Tech bros are not the problem (here), the problem is tech bros plus unlimited access to a keyboard and a complete blindness to the concept of incremental progress. This story is basically a stand‑up bit about a startup where the only thing moving fast was the rate at which the thing they're trying to start up is performance art

Morning mews get cat lovers out of bed faster than their first sip of coffee. 

Felines run the house; every cat lover knows that. The moment a person comes home from the animal shelter, the humane society, or the local Walmart parking lot with a kitty cat in their arms, they must be prepared for their entire life to change… for the better, of course. Although cats bring along with them a sense of chaos and cute mischief, they also remain in a purrmanent state of human heart melting, using their meows and cuddles to hypnotize the human race into serving them for a lifetime. And believe you me, it's working!

Like royal meowmbers of the kitty purrlament, cats have elected themselves the rulers of the household. Maybe they run the home with an iron paw, demanding extra portions of wet food and pawing at their toy box in the middle of the night to coerce the humans to awaken and play with them, but cats provide more than a strict schedule of meals, play, and sleep time: They give us infinite love, too. 

Some people crave chocolate, others cake, but us? When we're craving something sweet, we turn to cats to curb our cuteness craving.

It's rare to meet someone who doesn't have a sweet tooth. There are some weirdos who prefer savory things, but for us normal people, we get cravings for anything with sugar in it. And no, fruit doesn't count. Chocolate, cookies, cake pops, pie, ice cream, you name it, we could always nom nom nom on it. It's biological - our bodies crave sugar because sugar = carbohydrates, carbohydrates = energy, and energy = staying alive. The only thing is that when we evolved to have this craving, we didn't have access to unlimited amounts of pastries and sweet delicacies at our fingertips.

But, like hoomans do, we seem to have evolved again. Knowing that if we gave in to our sugary desires every time we had a craving, we would be at least 300 lbs., we have found a trick that helps us curb our cravings with something else that's pawsitively sweet and curiously cute: cats! It's not the same as savoring a delicious bite of chocolate cake, but it gets the job done thanks to our love of all things feline.

These kitty cuties are a sugar rush of feline furbulousness, from floofy kitties to awwdorable cat memes that are like a soul-nourishing bite of wholesomeness. And, of course, it wouldn't be complete without a little bit of cat comedy, so prepurr for some giggles as well as plenty of awww's.

Have a purrfectly wonderful day, full of sweetness, cuteness, and feline fun!

When a date feels too one-sided, you're going to decline another date with that person. 

Modern dating is tough, isn't it? It kind of feels like the concept of going on a date with a random person just won't work out. You have to date someone you meet in a social setting. So often, when you agree to a date with someone you met from an app, the conversation is just uncomfortable, endlessly awkward, and ultimately unproductive. 

I've now been on so many dates where the person across the table from me spent the entire 90-minute first date talking about themselves. And I do mean the entire date. I've left dates where we had a few drinks and shared a cheese plate and I know everything about this dude… and yet, I will never see him again, because he didn't ask me a thing about myself. On to the next, obviously. 

Cats are just like people - they bond with the ones who actually try to understand them. 

It's easy to call a cat "difficult" when you don't make an effort to understand it. Simply expecting a cat to waltz into your life and fit right in is unrealistic. The cat will have to make adjustments for you, and you will have to make adjustments for the cat, just like with anyone else. People who don't understand cats wouldn't get half of the completely normal things that they do on a daily basis. They wouldn't understand that cats trying to sneak food off your plate behind your back is normal, that cats screaming at closed doors and then not wanting to go through when you open them is normal, the fact that cats having zoomies and running across your face in the middle of the night sometimes it - yes - normal. 

All of these things are simply a part of who our cats are. And we accept them just as they are. The cat in this story, who was labeled "difficult" by the shelter that it was returned to didn't deserve that label. It just needed to find someone who actually attempted to understand.

If there is one thing this employee knows how to do, it is to take stock of everything that happens in the warehouse.

A lot can happen in a workplace without anyone noticing or paying attention. Work gets done, and employees come and go every day. It's not feasible for everyone to track every action taken by others, and that's okay. But in a workplace like a warehouse, a tracking system must be in place; it would be extremely difficult to run the business otherwise. As soon as there's stock involved in the workplace, attention to detail is a must, and every small mistake can go as far as costing someone their job.

Cats recognize kindness, and once they do, they do not let it slip out of their paws. 

We have always known that cats are smart. Just from our personal experience with them. We know that they recognize when we feel down, which shows their emotional intelligence. We know that they know exactly when they are supposed to be fed and when their favorite snacks are opened, which shows general intelligence. But we only knew that about our cats. We've always thought that stray cats had to be different in this sense, but over time, we have learned that stray cats… might even be smarter than house cats.

Stray cats have street smarts. They need it to be able to survive out there in the dangerous world all alone. Our cats are spoiled. They only need to know us and our habits to be able to meownipulate us with their cuteness. Stray cats though, they have developed a sense of recognizing kindness. It why, more often than not, it is enough to feed a stray cat once for that cat to suddenly start coming back regularly. They haven't developed any kind of bond to you - not yet, they are just checking you out and seeing if you are going to feed them again. And if you do…

Living outside is hard, and if you take one look at your house cat, then you know that cats love being spoiled. Why fight for every meal and shelter when you can be at home, served every time you meow? Life is so much easier that way. Especially when you have a bunch of itty bitty kitties to take care of. Cats know this. And once they find that person who shows them kindness - even just once - they make the best out of it. 

That is purrcisely what happened in this story. A man fed a stray cat, that cat instantly recognized the goldmine in front of it, and what did the cat do? The cat brought his girlfriend. And then, the two of them together brought their hoard of kittens with them. And the man? Well, the man was chosen, and that means that he was left with no choice but to make room for all of the cats. 

it is one of the cutest things in the world for us to see people just accept their fates like this man did. The initial shock was there, but the love for cats was much stronger. And now, his garage became a cat sanctuary for more than 20 kitties. 

When HR promises you an hour-long lunch break, they should not pretend to be shocked when you take it.

This electrician had the unfortunate experience of working at a company where he was expected to work 10 hours a day without stopping, not even for a decent lunch hour. The strange part was that these so-called norms actually went against what the electrician had been promised prior to signing a contract with HR. That agreement expressly stated that the author was entitled to a lunch break.

People, it's not like this guy was asking for special perks! Besides, choosing to let someone go for demanding what he was promised is a recipe for backlash.

We always say that cats rule our houses with an iron paw, but we don't actually think that they should be judges in a court. 

Listen, we think that cats are amazing. We think that they are capable, smart, and should not be underestimated. They may look tiny and small, but inside those fluffy little heads of theirs lie thoughts of chaos and crime. All cats are criminals. And their crimes vary from stealing food off our plates right under our noses, with no regard for the consequences, and while maintaining eye contact with us the whole time, all the way to breaking into banks and sending the police on chases. 

It may be an amusing thought- to imagine a cat sitting in the courtroom, on jury duty, deciding whether we are guilty of some crime or not, but in reality, we know that our cats would sell us out for a can of tuna and not even think about it. Of course, that is not the reason that this cat was removed from the jury duty that it was summoned for. Sal was removed because… well, Sal is a cat. And in the words of his owner, "When they ask him guilty or not guilty? What's he supposed to say - meow?" 

Covering yourself from vulnerability is one of the most important lessons you will learn in the workplace… but it's not taught during onboarding or printed in the employee manual.

It might seem as if documenting every little part of your day would be disadvantageous for you, owing to the amount of oversight that you're offering your megalomaniac of a boss, but if you're documenting every little thing that you're doing with your time, it is going to take so much of their time that they're not going to be able to manage all of that information anyways. And when you're working in a toxic environment under leadership that likes to rewrite history and point the finger, there is never going to be a time when you regret fastidious record keeping.

Plus, as with any time a requirement for additional administrative oversight is added, there is going to be a cost to productivity. As every little bit of paperwork is completed, the only way to highlight the ridiculousness of it is to follow it to the letter.

And there will always be things that are overlooked. 

Your new manager works from home and sits on your keyboard.

Monday morning and your cat has been promoted to manager without consulting you. You sit down to start the week and they're already at the desk, planted on your keyboard like they have a full calendar of meetings. The laptop opens, they sit on it. The notebook comes out, they sit on that too. Oversight has begun.

Every email now has to go through them first. You try to type and they step on the keys like they're adding notes. You reach for the mouse and they rest a paw on your hand to let you know that was not approved. The staring is constant. Purrformance reviews will be based entirely on how much attention you're giving them.

You attempt to move them. They return immediately and sit down harder. You adjust your position. They adjust with you. Now they're loafed across your workspace, purring like they just wrapped up a long call. The tail is in the way, the trackpad is covered, and you are working at a speed that suggests morale is low.

At some point they curl up directly on your notes and fall asleep mid-shift. You weren't planning on taking a break, but management has made an executive decision. Monday purrductivity now depends on whether or not the boss wakes up.

A cat was not on the grocery list.

A regular trip to the grocery store turned into an unexpected kitten rescue when this little guy was spotted sleeping on the side of the road. He was dirty, hungry, and clearly had been out there for a while, but still sweet enough to let a stranger walk right up and pet him. After finishing the shopping run and sending a heads up to the family group chat, the mission became getting him home.

He was still there on the way back, although not without a bit of chaos. At one point there was crawling under a parked car involved after he got spooked and ran to hide. Eventually he was scooped up and brought inside, where he quickly settled in after some food and a wipe-down. A proper wash later on made a big difference, and he's already looking like a completely different cat. He's been spending most of his time loafing around or cuddling up with whoever's nearby.

It does look like his tail was cut at some point, which is upsetting to see, but thankfully he's safe now. He's met the other kittens and seems content to either hang out solo or find a human to nap next to. A home has already been lined up for him with someone who was planning to adopt another kitten, but this little guy's calmer personality makes him a better fit.

As a historic blizzard left the East Coast blanketed in snow, some bosses realized they didn't plan ahead. 

For the first time in roughly a decade, a major winter storm has dropped several feet of snow across the entire East Coast. It's kind of a big deal! A lot of us are working from home, while in New York at least, all of the kids got a real, bona fide snow day. 

Here's the thing: we got quite a bit of warning that we were about to get a wall of snow and ice. We knew for like, a full week beforehand! Many of us went out shopping for groceries, did our laundry, and got any last-minute items we might need before we sealed ourselves in our cozy cocoons to ride out the storm. 

There are some workers who are out there right now, working through literally any weather condition, like fire fighters and EMTs. But those folks plan ahead, too. They aren't scrambling around at the last minute trying to determine their course of action in the way that this boss was. 

Cats are a truly unique bunch and we have captured some of their funnier behaviors and mistakes in this cute collection of silly cats being their authentic selves.

Often we try to instill our cats with a sense of hoomanity. Perhaps it is born off our desire for them to feel more like our actual children, or perhaps we hoomans simply cannot stand being around other species. But no matter what the reason the result is the same, and we end up dressing up our cats in costumes, putting them in hooman-like situations and melting on the spot the moment they decide to cuddle with us and the little spoon to our big spoon.

But we ought to remember that our cats are purrfect just as they are in their awwthentic selves and that their weird and wonderful antics are what make them the creatures we fell in love with in the first place. 
 

What's the drama going on in your workplace? 

Every workplace has some drama going on! No matter where you work — from the back of house at a restaurant, to the boujie conference rooms of C-suite offices — there will be some kind of tea to spill. 

When you work with the same group of people for 40+ hours each week, you get to know each other way too well! Friendships form, and just as quickly, so do cliques and little feuds. 

These people were eager to share the little rifts going on in their workspaces, and the stories are wild! 

Some people started pilfering from their job before selling off their ill-gotten goods, like this first person here. 

All this student was trying to do was help out a desperate friend.

This author noticed that their classmate was behind academically after having to miss class for several weeks due to being sick. When she volunteered to give him a helping hand, she had no idea what she was getting herself into.

It turns out that this manchild was looking for more than just a little academic support. He was basically looking for a personal assistant. It started simple. The author met up with him to walk him through what he missed in school during his absence. 

Quickly, however, this escalated into a morally ambiguous dynamic in which the classmate became increasingly dependent on the author to do literally everything for him.

The Cat Distribution System works in mysterious ways, and sometimes like in this story it takes going against the word of others to claim the cat that is destined to be yours.

At least that is what happened to one construction worker who found himself conflicted when a cat in the neighborhood of his worksite started showing him affection. Before long he noticed that this cat was showing all the behaviors of a stray, other than the fact that it kept frequenting one particular porch. And when the man finally saw a teenager go up to said porch he enquired as to whether the cat was indeed a feral feline or if he was their pet, to which the teenager claimed the cat was hers.

However, it is hard to claim ownership of a cat when they are left to live outside, fend for their own meals and patch up their own injuries. And so this man plucked up his courage and took the cat home to help it heal and serve it up a comforting meal. Resulting in one of the sweetest CDS rescues we have seen in a while.  
 

Why shovel your own way out of the snow when you can wait for someone else to do it for you?

I don't live anywhere near a snowy climate, so it's been years since the last time I saw snow. This also means that I am not versed in the etiquette of living in a snowy neighborhood, and I would not know what to do if I got caught in a neighborly dispute about it. The only way I learn is by reading stories like the one below, and educating myself in case I even find myself in a similar situation.

If you are also unfamiliar with how one should behave when their neighborhood is covered in white, here is one example of a simple rule: If you clear a parking spot of snow, that spot is yours and should remain yours until the snow melts. This means you should never park in a shoveled spot if you were not responsible for shoveling it. 

You want to park in a shoveled parking spot? You have to ask for permission from the person who cleared it, and you have to accept it if they say no.

That is what happened between the neighbors below. One resident needed to use their car, despite the snow around it, so they paid a young teen to clear it so they could enjoy a snow-free car and parking spot. Another resident saw the cleared spot and left a note on the car asking to use the spot after the owner drives away. The neighbor who cleared the spot thought this request was quite odd, and didn't love the idea of letting someone else use the parking spot they paid to clear. This led the neighbor to debate whether or not they should let someone else use the spot while they were gone, but by the time they had made a decision, it was too late.

Scroll down to read about the dispute that happened between the two neighbors after the resident didn't move their car to allow their neighbor to park in the snow-free spot. 

Someone using their property to strong‑arm an older couple is already bad enough, but this Tool‑hoarding, Rent‑chiseling, Workshop‑wrecking landlord‑slash‑space‑renter really hit a nerve

Do you think cats know when their furever human comes along?

To say that humans are the ones who adopt their cats is quite a false statement, and cat owners would probably agree. Most of the time, the cat is the one who adopts the human, and they sure do not make it easy. We are pretty sure that cats have a very clear system they must follow before they allow themselves to get adopted, and no one knows what it is or how it works. All we know is that cats do everything to ensure that they end up in the right time and place to get themselves found by their forever humans, and they do not take that, or anything related to the cat distribution system, lightly. 

How many people do you think a stray kitten sees pass through before they select the one they want to spend the rest of their lives with? How many people do you think the tiny 4-week-old kitten in the story below let walk past him before he decided to chase the person who would later become his loving pawrent?

We will never know the answer to these questions, but at least we know that whatever calculations go behind a cat's choice, and the workings of the cat distribution system, they must be working. Because cats find a home every single day, and the kitten below found the purrfect human to take care of him and welcome him to the family. Keep scrolling to read the full story.