PCmaniac24 asking– Do you even want to hire me? 

After reaching out to OP, one particularly indignant recruiter not only dropped the ball on reviewing their application packet but then dared to blame OP for their unpreparedness. Keep on reading to enjoy all of the sass and all of the snarky comebacks that make all of us happy to apply for our own jobs in the future. 

Looking for more work stories? Here's another tale of another inconceivably silly workplace drama, where a delivery driver maliciously complies with a micromanaging boss's request, resulting in her computer crashing multiple times.

Having noisy neighbors is bad enough, but it is even worse when those noisy neighbors are college students. The noise of college parties only, especially when you are trying to sleep, could probably get you to move out in a matter of days. Plus, trying to get those kids to stop is even harder to deal with, so you would have to suffer in silence until it is late enough to call the police.

It doesn't just end in loud parties. In this Reddit story, a man who lives in a mostly student area shared a story about his experience with his neighbors. The neighbors, students, would host late-night parties, park at OP's driveway without permission, and heckle the rest of the neighbors non-stop. For some reason, the act that really got on OP's nerves, was when they threw their garbage bags in OP's trashcan. So OP planned his petty revenge. He got up early one morning and collected the nastiest garbage he could find in the neighborhood. He then proceeded to drop all that garbage through the student's mail slot and finished it all up by spilling a whole bottle of milk through it.

Scroll down for the full story. When you are done, click here for a story of a college professor who demanded his blind student turn in assignments without any accommodation.

This supermarket employee is learning that some bosses care way more about appearances than others. It really depends on your career path: if you're a lawyer, there's no way you can show up to work rocking green hair and lip piercings. But there are plenty of job opportunities where HR either doesn't care or doesn't have the power to instruct employees about that kind of thing. 

When you rock an unnatural hair color, people usually have one of three reactions. They'll either tell you they like it, say nothing, or just point out that you have colorful hair. It's surprising, and it catches people off guard. Not everyone can pull off bright rainbow colors, but those of us who do can't imagine life without it. The OP of this story felt strongly about their hair, too. They write that they'd had blue dreadlocks, followed by a shorter purple hairdo after taking their locs out. But their new boss wasn't happy with either of those "unnatural" colors, and decided to put her foot down about it. 

Check out this person's story, then check out the tale of one young barista who managed to get their first job shut down after learning they were being underpaid. 

If you feel like you're being cheated by a company's messed up policy, make things harder for them! This thread, which was posted to Reddit's r/MaliciousCompliance subreddit by u/dawkc, is further proof of that fact.

This restaurant manager discovered a missing order of shrimp, but when he called the vendor to see if he could get credit, they enforced a new policy stating that they owed him nothing because he had already signed the delivery form when the truck driver arrived. Like any good tale of malicious compliance, the Redditor decided to be difficult by following the policy carefully. When the next delivery came, he refused to sign the form until after he made sure that all the items were counted. This took an hour and a half and screwed up the vendor's delivery schedule for the rest of the day. The real victim of this story is the truck driver who was forced to wait 90 minutes. Sorry to this man!

For more, here's a piece about a server who was accused of getting the best section at a restaurant. 

No workplace is safe from that one dude who can't get anything right. There really is at least one person in every company who seems wildly underqualified for the job. This is the kind of guy who makes you wonder how they ever got a driver's license or paid their taxes, because they're seemingly too dim-witted to function. 

Sometimes, it's not even the person's fault, necessarily---you can just tell they're in the wrong career. For example, one shoe store worker was asked to organize some shoes by their brand, then by size. That way a customer can find a shoe they like, and know exactly where all the sizes are to find the perfect fit. Instead, this worker decided to organize the shoes by the color of the boxes they came in! Why? "Because it looked prettier," obviously. This woman is not destined for common sense, but perhaps she'd be the perfect fit for a job in fashion or home decorating. This was also a young person at her first job, hopefully she's making better mistakes by this point in her career. 

Check out these funny and shocking accounts of the goofiest ways workers made mistakes. Then, check out these times when workers narrowly avoided getting fired, even after making huge mistakes, like one dude who "scrapped $360,000 in airplane parts."

Like the ecosystem of a live petri dish, there is a delicate balance of growth and decay in a restaurant. Servers, bartenders, line cookers, and managers all exist in equilibrium and when one player falls off the board, the whole system collapses. That much is clear in our next story– After a restaurant manager quit, the entire restaurant's social biome started to crumble. 

u/deviltrap is a loyal server at a restaurant in Philadelphia, however, when their manager left the building last week, things started to get out of whack. The owner decided it was time for a clean slate, but instead of building up his staff, he decided to take everyone down with the ship. Scroll onward to read more about how this business owner pulled the rug out from under his staff members, threatening their jobs and livelihood only a week before Valentine's Day. Yikes.

After this, here's another server's nightmare in the form of a nightmarish customer who perfectly embodied 'Florida man' energy.

Professors in college can be divided into two personality groups. Either they couldn't care less about college or the class they are teaching, constantly missing classes and passing everyone on their test. Or, they are extremely strict and tough, with hardly any consideration for their students. Now, even without these professors, college is hard enough, so imagine having to go through college with the latter professors, while also being blind.

This Reddit story was written by a Classroom Technician in college who was hired to help a blind student with his assignments. One of which was to create an interpretation of an image the professor printed out to the students. OP and the student did the assignment as best as they could, without OP helping out too much, but still being able to fill in the gaps for the student. Apparently, that wasn't good enough for the professor, who told the student he should have done his personal interpretation, without any help. 

What the student did to comply with the professor's request was really bold and honestly kind of funny, so make sure you scroll down for the full story. Once you are done, click here for the story of an employee who got back at his micromanager in the pettiest of ways.