Some employees really go that extra mile when it comes to getting free stuff from their jobs. You know that one person who digs their hands into the office fridge and takes 7 items home… daily. So this woman gave off exactly that type of energy. This story was told by OP, who was working in IT, and the woman in question was his coworker. She had called up IT in hopes she would get a new laptop, as hers was 'old'.

IT refused her request, and she wasn't thrilled. But OP would never have expected what came next… Two weeks later, she came back to IT, this time with a different request… As it turned out, her computer was 'broken'. Check out how it all unfolded below. Then when you're done scrolling, here is another workplace story — this one is about a former employee who was being charged by a company they worked at for credit card late fees… despite the fact that they shouldn't have been responsible for canceling the card.

Snow shoveling is hard work, but these neighbors don't care. If they can be cozy in their home while this OP does all the heavy lifting, that's perfectly fine with them. 

Out of all the outdoor chores, shoveling snow is a lot of people's least favorite task. At least when you rake leaves, they're pretty light! Snow is heavy and bulky, so you get sweaty and tired out instantly. The dude in this petty revenge tale didn't shovel for just an hour or two. No, instead, they had to clear out their driveway for more than five hours. The issue is that the OP shares their driveway with the next-door neighbors. You'd think they'd come up with a way to share the responsibility of shoveling, right? Well, apparently not… 

Even with a snow blower, these neighbors just couldn't find the willpower to move off of their cozy warm couches and help. Again, snow shoveling is not fun, we get it, but you still have to do these things sometimes. And with a snowblower to help move things along, it really shouldn't have to take the OP five and a half hours to finish the driveway and complete their other snow-related tasks. 

You can check out this person's tale of extra petty revenge down below. And after that, read about how one bridge tricked her attention-seeking cousin into following her wedding dress code. 

It's easy to lose your cool when you're driving. You're operating a 2-ton wheeled tin can going 80mph and nobody seems to have their eyes open– how is it that drivers can be such imbeciles? But u/dirty_ole_fella, a victim of senseless driving and road rage, quickly learned how he could make an example of a reckless driver, simply by pulling an uno reverse card. 

How does a person get back at a raving lunatic on the road? Well, there are timeless hand signals that gesture our frustration as well as a tasteful amount of swear words, but to really send a message to someone who's already unhinged, you've got to outsmart them. And in this story, OP doesn't just outsmart his opponent on the road, he out-crazies him.

Scroll for the entire story of how a road-raging buffoon got a taste of his own medicine, receiving a fair amount of scorn from local law enforcement and a stomach-dropping scare he won't soon forget. 

You don't have to be in search of buying your first home to know how abysmal the current housing market is. Many potential homebuyers go in with stars in their eyes, but return, defeated, to renting due to the high costs of it all. Their only consolation? They're not alone! 

It should come as no surprise that the comments teachers make can haunt you forever. Sure, there are the words of encouragement that can empower you to pursue a particular path, but there are also the subtle and sometimes not-so-subtle insults that can damage someone's self-esteem. The only positive outcome that can arise from dealing with these unfortunate comments is if they become a motivator for you as you continue to do what you want and be who you are despite what a silly authority figure said.

This thread, which was posted to Reddit's r/pettyrevenge subreddit, provides proof that not only can you endure in these situations, but you might even be able to get even with that authority figure down the road. Here, we have a student who was discouraged from applying to college and pursuing psychology by her own guidance counselor. Despite the emotional damage this caused the student for several years, she eventually persisted and wound up teaching psychology like she always wanted. Keep scrolling below to learn about her eventual run-in with that same guidance counselor years later. 

For more tales of petty revenge, here is a story about a group of women who got back at a mooching boyfriend.

Nothing is worse than someone who thinks they are the exception to every rule—especially when that person is your sibling. And, if you think you are the exception to a rule when you haven't been told explicitly such... You probably aren't.

It's important here to take a look in the mirror and realize that each and every one of us does this to an extent. It should come as no surprise that a lot of these involve driving. "Speed limits? But I'm a good driver; I can drive 5 or 10 over safely!" or "It's ok if I look at my phone while I'm driving; I know what I'm doing!"

This bride's brother has a four-year-old son, who is the "miracle baby," the pride and joy of the extended family. Because of their child's status, they thought that he would be allowed to come to their wedding—despite the that the wedding invitations explicitly said that it was child-free. When the bride tried to explain that there would be no exceptions, there was chaos and arguing in the family—now, her parents have said they won't go to the wedding either… What the heck?

If the airline industry needed a poster child for what "bad airplane edict" looked like, they found one. Sometimes it is simply mindblowing how impolite and utterly repulsive someone can be. Like, can you not see what you are doing? You are very obviously acting like a child, but you are a grown adult. Do you not know that you are a grown adult and are expected to act as thus? What a world… 

These people have a great plan to deal with a not-so-nice neighbor. No matter where you grew up, chances are you've encountered a neighbor like the guy in this story. He seems a bit cranky, overreactive, and anti-social. You can try as hard as you want to be nice to this neighbor, but it won't matter much. Some people just want to be left alone all the time. 

This is the kind of neighbor who yells at kids who are playing in their own backyards, or calls their parents to complain that they're skateboarding around the neighborhood. They love to make the biggest mountains out of the smallest of molehills. When they act this way, some folks try to just be extra kind. There are lots of trials and tribulations that can cause someone to become angry at the world, but sometimes they just need a little kindness to start acting normally again. 

Others do not want to be contacted ever. No amount of fresh-baked cookies or invitations to dinner can break through to them. Well, to each their own. And the OP of this story is going about things in the perfect way after an encounter with a neighbor like that. 

After you check out this story of neighborly pettiness, read about the final straw moments that led people to quit their jobs on the spot. 

Since when were PTO and WFH the same thing? Apparently, at this company, these completely separate concepts have been conflated as a means to manipulate employees. That's what this Redditor shared via this thread on Reddit's r/antiwork subreddit, and let's just say that people in the comments section were quick to call out this ridiculous toxicity. 

Time off is time off, not time out of the office. We should culturally be used to the concept of remote work for long enough now to know that it's still very much work. We suspect that this policy would be rescinded immediately with the quick and brief involvement of the Labor Board because the concept behind this fakery is clearly illegal. This isn't anyone's agenda to work less but rather to make appropriate use of the time off that employees signed up for when taking on the job. Keep scrolling below to see the email from HR for yourselves! When you're done, here's your 2023 guide to 'quiet quitting.'

A person can only take so much before they just lose it. In the workplace, that kind of feeling can build for months or years, but that employee eventually has to get their feelings out. 

Employees ideally want to feel heard at their workplaces. They might have great suggestions, but when they pose it to their bosses, their ideas are waved away. Others request raises, only to be snidely denied or lowballed into accepting a raise that will barely make a dent. Offering raises is probably not something any employer wants to do necessarily, but great managers know that people work for money. They'll save money by having good employee retention rates---just think how much more money it is to hire and onboard someone! Instead, they could just cough up a little extra money and leave their employee feeling valued and happy. 

These people each had unique experiences with quitting their jobs in dramatic fashions. Some told their bosses to go kick sand, using much more vulgar language. Others threw their uniforms at their bosses! These people shared their stories in a r/askreddit thread, and a lot of them have happy endings. It seems like once these people realized how poorly their company was treating them, they accepted jobs that were a better fit for them. 

After you read these tales, read about the upstairs neighbor who thought of the dumbest possible solution to a flooding sink. 

Every so often, you come across a pub with a clever enough sign that, at the very least, makes you consider coming in for a drink. Honestly, the truth is most professional advertising these days does not come close to the wit of these managers, employees, bartenders, etc. who happened to just come up with something clever on the spot. Perhaps making these signs was a creative outlet during their shifts. Or perhaps these folks should be the future of modern advertising and nobody is giving them their proper due. At the very least, we should pay these folks much better.

Keep scrolling below for this compilation of chalkboard signs written by your favorite servers and bartenders. When you're done, be sure to check out this list of the top Karens of the week as well as this list of inconsiderate people who deserved to be called out by their irritated neighbors.

To give us a semblance of control over our own lives, it pays to have a sense of humor. In fact, laughing in the face of your misfortune is sometimes the only way out of it. For those of us working-class folks who like to have a good chuckle, the surest way to do so is to giggle at our own paychecks (because this just HAS to be a joke, right?) Although it's a faux pas to talk about how much money you make, it's objectively hilarious to think of a silly euphemism that alludes to your meager means. 

So without further ado, I've collected a list of movie titles that perfectly describe the diminishing return of every worker's paycheck. Because even if your own pay stub could be described as "From Prada to Nada", at least it's not "Gone in 60 Seconds". Scroll onward to enjoy the cleverly dark humor of other 40-hour workweek survivors and perhaps take a lighthearted 15-minute break in the lunch room.

Tradesmen are no strangers to waking up at 4am to get the job done. The slackers may watch everyone else dig the hole, while they sip their first energy drink of the day, but they're still showing up at the crack of dawn to check in with the supervisor. Not everyone has the same work ethic as the workaholic project manager who clocks 80-hour weeks and never takes his lunch break, but we all manage to have our fair share of fun down in the dirt with the boys. 

When blue-collar workers aren't sweating in the trenches or digging the gunk out from under their fingernails, they're chipping pain off of their jeans and finding creative new ways to use WD-40. However, when hard-working men do decide to take their break in the shade of heavy machinery, the only thing that'll soothe that nagging ache in their lower back is the guarantee of a good laugh coming from the memes they scroll online. 

So proceed with your hardhat on, because the memes below will surely reach the soul of every good ol' boy ready for a frothy cold one on a Friday afternoon.

Mistakes shouldn't be this funny. Some of these designs are just baffling, and the poor people who encounter them daily must think the same thing. 

One of the funniest design flaws I've encountered are the sinks in the bathrooms at Penn Station, as well as some other public places in NYC. As you can see here, the automated sink design is quite unusual. If you look closely, you'll see that there are symbols for soap, water, and hand dryers, as you look from left to right. But the first time you encounter one of these sensor-activated things, it's almost impossible to operate. You turn on the water in the middle, only to immediately have the air dryer part activate, thereby spraying you in the face with water. Then you move your hand over to avoid that, and get a glob of soap automatically dropped onto your coat sleeve. It's very funny to witness (well, maybe not during your own first time, but seeing people encounter it with surprise for the first time is pretty funny. And yes, people are usually nice enough to tell others how to use it). Now that a few years have passed, some of the little symbols have also worn off, leaving it even more of a mystery for the thousands of travelers who pass through each day. Why couldn't they have just installed regular faucets? Would that have been so difficult? No, instead they decided to make your travels a little more quirky, and we're all just living with the results. 

Anyway, check out some other really bad design flaws below! Then, read about one upstairs neighbor who thought of the worst possible solution to a flooded kitchen. 

When everyone at your job has a problem with you, the problem is usually… well, you. But other times, your workplace is filled with a lot of bad apples. That is what happened in this case for a hotel worker whose job title was assistant general manager. Her GM was out of town, so she was left in charge of the hotel. Only a couple of problems arose, and OP made sure to text her manager about them. She thought it was all good, but apparently, it was not. Her manager came back from his trip and called a meeting where he told her that EVERYONE had a problem with her. A bit bold, in my opinion, but hey, general managers don't tend to be the brightest crayons in the box. Most of the time I have no idea how they climbed the management ladder.

Scroll down to read what OP said next, and then check out this student who got back at their school principal for giving demerit points to their friends for 'dress code violations'.

Anyone with neighbors knows how delicate the relationship between the people in the neighborhood is. Not only between those who live next to each other but also between all the different service providers that come to the neighborhood once in a while, like mailmen and delivery workers, street cleaners, etc. To maintain that relationship, you don't have to Love Thy Neighbor, but you do have to have respect for one another, and don't get into each other's business.

This Reddit story, was shared by a worker in a lumber company that was located next to a series of apartments, so they had many neighbors to deal with. OP shared that one specific neighbor would keep throwing their trash in the recycling dumpsters of the lumber company, therefor filling them up. Until one day OP decided to take action, and actively went through the trash until he found a piece of information about where that person lives. He then got a forklift, piled it with all their trash, and dumped it at the entrance of that person's house, effectively blocking it. Hopefully, that would teach them a lesson.

Scroll down for the full story, and when you are done, click here for a story of an IT employee who refused to help a coworker, but somehow that got her fired. 

It doesn't get more shady than this. We know that it's tough out there for job seekers and, clearly, plenty of people are attempting to use that desperation to their advantage. However, it is difficult to imagine someone actually falling for a scheme like this. 

This thread was posted to Reddit by u/Imaspinkicku, a job candidate who underwent an entire interview process that culminated in an hour-long video call with a recruiter. Evidently, during the last five minutes of the call, the recruiter asked the candidate for a "small investment" of $3750 in exchange for an offer. Of course, like any frustrated applicant in this situation would, OP sent a savage email in response and shared it online for our enjoyment. 

Keep scrolling below for the full story and for the best reactions in the comments section. When you're done, check out this post about a guy who got back at his disrespectful coworker.

Let's be real here—you'll hate most of the jobs you have in your life. There are a lot of things that need to line up to make spending 40+ hours a week with strangers you'd rather not be with, whilst at a place you would rather not be at, and taking orders from a person you'd rather didn't exist, something you'd actually enjoy doing. Yeah, there's a whole lot not to like about the entire arrangement—except getting paid, that's pretty sweet—so it's no surprise that most people absolutely despise going to work.

So—how, then, is it that some people have managed to find jobs they actually liked? Some people only for a short while, and others for their entire working careers… Well, it seems that the secret ingredient here is either having a job doing something you really like, working with people you actually like, or not having to communicate, listen to, or even acknowledge the existence of other people at all.

Maintaining a calm and comfortable living space is essential if you live in an apartment with several roommates. Before moving in with someone new, there are a few common rules that one should be aware of in order to maintain harmony. First and foremost,  you must always obtain your roommate's permission before handling any of their possessions. The second general guideline is to always clean up after oneself. Finally, when you're 'entertaining', make sure everyone else knows they have an unexpected guest when they wake up. After all, communication is key.

In the story below, a bitter roommate has had enough. Everything seemed to be going well for OP at first until he found out that his roommate had been rummaging through his things without his consent. OP first thought that any problem could be handled by having a thoughtful discourse. However, it soon became clear that nothing OP said would influence his roommate's actions. And right when OP thought things couldn't get any worse, his roommate transformed from thief to a slob and began hurling used feminine products all over the house, including the kitchen! 

Following a lengthy conversation with the roommate, OP decided to take action. In summary, Picasso needs to start taking notes—but not too many! Having said that, read the story below to find out how OP handled his messy roommate! After you're done, check out the story about the entitled customer who spends the entire evening eating out of to-go bags!

One bride had a fantastic idea for dealing with a wedding guest who loved to steal the spotlight. 

When it's your wedding day, the couple wants the whole day to revolve around them, their love story, and the guests they've brought along to celebrate. Every wedding is a little different, but generally, the focus is supposed to be on the couple celebrating their vows to each other as they start their married life. 

In India, weddings are a massive deal. They're often at least three days, and sometimes much longer. There are frequently hundreds of guests who gather for various events, dances, and meals. And, as u/Both-Awareness-8561 shared in their story, the dress code encourages people to "dress as lavish as possible." No matter how fancy you dress, the bride and groom will still steal the show. 

Still, this bride was quite worried about her cousin, a known scene-stealer. Some people just can't help themselves, and at least this bride thought ahead about how to deal with her relative's antics. 

Check out the story below---it's great food for thought on how to handle an attention-seeker in your life with grace and dignity. And after that, read about these parents who decided to impeach their entire HOA.