When the hybrid model of working was first introduced, people discovered a new way of living. Suddenly you could do what you had been doing from your dark, grey cubicle at work, from the comfort of your home. You didn't need to take a 1-hour commute, which saved you time, energy, and actually gave you more time to work. But over time, companies have been snatching employees up and dragging them back to full-time… or have they? You tell me.

One person took to Reddit and complained about working 1 day a week from home. I rolled my eyes, thinking how lucky this person was. How on earth could you complain about going 1 day a week to work? When they described their commute, I rolled my eyes again. Boo hoo, half an hour. Seriously, you've got it good, pal. But then some people actually made some pretty good points in the comments. Check out the entire story below, and then read about entertaining bosses told by employees who had had enough.

Today is a great day to remember not to believe everything you read online. This is especially true if you're swiping through social media apps like TikTok and saving the recipes for later. A lot of them might look good on camera, but they won't actually taste good. 

I actually do sometimes make TikTok recipes but only by first looking up a proper recipe for it elsewhere. For example, there was a parmesan potato recipe going around that looked excellent, so I just looked up a proper recipe online, and made it that way. It's so easy and very delicious! I just don't have enough faith in the influencers who make attention-grabbing food, but I do trust the experts who write for cooking websites. As long as you follow this rule, you can make any TikTok recipe without having to sacrifice a meal. 

As this person learned, you've got to be careful when trying new recipes online. Hopefully, they can teach their mom about ragebait, or videos meant to garner engagement by cooking in the worst ways possible. These videos are just meant to be flashy, they don't actually work in the real world! Unless you want a pan full of milky raw noodles combined with a scorched log of faux cheese product… don't trust the influencers without doing your research. 

Next up, check out some design mistakes, like the library who advertised their free coffee, priced at only $1. 

One dude was the worst kind of friend you could have. Let's call him Ken. See, Ken had a friend by the name of… let's say, Scott. Ken and Scott were buddies, and when Ken got himself into a tight spot at the ripe age of 28, Scott let him sleep at his place (for free), bought him groceries, and even took care of his cat. All of which he really didn't have to do. Ken didn't work, didn't want to look for a job, and one day, disappeared, leaving his cat with Scott, who didn't particularly want his cat.

What are you going to do when your friend abandons their animal and dumps the responsibility on you? It wasn't easy, and Scott didn't know what to do. That's when this cat got sick… and needed a vet visit, ASAP. But Scott wasn't rich, and the cat wasn't his, and he didn't want to pay for a vet visit for a cat that wasn't his.

Below you can read all about what happened and then check out these entertaining boss stories told by employees.

Bad experiences are a dime a dozen when it comes to interviewing for a retail role; in no other line of work are there so many desperate interviewing managers looking for such a high level of effort and experience for such minimal pay.

Usually, if an interviewer takes issue with you, there's no coming back from it, no avenue of recourse; after all, they're the ones doing the judging, and you hold very little control over the situation outside of your ability to walk away. Yet, sometimes, a hidden option might be available to you—one that might not be readily apparent. Depending on the organization, a larger one preferably and certainly not a smaller one where you're probably being interviewed by the owner, you might be able to make a report of your interview experience to the company's HR department if the interviewer's behavior was unprofessional or otherwise might have been out of line with the organization's values.

The reality is that some managers, and organizations on the whole, want to hire people whom they know they can manipulate. This candidate ran into one of these managers when, from the outset of the interview, the manager was immediately hostile towards her—and it didn't get better from there. 

The candidate returned the next day to share an email she had written that she was planning on sending to the parent organization. See this update from item 21 onwards in the images below.

You know that feeling everyone occasionally gets at work that you're being watched 24/7? Well, what if you suddenly discovered that this was actually the case?

Sometimes when you have a micromanager for a boss, you get the feeling that someone is breathing down your neck and following your every move, as if they are just waiting to point out an error or give you a hard time about the way in which you go about fulfilling your daily responsibilities at work. This obviously does not make for a pleasant work environment, but I suppose I'll take the feeling of being watched all the time over the reality of that actually being the case. 

This worker at a small shop of just three employees discovered that when her boss wasn't around, she was surveilling the Redditor and their coworker via a hidden video camera she planted in the shop. The worst part is that when their boss unveiled this information, she did it casually as if it wasn't the giant reveal that it was. Thankfully, this employee had enough self-respect and freedom to call their boss out for crossing a major line. 

Keep scrolling below for the full play-by-play. When you're done, feel free to take a look at this post about another micromanager's comeuppance.

Why can't "because they're a Karen" be enough to get someone fired?…

There's nothing more delicious than a home-cooked meal after a long morning at work. Not only does your lunch break provide a reprise from the laborious load of the day,  but it also gives coworkers a chance to mingle, relax, and chow down on some decent grub. In the workplace in our next story, warehouse laborers live a spoiled life, enjoying home-cooked lunches from a fellow coworker who makes lunches in bulk and sells them to her buddies for $10 a pop. Could it be any better than that?

Not only do these employees forego the drama of cooking in the morning before work or meal-prepping 100 lunches on a sad Sunday afternoon, but they enjoy the yummy spoils of another person's kitchen troubles without the price tag or caloric intake of eating at a restaurant. But one employee's wife didn't see it that way. Threatened by the romantic implications of making her husband lunch, she sent scathing messages to the lunch lady, threatening to bring down her side hustle if she continued to sell her husband lunches. 

Fired up yet? Keep scrolling for the entire story of how one woman went way over the line in a desperate attempt to tighten her grip on her hungry husband's leash. 

There's nothing worse than that sinking feeling in your stomach when you get caught doing something you're not supposed to be doing. It makes you feel like a scolded child hiding late-night comic books under the covers after bedtime. Most of us learn pretty quickly how to hide our secretly debaucherous activities to avoid feeling this way, but the guy in our next story totally failed to follow the fail-safes of secrecy in the workplace, causing him to nearly lose a promotion.

We all know that you're not 'supposed to' be on your phone at work, but who isn't? Everyone scrolls memes, texts their friends, and enjoys the perks of having a pocket-sized computer with them at all times (in fact, you're probably scrolling on your phone right now!). But when the CEO is around, it's time for all the hooligans to whip into shape and pretend they don't even have a phone. Suddenly everyone's a model citizen–except for the dingus playing Pokemon Go under the table when the CEO surveys his desk. Scroll for the entire cringe-worthy story of how a guy risked everything at work just to catch a wild Caterpie. 

Who's right in the situation? This neighbor thinks that because their neighbor has poisonous flowers, it's her fault that their dog got sick. Before we go any further, just know that the doggo is okay. He just has a habit of digging under his owner's fence and escaping. His owners claim he's just exploring. However, the Original Poster (OP) has been weary from the start. She even tried to offer multiple solutions to her neighbors to prevent their dog from escaping, but they wouldn't get on board. So, you guessed it, the inevitable happened. The dog escaped into the neighbor's yard, as he had done many times before, but this time, the poor guy ate all of her flowers, including chrysanthemums, which are poisonous to dogs. It's not fatal, thankfully, but it's still not a cheap visit to the vet. But the entitled neighbors think that the OP is responsible for half of the bill since they were her flowers. The OP can afford the bill, but she thinks it's ridiculous that she should even pay, so she is refusing to. She did warm them.

Typically, when your boss tells you to do something, you do it. Even if they say not to come to work, you'll (gladly) not come to work. That's exactly what happened when this entitled boss told her employee not to come to work the next day. She was reading off everyone's schedules in person at work the day prior and then told the Original Poster (OP) not to come in, so the OP obliged, as anyone in that situation would. That is, until the next day rolled around, and her entitled boss started blowing up her phone, asking where she was and if she was on her way. The OP respectfully replied, although much later in the day, that she was told she was off, so she didn't come in. Well, now the entitled boss is trying to backtrack and say that she was just joking; she, in fact, was not off and had to come to work. First, it started off with a few threats about being finished at the company for not showing, and then it turned into the boss asking the employee to come in again the next day. We think the boss needs to make up her mind - we're on your side, OP. 

When your upper management keeps ignoring you, what do you do? That's when you ask for forgiveness, not permission…

What can you buy these days with $14? You can get a drink with a friend at happy hour, you can see a matinee at the movie theatre, or you could maybe–just maybe–order a pizza. These days, 14 dollars isn't going very far, but for the intern at a law firm in our next story, her deluded boss seemed to think that $14 was just enough for an hour's labor. 

Most workplaces are phasing out the whole 'unpaid intern' schtick, largely because it's akin to indentured servitude. Either way, interns these days don't have pots of gold lying around for them and they're surviving on wages that barely pay the rent. This particular pre-law intern was struggling to afford basic necessities when her deluded boss approached her with the most audacious suggestion. In an attempt to clear out her own closet, the intern's boss, a big-wig lawyer woman, tried to sell off her designer clothes to her lowly lackey, unaware that a $4,000+ purse might be out of budget for an employee making $14 an hour. 

Keep on scrolling for this entire story of deluded riches where a lofty lawyer gets reminded of the cost of life for regular people. 

If you talk the talk, you better walk the walk. If you can't, you're in for embarrassment… and possibly even worse outcomes than that. 

This assembly line worker had an interesting story to tell about what happened to them and his coworker. This coworker, Richard, kept stealing the credit for his work, which is a surefire way to lower that employee's morale. It can be so dispiriting to work for ages on something, only to realize that no one knows you actually did it. When you see the big bosses thanking someone else for that work, you want to shout at them that you did it, not them. But since that's frowned upon in polite society, you usually just grin and bear it. 

Still, if you claim that you can do the work of two people, you should hope that your bosses don't hear. Most companies are trying to stretch their dollars as far as they can go, so if you go around volunteering to do that… well, the consequences are all on you.

After you check out this person's story of professional-level revenge, read up on these workplace red flags, like when the hiring manager says, "Oh, people like to work late." (They certainly do not!)

If there's one thing everyone knows about the internet at this point, it's that people can be absolutely unhinged online. Regardless of whether or not they choose to remain anonymous, people seem to love to share their ridiculous opinions and "hot takes" on the world wide web for everyone else to pick apart, agree with, disagree with, retweet, repurpose, and even mock. It makes you wonder why we post anything at all anymore yet people will only keep posting.

As we mentioned, these absolutely insane comments range from platform to platform. We're talking about everything from niche Facebook groups to the comments section on YouTube videos. What connects all of these comments, however, is usually a big "swing and a miss" regarding some alleged universal human experience and another party's sharp and savage response. The back-and-forth between these two extremes may make the Internet feel like the ultimate home of cringe, but it also makes it more and more like an accident from which you simply cannot look away.

Keep scrolling below for these comments and more. When you're done, here are some instant dating red flags.

Don't accept that job until you've vetted the company well. I know it's hard not to accept the first gig that offers you a contract, but it's worth your time to spot red flags before signing on. 

One person mentioned another great one, which is having a lot of very young people who are running an older company. Young people are great, of course, but it signifies that the company can't retain their older workers, who probably left to find better wages. And it implies that they're hiring youngsters who don't know any better. When you're 20 and starting your first job in the real world, you often don't know how to negotiate your salary or stand up to your boss. If managers take advantage of that, it's a sign that they don't respect any of their workers, young or old. 

As another commenter mentioned, some workplaces love to tout how fun they are. That was a very cool moment in the early 2010s, when companies started buying foosball tables and nap pods and making game rooms for the workers. It's an odd catch-22, though. If you're spotted playing pool in the middle of the afternoon instead of working, your bosses might give you the side-eye. It's hard to have actual fun if you know there are negative ramifications for doing so. Why not just have a normal workplace that lets you clock out at 5 PM and have fun with your friends and family instead? No one wants to spend all of their time at the office, no matter how fun it purportedly is. 

Up next, this manager changed up their employee's schedule just for funsies, and came to regret it almost immediately. 

Bad bosses will come up with any excuse imaginable to justify their poor management skills. 

This manager messaged his employees and used the rainy weather to justify delaying payment to his employees. The Redditor's coworker was smart enough to ask why he was forced to work under these weather conditions and yet he couldn't get paid on time. Employment should always be a two-way street, people, and that applies to every aspect of the professional relationship. 

This sounds like a grown-up version of a second grader claiming that his dog ate his homework. This manager also apparently refuses to compensate his employees via direct deposit (red flag alert, especially in this day and age!). Clearly, he was never going to pay his employees on time, and he simply thought he was slick enough to get away with it using the rain as justification… as if precipitation makes it impossible for someone to write a check. 

Keep scrolling below for the full stories and for the best reactions in the comments section. For more, check out this post about a boss who tried to reject a job candidate solely because she was a fan of Star Trek.

Quiet quitting is a phenomenon that is shaking today's workforce like a punch to the jaw. While nepo-baby executives quiver in their leather chairs up in their ivory towers, quiet quitting provides a refuge for employees that many have never felt before. Minimum effort for minimum pay offers solace and peace to employees, especially when our alternative reality sets in. 

Nobody wants to work extra hard for no reward, so why not just quiet quit like the Gen X employee in our next story? 

For u/UncreditedChoir, a Gen X guy working for a major electronics company, entering the workforce and working for a big company meant you were probably going to see some major benefits by the end of your tenure. However, with the shifting work climate and with childish corporate management stepping into higher roles, he was discouraged at his ability to climb the ladder. But for an older guy in the workforce who's willing to see the light at the end of the tunnel, when he learned what quiet quitting was, he was actually relieved. 

Scroll for the entire story–it might just inspire you the slack off a bit in the workplace to find your own employment peace of mind. 

This roommate taught their 'friend' a lesson about consequences that they'll likely never forget. After impulsively getting a betta fish in honor of the solar eclipse, the star of our next story was in for a roller coaster of emotions. They bonded with the fish, put them in a large bowl as a temporary home, and vowed that when they returned from work, they'd finish their tank and splurge at the pet store for some top-tier fish supplies. 

Well when they returned from work, the beloved betta was belly up in a random kitchen tupperware, slain by the reckless hands of a roommate who didn't care whether the fish lived or not. 

But when the fish-lover came home to their sad sack of scales, they went on a vengeance mission–a warpath, if you will–to get even with a disrespectful roommate. Scroll for the entire story of the implosion of a friendship, all because of the funeral of a beautiful beta fish.

Be very very careful with anonymous surveys… you never really know if they're actually anonymous or not! 

In some workplaces, HR will send around anonymous surveys every now and then. They can address mundane topics, like asking if people want more employee events, and trying to take the temperature on morale. Other times these surveys are directly asking how leadership is doing, and those feel risky to answer. Even if the results come through a third-party service, it can't be that hard to figure out who wrote what. 

This workplace seems pretty toxic, which is apparently a common trait at call centers. These employees do an important job, but it's not the kind of gig that most people want to take on. They have to talk to irate customers all day long. Turnover is high. And clearly at this place, morale is not great. These hard-working folks earn only about £4.00 above minimum wage, no wonder they're unhappy about it! Not to mention that any sane person would reply "yes" to the question, "Would you like a higher salary?". Not sure what this manager was thinking here, but it surely made an impression on her employees. 

Next up, this new employee was so excited to flex his newfound power that he ended up bossing around his own supervisor. 

Lawyers taking on landlords sounds like it's one of those franchise spinoff film in which two villains from different franchises take on each other to see who is the biggest and baddest baddie out there. You're not even really sure why they're feuding, but that's really beside the point of these types of films. You know, something along the lines of Alien vs. Predator, Freddy vs. Jason, or Godzilla vs. Kong, there's certainly a precedent for these kinds of crossovers and Landlord vs. Lawyer deserves a place amongst them.

Still, even though you're really not really supposed to be rooting for these antagonists in their original mediums, these types of films always have a way of making them seem less one-dimensional or totally evil, even encouraging you to be sympathetic to their plights. In this story, it's hard not to root for the wily lawyer who managed to outsmart this fat-cat commercial landlord by manipulating his obvious greed into his own poetic downfall.