Are people crazy, or is it just normal customer service?

When you have worked in customer service, you know that people are crazy, entitled, mean, and disgusting. Some act so horribly that you seriously doubt if that is even normal. You start thinking that maybe some kind of crazy new disease has been spread around to customers and that's why they are all behaving so entitled. But soon you realize that it is not like that. People are just like that. Entitled, mean. They will act in the most awful ways, and you will just have to deal with it, because that is your job, unfortunately.

When you have been working for a while, you grow a thicker skin that is able to put up with almost anything. They could be spitting fire at you, and you wouldn't feel anything, and not a single scratch would be left on your skin. You become a witch that can tolerate everything, or almost anything. But one day, out of nowhere, some crazy people are going to get you out of your seat. They will start to behave so weirdly that you will have to stop for a second and check if the world has changed or people just got dumber over time. Whatever it is, it's actually so weird that you will feel uneasy. But there will not be much to do either. Just have to take it.

Like in this story, when this employee saw a bunch of people acting insane. It was just a normal day being a front desk employee. But it was so weird that she actually had to stop for a moment and think if anything else was happening. But that's just how working in customer service is. Sometimes a nightmare, sometimes a magic, insane world where everything seems to be upside down like Alice in Wonderland, and sometimes, rarely, a normal day where everyone acts nice and respects the people who are working to make their life easier. But that is not the common situation. That is the real fantasy world. 

The season of black cats, strange noises, and suspiciously glowing eyes has arrived… 

During this specific time of year, two types of personalities seem to appear. On one side, we have the ones who love fall for the cozy, warmer vibes, and on the other, we have the Halloween fanatics who start getting ready for their favourite night of the year since September 1st. Guess who joins the second party? Black cats. We are happy to report that, with time, the negative reputation this specific cat had is fading, but as spooky season gets closer, people automatically remember them and somehow start to love them even more.

I've always been a lover of black cats, particularly because I never understood why people thought they brought bad luck… I have multiple friends who own black kitties, and they are adorable and even more needy than other colours or breeds I've met. I'll say, though, that I'm happy that they get to be treated with extra love and care during spooky season, since they deserve it more than others. So, to honour their time of year, because let's be honest, who doesn't think of black cats once pumpkins are on the street, I collected a handful of black cat memes that fit this moment purrfectly.

Besides Halloween, I'm convinced that black cats have their own special personality, and that is different from the other types of felines. As I said, my friend's cats are more loving and aren't scared to share their love with you, but at the same time, you need to gain their love and trust. And I think that is the part in which they set their differences: they take even more time to analyze you, and they are the ones who adopt you as their hooman, not the other way around. They have more rules and are more skeptical of people. And let me tell you, they are on the right track…

Now, if black cats aren't really your thing, and if you belong to the cozy fall team, then maybe orange cats are more your vibe. But I'm on the black cat team, so bye! 

What would you do if your job did this? 

You don't realize how much time you have until you no longer have it. I am grateful every day that my workday doesn't start until 10 AM, because it gives me so much more flexibility in the morning and in the evening. I can stay up late on work nights, and I can wake up early for doctor's appointments if I need to. I don't always use my extra time well, as shown by mornings I've spent lying in bed for 2 hours watching TikToks after waking up at 7 AM. I probably would get a lot more done around the house and read a lot more if I didn't waste my extra time with endless scrolling. At the end of the day, my free time is mine to waste. If I want to waste it by scrolling, that's my prerogative! If I had to work from 10 AM to 10 PM, I would feel a lot differently about how I used my time outside of work. I would have to use every waking hour for something essential, like cooking, washing, and cleaning. I wouldn't have any time for leisure during the week, and I'd have to adjust my schedule accordingly. 

Losing two hours of free time can drastically change your daily schedule. The employee in this story was miffed when he found out his boss was adding two extra hours to his workday and more work on top of that. He doesn't want to act like an entitled young person who doesn't want to work, but he's understandably alarmed by new expectations thrust on him without more pay or even a conversation about whether he could handle it. His boss just expected him to go along with it, and he's probably not going to do that. He has other options. 

A story as old as time… a man who did not want a cat falling deeply in love with the new cat in the house. 

We think that this is a genre that can officially be classified as a classic on ICHC. Someone who didn't want a cat falling deeply in love with the new kitten in the house and believing wholeheartedly that said kitten is the best kitten. Of course, we knew - we, meaning cat people - the meowgical powers that cats have. And they do. There is a pull when it comes to cats that is simply impawssible to ignore. It's why people like us, who have embraced being cat ladies, cannot help but stop to pet literally every single cat that we see. 

My husband has started calling these moments "cat-related delays". Every time it happens when we are on the way somewhere and might be late due to the cat delay, he sends an image of me petting the stray cat to the people we're going to meet. In my personal opinion, it is a valid reason to be late to places. And most of our friends have come to expect it. 

It's because of that meowgical pull. Irresistible. I don't know what would happen if I didn't stop to pet every stray cat that I saw, and quite frankly, I see no reason to find out. Of course, I am a self-aware cat lady. I not only have accepted it, I am proud of it. Some people, Hoofarted91 on Reddit, take a while to accept their true cat lady identity. 

These "people who don't want cats" live under a shadow of delusion. They truly believe that they don't want cats. In fact, this man begged his girlfriend not to adopt a cat. She was a cat lady, though, so it only worked for so long. Finally, she was able to convince him to come to a shelter with her. They chose a cat, and then, this man made the mistake of leaving his lady alone in there. The cat she came back with was not the cat that they chose but rather the saddest-looking cat in the shelter. 

It took less than a day for this man to fall victim to this cat's meowgic. Less than a day for him to say something like this: "I was willing to do anything to make this cat feel loved". And that is exactly what happens every single time to every person who claims they don't want a cat. They just need to meet the right one. And by the "right one", we mean literally any cat that they are forced to be with for more than five minutes. 

So, yes, we think that we can officially classify this genre of story as a classic on ICHC. Because it always goes in the exact same way. And we love it each and every time. 

A company withdrew a job offer after a lengthy interview process, leaving the candidate in a vulnerable position. First, lowballing the originally discussed compensation by $30,000. Then withdrawing it entirely when the candidate had the audacity to ask a common professional question.

Long interviews have a tendency to be an absolute drain on resources. On the company and the candidates both. While it's understandable to want to find the right candidate with the right experience and the right fit, you have to imagine that there is a point that is reached where things are just entirely overcooked. And this long process makes things exceptionally hard on candidates who are between jobs and desperate to escape the uncertainty. 

Kittens can be very purrsuasive. 

When you live in rural farmland, anything is possible. You could suddenly come across a deer one day who wants to say hi, you can find a cat sleeping on your car one morning. You could go for a walk to encounter all sorts of critters and creatures, and eventually you have to adjust to them the way a city dweller has to adjust to homeless people, city trash, traffic, or constant noise. In the story below, a couple's coworker finds kittens in their barn. He's looking to rehome some of them and they live near a lot of farm land. They have mice that come into the house and even into their cars. The girl in the relationship has always wanted a cat since her family always had cats, but her boyfriend is allergic to them. They decide to take two but just not let them in the house, and that's when the internet comes in with bulldozing advice: take medicine. There are countless anecdotes below of people saying that themselves or someone they know is on medication for allergies, but it's just one pill per day. They swear that it's absolutely worth it for the love and relationship to a cat. Enjoy this story.

If your commute was double what it normally is, would you still do it?

Commuting is not a fun part of our day to day lives. It can feel like it takes the joy out our days, even when it goes fast. You're not being compensated for the time spent, so you feel like you want it to be as  quick as possible. When it takes any longer than it usually does, your stress levels start to rise. You don't want to spend any more time on it than you have to. And when your boss does something about it, this can be a huge issue. You like to work with reasonable people, and when people aren't reasonable you start to get a little anxious. You would much rather have to make some sacrifices than to do something that you don't want to. That's what was starting to happen in this story and things go a little out of hand.

One lick, two lick, three lick, cat meme! 

What's your favorite type of candy? Are you a chocolate fiend, trying to get your hands on a Hershey's or Kiss? Maybe you love caramel, and you go crazy for Milky Ways or Snickers. Maybe you're a Mike and Ike's type, where you just want something in bright, lurid colors and chewy on your palate. But there are some who prefer lollipops. They love to savor the flavors, like to take their time with the things they enjoy, like to feel the sugar rush bit by bit. And cats are kind of like that, too. There's something inherently sweet about cats. They're like little dolls with their big eyes, their tiny pink noses and bustling whiskers bursting from their face. Imagine your little cat just perched on top of a lollipop waiting for you to bite them and eat them up! It's a new love language, just in case you didn't know about it. 

These syrupy sweet kitties evoke the same sensations that a purrfectly swirled pile of cotton candy does, with heaps of reds and blues, they're the purrfect thing for a Saturday scroll. What is there to do on the weekend in mere winter? It may be bright outside, but it's still brisk, chilly, and it's much more comforting to stay inside and think of things sweet, tasty, wholesome, and purrfectly cat-like. The soft fur of a cat, the big curious eyes, the playful antics are all associated with sweetness, and that's why I Can Has Cheezburger has put together this sweet list just for you. Enjoy! 

A fateful and romantic story such as this one we have yet to come across, well other than this story. It tells the tail of two star crossed lovers who find each other by moonlight on one fateful night when one of them was out for a midnight hike. They fit together like two pieces of a puzzle, completing and caring for each other in purrfect harmony.  

So you might be asking yourself how did the cat get to be in the middle of woodlands in the middle of the night and you would be very right to ask such a question. The truth is that this kitten is a tortie, and a vocal one at that. Their breed is known for being a handful both vocally and physically and in a likelihood the kitten's family could not handle their hectic life with it and decided the woods was a purrfect place to part ways. And in a weird certain sense they were not wrong, but mainly lucky.

Lucky because the hooman who saved this kitten was a vet. The purrfect person to care for the tiny feline and one of the few who knew how to help it get over its separation from its mother. You see according to the vet it happened too early, and when that happens animals can end up with severe behavioral issues if not health issues too. So it is incredible that the Cat Distribution System put such a vulnerable soul in the hands of a pawfessional.
 

Nothing says "team bonding" like giving up a whole Saturday for a mandatory unpaid fun…

For a manager, I understand that team bonding and having everyone working together + having good relationships is a dream goal. What better way to succeed in your position than having employees that like each other? It's okay sometimes to create activities that are going to force them to talk and get to know each other… but that doesn't mean you need to take away one of their weekend days to do this.

In this case, an employee found herself in a very complicated spot. Since she's tight on money, she has two jobs. During the week, she works full-time in customer support, and during the weekends she helps at a local café. Both managers are aware of the other roles, so they do their best not to schedule her if she has the other commitment going on. 

Well, it seems that the manager from the corporate job decided that, to improve "team cohesion", she organized a 'mandatory fun day' on a Saturday, and every employee is forced to attend. As you can tell, our employee cannot make it, but she tried to reschedule her shift at the café, because it was going to be easier to work double another day than to skip the work event. Her boss told her that it was impossible… so now she doesn't know what to do.

Her corporate manager was not helpful either: she said this is a mandatory one-time thing, and if she doesn't show up, her absence will be written down in her file and that it absolutely shows a lack of commitment. And we all know that this can have major consequences in the future…

Her frustration is clearly noticeable, since companies sometimes force fun as a benefit, when in reality they're making life more complicated for some of their employees. For this one, is having her look bad in both jobs, but what about the people who have kids and need to sacrifice a whole day to do extra work stuff?

Cat people have a special ability to clowder. It's pretty incredible how fast we find each other online. Put one cat in a post and suddenly the comments fill up with people saying "mine does that too," like we've all been summoned by a tiny furry Bat-Signal

And it makes sense. Cat parenting is an arrangement between you and a baby that gives affection limited-time offers. A cub who can sit on your chest for four hours, then recoil from your hand like you just invaded at Genghis Khan levels. So it's only normal we need somebody else to confirm this is normal. Somebody to tell us that yes, their cat also screams at closed doors, demands it be opened, then walks away without entering the room. This is why we gather.

But It's nonetheless incredible. Somebody mentions their cat did something strange and 500 people show up to say theirs does it too, only in tabby.

Wake up fam, a new cat just dropped!

No, seriously, wake up! It's not every day that a new cat species is discovered. For the first time in a century, scientists have formally identified an entirely new living cat species. And before you start imagining some enormous jungle predator with teeth the size of your forearm, I should probably mention that this purrticular feline weighs about 3 lbs.

Yes. Only 3 lbs. A literal pocket-sized leopard.

Meet the tilcayo, or Leopardus tilcayo, a tiny spotted wild cat living in Bolivia's misty Yungas forests. With its little rounded ears, meowrvelous whiskers, and beautiful leopard-like markings, it looks like someone took a wild jungle cat and accidentally shrank it in the washing machine.

But how did they discover this smol predator only now? Don't worry, I'm going to tell you!

A local man reportedly found one of these kittens near a forest road and brought it home, believing it was a regular domestic cat. Eventually, the little wild cat ended up at a wildlife sanctuary, where biologist Paola Nogales-Ascarrunz noticed something unusual about its appearance. After years of research, genetic testing confirmed that this was an entirely distinct species. 

Imagine adopting a kitten and accidentally helping scientists rewrite the entire feline family tree. Turns out that the world still has many secrets we haven't unlocked yet. And apparently, some of them have whiskers.

Can a stolen mattress fix this roommate's relationship?

Roommates can be a remarkable part of your life. They can become the best friends you never thought you needed, or the sibling you never had…in movies. In real life, they can be a challenge, to say the least. Especially when one of them owes you lots of money and seems less than eager to pay it back. In this story, college life meets Soprano-style revenge, but it revolves around a stolen mattress. 

Three roommates start having trouble when roommate 1 gets cut off by her parents. Because of this, the three roommates went from dividing rent three ways to roommate 2 trying to help roommate 1 with a little extra money (by covering a portion of her expenses). They even went as far as buying a pricey mattress for her. However, when roommate 1 got a boyfriend, things between the roommates changed once again. She barely spent any time at the apartment, and past debts seemed to get frozen for the time being, which, needless to say, roommate 2 did not appreciate. Also, roommate 2 decided to move in with their girlfriend and needed an extra mattress for their new apartment. The opportunity just started to spell itself out. 

Sometimes a business can come out of the most unimaginable place. 

Not every income has to be attached to an office job at a corporate office. Sometimes being original and doing something different can make you even more money than a normal office job would. Or at least it can give you a passive income that helps you out a bit, and it's also not hard to do, as you see it mostly as a hobby. Not every job has to be conventional. And having extra income, even if it's not a significant amount, can be not only extremely useful, but also can help you find new abilities that can come in handy someday.

The work week is a toughie there is no denying that, and by this point in the week most of us would rather run off a cliff than keep working. But seeing as we are all so tired, we end up staying sat in our chairs. So if you are looking for something to shake things up, we have this collection of fabulous feline funnies that do not require you to move a finger. Well, yeah, you need one finger to scroll…

So while we find ourselves at this late point in the week we feel it is pertinent to point out that you deserve some delightful cat content. If that was not obvious enough already. You have been working harder than a cat who knows the location of a treat pouch and who is doing everything they can think of to bust open the locked cabinet door. And even in that situation we would probably take pity on their plural attempts and give them a little treat for the effort. While we put all that effort into our work and get diddly squat back to us.

So at the very least you are owed some feline filled joy and we have most certainly got that ready and raring to go for you in this cute collection of feline funnies to fill your fursday with the pawsitive pawer of fluffy fur babies. And with that we implore you to go forth and elevate your mood such that you make it to the weekend with your head held high.
 

If you break it, you buy it, or in this case, you pay for the damages.

A young man lent his car to his girlfriend so she could go pick up her brother from the airport, since her car seemed to be at the shop. The thing is, the girlfriend let her brother drive, and he tends to be a reckless driver. So much so that he crashed into the rear of another car. The boyfriend is furious about it, since now he has to pay to get it fixed. Even though the brother offered to pay for it, the guy is too young and irresponsible, and he has never been in debt to anyone. The boyfriend is mad at his girlfriend for giving him the car while knowing his terrible history with driving, and she is upset about him complaining and says he's exaggerating and being controlling. 

In my personal opinion, when someone lends you something as valuable as their car, you make sure to take care of it. Meaning that you won't let other people use it, drive it, or do anything to it. After all, it belongs to someone else, and they are just doing you a favour by letting you use it. A person is entitled to want to have their stuff well taken care of, and is also entitled to complain about the complete lack of responsibility others show regarding their belongings. In this case, the girlfriend was just as irresponsible as her brother, and the boyfriend has the right to feel offended and disappointed because she didn't respect him or his property enough to take good care of it. If he chooses not to lend it to her again, he's in his right to do so. She very well could have offered to take care of the payments for the repairs instead of complaining and calling him controlling. Since she didn't, he has the right to decide who drives the car and to be protective of his property. 

We say this all the time but you never really know where you are going to find yourself face to face with a dumped kitty. Take this story for example which somehow has a kitty who was dumped in a botanical garden. Perhaps its pawrents wanted to leave it somewhere safe, or they were hoping it would eat a toxic plant and pass away. Either way that is where our story begins.

It begins with the meeting of our heroic hooman who would come to save the cat and of course the cat itself. They instantly bonded while taking in the afternoon sun washing over the plants and petals and soon began sharing meals. Their relationship developed quickly and soon this hooman had arrange to bring a shelter for the cat so that it would have somewhere safe to spend the winter. But in that very same interaction with garden staff a surprising offer was made to this cat caring hooman.

They told them that they were welcome to take the cat home with them if they could convince it to come. Now this is were things get interesting. Most hoomans would have immediately said yes and dealt with the consequences later. Consequences which could impact the hooman just as much as the kitty. But this hooman took a step back and thought. Upon realizing that their home was not prepared properly for a cat, in that it was currently incomplete, they opted to leave the cat in the garden with the shelter until they could offer it a truly pawfect home to grow old in.

 

The video opens with a heartbreaking scene of two newborn kittens that were dumped on the pavement beside a plastic bag. One is orange and the other is a tabby. The person who finds them notices they are so small that they actually need their mom, but the mom is nowhere to be found.

The heartwarming part of this story starts after someone notices them and takes them home. The tiny pair of siblings is lifted from the street and carried to somewhere safe, where they receive the care they need. Their rescuer feeds them, gives them a bath, and gives them a warm blanket for them to sleep in. The kittens were so small that they could barely move and couldn't even open their eyes. At that age, kittens can't simply be given a bowl of food and left to manage on their own. They need someone to give them milk with a syringe so that they can eat. Otherwise, they can't do it on their own. They are naturally prepared to be fed by their mother at that early age. 

One of the sweetest parts is how, after two weeks of care, they look like completely different animals. They've grown, and they look healthy. It's so cute that they are always glued together. They seem to be very close siblings who survived together and now won't stand to be far from each other. They are still tiny, but their movements look stronger, and their surroundings are now clean, warm, and comfortable. 

At the end of the video, we can see how the tiny pair grew together for four more months, and now they look like adult cats, sleeping and playing together. Their beginning was uncertain, but their second chance looks lovely. Their lives changed the moment the person noticed them just in time and rescued them from the plastic bag, giving them the care they needed. Someone could have passed the bag without stopping. The rescuer looked closely, stopped by, noticed there were two animals in need, and took responsibility for them. Now they are part of the family!

I was hooked on the first part, and I honestly never thought it would turn out this good for the objectively morally correct employee, but life seems to reward the good sometimes!

We should take his story as an example or a to-do list for when we find ourselves trapped in a situation like this- when somebody else takes credit for something we did, especially in the workplace or university, for example.

This never happened to me at work, but it happened to me repeatedly in school. People get really weird when they have to work as a team. In teams, we discover very valuable things about other people's characters and egos. Some people work without saying anything and add value to the team without getting their egos enmeshed in everything.

To me, the worst kind of partner to work with is someone who'll think every good idea is their own, even if they weren't even present when it came up, and those who won't accept criticism, even in the slightest. Sadly, the world is full of those people, and part of the work is learning how to elude conflict with them and, hopefully, integrate them in a way that doesn't trigger their wounded egos.

This employee already had a conflict with a personality like this, and managed to de-escalate it. So we should take a really close look at what he did. Part of the reason he succeeded was that he stopped defending himself emotionally, as commentators on his previous post told him, and limited himself to bringing concrete receipts of his work.

Luckily, this is a real blemish on the thief's employment history, and will likely evoke further management evaluation. At the same time, the other employee showed he can create and fix a project for a higher position. A win is a win!

Every rescued kitten has a before-and-after. The turning point in their lives is sometimes the first blanket arranged inside a box, the first night spent somewhere warm, or the first time someone decided not to leave them behind.

The change begins through small things that finally tell an animal it is safe. Some need patience before they accept a gentle hand, while others are begging for someone to pet them and give them the attention they need. This heartwarming compilation celebrates kittens who were once left alone, then rescued, adopted, and given the opportunity to begin again. These kittens are the future cats who will sleep on their human's bed, wait by the door, and interrupt every task, even if it requires 0 cats, for the next fifteen years.

Each clip lasts seconds, but together they show many separate decisions to stop, help, foster, adopt, and make room for an animal in need. The kittens now carry a happy life. They don't know that their lives have become second-chance stories, but they know that now the meals arrive, hands are gentle with them, they are surrounded by love, and they also have somewhere comfortable to sleep. Their stories start in different places. A kitten can be stranded on the street, under a car, stuck on a bridge, or found in a box. What they have in common is that, no matter where they started, they arrived at the same destination: a forever home that brings them safety, affection, and a family willing to choose them. The human's choice not to leave them behind opened a new life that is now filled with ordinary, happy days. And those ordinary days may be the most beautiful part of every adoption in this collection.

Scroll down to see the cutest kittens living their new happy lives with their happy families.