Sometimes we aren't bad at our jobs. We are just misplaced!

When you are unemployed, you send your resume everywhere. You get to a point where you don't even know for what position they are calling you abut our what the company that is interviewing you does. Is normal. We all have been there. But there is something that happens when you haven't had a job in a while, is like an impostor syndrome where you start to believe that you are capable of doing every job. You may not even step a foot in college, but you start thinking that you could definitely be an astrophysicist at NASA. This job market starts to change your brain chemistry till you become unstoppable when applying for jobs. Your lemma becomes "the worst they can say is no", and you continue sending resumes. 

What I believe happened in this Reddit story is exactly that. I think Marcus was desperate for a job when he saw that they were looking for employees to work in customer service, and even though he knew he wasn't a good fit, he applied anyway. He went through the interviews, and when he realized he was working in a client-facing position without any communication skills. He wasn't a bad worker. He was hired to do something that he was definitely not good at. He needed a job and took it, but that didn't mean he actually wanted to do it. 

When the whole situation with the employee living in an open position happened, he stepped up because he cared. He realized that he was not currently making a good job and that he was probably getting fired soon. He had nothing to lose, so he tried and succeeded. He didn't just have luck, as the user telling the story said. He took a chance. And that is something very valuable to take into account. He realized that even though he wasn't a good fit for his position, he had the abilities to succeed at another one, so he tried. Yes, Marcus was completely miscast and wasted on a position he was horrible at when he could have been hired since the beginning for the one he ended up being a better fit for. So take your chances. You may be wasting your potential. 
 

Hello, do you work here? No? Well, maybe you could still help me with something, please?

There, that seems like a pretty easy way to be kind when you confuse someone as an employee. If they say they cannot help, then thank them for their time anyway and move on. It really isn't that difficult. And yet, some entitled people decide to choose the spicy route. Snapping at strangers should not be your go-to move. If you are doing that, then I'm sorry, you might be a Karen… 

In the case of Redditor u/Curious_Reference_82, they turned that stranger's sass into a chance to teach a valuable life lesson. They are complete book nerds; they know their local bookstore pretty well. So well, in fact, that they might be accidentally dressing similarly to the actual employees… On a particularly busy day at the shop, a stranger came in and started talking to them as if they worked there. They told them they are not an employee, and the stranger had the audacity to give them sass. Like, it's their fault they don't work there. Huh? 

The Redditor's initial response was to just ignore them and walk away. But after they did their shopping and returned to the scene of the crime, which happened to be near the long checkout lines, they noticed the stranger was still standing there looking confused. He supposed they were actually never able to find an actual employee to help them. 

Instead of being petty and thinking, "That's what they get!" the Redditor decided to help. Because he actually did know where the book this stranger was looking for. So he showed him kindness and empathy. And guess what? The stranger's demeanor totally changed, and he turned into a nice person! Sometimes it just takes kindness from a stranger to change a person. 

How far does your helping hand reach when it comes to your neighbors?

Even if you are the kindest and most generous person, you know that boundaries must be set; otherwise, you will never get a break from helping people. As soon as you reach out and give a helping hand, you are creating an opening for people to ask something of you anytime they need it. You might not mind it at first, but after the number of requests reaches double digits, you might feel differently, and by then, it could be too late to put a stop to it.

While there is truly nothing wrong with wanting to help others, it doesn't hurt to do so with caution and carefully choose the way you decide to help.

If a neighbor asks to borrow your ladder, the risks are very low. At the most, you give them the ladder and never see it again, but at least you helped someone out. If a neighbor asks you to co-sign a loan for them, that is a request with many risks that we would not recommend agreeing to.

Anything involving money is a high-risk favor, really, but co-signing on a loan might be the riskiest one. Your neighbor could easily make you default on the loan and force you to pay it all, and depending on how big it is, you could be out tens of thousands of dollars just because you wanted to offer a helping hand.

Not to mention that as soon as you agree to something like this, the money requests will never stop coming. Anytime this neighbor needs to fund something, they will turn to you. You already agreed once; what's the harm in doing it again and again?

That is why the neighbors in the story below refused to co-sign on a neighbor's loan for a Disney trip with his kids. First, because it is an insane request, and second, because they knew they would never hear the end of it. The helping hand does not reach that far.

True cat ladies are the best collectors of cat memes, and here is the proof. 

It's me. I'm the cat lady. And I do say, with complete confidence, that I have the authority to put together a good cat meme collection. Not only have I been a cat owner for many, many years, and not only do I feed stray cats and have become the person known for it in my building, but I have also been a writer for ICanHasCheezburger for over 5 years. If that is not a good resume for a cat lady, then I don't know what is. 

I wear this badge with pride, not shame. You can call me a crazy cat lady, and I will take it as a compliment, because that is what it is for me. I show adorable pictures of my cat to nearly every person I see. I bond with people over the stray cats in my neighborhood. And I talk about my job with pride, because who wouldn't think that it is pawesome to spend every day looking at pictures of cats on the internet, keeping up with every bit of cat news, and putting together collections of viral cat memes? No one. 

And so, I have decided to use my knowledge on the topic for good and put together a collection of cat memes that I absolutely love. Classics and new. Ones you've seen a million times and have never seen before. I'm a very particular cat lady, and my tastes are particular as well. You may agree with my collection, or you may not, but I'll say this… I would and have sent each and every one of these memes to multiple people - with pride - and have received many laughing emojis in return. And that's all the proof I need. 

If he pays for his parking space, he is entitled to use it, right?

Would you want to pay $400 a month for a parking space and have other people use it without your consent? I didn't think so. So why is it such a big deal when this user from the story below got mad at that? People started making excuses like he doesn't have a car to park, that not everyone has $400 to spare every month, or that he at least shouldn't be towing them and should just leave a note. Why? Why can't he react to this without questioning? Why does he have to excuse everyone's impoliteness when people don't even respect his parking space? Why does he have to put up with all these? 

The answer is simple. People are entitled. All these drivers that park their car in his space know that they shouldn't be doing it, but they don't care at all! For them is just a dumb person who pays for a parking space they get for free. They take advantage of him, but why aren't people noticing that? Why is everyone telling him to deal with it? That easy, they would do the same thing. They would also take advantage of the situation to avoid paying for something that they should. But they also wouldn't like it if someone was doing this to them. 

Hypocrisy is so common these days. People take advantage of someone's kindness and demand to get free things just because they think, in their twisted minds, that they deserve it, when they don't. But the moment this happens to them is the only time they get to see how unfair what they were doing was. Why can't they notice that something they do is bad? Do they just not care? How do we end this epidemic of entitlement? Are we completely lost as a society that we can't even respect a parking space that someone works hard to pay? Are we doomed? We are if we don't start making changes in our attitude. 
 

Who needs an alarm clock when you have a cat?

I don't know about you, but I don't wake up to the beeping or buzzing of a phone, I wake up to my cat hopping on my bed, putting his paws on my face, nudging me with his head, and meowing in my ear. Some might call it unruly, but I call it adorable. And even though it may be hours before I need to wake up, it's the sentiment that he's so excited to be with me, get pets, and of course breakfast. 

Cats have a special way of ruling everything, especially the morning. Whether they're inconsiderately knocking over your mug or curling up on your laptop keyboard while you're trying to work, their capricious chaos feels oddly comforting. They remind us that life isn't meant to be rushed, or taken too seriously. How can you have a bad day, cry from a breakup, or study for an exam while your cat is purring next to you. From nap time together, to watching him jump high up in the air while we play with shoelaces, he's my special little guy. Here at I Can Has Cheezburger, we know how much your cat means to you. That's why we've carefully curated this silly list of morning cats instead of coffee. They can be seen sleeping, purring, cuddling, or having midnight zoomies. So before you do anything today, do us a favor and scroll some silly good morning meows of cat memes. 

An unforeseen urgent cost of repairs billed by the HOA was just another blow for this homeowner, and their nightmare scenario caused by issues with a shared private water supply.

I've seen it said that purchasing a property and doing whatever maintenance is required is like being forever locked in a wrestling match with all of the previous owners.

To be honest, with the DIY learn-as-you-go approach I have taken to maintenance in my first home, I have to imagine that whoever ends up there next once my time there is done will be, similarly, one day scratching their head wondering just why the heck that particular approach was taken to fixing a problem.

Being hit with unforeseen costs shortly after purchasing a new home is one of a would-be buyer's foremost fears. With certainty, for first home buyers, move-up buyers, and down-sizers alike, the fear that lives in the back of your mind will be that despite any due diligence you do, there will be something that is missed and you'll spend the next few years finding out that there were expensive problems that you weren't told about

Disclosure isn't always a legal requirement for real estate sales. But even if it is a requirement where you live, it still won't save you from the stress of a lengthy legal process and the possible burden of proof that the previous owners knew about it in the first place.

In this post, a homeowner shared how an unforeseen issue with the private shared water supply, which was shared with the entire HOA, had blown out of control into a major problem. Hopefully all ends well for them.

This couple is bending over backwards to help this poor kitten in the streets of Turkey, and it's important to help if anyone can. 

It's not everyday that someone will stop everything they're doing for the sake of a stray kitten. When we're on vacation, our minds our elsewhere, as they should be. There's every reason to not want to deal with the inconvenient or heavy. People stop being themselves on vacation, which is the whole point of it. What's the point of the vacation if one can't fully let go and enjoy the moment? In Reddit's r/StrayCats, a couple on vacation in Kalkan, Turkey sees a cute, innocent little kitten. She doesn't have a mother, she doesn't have a home, and she's too small and ill-equipped to handle life alone on the streets of a busy city. Despite being on vacation and wanting to enjoy everything to the fullest, they work tirelessly to house the kitten before their vacation comes to an end. 

The kitten in question is 7-9 weeks old, friendly, and trusts humans, which is a huge plus. She was crying for days because her mother is missing. They've been feeding her and keeping her safe, but in a few days the will fly back to their home country and their vacation will come to an end. They're currently desperately looking for a local foster home, a rescue volunteer, or local shelter to take the kitten temporarily. They have already called a few places, but decided to make a post about the kitten in hopes of finding it what it needs. Everyone at I Can Has Cheezburger hopes this adorable little kitty finds at the very least a foster, and hopefully a furrever home. If you can do anything for the cause, please do. 

As the summer sun comes down on us harder and harder each and every day it is tougher than ever to keep your cat cool, especially if you weren't prepawed for the heat yourself. So assuming you do not have a nice AC unit keeping you cool we figured you might enjoy these simple suggestions to help your feline friend cool off.

Reddit's r/CatsUK subreddit is where we found these terrific tips to keep your cat cool, and while itis not the first place most of us would look for this kind of information, it was particularly important to UK residents of late as they saw temps rise past 100 degrees. So the concerned cat pawrents of Great Britain took to Reddit to share their best tips and tricks to ensure a cool and calm catto during the hottest days of the year. Now, we will say that this is a place with less than 5% of households having AC and most of them having carpets from wall to wall. So the heat factor is extra intense so your cat child might not need all of these tricks and might not need them all the time either. But it is always handy to have a few tricks up your sleeve when you are in a jam.

We would also like to take a moment to mention that cats, while full of fur, are not necessarily going to suffer in high heat. The original species of feline that we know today actually came from the middle east and cats who live in the region today are very well off and enjoy their lives outdoors without any issues. So before you go shaving any fur or even trying these techniques, try to take note of whether your cat is actually hot or if you think they are. Are they showing actual signs of overheating like panting or drinking excessively? If not you might just want to keep these tricks for a sweltering day.

 

Money is a sensitive topic

Maybe this will only be understood by people who have gone through a hard time economically. The woman who posted this story mentioned growing up with financial stress, and I can relate. Some people react to that financial instability growing up by becoming super cautious and responsible with money, and others do exactly the opposite; they become extreme spenders and compensate by spending all they couldn't spend while they were growing up. Paradoxically, the second attitude replicates a situation of scarcity even if, from the get-go, one makes more money than what one had growing up. It becomes something like this: no matter how much money you make, you will spend it all and create a situation of stress, debt, and scarcity; just like the one you had when you were little.

There is nothing wrong with being a travel influencer, unless your entire brand is built on pretending your vacations happened differently than they actually did.

Look, social media has never been a perfect reflection of reality. Everyone knows people post the highlights instead of the delayed flights, the overpriced airport sandwiches, or the three hours they spent looking for their Airbnb. That's just the internet. But there's a pretty big difference between showing the best version of your vacation and actively misleading people into believing they can recreate it for half the price.

Solo travel has become incredibly popular over the last few years, and honestly, I completely understand why. There's something quite exciting about booking a trip just for yourself and figuring things out along the way. But it's also expensive. Flights cost money, hotels cost money, and unless you've somehow discovered a magical country where accommodation is free, traveling alone almost always ends up costing more than splitting everything with someone else.

That's why influencers have a responsibility to be honest, especially if they're trying to build a business around giving travel advice. If you're telling people that a week in Croatia costs £350 because you're dividing a four-person Airbnb between imaginary solo travelers, you're not inspiring others; you're setting them up for disappointment. Someone will eventually try to book that exact trip, realize it's nowhere near the advertised price, and wonder what they did wrong.

The woman in this story, originally shared on r/AmITheA**hole, decided enough was enough after watching her friend's "solo travel" page gain followers by cropping other people out of vacation photos and quietly leaving out the fact that every trip was shared with family, friends, or boyfriends. After seeing a destination she had actually traveled to being advertised with a completely unrealistic budget, she publicly corrected the numbers.

Instead of admitting she had been stretching the truth, the influencer immediately blocked her friend and accused her of sabotaging the business. Which raises a surprisingly tricky question: is calling out misleading information worth risking a friendship, or should keeping the peace come before telling the truth?

The World Cup is coming to an end, and these kitties are serving diva energy more than most of us ever did. 

Oh, you thought you looked cute on your jersey? Cute, these pawdarable whiskers came to show us how it's really done. Get ready to be humiliated, hoomans. 

The special talent of cats is making ordinary days ten times better!

I've always thought cats have a way of improving a day without even trying. They don't need to perform tricks or demand attention every second to make an impact. Sometimes all it takes is seeing one stretched out in a sunny spot, completely at peace with the world, to feel a little calmer myself. Their ability to turn the simplest moments into something cozy is honestly impressive.

The best part about them? Is how unpredictable they are. One minute they're acting like tiny royalty who expect everyone to cater to them, and the next they're chasing a piece of dust across the floor like it's the most important mission of their lives. That balance between confidence, chaos, and pure sweetness is what makes them endlessly entertaining. 

Let me confess to you that I've never been a cat person. And that's only because my parents always preferred dogs, so I never got the chance to have one feline friend. I still never have. However, some of my closest friends are the craziest cat ladies and have always shown me the supremacy of cats. And, although I'm a dog person and I forever will be, I'm not lying when I say I adore how cats behave and how they interact with the world.

Because that's the main point: they are so different than dogs and other animals that you learn to love them both the same. Just like you do when you have more than one kid… okay… maybe this is getting out of hand. But you get my point. So, in honor of my very young love for cats, let's dive into this crazy meme collection you'll much adore.

Ma'am, please talk to your husband instead of complaining to the front desk. This is a marital issue, not a hotel one.

Is funny how some people always find a way to make somebody else responsible for their problems. Like in this Reddit story. You have problems with your husband because he keeps telling his coworkers that they can come into his hotel room whenever they want? Don't worry! There's no need to start an argument with him and seem like the bad guy for pushing limits and having boundaries. You can simply go to the front desk and start demanding a change of room from the employee. Now you only have to pick a fight with a worker, who cannot do anything, instead of with your husband, who does not respect the space you share! –This is sarcasm just in case somebody didn't notice. 

I'm sure that married life is hard. Having to see each other every day and having to share the same space can be difficult sometimes. People need their own area and to be alone sometimes. We all need a break here and there. But the fact that someone willingly makes their problem an issue to someone else is insane. This is not about the husband coworkers crashing over and over. It is about the lack of communication they have. 

All this mess could have been avoided if these two people had a conversation and settled on a compromise. Is not that difficult to find a middle ground where they can both have a nice time. But it is if they don't even talk to each other. There is this idea that couples should never fight. Well, that is dumb. Couples argue, discuss, have problems. What matters is not the fact that they have them. Is the way they figure out a solution. The main priority of a healthy couple should be that both members are happy. Not who is right and avoiding their issues, just wishing they disappear someday so they can stop arguing about it. 
 

There's always room for "one more cat". And if there isn't, then you can count on the big, open hearts of the cat community to help you find the space (and the money!).

Rescuing a cat or kitten isn't just finding them and then poof! Everything is meowgically solved. No sir, no mam, that couldn't be farther from the truth. Once you have the feline in your care, you have to pay for all of their vet visits, any necessary medical treatments they might need, food, extra litter, and, if they're really young, you need someone to feed them every couple of hours. Caring for rescues is a full-time job. It's easy to get confused and think otherwise because we so often see only the highlights on social media that are designed to make the process look easy and 100% entertaining. The reality is that it's stressful, it's hard, and it takes a lot of purrsonal commitment.

As someone who's rescued kittens before, I can relate to this rescuer's story from the r/oneorangebraincell subreddit. Working a full-time job and trying to start a cat rescue on the side sounds… exhausting, to say the least. She found a smol orange kitten crying in a construction site, and knew she couldn't leave him there, but also knew she didn't have the resources to foster and help with the recovery of another kitten. 

But where there's a will, there's a way. Even if it means asking for help.

After posting about her struggles, the caring online cat community rallied together to help fund her rescue and this kitten's recovery journey. So it turns out that there are still good people in this world (and honestly, most of them are cat lovers). That warms our hearts and gives us the confidence to know that asking for help really isn't that scary… and can save a cat's life in the prrrrocess.

It is not every day that you go to the bathroom and by the time you leave, your kitten rescue mission has begun. But that is the logic defying detail that sparked what turned out to be one of the more wholesome cat family rescues we have heard off.

The pages of Reddit's r/cats subreddit are full of feline rescue stories. Often telling the tale of a disheveled cat who is found roaming the streets and offered a warm and loving home to live in and leave behind the harm and horrors of the streets. The feline usually obliges and the pair of them live happily ever after. And do not get us wrong, these are wonderful stories, but they do not quite compare to the complexity and cuteness of the story we have lined up for you today. It is a tale of mysterious noises that turn into precious moments of peril and end in heartwarming harmony.

Unlike most cats who are rescued, this feline decided that getting as close as possible to the hooman she was destined to be with was the best way of making her Cat Distribution Delivery of herself work. But being a young kitten and not completely understanding the way that walls work she soon found herself mere inches from the hooman who would become her pawrent and love her, yet separated by a wall. For she herself had gotten in between the interior and exterior walls. And so an emotional and surprising rescue begins. Where kittens get caught, pawrents fall hopelessly in love and get far more than they might have bargained for.
 

Why are so many dating app profiles actively trying to stay single?

Dating apps have managed to make meeting more people feel like meeting... fewer people. You can swipe through hundreds of profiles in a single evening, yet somehow keep running into the same five personalities. There's the person whose bio simply says, "Ask me." The one holding a fish in every picture. The serial "fluent in sarcasm" enthusiast. And, of course, the person who opens with, "Convince me you're worth my time." No thanks.

Maybe I'm old-fashioned, but I've always thought dating should involve at least a tiny amount of mutual effort. If your profile already sounds like a performance review or your opening message feels like you're interviewing candidates for an unpaid internship, you've probably forgotten the point of the app; you're supposed to be meeting people, not testing their patience.

The funniest part is that so many of these dating app disasters are completely avoidable. Nobody is expecting perfection. You don't need the funniest bio on the internet or professionally curated photos from every vacation you've ever taken. Just... act like someone another human being would actually enjoy talking to; that's a surprisingly high bar these days.

Then there are the people who sabotage themselves before the conversation even begins. They'll complain about dating apps in their bio while actively using one, list twenty things they don't want in a partner, or write three paragraphs explaining how much they hate small talk. It's a fascinating strategy. I can't imagine it inspires many people to say, "Wow, I simply have to match with this ray of sunshine."

Dating is awkward enough already. The apps don't help, but they aren't entirely to blame either. At the end of the day, they're just introducing strangers. Everything that comes after still depends on how people choose to present themselves. Personally, I think the best profiles are usually the simplest ones. Show a little personality. Be kind. Be funny if that's your thing. Give someone an actual reason to start a conversation instead of making them solve a puzzle.

Until that becomes the norm, though, we'll always have screenshots like these. And while I'd never wish a terrible dating app interaction on anyone, I have to admit they make for some spectacular comedy once enough time has passed. Sometimes the worst first impressions end up giving the rest of us the best stories.

To be a cat pawrent and not want to constantly spoil your feline fur baby is simply unheard off, especially when it comes to their birthday. But just because you want to spoil your special child does not mean you necessarily have the ideas to hand, and that is where this collection of cute cat birthday celebrations comes in.

Reddit's r/CatAdvice subreddit is a wildly useful place to pick up tricks and tips for caring and of course, spoiling your cat child. So it is no big surprise that we came upon this thread of pawrents sharing the sweet and silly things that they like to do when their cat child's birthday comes around. After all, it is the one day a year when cat rules do not exist and you as a pawrent can stop stopping yourself from giving them the super fancy food, toys and treats you have been saving for this very day. It is such a relief after a year of having to say no to them all year long.

So to help you figure out what you might like to do to make your little guy or girl's special day that much more special we collected some of the most impressive feats of feline pawrenthood for you to decide what might work for your cat. Whether it be fancy feline cakes made out of pate, churu and treats, special ornaments hung in honor of the birthday cat as an enrichment activity, or simply devoting each and every second of the day to cuddles and pets. There ought to be an idea or two in this list that will speak to you and warm your heart.
 

As if working 9-hour shifts wasn't enough.

Some bosses are starting to demand more and more from their employees, as if they were overachieving machines that can't stop for a second. They already check if the status in Teams is always green, which is over-controlling in its final form. But now they are also requesting your personal phone number so they can call you anytime they need you, even if it's outside of your working hours. That is completely insane for several reasons. Firstly, nothing is so urgent to need to contact an employee on a Sunday or when they take vacations. Secondly, it proves that this is just another way of micromanaging that, instead of focusing on the amount of work done, it deems more important the fact that the employee is ALWAYS available. And lastly, it is another way of exploitation to have workers work even more while still getting paid the same salary each month. 

This Reddit story got me thinking about how much everything has changed in the last decade. Before, it was unthinkable to pretend that an employee was available after their shift. Maybe all these new technologies that make us available to contact everywhere have become too much. Now we are always traceable, as if we couldn't escape our work life, not even in our free time. As if we weren't allowed to take breaks, to not work every single second. 

People deserve free time. We deserve to be away from work for at least one day a week. We already overwork ourselves with insane amounts of tasks that seem to never end. We are always perfecting ourselves and looking to be the most perfect employee. As if that was even possible to begin with. We already do SO much. Why would it be needed to have us work even after hours? Some employees already work after hours to try to have better metrics. Why would you now force them to do those hours just to not even pay them for them? Bosses have too high expectations of their employees. They are not robots. Everyone deserves a break. 
 

Can we be at the table and in the menu at the same time?

Let's get this out of the way: the movie Mean Girls is obviously inspired by real life, lol. Things like this go down in high school, but also at the workplace and in every place where there's a group of people. One has to be very careful because gossip is really seductive; one wants to feel part of a group, and sometimes, when a group is heavily reliant on gossip, one starts to take part in that gossip only to belong. It's only later that we realize that if every time someone leaves the table, the discussion becomes about them, then we might as well be the next topic of debate once we get up and go somewhere else. The question is, should we remain a passive spectator?