Have you ever finished a job interview and wondered what the interviewers are now saying about you to each other?

You step out of the interview room, and the two people who just asked you a million questions are still there, leaning closer to each other to discuss whether or not you impressed them enough to hire you for the job.

Even if you do move on to the next level, you will never find out what they said about you in that room. That conversation remains a mystery, something only the two people present will ever know about… Unless you are the job candidate who shared the story below.

This candidate was fortunate enough to conduct her interview via Zoom, an online conversation between her and two interviewers. After the interview was finished, the interviewers asked the candidate to leave the virtual meeting room so they could use the space to discuss the overall business. Then, 30 minutes after the candidate left, she got an email with the recording of the entire meeting, including the conversation that followed the interview.

Everyone wants to know what other people say about them behind their back, and this candidate is no different. She immediately clicked the recording and listened to the entire feedback about her interview. She actually got a chance to hear exactly what the interviewers thought of her, without any filters or rephrasing meant to spare her feelings. We can imagine it was quite refreshing.

Whether or not the interviewers found out that the recording was sent to the job candidate remains a mystery, and who knows how many candidates before this one got the same opportunity. 

If that were to happen to you, would you have listened to the recording, or is it better not to know? And would you have come clean and told the interviewers about the mistakes? Let us know in the comments below…

Caturday is finally here, and that means it's time to catch up on this week's most purrfect cat content! 

A lot has happened this week. As usual, at this point. Believe it or not, we think that we are kind of getting used to the chaos. We didn't think we would, but after like- 6 years of it, we're there. Nothing shocks us anymore. Nothing freaks us out. We're just riding the waves and finding the things among the chaos that make us happy. Which brings us here - to the weekly ICHC meowgazine, where we put together the very best cat content we could find on the internet. 

If there is one thing that has always made us happy, even during the darkest times, it's cat content on the internet. It's the fact that we can count on the internet to keep making adorable cat pictures and silly cat memes go viral - over and over, no matter what. We go online basically only for the cats at this point. And we don't mind admitting it. Mental health first. And good mental health always starts with keeping up with the cat world - the pure, wholesome, slightly strange but always making us smile cat world. 

Do you get the "Sunday Scaries?"

If you don't know what that is, I am so jealous. It is basically the fear you start to feel in the pit of your stomach on Sunday night as you mentally prepare to go back to work on Monday. It's like, we hardly get any days to ourselves, just two! And one of them is wasted on feeling nervous about the upcoming work day. When will we get a good half-and-half work week? Like, three days working, four days play? Or, fine, I'd take four days play three days working. It's annoying, but UGH I need an extra day to myself. Please cooperate, overlords! I need more honk shoos, I need more time to hang with my friends and family, and I most definitely need more me time. That will probably be used to scroll through memes for hours, but let me live my life!

Until that impossible day comes, all the employees of the world and I will meme about the workforce forever. You want that report by the end of the day? How about a meme featuring Jim from The Office? Or can I interest you in a still from SpongeBob that perfectly represents how I feel about all of your micromanaging? Your pickins' are below, boss!

When love becomes entangled with financial decisions.

The movies that taught us how to act and feel when in love forgot to mention stuff like mortgages, inflation, and the cost of airplane tickets. When we enter a partnership, we do so without knowing what pervasive bad habits our loved ones have and what damage they'll eventually cause in our relationship. That unknowingness is, in part, good because if we knew everything from the get-go, we would never form any kind of couple.

The story this husband shared on Reddit is about a thoughtful observation he made about his wife, and his doubts about how to navigate the aftermath.

Could your day use a little more feline wholesomeness?

By now, I think everyone knows I'm a dog person. If given the choice, I'll probably run toward the nearest dog before I even notice anything else in the room. There's just something about their enthusiasm that gets me every time. But even I have to admit that cats have a certain charm that's impossible to ignore.

Maybe it's because they operate on a completely different wavelength than the rest of us. Dogs usually make their intentions pretty clear. Cats, meanwhile, can spend half the day sleeping in a cardboard box and somehow still act like they're the most important creature in the house. The confidence alone deserves some recognition.

What I really like about cats is that they never seem to be trying. They don't wake up thinking about becoming adorable. They just exist. I swear, half the fun of cats is never knowing what they're going to do next. They're constantly making you stop and wonder what exactly is going through their little heads.

And let's not pretend we're any better. Every cat owner has taken way too many photos of their pet doing absolutely nothing. The cat is sitting. The cat is sleeping. The cat is looking out the window. Somehow, every single picture feels worthy of being shared immediately. I don't make the rules.

That's probably why wholesome cat galleries never disappoint. They're simple, they're cute, and they're a nice reminder that not everything on the internet has to be dramatic. Sometimes all you need is a collection of fluffy little weirdos living their best lives. If that sounds like your kind of content, you're definitely in the right place.

Influencers are a good way to discover places and products, or just a way to make people more addicted to consumerism?

Influencers are either the ultimate trend, what everybody loves, or the people who can make a product go viral in just one video. Or they are entitled individuals who believe they deserve different treatment and free products just because they have followers. These influencers are quite new, and that is why most people haven't accepted them yet as real workers. That is also why they haven't yet figured out their place in society.

Work has changed. That is visible not only with these influencers but also with remote jobs, offshore representatives, and telemedicine. None of these jobs have figure themselves out completely. So, should we fully disregard influencers as workers? That is up to you, but maybe we are too critical about them, or maybe, just maybe, these people are quite entitled, leaving us with an awful image of them.  

Maybe this hotel worker who came to Reddit to tell us how fed up he is with them has a point. The experiences that he had were bad, they were not only disrespectful but also mean, petty, and deceitful. But is that enough to consider all of them some kind of parasite that we need to get rid of? Sometimes they seem to be like aspiring celebrities that really want to be taken seriously, but are only known to some and important to none.

In ten years they are two possible futures for them, mainstream recognition of the profession or complete disappearance from Earth. Maybe the places that don't use them in their favor for publicity are missing big time. Or maybe it's even better for them to separate themselves from the Internet's fame to gain actual customers that aren't biased by some pseudo-celebrity that was paid to say they like something today and that they hate it tomorrow.  
 

Despite the numerous science fiction books about the dangers of time machines, they're looking pretty appealing right about now. 

It's no secret that we think the 2000s were the best era of hoomanity. High-speed internet was invented, cat memes took over the internet, we had phones but weren't addicted to them, and life was just easier. Now, we can't really say the same. We can't afford to buy a house, everything you do costs money, people are so addicted to their phones that it's causing attention spans to drop like crazy, and everyone is offended by everything. It's not very much fun to be alive in this era.

Don't get us wrong, there are still plenty of things to be pawsitive about. We have a loving family, two cats that we treat like our children, a car, and a stable job. As long as people keep posting their cats on the internet, we'll have a future, and that's more than some people can say right now. But even with these pawsitive things, it's easy to feel like life is too overwhelming.

The first thing we want to tell you is that it's normal to feel this way. Life is hard, and it's not easy, but we'll make it through. Sometimes, though, you have to take a break to gather yourself and come back stronger. This is one of those meowments. It's time to mentally curl up in a cardboard box (we see our cats do it all the time and it looks so comfy) and furrget reality with some hissterical feline funnies. They're a reminder to not take life too seriously, and that there is still some good and cuteness in the world that hasn't been ruined (yet). 

So for now, let's focus on the good and enjoy some silly cat memes. Reality can wait, it's not going anywhere (unfortunately).

Can you support your friends without becoming their default babysitter?

It takes a village to raise a child… or at least that's what people say. And honestly, I agree with it. Life is hard, parenting is hard, and having people around who are willing to help can make a huge difference. Most of us have no problem showing up for the people we love when they need a hand. The problem is that sometimes the line between helping and being expected to help starts getting a little blurry.

That's why this story stood out to me. The OP wasn't refusing to babysit because she hates kids or because she didn't want to support her best friend. Actually, it was the opposite. She had already agreed to watch the kids because her friend wanted to get her nails done and have a few hours to herself. Honestly, that sounds like a pretty good reason to call in the village. Every parent deserves a break now and then.

But then she found out something that completely changed the situation. The kids' father wasn't working anymore. His plans had been cancelled, and instead of staying home with his children, he wanted to go watch a World Cup game at a bar. That's when the OP decided she wasn't interested in driving across town just so someone else's parenting responsibilities could become her problem for the evening.

And if I'm being fair, I can understand why she felt that way. Helping out an overwhelmed friend is one thing. Becoming the default backup parent whenever Dad would rather be somewhere else is another. The fact that there had already been issues with last-minute changes and babysitting sessions stretching longer than expected didn't exactly help either.

Of course, setting boundaries is a lot easier in theory than it is in practice, especially when the person involved is your best friend. Nobody wants to be the bad guy. Nobody wants to hurt someone's feelings. But sometimes saying no doesn't mean you're abandoning your village: it just means you're reminding people that villages work best when everyone contributes.

Moral of the story: always microchip your cats!

Cats are finicky creatures. You can give them a purrfect plethora of warm, cushy beds, the highest quality food and treats, all the attention they could ever want (and more), and they still might try to bolt every time you open the front door. Their curiosity gets the better of them sometimes, and even though we know better, they don't. Our spoiled little cat children are not built for survival, for example, they can't even "hunt" their toy mice. We're pretty sure they have no hunting instincts at all, unless you count incessant meowing until we open a can of tuna for them as "hunting". 

This is why it's impurrtant to microchip your cats, because in the case that they do pull off a Houdini-level escape from the living room, all someone has to do is find them and take them to a vet, and they should be returned to you. That's also assuming that whoever found them will do the right thing, but that's a whole other topic that we're not getting into today.

Luckily, there are still good people in the world, and one of them can be found in Reddit's r/notmycat subreddit. They rescued an expensive designer breed kitten (Scottish fold) that they found in their yard. Instead of keeping the kitten for themselves, they took him to the vet, checked for a microchip, and safely returned him to his owner. If it had been our kitten that ran away, we would be beside ourselves with worry. Read through the full story of this wholesome and heartwarming return below!

After seeing these pictures, we officially petition to rename the Siamese cat breed to Sillymese.

If you thought of Siamese cats as majestic, princely, exotically beautiful, or even as photogenic cats - we think you've got it all wrong. Well, not all, Siamese cats are truly beautiful, that's for sure. But they have such a well-hidden derpy side that people who have never had a Siamese resident cat will never understand. We've also never raised a Siamese cat child, but luckily for us, the people over at the r/Siamesecats community agreed to expose the truth that Siamese cats' DNA is actually made of  50% silly, 40% disassembled body parts, 10% rolled-over poses, and 200% derp.

It's always surprising to learn that something you thought of as so majestic and pristine is actually the epitome of whackadoodlery. It's a "never meet you heroes" sort of situation, but with the one big difference of cats - we'd always want to meet cats. It doesn't matter how silly cats are, how derpy they look, and how whacky they behave like - we would always want to meet cats. Even in their online form of a silly series of pictures full of cat derp.

It seems that missing the flight wasn't an innocent mistake.

Some errors, like forgetting a name, missing an appointment, or saying the wrong word, may be read as expressions of a wish or a conflict that has not yet surfaced through words. Seeing it through that lens, the fact that the girlfriend from this story missed the flight might not be  'just carelessness'; instead, it can signify a much deeper truth. Well, to be honest, that truth doesn't seem to be that much deeper. Apparently, if you scratch the surface just a little, it emerges.

There is nothing worse than seeing an ugly truth, but well, I might be jumping to conclusions too fast; let's at least try to give the girl a chance first.

They say revenge is a dish best served cold, which is convenient when you're a butcher, because everything in your shop is already at exactly the right temperatureMost people who get wronged spend years fantasizing about a dramatic confrontation: a speech, a scene, maybe a strongly worded Glassdoor review. Our guy didn't need any of that. He just needed a walk-in freezer, a good memory, and a former boss who, as it turns out, had been helpfully ruining his own life on everyone else's behalf for the better part of five years. The dish was ready. It just needed someone to serve it.

Cats are the combination of a lot of things, but most impawrtantly - they make wholesomeness and sass live side by side so effortlessly, like no other creature can.

We don't know how cats do it, but it's a very cat thing to be two things at once, even if they seem contradictory. For example, just yesterday our cat was biting and licking our hand at the same time. Yeah, we also didn't know it was physically possible until that moment. And there are also the street cats next to where we live that we give treats to every once in a while, and this one sweet stray both licks the churu and growls at the same time. Seriously, if that's not very cat of him, we don't know what is.

Cats are wholesome for sure - they sit on you and purr, they ask for pets by gently bonking their heads on your leg, and "meow" is one of the softest sounds any creature can produce. Cats have a very special and sweet way to show that they love someone, and if you have a cat of your own, you know exactly what we're talking about. Cats are very wholesome because they're so loving, in their own way. But yet, it never contradicts their inherent sassy nature.

You see, cats can be cute, but they're also the kings and queens of sass. Cats are so sassy that they either make us laugh so much with how hilarious they are, or they truly hit the goblin mode. Take the 4 AM zoomies, for example - it's a cat art on its own, but every cat parent experienced it in full force. We even had to endure it last night - the clock showed 3:52 AM, and our cat decided, in their sassy and daring character, that it's time to cosplay a Formula 1 car all around the house. Including the sounds.

But how do they make it work? Well, cats are mysterious. We might not know all their secrets until the very end. But what we do know is that somehow, both the cuteness and the silliness exist in them like yin and yang. It's that duality that makes cats… well, cats.

Don't you have that friend you look at and think, "Hey, we're literally the same person"? That bro who guesses that thing that was on your mind even before you say it out loud? That's your twin. Not your biological twin, but your brain cells are somehow connected. Please take good care of your twin. You won't find another one like them. Tell your bestie you love them with cat memes!  

Seriously, you share a lot with your bestie: same thoughts, same reactions, same questionable decisions… Who are you thinking of? Well, that friend, that partner understands your nonsense without even needing an explanation. It's your partner in crime in any situation. That one friend who says, "If you go, I'll go". That one friend who you miss if they don't go to the friends' gathering. If you have that person in mind, now you are ready to scroll down for some synchronized silliness in cat form. Enjoy the beautiful disaster of being basically the same person in different bodies, and praise your twin with one of these twin cat memes. You'll make your bro happy.

You're so lucky to have bro in your life. So, be thankful, and invite your bro over and grab some dinner, watch a film together, I don't know, catch up on your week, do something. Don't you miss them? You filled their Instagram DM's with reels and funny memes, but when are you finally going to hang out? I hope it's soon. 

In the meantime, these twin cats are here to make your twin relationship more visual. You like the same stuff, you laugh at the same jokes, you come up with really similar ideas, and you can even find yourself sending the same memes. That's when you say, "bro, I was about to send that to you too". We're glad that your twin exists. Celebrate your twin. Love your twin. Send a cat meme to your twin.  

Some cats are lucky enough to travel around the world more than most of us do. 

Have you ever wonder how your life as a traveler would look like? Hopping from train to train, sleeping on 5 star hotels one night and another one in the cheapest hostel you could find. From the beach, to the mountain, to the Eiffel Tower. That is the life! And these cats know how to live it. With purrfectly prepared equipment, our feline friends are discovering the world and serving outfits at the same time! Tiny snow googles, chic berets and warm beanies, kitties know how to adapt to every place their hoomans take them to. 

I have to admit, I have never been more jealous of a smol, furry,  fluffy ball. Imagine going to the most insane places, looking fabulous and not paying for a dime. In my next life, I am reincarnating in the form of a spoiled and cute travelling cat. No carrying heavy bags, no being worried about having your passport with you at all times, no hurting feet. I cannot think of a better life. Cats not also have nine lives, but they also have one of the luckiest one life could have given them. 

Another perk of traveling with a kitty is how unbothered they are. There will be no barking, no throwing tantrums, no diapers on your bag. Cats have to be one of the most easy going companions one can find. They can hold their pee for hours, sleep literally anywhere you put them in, change sizes, from big to small. Their moldable bodies makes them the ideal travel buddy. No space for a travelling bag pack? No worries! They will somehow manage to fit in your purse like a labubu charm.

"The Curious Case of the Farmer Dad"

As we get older, our roles in relation to our parents often become reversed. In short, we become the parents, and they become the children. This doesn't always happen, but when it does, it becomes a source of profound distress. In the case of the daughter who shared her experience with this, I think it's more of a 'the dad never grew up to begin with' situation, but we'll see.

Lately, I've come to terms with the fact that I've idealized adulthood my whole life, and I used to think older people knew things I didn't or had some common special wiring that came with age. Turns out, they don't. Your level of maturity has little to no relation to your age whatsoever, and some people remain blissfully teenagers for all the course of their lives.

Most cat pawrents don't realize they've adopted a furry child until they catch themselves referring to the cat as "my baby" in public.

Being a cat pawrent is a lot like being a regular parent, except your child has four paws, refuses to answer when called, and somehow manages to judge your every life choice from the top of the refrigerator.

Cat lovers know that sharing a home with a feline isn't really pet ownership. It's more like agreeing to become a full-time servant, personal chef, and professional door opener for a tiny furry creature who contributes absolutely nothing to the household besides emotional support and an alarming amount of shed fur. Yet, we wouldn't have it any other way.

One minute, you're buying a cat a simple bed. The next, you're spending twenty minutes trying to capture the perfect photo of them sleeping in a cardboard box instead. You tell yourself you'll stop talking about your cat so much, then immediately show a coworker 37 nearly identical photos because "this one is different." Every pawrent knows the struggle.

Cats have a way of completely taking over our lives while convincing us it was our idea all along. They steal our blankets, occupy our laptops, interrupt our Zoom meetings, and wake us up at 4 a.m. because they can see the bottom of their food bowl. In return, they provide purrs, companionship, and those quiet moments when they curl up beside us and somehow make everything feel a little better.

So here's to the cat pawrents whose camera rolls are 90% feline photos, whose weekends revolve around their furry children, and whose hearts have been permanently claimed by a whiskered little roommate. These feline offspring may be chaotic and demanding, but they make life infinitely more pawsome.

Seventy-two hours after saying goodbye to their beloved senior cat, an unexpected kitten changed everything.

Anyone who spends time in Reddit's r/CatDistributionSystem subreddit knows the community is full of stories about cats showing up at exactly the right moment. Whether you believe in fate or coincidence, some feline arrivals are just a little harder to explain away than others.

Last month, this family said goodbye to Darkness, a beloved toothless senior tomcat who had become their soul cat in less than two years together. After a short battle with cancer, they were left adjusting to life without the gentle old feline who had made such a big impact on their lives.

A few days later, a friend tried to offer some comfort by saying that Darkness would come back when the time was right. The grieving pawrent laughed and said that if he did, hopefully he'd come back younger and with more teeth. Later that evening, she shared the conversation with her husband, and the two agreed that they were going to take a break from cat parenting for a while.

As it turns out, that break wasn't meant to last.

The very next morning, her husband arrived at work and found a young black kitten waiting for him. Less than three days after saying goodbye to Darkness and deciding not to get another cat anytime soon, Dolly had entered the picture and completely changed the plan.

For a family still grieving the loss of a beloved companion, Dolly's arrival felt like an unexpected bright spot during a difficult month. No cat could ever replace Darkness, but it's easy to understand why they see her as a gift. Their planned break from cat ownership lasted a mere 72 hours before the system stepped in and made a different decision.

What's more important: a trip to Bali with your boo thang, or a 10+ year friendship forged in the mechanics bay of a project car?

This young car enthusiast thought that he and his life's work were more important than some girl, but his buddy and partner in car stuff disagreed. With his name on the title, the friend went behind his homie's back and sold the car they had been building together so that he could bankroll his vacation. Now that's a betrayal that Caesar himself wouldn't have seen coming. Et tu, brute, sir. 

Some cats' life circumstances just make their happy ever after even happier than usual.

There's a very big contrast between the start of Koda's life and the life he leads now, as u/StillSea9674 tells on r/nowmycat. It's like looking at a black-and-white page, with a very clear distinction between the two sides. Seeing a now-pampered cat in the beautiful pictures they added won't tell you anything about how he lived poorly for the first seven years of his life. If anything, we're grateful for the Cat Distribution System for fitting this beautiful boy with the right human parents, who now give him the best life he can live.

It's not that we didn't know that some people treat cats horridly, but hearing of a first-hand account with such horrendous details makes our stomachs ache. We can't fathom hurting animals (or people, for that matter) in this way. We can't understand how someone gets to a situation where they knowingly put animals in harm's way on such a scale. But unlike many on this property with hoarded animals, Koda was one of the only survivors. He was not well, though - this life led him to have many health issues that needed treating. And that's where we're so grateful for the CDS to pair him with the people willing to nurse him back to health, and loveingly so.

Reading through Koda's story is an emotional rollercoaster - but because after a very low low there's a very high high. The happy end is a sharp contrast to all that he had to go through. And as cat lovers who read many cat adoption stories every day, this one made us the happiest recently. It's that difference between the beginning and the end that makes the sadness-to-happiness spectrum very wide, and why it would make every cat lover reading this happy - at least when they get to the end.