These employees have found a way to work twice as hard (in theory) but they're not exactly loving the results. 

Amongst a slew of anecdotal and study-based evidence, we now have this personal testimony as to why your work-life isn't improving with AI. 

Much like an intern that you really don't want to manage but must, Claude Cowork is supposed to make your workday go smoother. And yet… it requires a lot of extra attention. 

It's not that these things aren't smart, because they are. But it's almost like if you had a 300 IQ toddler on your hands — it's just going to break things in a smart way. Just ask one venture capitalist who requested that Claude organize his wife's desktop, only to realize that it had literally deleted 15 years of family photos! Wow, how helpful. Thanks, pal. 

This advisor has an issue relating to this, because her team is working double-time trying to do their own work while also managing the latest tech. Go ahead and read her story below, then we'll discuss. 

The soul, the essence, sometimes needs comfort and quiet amongst life's trials and tribulations, and that's exactly what these cat memes will provide. 

Cats breathe a sense of structure and safety into our lives. It's soothing to be next to an animal, feel its breathing, hear its inhales and exhales as you breathe together and form a bond. There's something soothing about cats in their essence. They can be calm, quiet, collected. You approach them and hear that delightful low-purr humming as you pet them in their sleepy state. Though they're not always like this, they still instill a sense of calm and quiet into us. Their love is undeniable, and their essence breathes life into us. In Aristotle's On the Soul (De Anima), the soul is thought to be the essence of a person. It's not their physical, material body that gives them form, but through the soul. It's not a substance that exists independently of the body, but gives the body function and structure. 

There's a distinction between a plant soul, an animal soul, and a human soul, according to him. Plant souls are nutritive souls responsible for growth. Animals are both nutritive souls and sensitive souls, allowing them to experience perception, desire, and movement. And a human soul is what he calls a rational soul – the ability to think, reason, and reflect. It's a philosophical explanation of the hierarchy of ecosystems.  

Though Aristotle thinks the human soul and the cat soul have a differentiation, the we can still have a strong soul bond with our pets. Scroll these calming cat memes for some pawdorable sleepy vibes that swing your soul together with your feline love. 

Noise ordinances tell us when we should be quiet, not our neighbors.

We've all dealt with a noise complaint or two in our lives. We might've been the ones our neighbors complained about, or we put in a request for the upstairs neighbor to stop vacuuming at 10 pm on a Monday. Regardless, living in close proximity to others means compromising your very specific needs if those around you are operating within reason. For example, there are typically noise ordinances in place to set basic guidelines for how much noise is acceptable at certain times on specific days. Our neighbors might get mad about a calm get-together on a Friday evening in the summer, but that's all they get to be: mad and unable to do anything about it. The story below touches on this exact scenario. What would you do in this resident's situation? Scroll below and sound off in the comments.

If there is one thing on this planet that a cat lover can count on, it is the power of funny feline photos to raise their spirits when they are feeling down.

And you know that at this point in the week there is no more hiding the fact that you are burnt out. So we figured it would be just the right time to share with you this collection of hissterical cat photos fresh from their pawrents' photo albums. Because while a good and funny cat meme can go a long way to lifting the spirits of almost any cat lover. The intimacy of getting to see such hilarious moments from the private collections of cat pawrents creates a far funnier feline photo.

So take a deep breath, let your sadness and sorrow go, and start scrolling through these hilarious cat pics to replace those emotions with some pawsitivity. What's the worst that could happen? You smile a little and make everyone at the office think you are a big old softie?
 

This 17-year-old has uninvited her 15-year-old sister from her birthday party after the younger sister got a prom dress covered in a purple milkshake! 

Prom season is a special time in many teens' lives. Just think back to your own senior year! It's a really fun time spent making memories with friends and preparing to head off to college. Prom in itself takes a lot of planning. You have to figure out who you're going with, who will drive, and possibly the most fun part, what you'll wear on the big day! 

Guys don't seem to really care what they wear to prom, but for the girls, picking the coolest, prettiest dress is a big deal. Some schools even have a list so that you can register your dress, ensuring that no 2 people will wear the same attire. 

And we haven't even mentioned the cost of your average prom dress: the range goes from several hundred to several thousand, depending on your style and your taste for designer goods. While many parents will foot the bill for a prom dress, a lot of teens save up for ages to purchase their dream dress. That's exactly why this 17-year-old is steaming mad at her sister. Let's check out her story and dig deeper into the whole situation. 

You might have thought that with all the many muscles that cats have to hear and respond to our cries, that they would be great communicators. But as you'll find amongst the lines of this story, that could not be further from the truth.

You know how there are those funny signs with warnings that obviously come from a unique incident carried out by some sort of unique idiot? Well, this story is the feline equivalent of that. A tale of a cat who decides to play hide and seek with the sole intention of getting under his cat mom's skin by hiding under the house. A pitiful prank that almost resulted in the pawrent risking life and limb to check if the idiot cat had gotten stuck on the roof.

Now sure you might be right in thinking that such a story sounds familiar, and there is one that does compare - the boy who cried wolf. And while it is true that this cat child will not be believed the next time that something like this happens, in the original story there is nothing about the boy rubbing it in the town's people's faces that there was no wolf…
 

Folks, if your partner is ashamed of you when you're just being yourself, walk away now.

People frequently outline the important stages in a new relationship. There's the first time you spend the night at one another's apartment or home. There's the first time you cook for one another or the first time you immerse yourselves in each other's hobbies or interests. However, I'd argue that one of the most important moments, if not the most important, is the first time you introduce your partner to your best friends or vice versa.

Meow that energy up!

But what does it really mean? Well, we're here to explain in meowing details. Don't worry, fellow feline fanatics, you're in good hands. Hands that have gone through every piece of cat content the internet has to offer to this date. We're about to let you in on a cautiously kept secret: meowing that energy up for the day is easy when you have feline funnies at your side. When you scroll through cat memes, that cat energy sips right into you, like a soft meow when your cat companion is making biscuits on your chest.

But really, now, what is meowing up the energy for the day? It's all about walking around with cat confidence, it's about letting yourself recharge with cat comfort and coziness, it's all about laughing like a cat meowing for no reason at all in the middle of the night like you must hear the song of their people right at that moment. Meowing up that energy means to make it like a cat - with purride, pawreciousness, and a whole lot of hissterical humor. That's the cat way, that's the way to meow up that energy, like every person probably needs today.

Do you ever feel like your boss is breathing down your neck, looking at everything you do, and ensuring you remain on top of work, every minute of every day?

Well, with this productivity tracking software, you don't have to wonder; you will know for sure that this is exactly what your boss is doing at any given moment!

We've all seen and met our fair share of overbearing, probably toxic bosses and CEOs. They don't care about their workers' well-being or the happiness in the company. All they want is for work to be done in the least amount of time, for the least amount of money. This main goal is what leads companies to try to control their employees as much as possible. They must ensure that no employee does anything non-work-related on the company's expense, and they will use any desperate measure to do that.

Just like the company in the story below…

Our cats who crossed the rainbow bridge are never truly gone; they live forever in our hearts. But sometimes, they manifest in unexpected ways.

We're constantly told that the Cat Distribution System sends the cats in need to the right human, the one who will give them all the love they deserve and all the protection they need. In some cases, though, the situation is reversed, but with the same wholesome result - a human might be in need of a cat. Cats love their humans, and some people simply need a little more floofy friendship in their lives. In this case, the CDS sends a can in need to a person who's also in need. But what we learn from this one cat pawrent below is that the CDS takes requests.

Just requesting a cat doesn't usually work. But apparently, there's a certain condition in which a person's wish for a cat can come true in a very short amount of time. That is, if you ask it from your soul cat who has passed over the rainbow bridge to the other side. A woman who raised a cat for 19 years(!) made just one wish - bring me another cat, if you will, I will take him in. And so, her new cat came to be.

A brash new Director of Operations thought that he could come and cut costs by cutting out a vital middleman importer, he soon realized that he had bitten off more than he could chew and came to respect the advice of his new team.

Tripping over a dollar to pick up a dime is something that far too many companies make a nasty habit of. And, really, since so much of business relies on positioning, luck, and being in the right place at the right time, it's, frankly, more or less a fact that a lot of managers and owners are more or less fumbling around in the darkness, figuring things out as they go. 

If they fits, they sits. No questions asked.

In a world that's constantly focused on moving forward and improving, it's nice to know that some things stay constant. Like the fact that the Earth revolves around the sun, gravity will always stop us from randomly jumping into outer space, and that cats will always love sitting in boxes and other devious devices. This one specific type of cat picture is our anchor of stability in this fast-paced world, something that doesn't have to change because it's already purrfect. Whether they are big boxes or small ones, square ones or round plastic containers, dishwashers or trash cans, cats will sits in them if they fits in them. 

Scroll all the way to the end to find a silly surprise. One of these things is not quite like the others…

The bar for treating your employees well is literally on the floor. 

How do we all feel about 996 culture? If you've never heard of the concept, congrats! You probably have a healthy work-life balance.

Unfortunately, a lot of people don't. 996 refers to employees who work from 9 AM - 9 PM, 6 days a week. This extreme working style seems especially common in the tech sector. Although it's not an area of business I understand very well, I believe it has something to do with startups having limited money while overpromising about their potential successes. The pay must make this worth it, right? 

This startup had 10 workers there one day when they realized there was a problem. And sadly for the rest of us, this guy decided to share his cute little anecdote on LinkedIn, the increasingly unhinged home of the humblebrag. For this guy, though, there's nothing to brag about, but in true startup-bro style, that would never stop one of these tech fellows from bragging anyway. 

This cat must have been a meowsician or a meowstro in his past life because his love for the piano music his pawrents play is simply harmonious. He knows when they're going to practice and will beat them to the piano, relaxing for hours while they serenade him with songs.

Cats never cease to ameowze us. Just when you think you've seen it all, from floofy fluffballs that look like living feather dusters to mama cats working at hardware stores, they go and do something out of left field you never saw coming. Purrhaps they're evolving, or maybe this cat in our story really just found his purrfect family to satisfy his unique and pawsitively melodic tastes.

Animals have been known to enjoy the occasional reggae song or relax to a Bach concerto, but this kitty takes it to a whole new level. His pawrents are purrfessional pianists, and he loves their playing so much that he will literally sleep on the piano while his pawrents play. You'll see below how he sleeps with his stuffed rat in between his paws, mouth open, safely in honk-shoo land while both his pawrents pound on the keys, purracticing for their upcoming show. We've truly never seen anything like it.

They describe something hissterical as well, they say that "he will get angry if we play the wrong note", which means that he must recognize the pieces to some extent. That's honestly incredible. We can barely remember what we had for breakfast, and this kitty can remember classic concertos. 

We never once assumed that cats were simple creatures, but this video just confirms that there's more to these fluffy felines than meets the hooman eye. And, as cute as this is, we have to wonder, will they have to play him a lullaby to fall asleep every night? So much for cats being low maintenance!

Senior employees think they have it all figured out, but that doesn't give them the right to stomp all over the office and expect the downtrodden workforce to toss flower petals at their feet on their way to retirement.

Sorry, Linda, age alone doesn't earn you respect. 

Young people value mutual camaraderie, but older generations are hung up on the saying, "Respect your elders." While respecting the sage wisdom of people who have been around longer than you is still advisable, blindly accepting punishment from older employees in the workplace for the sole reason that they're your seniors isn't enough. If they don't respect you, why should you respect them? 

Although many workplaces make you earn your stripes before you're able to call yourself a member of the team, this 28-year-old had already paid her dues. According to all but one colleague, 3 years of proving herself was enough to cash in on some seniority and workplace respect. But for Linda, the soon-to-be-retired lady in her department, nothing was ever enough. Berating her, belittling her, and making her feel small for years, Linda sowed the seeds of resentment in the heart of her coworker, and when it came time for the $50 round-up for Linda's retirement gift, her coworker rightfully refused. 

We know indoor-outdoor cats are a debate in the cat world, but can we all agree that forcing an indoor cat to go outside is definitely the wrong thing to do?

Personally, we support keeping cats indoors as much as possible. But we do see the other side of it. The cats that we have, we have all had from very young ages. It was early enough to change their habits so that staying only indoors wouldn't feel unnatural to them. But we can imagine that with other cats, it would be somewhat different. We can see how a stray rescued cat might have a problem with being locked indoors all the time. We can see how a cat that has been an outdoor cat their whole life might not take quite so easily to having it taken away from them. 

We get that deciding to make an outdoor can an indoor one would be a difficult decision, and sometimes an impossible one. Everyone will have to do what is best for their individual cat, in their specific circumstances, preferably while consulting a vet. It's not an easy decision to make, we know. But you know what is? When your friend tells you that their cat is an indoor one, do not attempt to let the cat out without their permission because of the side that you take in this debate. 

Microchip your cats and keep the microchips updated. You never know when they might save your cat. 

Cats are curious by nature. Even the most spoiled housecat who had everything that it could possibly want right at its paw-tips will still attempt to run out the door sometimes. It's not because they are unhappy. It's just the curiosity. It's wanting to see the world. It's wanting to go through the forbidden door and see what's out there. Any cat can do it, especially ones on ground floors or houses instead of apartments. You never know when your cat might run away and get lost. 

It's heartbreaking when your cat gets lost. You know how spoiled they are, how silly, how much they rely on you. You know that they probably wouldn't survive out there on their own for long. You look for them, you cry for them, but sometimes, they are too far to hear you. But if there's a microchip, then there is hope. Even four whole years down the line, when you have accepted that your cat is no longer coming back, you might still reunite with your cat. Get them microchipped if you can, and if you do, keep that information updated. 

Applying to jobs is full of minor inconveniences that almost seem designed to make you stop.

We've all found ourselves in situations where we're filling out an application, and suddenly we're asked to reiterate something we have already reiterated numerous times at this point. Perhaps there is a question about your previous work experience when your resume already clearly answers that question. Perhaps there are practically identical essay questions, and you wonder how you'll be able to answer the same paraphrased question when you have already said what there is to say on the topic. 

Did you have a hard day today? Did you miss your cat a lot? Then it's time to sit down, kick your feet up, and relax to these cozy cat memes. 

All you heard all day was, "bla bla bla bla bla," and now you want to be saying, "honk-shoo-me-me-me-me-me." Except, you want to be doing that with your cat, so it would sound more like, "honk-shoo-meow-meow-meow-meow-meow." So go ahead and cuddle up with your favorite feline friend, LOL at these memes, and then take a cat nap. 

If you want to do your weekend right, you have to start getting ready for it as soon as possible.

Sometimes we look at our cats, and it feels like they have their whole future figured out. Granted, their future mainly consists of bird watching, napping, eating, spending hours in their litter box, and screaming at the top of their lungs, but even so, their schedule is pretty much set for life.

What we admire most about our cats' ability to plan their entire day, week, and month is that no matter what we do, they don't change a thing. If their internal schedule says that it's time to sleep, they don't care what we do around them; they will be soundly sleeping. If their schedule tells them it is time for breakfast, it matters not that it's five in the morning; they will stand on our faces and meow at us until we get up and provide their breakfast. The schedule is air-tight.

While we do not love being woken up in the middle of the night because the schedule says it's playtime, we can't help but appreciate how committed our fur babies are to the tasks they have at hand, and we would love to use it as inspiration for our own lives. 

During the week, our schedule is quite set. We wake up, eat breakfast, work, and enjoy our quiet evening with the family. But during the weekend, we tend to get lost without setting a schedule and planning what we want to do ahead of time. This is why we want to follow our cats' lead and decide what we want to do in advance. And no matter what happens, we do not change our plans. If we decide we want to have a picnic at the park on Sunday, we will have a picnic at the park on Sunday. And if we decide we want to stay in bed all of Saturday, absolutely nothing can get us out of there; the schedule does not budge.

Another activity we already know must appear in the schedule of every weekend in the future, is scrolling through our weekly collection of hisstercial cat memes, like the ones down below!