Dangling the same promotion to multiple employees is a recipe for disaster.

Whoever told managers of a certain generation that making false promises to the people on your team in order to make them compete with one another is, as Elle Woods would say, "seriously disturbed." It's like making two rabbits fight over one carrot just to see how aggressive they are with one another. It's not only bad for the workplace culture, but it's borderline villainous behavior.

This employee was temporarily promoted once his manager went on parental leave and was promised that if he worked hard enough and excelled in the role, he would get to keep the title permanently, as his manager wasn't planning to come back. Unfortunately, it turned out that the author of this story was not the only person who was given a similar promise.

Whose cat is it, anyway?

If this question is applicable to a cat, you know they roam the neighborhood like they own it, as if they run it with an iron paw. Some people are sure their cat is their cat, until they find out the family's feline was two-timing them all along. But even a cat has double the family, usually their original humans know what's up, they're aware of their cat's doings, and it's ok that they're ok with it. But some people just let their cat roam, and that we, admittedly, don't really understand. It can lead to some complicated situations, such as a cat stuck outside in the snow, which is a literal hazard. There might always be kind neighbors to take these cats in, but what if there aren't enough nice people around? What if there are other dangers outside, that even the kinderst of people can't help prevent?

All of these questions popped into our heads when we read about Salem, the roaming void cat whose owners don't seem to look for during an entire night. He was taken care of, for sure (and we're happy he had a safe and warm night), but really, it begs the question - whose cat is it, anyway?

You can never know how your boss will react to your resignation announcement.

When you imagine the day you finally hand in your notice, you usually also imagine how different people at work will react to the news. Your coworkers might be heartbroken, insisting that the office will not be the same without you, and your work bestie might even follow your lead since they can't spend one day at work without you.

The most important reaction, and the one we imagine the most, is that of our boss. Depending on your relationship with your boss, they can react in so many ways to you handing them your resignation letter. They could be sad and disappointed, they could be indifferent, they might try and fight for you and convince you to stay (perhaps even offering a much-deserved raise in return), or maybe they will break down and cry.

You can take the cat out of the stomp, but you can't take the stomp out of the cat.

You might think that cats are quiet, graceful creatures. And some of them are, but some walk about as loudly as a stampede of elephants. We have no idea why, but they will quite literally stomp while walking. But even when they purroudly put their tiny legs down in a deliberate fashion, it doesn't make that much noise. There's only so much force that can be generated by a 5-inch leg and about 12 pounds of force. 

People have a right to want their neighbors to be quiet, but there has to be a good reason for a noise complaint as well. Like we said earlier, a party past midnight definitely counts, but cats walking "too loudly" certainly does not. The downstairs neighbor even went so far as to call the police on her "noisy" neighbor's felines, and when they arrived, they laughed and went home. The cops may have giggled as well, but we're pretty sure the pawrent got the purrfect last laugh.

Workplaces in general are supposed to be about tasks, not about grown men turning basic requests into personal attacks. But in the army? C'mon, you'd think years of being around the tough, displined indviduals will at least rub off a little.

This story is from a awoman in her mid twenties who works for the military and shares a workspace with another woman about her age and one male coworker who is thirty and has been in the military twice as long as she has despite all three having the same rank. and if you ask me, I would totally refuse to treat his outbursts as normal office behavior after three incidents and finally draw a clear boundary too. Maybe throw in a little "at ease" while im at it. 

If there's one thing dads and cats have in common, it's dad jokes and naps, but that's two things and it's clear that we're no meowthmetician. These memes are so stoopid you won't be able to resist saying "That's a real knee-slapper!" and then slap your knee.

Cats are often purrtrayed as feminine, but really, they're all just middle-aged dads at heart. They have a disdain for trying new things, love their routine, enjoy nothing more than a good nap in a comfy chair, and they both love to pretend that they don't like affection. But most of all, they love to tell a stoopid joke. A joke that's so bad you laugh out of pity, a joke that's so bad you want to wipe it from your meowmory with disinfectant. They're so bad that you can't help but laugh at them, that they've rounded the corner from bad to good by being so purrfectly idiotic. We know because cats have been using terrible puns in their memes since the beginning of meme history, and also because our cat always laughs at our dad jokes. 

So, the meme wizards here at I Can Has Cheezburger whipped up some original feline funnies this week that are just awful. Terrible. Horrific. But they're also so bad that you can't look away from them, you have to keep scrolling out of a pawsitively silly desire to know if they're really as bad as the one before. They're purrfect for cat owners because they're made by feline fanatics who love cats almost as much as we do. 

We're sorry, but also not sorry, for sharing these with you. It's Furiday, so we thought you could use a hearty laugh, and this is the best we could do on such short notice. See you next week!

These people opened their bakery cakes and couldn't believe their eyes. 

Being a cake decorator sounds like an awesome job. I'm sure it's a lot of work, and perhaps it gets tedious at times. But it's not directly customer-facing, which is always a plus, and it involves a good deal of creativity. 

A lot of times, customers will bring in inspiration photos of what they want their cake to look like. They're supposed to specify exactly what the cake should look like, taste like, and what the writing should say… but as you're about to find out, that just doesn't always go to plan. 

Cake fails in general are one of my favorite things to search the internet for (just click on my profile if you want to see a bonus one!).But of all of them, I have a real soft spot for mistakes that got lost in translation. For example, one of the cakes below was supposed to go to a Stephen, spelled that way as opposed to Steven. However, the way that turned out was… "Happy Birthday Steven PH." Uhhh… close, but not quite right. 

Talking about your cats at work should not be reprimanded, it should be mandatory. 

Look, we don't know, maybe it's just in our office - our very cat-centric office - that it is highly accepted to talk about cats all the time. But we don't think so. We think that people talking about their cats, people showing off cute pictures of cats, people sending each other funny memes of cats througout the day, it's not only normal, it's actually good for the overall morale of the office. Because cats are just… pawsome. Even people who don't have cats or who are not as obsessed with cats as we are are happy to talk about them and see pictures of them. 

In our humble opinion, people should tell funny anecdotes about cats, show pictures and videos of them, and talk about them in general much, much more often. Office included. To think that the person in this story got reprimanded for even less than that - for just telling one of their coworkers that they have cats is absolutely ridiculous. Especially considering the fact that the person who is doing the reprimanding has two giant portraits of their own dogs in their office right behind them. 

An employee is only as effective as their baseline motivation, and if we go one more week experiencing "record-breaking blizzards" and polar vortexes, our bosses can just say goodbye to work productivity altogether.

Is any job position worth a fender bender on the way to work because of slick roads? No employee wants to do a spinning triple axel out on the ice like figure skaters Alysa Liu or Ilia Malinin, the "Quad God," on the way to the office. These knees weren't built to attempt a Winter Olympic trial in the work parking lot, nor am I dexterous enough to keep from shattering a tailbone on the slick, unkept ice of the driveway. If only there were a way to keep workers off the roads, something lovely and magical, like a winter wonderland snow day. 

Can't make it to work today! Too cold. Too snowy.

With the same fervor and glee as a class-ditching high schooler, employee morale would go through the roof if we were granted a snow day. However, the working world doesn't work like the good ol' days; unless we provide shareholder value 100% of the time, employees aren't working hard enough, apparently.

Alas, the pit of the winter season descends upon us, eroding our workday productivity and slowing our projects to a crawl. Although the Q1 energy was up at the beginning of the year, now, the workforce is simply downtrodden, frigid, and buried in snow up to their eyeballs. Like a bear that's desperate to hibernate, humans power down a little bit in the wintertime. People spent all of their excess energy on the holidays, and now, with the faint memory of Santas and lights diminishing in the frosty rearview mirror of our cars, we hardly remember those days of warmth and glee. Instead, we're reminded every morning how our tires can freeze to the pavement, how heavy the snow shovel is, and how infuriating our bosses are when they expect us to be on time every morning anyway. 

Sorry, boss, if I wake up at 4:30 AM to dig my car out of a snowbank, if I'm 5 minutes late, I'd better not hear anything from you. 

This goes double for hybrid employees. With jobs that are fully functional from the comfort of their snow-free couch, why go into the office? I luckily work fully remote (praise be), and in the wintertime, I proudly wear sweatpants at my desk and curl up under the covers with my laptop perched exactly where it should be according to its namesake: My lap. However, I witness the snow fatigue and the exhaustion of others in the workforce, who are forced to slog out to the car in their snow boots, defrost their windshield for 30 minutes, and endure the icy, unsalted roads all the way to their jobs. 

On a positive note, I haven't seen a mosquito in months!

So for employees who are feeling the frost of the cold months wearing them down, fear not, there is one thing that can warm your spirits: Memes. Humor has a funny way of turning around the most sour of moods, even if your work socks are wet from snowmelt and the heater just conked out in your car. Warm your fingers to the wistful, happy scrolls of memehood, and take a load off with your coworkers.

If your cat approves of your partner, they will make sure that you know about it right away. 

And that's important. It's actually necessary. Because if your cat doesn't approve of your partner, that is something that you should listen to. Cats know good people, and if they don't like someone, it usually happens for a reason. The way that people interact with cats is a huge sign. There are people who are are jealous of their partner's love for their cat. There are people who humiliate their partners for missing their cats when they run away. And then there are people who, behind their partner's backs, do everything that they can to bond with their partner's cats. And the cat then shows its appreciation and approval. 

It can go in either direction, but if a cat approves, you will know it. And the cat in today's story made sure that his owner knew that he approved of the girlfriend very, very quickly. For 12 whole years, this cat refused to sit in his owner's lap. Despite their bond, despite the fact that his owner wanted it very much. But the second his owner's girlfriend moved into their home, the kitty - just like that - decided that his new favorite spot for cuddles was her lap. And the owner's response… adorable. 

In a world as hectic as this one, all we crave is some pure wholesomeness in the form of cat memes. 

Everything moves so fast around us nowadays. Our jobs, the people we know and love, the news cycle. Everything seems to be moving too fast. Only one thing in our lives remains steady, and it is the only thing that really matters. It is our escape from the real world. Something positive - purely pawsitive - that takes nothing and only gives. We are, of course, talking about funny cat memes. 

If there is one thing that we can count on when it comes to the internet, it is a steady supply of hilarious cat memes. No matter what is going on in the world, no matter what is happening in people's individual lives, they will always - and we mean always find time to make memes and share memes. It is the best thing about the internet and probably one of the only reasons that we haven't completely lost our minds yet. We are simple people, craving wholesomeness in a world that sensationalizes everything but, and scrolling through silly cat memes on the internet is where we get our fix. 

Nothing can motivate a high school student like free food.

As someone who used to both be a high school kid and teach them, I understand that it can be difficult to connect with rebellious, overworked, and often exhausted teenagers. It's challenging enough to get some students to finish their homework. Asking for more effort beyond what is required is about as Sisyphean as it gets.

When this high school principal asked an art student to paint his office door in exchange for free food, it seemed like a fair deal… that is, until the principal did not uphold his end of the bargain.

Dog owners spend months, maybe even years, researching breeds and preparing their home for a dog; alternatively, cat lovers stumble upon a stray kitty by the dumpster one day and decide to take them home. 

We are not the same.

Cat owners don't want to come off as superior or anything like that, but when it comes to pets, cats are clearly the ideal. There's no contest. There's no need to take them outside during a blizzard; they make biscuits on your lap when they're cozy, and they purr in your ear when it's time to go to bed. As a cat lover, life is good when you have a kitty in your life. 

You think top models are ferocious on the catwalk? Wait until you see an actual cat in shoes! Scroll on to peak the purrfect felines vs shoes memes. 

It's not easy being purrfect, but somebody has to do it. And that would be, every single cat ever, because they are all purrfect little sweet demons. Who, by the way, can wear fresh kicks like nobody else! Do they actually like to wear them or even know what they are doing with shoes? Probably not, but whatever. They're correct. Whatever the cat does, yes, just yes. End of discussion! 

We were scrolling the other day, as one does, until our eyes started to hurt, because we got stuck on "cats vs shoes" algo. The amount of hilarious content that includes cats and shoes is epic. We couldn't stop! Did you know that some cats even love their human's smelly shoes because that stank is comforting to them like catnip? That just warms my heart. Kinda gross, but still adorable either way. 

Anyways, we wanted to share these meownificent kittos and their shoes of choice. Some even have their own shoes! Like crocs, different colored paws, or a nice trim job that has them boot-less. You just have to see it to understand below! 

A woman in Ohio runs a cat rescue operation all on her own. When she came across a cat limping in the freezing cold snow, she immediately went to work. After failed catches and sleepless nights, she was able to save the baby!

This cat went from freezing cold street dweller to the biggest snuggly bug indoor baby. The woman says he is already scheduled for a vet visit, but she has sprayed his paw with wound spray, and the kitty is acting so much better. 

One minute it's a cat. The next minute it's a perfectly frosted spiral of fluff.

Some cats don't nap. They bake. The second they tuck their paws in and wrap their tails around their noses, they turn into purrfect little cinnamon rolls sitting fresh out of an imaginary oven. Their fur twists into soft spirals, ears disappear, and suddenly there's just a round, fluffy pastry breathing slowly on the couch. If someone told you it smelled like sugar in the room, it wouldn't feel impossible.

When a cat curls up like this, the whole space gets quieter. Everything slows to match their tiny, steady breaths. The outside world can keep doing whatever it's doing, but the cinnamon roll remains committed to rest. It's a full-body decision. Paws gone. Face tucked. Roll sealed. They look warm enough to toast your hands on.

Watching them stay that perfectly round feels like being let in on a secret skill humans never mastered. Cats know how to shut down properly. No half-naps. No checking notifications. Just pure, uninterrupted loafing in pastry form.

Enjoy these adorable moments while sipping a warm cup of coffee and letting the morning stretch out a little longer. A cinnamon-roll cat snoozing nearby turns an ordinary day into a slow one, the kind built for blankets, quiet light, and absolutely no rush to be anywhere else.

Being hire into a restaurant means being hired into season 3 of some drama. People who work in the service industry know how clique-y it can get. So when this new hire was getting "mean-girl-ed" by the staff and management, they decided to quit asap. 

Even if you don't quit in a socially acceptable "professional" way, that's okay. Because sometimes these managers and staff need to face the consequences of their actions. If that means you have to burn a bridge on the way out, so be it! This was the path a new hire at a restaurant took and they weren't even through with training before they turned in their resignation, effective immediately! 

The noise complaint turned into a rescue mission.

On the hottest day of the year, a tiny kitten was crying from inside a bush outside a workplace and absolutely refusing to be ignored. A neighbor complained about the noise. Security came to check. Security happened to be a mom who took one look at the situation and decided that kitten was not staying there. A quick phone call to her daughter followed. she someone want a kitten? A yes came instantly. Within hours, the little bush baby was on the way to the vet and on the way home.

She weighed under a pound and barely looked real, more like a handful of fur than a full cat. At roughly four weeks old she needed bottle feedings around the clock. Her first bed was a lizard bed because nothing else fit. The name Munchkin stuck at first, not just for her size but because she looked like a tiny mixed box of candy. Later she became Piper, or Pip, once she was big enough to confirm she was a girl.

Now Pip is eleven pounds of pure house cat confidence. She curls around feet like a personal heater and chases laser dots with serious dedication. Before drinking water she crosses her paws neatly, like she's following a ritual only she understands. She even outgrew the elder cat in the house. The bush kitten who screamed for help is gone. In her place is a spoiled, happy cat who knows exactly where she belongs.

Some people act like this woman's existence is an office feature that only turns on when her dad is offline. Now, I wouldn't normally side with the boss's daughter this easily, as I'm not the biggest nepotism fan in the world, but this is so clearly her coworker's problem, it is really that easy

Would you choose your pet over a partner? The woman here has had this cat for nearly 10 years – she's not parting ways with her anytime soon. 

The woman is clear and firm in her boundaries. She's had this cat since the cat was 7 weeks old, they've been together for a decade, and that type of bond is stronger than romantic relationships. She's been with her boyfriend for four years, which is also a lot of time and energy invested. They knew in the beginning what they were getting into. He knew she had a cat, and she knew he had a cat allergy, but they chose to move in together anyway. Read the full story below for all the details.