What would you do if the person who is training you for a job tells you to run out of that place?

I think that interviews may be one of the most stressful and frightening things in the corporate world. Sure, being called by your boss is pretty scary, but I still think that the interview process is way worse. You're in front of someone you don't know who is quizzing you about the industry, your experience, the company, and your capabilities. The situation is so stressful that you start to forget how old you are or the place you worked last. The recruiter is analyzing every single thing that you do: if you move your hands too much when talking, if you use a lot of filler words, the sound of your voice, and your tone. And you are so nervous that you do everything differently than what you planned.

Those moments are so stressful in themselves that most people try to keep them as short and normal as possible. Even recruiters know how nervous most candidates are. But imagine going through all that, trembling with nerves, all to get the job, but in the first week your trainer, who is also the person you are going to replace, tells you to run out of that company. Getting a job is hard given the current state of the world, so when a candidate who has been unemployed for several months lands a position, all they are feeling is joy. But if that moment gets interrupted by something like this, then everything becomes crazy. The girl from this story was really nervous and hesitant about what to do. She wanted the job, but being told something like this would discourage anyone.

There are only two reasons I think why someone would tell the new hire something like this. Either they are getting fired from their position, and they don't want anyone filling it, or they wanted somebody else to be hired for it, so they don't want this new person to take the job from them. Or, they are genuinely trying to save the new hire from a horrible work environment where they are only going to suffer and feel discouraged every step of the way. In whichever case, it doesn't sound like a proper work environment to be in. This new hire also had the problem of having to stay for at least 6 months on the job after the trying period. What would you do in her case? Vibe the place and see if the trainer lied? Or simply run away and look for a better job?

Opening up to adoption again after losing your soul-cat is one of the most difficult things. 

Our love for cats is insane. It's so big. Every cat that we see, we instantly love. Every stray cat, every friend's cat, every online cat, we want to adopt them all. Of course, we have cats of our own, and adopting another is not quite that easy when we already have cats. But we want to adopt. We want to be those people who save cats, no matter how many of them there might be. We want to have cats always, at every stage of our lives. And yet, at the same time, we cannot ever imagine loving a cat as much as we do ours. We know our time with them is not forever, and we do want to keep adopting, but we have no idea how we will ever do it while dealing with the loss. That's the question that the person whose story we'll be covering today asked too. 

This person's story is a little more difficult than the one we described. They had two soul-cats, both of whom crossed the rainbow bridge within a short time of each other. That's hard enough, but then, a few months later, they adopted another cat. They thought this cat was healthy, that they would have many years together, only to find out that the shelter they adopted from didn't disclose some medical information, and for this cat to cross the rainbow bridge after a couple of months. This kind of loss is too big, but this person's love for cats remained just as big even after everything. They kept fostering cats, trying to help them, and before they knew it, they started feeling themselves bond. But they didn't know whether they should take the risk again, and they asked the internet for advice. 

The best Catuday morning starts with a collection of the best cat content of the week! 

Caturday meowrning is finally here, and we are so, so ready for everything that this day is going to bring. All the resting, all the napping, all the cuddling with our cats, and that's it. That is all that we want Caturday to be full of. That's all we need to feel happy after another long work week. Well, almost everything. To have a truly purrfect Caturday, we have to start the morning on the right paw, with the best cat content of the week. And that is what our weekly Caturday meowgazine is here for! 

It's impurrtant to start every Caturday purrfectly, and we know that, throughout the week, we are too busy to keep up with all the cat content that we want to keep up with. All the viral cat tweets, all the sweet and heartwarming cat stories, all the silly memes that the internet has shared. We need all of it, but we don't have the time. But on Caturday, when the entire day is about resting and about cats, starting the day with all this purrfection is everything that we need. 

Catch a tiger by the toe, said the tiny crab. And meant it.

The cat approached it confidently despite probably having never met a crab in his life, but never imagined the crustacean would strike back. In fact, the crab would probably have looked like a beach toy to this kitten. Just try to think like a cat. The orange thing lying on the open beach is small, colourful, and also moves in a strange direction, so all these characteristics are compelling for any curious kitten. So, let's get closer! What could go wrong?

What this kitten didn't know was that this crab had both claws and home-field advantage. 

You absolutely hate to see it.

If you're going to move across the country for a job offer, you'd better be 100% confident that the company is legit and not falling apart at the seams. The couple in this story did not do that, and now they're suffering for it. 

Should one minute late be considered late? 

Everyone has different ideas about what constitutes "lateness." Lateness can mean a lot of things to a lot of different people. In some industries, being on time even counts as late. If you're not totally ready to work by your start time, then you might as well have missed it, some people say. Others are much more lenient. As long as you show up within a window of a start time, you're golden. It's different with everyone, and it's different at every job. But this boss had an especially ungenerous view of lateness. In fact, it bordered on being against the law. You might want and need your employees in and working by a certain time, but that doesn't mean you get to demand work for free. You can ask your employees to show up and be ready to work by a certain time, but you don't get to make them work for free. The boss in this story, though, was trying to have it both ways. Unsurprisingly, their employees were getting sick of it and didn't want to be blamed for doing something normal. The employee in this story was definitely feeling that, and had quite a bit to say about the way their employer was treating them. They wanted to reach out to the internet to see if anyone else had experience with this situation, and how they got out of it. Keep reading for more. 

Who would have thought that we'd have to manage our cats' screen time as well as our kids'?

We all know the dangers of too much screen time. We know it the same way we know that not wearing sunscreen outside is bad for us and fossil fuels are ruining the environment. And yet, some people still put on tanning oil instead of sunscreen, and most of the world travels by car, plane, or bus, all of which require massive amounts of fuel. We try to keep our kids away from screens as much as pawssible, but did you ever imagine you would live in a world where you would have to manage your cats' access to screen time? 

Our pawrent below thought a little Cat TV would be harmless for his 6-month-old kittens. He was wrong. One of his kittens became completely obsessed with it - she began ignoring her sister, abandoned her toys, and began waiting in front of the blank screen for her pawrent to turn it on again. She essentially lost everything that made her a kitten, most importantly, the need for stimulation through socialization and exploration. The kitten's pawrent is now wondering: did he just turn his cat into an iPad kid? Will she ever go back to being a normal kitten?

The good news is that they're not the only pawrent dealing with this, either with a hooman child or a feline one. The other good news is that cats have relatively small brains, so in my humble opinion, if they just refuse to turn on the TV for a while, their cat will eventually get bored and forget about it. Other cat owners chimed in below with great cat-ecdotes and purrfect morsels of advice, so keep reading below to make sure your cat children don't turn into "iPad kids" as well.

Have you ever thought that giving a kitten CPR could actually work?

The video begins with three dogs playing with a tiny cat. To them, it was just a game. But the cat was being chewed. Then they drop it, and the kitten is lying there, unresponsive. We're glad the man filming was there and acted fast. He immediately picks up the baby cat and brings the kitten inside. 

Those first moments are difficult to watch because the kitten is so small and still, but the man handles the situation very calmly despite the desperate situation. He performs CPR and bathes the cat, then wraps it in a towel. He keeps going even when there is no sign that anything is changing, and I find his attitude pretty admirable. I don't know how anyone can stay so calm in that situation and at the same time take action. Stopping was not an option for him. His movements were careful and urgent. He really caught this poor baby cat on time and solved things fast.

No wonder the man described the day as a "roller coaster of emotions". The kitten was motionless on the grass five minutes earlier, and now he was responding to the hand offering comfort. He saved his life! The video starts with an unfortunate and frightening discovery but finishes with a survivor standing on four tiny paws. Is there a more heartwarming story? The cat ends up resting safely on the couch and accepting gentle pets from the person who refused to give up and saved him.

This sweet tabby couldn't take his eyes off his caretaker during the entire treatment. He seems to know she's there to help, so even if he feels uncomfortable, he trusts her and waits until she's done to ask for a hug. 

What does it mean when cats stare at you like this? They are usually trying to send a message, so they use eye contact to express needs and feelings, and this means they trust you. So letting her help him and finally reaching for her arms is the sweetest moment ever. All this cutie wanted was a hug and to cuddle and relax, which he gets after his caretaker finishes treating his paw.

The caretaker also handles the cat's need for reassurance very well. She works carefully and pauses to give him kisses. That calm approach seems to help him understand that he is safe.  

But the most heartwarming part of all is how he looks at her. His stare is so meaningful when combined with the rest of his body language. He leans toward her, raises his paw, and wants to get closer without preventing her from finishing. He patiently waits for her to finish because he knows she's helping him get better. But once the fresh bandage is secure, the tabby decides he has waited long enough. So he stands up on two paws and reaches for her, settling into her arms as if that hug had been part of the treatment all along. What a cutie. Scroll down to see such a heartwarming moment.

A busy interstate is no place for a tiny kitten to be alone, but one quick message to a friend was enough to turn a dangerous afternoon into the beginning of a much safer chapter.

This is what we could call a good friend. Seeing a little kitten fighting for his life on the side of a very dangerous and fast road, and immediately calling a friend to rescue it, only comes from people with good hearts and kind souls. As soon as she was told that this little life was left alone, she went as fast as she could to rescue him. 

Fortunately, the little animal was safe and sound, although it seemed to be walking in a direction, probably to get away from the noise that was scaring him. The woman grabbed it in her arms and ran back to her car, so she could wrap him in a cozy blanket so he could get a bit warm. The kitten was only a couple of days old and had been left on its own to survive on that road.

Leaving animals on the side of the road is common practice for people who don't want to take care of pets. There are cases where people adopt a pet and later realize that they cannot care for it… of course, not an ideal situation, but it's more common than we think. However, abandoning animals, no matter the size or how old they are, is never the answer. In every community, some people are more than willing to step in and take these little animals home and have them until they are old enough. 

There's something else we can take from this story: helping an animal never requires some big effort or anything extraordinary. The main thing is paying attention. If the friends weren't looking at the side of the road, she might never have spotted the cat, and we don't know what could've happened to it. Because she was careful, her friend showed up, and suddenly this tiny kitten was no longer alone on the side of the highway.

Years of watching other people get chosen by the CDS came to an abrupt end with one very fast U-turn.

This newly chosen rescuer was driving home when they spotted a tiny kitten sitting in the middle of a busy road. There was no driving past that, so they whipped the car around and went back for the little guy. Once he was safely out of traffic, they searched the surrounding area for a mama cat or any siblings who might also need help.

That search turned up another kitten. When the CDS finally decided it was their turn, it went ahead and made it a two-for-one delivery.

Both babies were scared and wet after storms had rolled through the area the previous day and night, but their rescuer couldn't find any obvious injuries. With two very tiny passengers now depending on them, they stopped at a friend's house for kitten milk replacement and bottles and got straight to work figuring out their new feeding schedule.

The babies are being fed every two to three hours, and their new caretaker has already started handling all the less glamorous parts of caring for kittens this young. They're also keeping track of each kitten's weight and trying to figure out a reliable way to tell the nearly identical little ones apart. Nothing says "surprise CDS delivery" quite like going from zero kittens to feeding schedules and weight logs in a single drive home.

After years of watching everyone else get chosen, this rescuer finally got their turn, and the CDS certainly made it count.

They left the house expecting an ordinary drive and came home as the caretaker of two tiny kittens. Welcome to the Chosen Ones club.

Nobody remembers electing cats as our furry overlords, yet here we are serving breakfast on demand.

Cats may technically be called pets, but anyone who has ever lived with one knows who's actually in charge. Hoomans pay the rent, buy the food, clean the litter box, and provide around-the-clock service while their feline overlords supervise from the comfiest seat in the house.

The arrangement starts innocently enough. You adopt a cute little cat and promise to give them a wonderful home. Fast-forward a few months and you're standing in the kitchen at 6 AM because your new boss has decided breakfast should be served early. Try explaining that the bowl isn't empty. Go ahead. See how far that gets you.

Furniture ownership also transfers quickly. Your chair becomes their chair. Your bed becomes their bed. Your laptop becomes a heated throne conveniently placed wherever you were hoping to work. If you're lucky, your cat might leave six inches of mattress available at night. Please remember to thank them for their generosity.

Even affection happens on feline terms. Want cuddles? Request denied. Need to finish something important? Suddenly there's a cat sprawled across your chest demanding 45 uninterrupted minutes of pets. Attempting to move before they're finished could result in a strongly worded meow or, in serious cases, claws.

Cat pawrents eventually learn that resistance is futile. We rearrange our bodies because the cat looks comfortable. We apologize when we accidentally disturb them. We buy expensive beds only to watch them sleep in the cardboard box they arrived in. Somehow, we're delighted to keep funding the entire operation.

So yes, humans may have opposable thumbs, jobs, and legal ownership of the house. Cats have something far more powerful: complete control over the humans with opposable thumbs.

All hail our furry feline overlords. The treat tax is due immediately.

For little kittens that are trying to survive outside, something as simple as a safe place to sleep and a full belly can change everything, and all it takes is the right person noticing them at the right moment.

Nothing can be as heartbreaking as finding little kittens inside trash bags, among piles of garbage. Instead of finding people who are willing to take care of them, some prefer to take these measurements and move on with their day. Luckily for these little furry felines, a kind soul appeared and rescued them. For some reason, they spotted a living trash bag and realized that something was inside there… something that was alive and needed help as soon as possible.

And the most amazing thing happened after that.

These kind people decided to take all four cats home and take care of them as if they were their own. They were so small that they needed to drink milk out of a bottle and could barely open their eyes. They were probably days (or maybe hours) old. They have the kitties a warm bed, milk, and lots of love for them to thrive until they are old enough to be adopted by people who are willing to take care of them.

These types of rescue stories are very helpful and really make us realize that there are good people out there… people who are observant and can spot these little cries for help from tiny beings that cannot speak or scream too loudly. And these cats were fortunate enough to have that woman walk by and be super careful to notice how they were calling for help.

You can't expect to do someone dirty and then pretend it was nothing. Entitlement can be stopped!

Entitled people can be stopped; entitlement has an end, but you need to be firm for it to work out. Some people go through life thinking they can do whatever they want without ever facing consequences for their acts. They think that everyone else will just accept it and do nothing about it. Till the right person crosses their path. A person with boundaries, manners, and a strong personality. That is the person who will end the entitlement without a second thought. If you want to be that person, then maybe learning from the story below would be useful.

Charlie is an employee who thinks that every single entitled thing that he does can be excused. Why? Oh, just because he thinks he deserves to do what HE wants. To him, it doesn't matter if somebody else is affected by his actions. The only thing that matters is that he gets what he wants. This time it was a chair. He had this premium chair that was more comfortable and better than everyone else's (which is probably another example of the entitlement he always had), but the handle broke. He could have gone to the office supply closet and seen if he had something to fix it, but instead, he deems best to just change his damaged chair with someone else's. What he never expected was for this person who received the damaged chair to just fix it and keep it, as it was way better than his original one.

When Charlie saw that the employee had fixed the chair, he just expected him to give it back. You can't imagine his surprise when he realized that wasn't going to happen. He took it up with management, which seems insane, but let's remember that he believes that he's entitled to get everything he wants the moment he wants it's, yes, like a child. The boss ended up only listening to the coworker who received the damaged chair and acted in favor of him. This may seem like a dumb story, but it is actually a GREAT example of how to end entitlement. Charlie now has to keep a chair he never wanted all because he expected somebody else to suffer for the misuse he did with the previous one. Let's hope this sticks with him enough to change his attitude.

Are you sure Harvey isn't a creature you summoned by accident from a meowsterious tome in the "restricted book" section?

We've all seen the glorious glow-up pictures of cats before and after they get adopted. The kitties always look so sad and distraught, with matted fur, a haze over their eyes, and usually more than one sign that their lives have been nothing but survival. It's heartbreaking to see them so full of distrust and fear, jumping at every little noise, or even worse, the feeling that they've just given up. But then, they learn what it's like to be safe, to be loved, and to truly live, and then everything about them changes. You see a light behind their eyes that wasn't there before, their fur gets healthier, and they start to show you their true purrsonality.

But our story today from Reddit user SwagzBagz features a different kind of feline glow-up. One that will transport you to a realm filled with fairies, fae, and meowstical creatures! We think it's time we introduced you to Harvey Danger, the kitten that arrived as the scraggly runt and left as a fairytale creature.

Harvey was taken in by her foster family at just 6 - 7-weeks old, and weighing only 1 pound! During her time with them, she ate (a lot, as all kittens do), and grew. But some parts of Harvey grew more than others, most notably her outrageous ears and whiskers! Despite Harvey looking like a weird crossover between a gremlin, a fairy, and a kitten, a family looking for a kitten saw her and decided that this little goblin kitten was the purrfect pet for them.

Her foster family took some pictures of Harvey in the car on her way to get adopted, and she looks nothing like the tiny, scrungy kitten who first wobbled through those doors. With her meowrvelously wispy ears, her firework whiskers, and her piercing eyes, Harvey looks more like a familiar summoned from another world than a kitten. But regardless of how she looks, we're sure she and her new family are going to get along just purrfectly.

If an employer can fire somebody on the spot, why can't an employee do the same?

Although the notice period has long been seen as the only way to proceed when an employee wants to leave a job, it isn't like it has to be a requirement. If anything, it is a show of respect to a company that quite a lot of them do not actually deserve. Management can get rid of an employee without any warning and without giving them time to formulate a backup plan, after all.

The fact is that both parties are needed in the employer-employee relationship, and an employee has more free will in certain situations than employers would like them to know about. There is only so much they can do if somebody wants to quit and not tell them about it. Frustrating as it can be from a manager's perspective, it is one of the reasons that they get the bigger paycheck. Also, it can often tell you something about what kind of work environment is being cultivated. The only issue is that the type of people who cause sudden walkouts are not usually the type of people to self-reflect in this way.

The summer heat may have melted all of you into a hooman pile of goop, but not us. We're cat people. We don't do outdoors unnecessarily. We stay inside, in the AC, with our cute cats curled up next to us. If we wanted to go outside, we would have adopted a dog.

Some people prefer to be hot, some prefer the cold, but we're like Goldilocks - we prefer to be "just right". And you know what the beauty of modern technology is? We can make the inside of our homes literally any temperature we want. When it's scorchingly hot outside, we can turn our thermostat down to 60 degrees and be as cool as a cucumber. If it's freezing outside, we can turn it up to 78, and feel all toasty and warm. This is why we love staying indoors with our cats - because not only do we get to spend more quality time with our kitties, but we never have to sweat or shiver if we don't want to.

But for all of you adventurous feline folks, or dog people out there, you're probably sweating through your shirts and pretending you're enjoying it. Not us. We're safely tucked away under a blanket, even a little chilly, with the air conditioning blasting at full strength. The purrfect scrolling temperature, honestly. We've got one cat in between our legs and another resting near our head, so we have more than enough reason to make our house colder than the inside of a refrigerator. 

If you're feeling the heat and miserable because of it, we have one suggestion for you: why not enjoy these wholesome friday felines for an adorable air-conditioned meowment of cooling cat cuteness? They're like rubbing an ice cube on the back of your neck, but with more shedding and a lot more cuteness. They may not be the oasis of your dreams, but they sure do beat the heat and make you smile while doing it. 

Or you can continue to burn under this sweltering heat; the choice is yours. I know which one I'd make.

Some bonds are meant to be broken…

A Reddit user shared on /r/AITH a situation that reached a fever pitch much faster than she thought. Her parents and sister were visiting, and she tends to have issues with her sister, so they've been quarreling for some time. The sister's boyfriend tends to act disrespectfully; the sister does the same and apparently also makes mean comments about her sister and her money. They have fought many times but never solve the issue, and the parents don't seem to be helping. During this visit, things got even more complicated. They were fighting over all the same things they fight about, until the woman who shared the story shoved her sister in the middle of the argument. Nothing more happened then, but the next morning they kept fighting. Their parents ended up calling the authorities, which made everything more complicated. The sister has never apologized, but the parents took her side after the fight. The woman acknowledges that shoving her wasn't right, but that doesn't erase all the years of unfinished business and entitled behavior from her sister that led to that situation. 

Cutting off family is one of the hardest things to do. But in this case, it was necessary. There had been issues for a long time before everything exploded, and no matter how much it hurts, we have to prioritize our peace of mind and set our boundaries straight. The sister could no longer behave the way she was doing, and the parents weren't helping or being fair to their daughters. No one should be disrespected in their own house. 

The relationship between sisters is one of the most complicated ones. Sometimes, even without realizing it, parents promote competition between their daughters, leading them to turn against one another during adolescence and even adulthood. Repairing that bond is an arduous task that not many people can take on, and in this case, it doesn't sound like it will be happening any time soon. Let's just all hope that someday these sisters will reconcile and find each other again.

Outdoor cats are fierce hunters. Indoor cats… try their best. 

The difference between indoor and outdoor cats is so stark. My husband's cat, who lives in a rural community, has always been indoor-outdoor, and although she is scared of almost everything and will stay away from every cat and human and car in the area, when it comes to small animals, she is the fiercest huntress. Countless times, screams around the house erupted when she came in running with a small bird or a mouse in her teeth. She is truly fierce. And then, there is my cat. My purrfect chonky senior house-cat, who doesn't can't even manage to catch those chunky large flies who bump into everything. 

I'll give my cat credit, she does try. When she sees those flies or a bird on the windowsill, she… makes noises. She chirps. She lets me know that there is a thing in the house that does not belong there. But she doesn't hurt. She's never had to, so she doesn't know how. And the cat in today's story is exactly the same. 

When a mouse ran into this cat's house, it didn't understand that one of the things that he is supposed to do, as a cat, is catch the thing. How would he know? But he did know that this thing does not belong in this house. And so, he did the one thing he knows always gets his human's attention. He screamed. He screamed his little heart out for weeks, trying to let the human know that there is a rat running around the house, hiding in corners unseen and unknown. The human didn't understand. The human thought something was wrong, so they took the cat to the vet, over and over, to no avail. The realization was relieving when it happened, of course, but boy, was it an expensive one. 

When you work from home, one of the biggest perks is that you get to wear whatever you want to work.

Pajamas and sweatpants become your best friend, and shoes are very much a forgotten concept; that is one of the biggest beauties of working from home. You save so much time on trying to decide what to wear every day, get to stay as comfortable as possible through your 8-hour workday, and let's not forget all the money you save by not needing to buy appropriate office attire. Such a great perk.

But is it the best perk? If your workplace decided to start implementing a business dress code for remote employees, would that have been a deal breaker?

It might be for the employee who shared the story below on r/jobs, but many people disagree. Working fully remotely has a lot of benefits, and people would gladly give up on their sweatpants if it means they can wake up at 8:55 AM and start working at 9:00 AM. Obviously, if you like working from home, putting on a blouse shouldn't change that. It is a very minor sacrifice for the ability to work from your bed.

Not to mention that there is a limit to how a workplace can enforce a dress code for remote employees. The only way they can know what their employees are wearing is through video calls, which means that as long as a remote employee is not actively sitting in a meeting, they can wear whatever they want in between.

So why was this employee so upset when the company rolled out this new dress code? Is being forced to dress in business casual clothing really that bad, or is it true that a demand like that might imply that the company feels a bigger need to control employees? Scroll for the full story to decide.