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. 

Should this new guy be reprimanded for making a rookie mistake on the job, or should he have known better?

It's difficult to assume that folks who are just entering the workforce for the first time have a strong understanding of what is considered acceptable and unacceptable behavior. Of course, the big workforce violations are usually expressed in a contract or in training. However, what about the smaller things, like professional speak and being respectful of other people's boundaries? 

Some people who have been working for a long time might think that these concepts need not be addressed specifically. However, one must remember that in our contemporary society, where young folks have grown up in the age of social media, what constitutes professionalism in the work space might not necessarily be as self-explanatory as one might think.

Many people find themselves working in the service industry for one thing and one thing only: The tips.

Every minimum-wage job can turn into a high-paying one with the right amount of tips, and for a young adult just starting their life, that could mean a great deal.

So people opt out of calm, desk jobs to work in a stressful environment like a busy restaurant or a popular coffee shop, in order to make a few extra bucks in the shape of some trusty tips. It might not seem like a lot for some, but these extra dollars a shift can really turn someone's life around.

That was the thought process of the new barista below. They started working in a small coffee shop that only pays $15 an hour, after they were told that tips would also be part of their monthly wage. Well, after a while working there, this employee noticed that the tips they were getting weren't actually included in their paychecks.

What would you do if you were faced with such a dramatic change to your role on the second day?

A lot changed in the last few years of employment, and, well, a lot didn't.

Employees proved they could stay productive from home after years of trying to convince their bosses that this would be the case. Finally getting the chance to put their money where their mouth is. There seemed to be an implied understanding that the success of this little civilization-wide cultural experiment would mean a permanent change in the way we work. That, when things returned to relative normal, we would all be able to retain at least some flexibility in where and when we were able to do our work.

Sure, there was never really any declaration from on high that "Ye shall never set foot in an office again," but retaining just a little bit of the freedom tasted, the quality of life sampled during those years would have been nice for everyone. Once you've sampled top-shelf quality, it's a little hard to go back to plastic bottles and bitter tastes that commuting to an office 5 days a week represents.

And for those who were hired on a purely remote basis while everyone was working from home anyway? Well, there was no reason to think that there would ever be any change, that you might one day be asked to go into an office that was nowhere close to your home, sitting for hours in traffic to experience an "office culture" that you never signed on for.

It takes a village to raise your kids, but has this person has taken that responsibility too far while watching a 12-year-old niece? 

Most parents want, and in some cases desperately desire, a village to help them raise their kids. In practice, that might mean that they watch their kid most of the time, but they also lean on their parents, in-laws, babysitters, or neighbors to watch the kids. 

The age-old question of who is supposed to pay for a home repair: the person who lives in it, or the person who owns it?

When you live in a home you don't own, disputes are bound to follow every time something happens to the place. It could be an AC malfunction, a hole in the wall, or a clogged toilet; every single change drags a whole conversation about who is supposed to be the one paying for the repair.

Naturally, neither side wants to bear the cost of a repair. The owner never wants to pay for something in a home they don't live in, and the renter doesn't want to pay for something in a home they don't own. But usually, a simple clause in their contract determines which one of them must take out their wallet, and that usually settles the debate.

When it comes to Airbnbs, things tend to get a little blurry because these standard contracts are not a common thing between a host and a guest. Anyone who has ever stayed at an Airbnb knows that some hosts tend to look for ways they can squeeze more money out of their guests, and one must be careful whenever they're staying at an Airbnb for longer than a night.

The guest below is staying at an Airbnb long-term, which could be a risky deal, as they have just discovered themselves. For a while, they didn't have any problems with their stay, until one night at 2:00 AM, they got locked out of the bedroom because the electronic lock suddenly ran out of batteries.

Since they only left their room to go to the bathroom, the guest didn't have anything but their phone on them, so they decided to text the host and explain the situation. After a bit of back and forth, the host told the guest to wait until 7:00 AM, and the guest decided to spend the rest of the night in the communal kitchen. When morning came, the host called a locksmith who came to fix the lock. When the door was fixed, the host and guest got into a dispute about who should pay the locksmith for the job. The host claimed it was the guest's fault for leaving the room in the middle of the night, while the guest refused to take the blame for a malfunction that had nothing to do with them.

Thirty-seven years at one company is not just a job. It is a whole personality, a pension, a vacation schedule, and apparently the kind of institutional knowledge that makes your employer suddenly discover a 12% raise the moment you start looking elsewhere.

This worker has found himself in a bizarre legal dispute with his Pennsylvania-based company regarding his new job title, which was altered without his knowledge or approval.

Imagine logging into your HR portal for a routine check, only to find out that your entire job, from the title to your newfound responsibilities, has been changed without your awareness. Moreover, imagine hearing that your choice to work over the last couple of weeks, since the job title was quietly changed, somehow counts as your approval of this new shift in duties.

Unfortunately, that's the pickle that this warehouse employee is in. Just a few weeks after he filed a complaint to HR because of a serious safety violation, he was seemingly punished with this job change. Furthermore, he is now being asked to operate machinery that he is not certified to utilize, marking yet another series of safety violations in this toxic warehouse environment. Talk about a lawsuit waiting to happen!

"Never accept a counteroffer" is an adage you will hear bandied about any time the conversation turns to accepting a new job offer and tendering your resignation. 

When you go to give your resignation, there's a non-zero chance that your employer will turn around and offer you a raise matching the new salary that you have been offered. They might even beat it and offer a promotion, that next step of growth in your career that you have been looking for and have been desperately missing from your current role. And on paper, it would make sense to accept this, especially if the offer beats the one you have gotten.

But you have to ask yourself, why couldn't they just offer me this sooner if they thought it was worth it? Sure, it could just be organizational oversight. The employee just got lost in the bustle of everything else going on. Well, that and most employers don't just go around paying people more when they're not incentivized to. Meaning that current employees' pay often lags behind that of new hires across entire industries.

This also means that the best way to get a raise in the modern employment landscape is to make sure you keep looking for other opportunities that would be a good fit for you and offer you essential next steps in your growth and career. 

It can seem daunting to keep up with job applications and such when already working a full-time role, but when you go through this process and go back to your current employer, with an offer in hand. You reach the point where we started: the counteroffer.

The reality is, however your employer feels about you and your work, it makes more sense, financially, for them to try to retain you in this moment. Interview processes can be lengthy and a big investment in time and resources. Meanwhile, productivity will be down for your role for that entire duration, and this has a cost to it, too. Any other factors aside, the cold, hard truth is that it's just cheaper for them to match the offer, or beat it, than it is to replace you. 

How do you react when people give you criticism or complain about your behavior?

We all find ourselves both on the giving and the receiving end of criticism from time to time; there is no avoiding it. We live in a world where almost every single action we do affects other people, and it is only a matter of time before something we do, however big or small, bothers someone so much that they decide to say something about it.

How we react to that will say a lot about who we truly are.

The resident below, for example, has shown his true colors the second someone else criticised his behavior, and we can safely say his true colors are not pretty. This resident lives in a small building with 4 apartments total, and he has the habit of sitting in the parking lot and generally causing a disturbance, whether he's talking loudly, blocking parking spots, or simply making noise.

This led one of his neighbors to complain to the owner of the building privately and ask them to put a stop to the disturbance. The neighbor didn't want to confront the loud resident directly, so they thought that doing so through the owner was the best option. They were quick to learn that even anonymity can't always shelter them from someone else's entitled behavior.

As soon as the loud resident heard about the complaint against him, he demanded to know which one of his neighbors spoke up. He didn't care about how he was causing a disturbance for other residents, and he had no intention of being a better neighbor; all he wanted was to find out who complained to the owner and confront them about it.

This led the guy to go door-to-door, knocking on every unit and asking its residents if they were the ones who complained. Naturally, the actual complainer had no intention to come forward and admit they did it, so they denied everything. 

Now, the loud resident is demanding a meeting with all of the residents, and the person who complained is scared of what will come of it. Should they even attend? Keep scrolling to decide…

In a world full of hard workers, favorite coworkers, healthy workplaces, and acceptably friendly managers, don't be a Danny. 

This dude was ornery about the privileges that managerial staff turned a blind eye to, getting emboldened by his free time at his new job. However, when this new hire at the call center, Danny, started blatantly watching TV shows at his desk on his work computer, flaunting his time wasting to every passerby in the office, managers were forced to crack down on the rules… For everyone in the department. 

With the internet outlawed and nothing to do between calls but twiddle their thumbs, the entire staff turned their backs on the flagrantly entitled new hire because he had ruined the last good thing they had going for them. 

In the workplace, nobody likes a boot-licker, a micromanager, or a blatant slacker, and somehow this Danny guy engaged all three of the worst characters in the office before the end of his first week. Some people bring chaos in their wake, while others help smooth it out, and this new guy expected everyone else in the workplace to pick up the slack when he created it. Everyone with a shred of a work ethic has encountered this kind of coworker once or twice during their careers, but none are quite as annoying as Danny.

At least, now, the coworkers in the office won't be spending time at his cubicle when they have a spare moment. The break room will be full of office chatter and gossip, especially now that phones, books, crafts, and all personal devices are banned from the employees' desks. Managers had a forced hand here, so they're hardly to blame. When one worker scandalously disregards simple rules, more rules will be put in place to enforce them. 

That's why you never take advantage of a good thing in the office, because you never know when that wonderful perk will be outlawed. Next thing you know, they'll be packing up the coffee maker, emptying the work fridge, and banning all chatter and gossip too… That'll be the day that everyone walks out.

What would you do all day if you only had to spend 30 minutes working? 

The possibilities feel almost endless! 

If you only had to work roughly 2-3 hours over your 40-hour workweek, just think about all you could accomplish. The obvious tasks would get done first. Laundry, grocery shopping, meal prepping, cleaning up the house. 

Or you could be scrolling on your phone, catching up on some video games, watching your favorite TV shows. 

But after you get all your chores done, and you've finished your TV series finale, you might realize that the boredom is setting in…

And then what do you do all day? All week? All career?