Another "Not My Cat" is on his way to turning into "Now My Cat".

It's not that uncommon to find a feline guest at your home. It happens way more often than you'd think. You might live on the seventh floor, but a stray cat will force their way inside without a problem. And usually, the cat seems to know exactly which house with which humans can turn into their forever home. This meowgical ability is normally embedded by the Cat Distribution System, the body that mysteriously knows to match the cat with the person, and the person with the cat (which is no less impurrtant).

And this little void is no different. In fact, despite the hilarity of the situation, we were not surprised for even a second reading about this "Not My Cat"'s ninja abilities. This is the most cat thing to do. And if you've ever found a feline guest in your house, you know exactly what we're talking about. Because it's their house now, obviously.

Imagine planning for a trip to Cancún with your best friends for over a year, only to find out that one of them is bringing her 10-year-old kid along to ruin all of the fun.

Of course, we are sympathetic to the fact that families have to juggle unforeseen consequences, but it sounds like this kid is just not used to being told that she can't have something she wants. Now, this author and her other adult friends have to endure a child-friendly vacation that they didn't plan for at all.

A house full of cats is a house full of love.

There is a persistent myth that dogs hold the exclusive title of "man's best friend", but any cat pawrent knows that feline companionship offers a deep, soul-soothing meowgic that is entirely unique. A home filled with purrs, play, and those precious meowing moments is a sanctuary of wholesome joy. While they might not fetch a ball (but some might), cats are our quietest confidants and most loyal BFFs, offering a slow-blink of trust that feels like winning a gold medal of life.

Whether they are making biscuits on your favorite sweater or greeting you with a tiny trill at the end of a long day, cats fill our lives with a soft and steady presence. They prove that being a best friend isn't just about high-energy greetings - it's about the comfort of shared silence and the warmth of a sleeping floof on your lap. From the first kitten mew to the dignity of a senior cat's head-bonk, these are the bonds that truly make a house a home.

How dare you recite the old texts to him! He was there when they were written. 

Employee handbooks exist to protect workers from injustices. In the case of many traveling workers, oftentimes, the rulebooks are overly protective, and many workers simplify their receipts to avoid rocking the boat with the accounting department. However, if the bean counters want to get nitpicky over every little line item, two can play that game. 

This traveling employee tried to make his expense sheets as efficient as possible, but when he was denied repayment, he decided to play by the book, which cost accounting dearly. 

Some cats take longer to open up than others, and that's purrfectly okay. Cats need to move at their own pace.

Cats are very sensitive to changes in their environment, even if its bringing them to a home full of love and safety. To them, it's a new territory with new people and pawssible new dangers around every corner. This is why most cats after adoption will run and hide for a few days. It's purrfectly natural. They're sussing out their new space, trying to understand the rhythm, where is safe and where is scary, and adjusting to life around new hoomans. They will eventually learn to trust you and their new home, but you have to give them the time they need to properly decompress and open up.

Some cats are better than others, and some cats are extremely difficult cases, like our void below. The shelter warned her new pawrent that she was extremely anxious (relatable), the only way the cat could be touched was if she was wrapped in a purrito, for everyone's safety. She adopted her anyway because if she didn't, who would?

It took a lot of time, and a lot of patience. A lot of hunger strikes, until one day, the scaredy cat decided to test the waters and take some food from her hands. Even after that improvement, every noise had her running back to her hiding spot, and yet, the pawrent purrsisted. Now, the cat confidently walks around her house, begs for food, and falls asleep on her chest every night. 

They say good things come to those who wait, and that's especially true with cats. Some felines need a lot of time to open their hearts, but once they do, you'll never know a love more purrre and heartwarming.

We always say: it's the cat that chooses the human, not the human that chooses the cat. 

No matter how many times we say it, people still seem surprised. Despite the fact that this is a well-known fact in the cat community at this point, people still make the choice to foster cats, as if there isn't an incredibly high chance that those cats would adopt them. It doesn't matter at all whether you were intending to adopt the cat or not. You could "hate cats" and still get adopted by a cat. You would "not want to have cats ever" and still be adopted by a cat. You might even be in a position where you already "have enough cats", and still, a cat might see you as the purrfect forever home, and you will have no choice but to accept it.

So, really, the boyfriend and girlfriend in this story should have known the risk that they were taking. And still, the bond that they have created with this cat and that this cat has created with them seems to have taken them by surprise. Of course, when the bond builds in less than two hours, maybe we would have been surprised as well, but nah, we don't think so. 

Employees come and go, but this company made no attempt to keep their best performer on board. 

Some workplaces simply cannot appreciate a good employee while they have them. 

They'll have workers who are extremely dedicated to the cause… but they're only human, after all. Humans need time off sometimes, they need to take breaks, they need a team and bosses that they can rely on. 

In this employee's case, taking PTO for a really good reason was cause for her boss to throw a fit. And guess what? That employee, a top performer, didn't at all care for being treated that way. 

There is always some drama going on when it comes to landlords and cats. 

Listen, we know that finding an apartment that allows cats can be difficult in some places, but it must be done. Attempting to hide your cat from your landlord is a risk that is generally not worth taking. You never know if the landlord you have will be a decent one or not. If they will be humane about the way that they deal with the situation or ask you for insane things. Maybe they will be an understanding landlord, but seriously, we have seen landlords demand tenants leave after finding out about their cats or asking tenants to declaw their cats to protect their property. 

In our opinion, it is always better to disclose than to take the chance. Your kitties are too important to take that risk. You don't want to end up in a position of having to find an apartment that allows pets in an emergency, not when you have the time and opportunity to move to a place that allows pets in the first place. Of course, sometimes, things happen anyway. And we hope that your situation with your landlord would end in a way that this one ended - strangely funny. 

House hunting in your 30s can be a challenge, especially when the rental market feels impossible. But one renter didn't expect the biggest surprise of his new place to be the neighbor next door, a 70-year-old family acquaintance who might hear everything through the walls.

Finding your forever home is one of the biggest decisions people make in life. But before that happens, there's usually another phase that's equally challenging: finding a decent place to live while you're still figuring things out. And if you're in your 30s and single, the process can feel even trickier.

Right now, the thing that we need the most in our lives is a sprinkle of serotonin. 

We don't need a lot of it. We're not asking for a lot of it. In times like these, when things feel so much bigger than we are, when we're stressing over things that we cannot control, we're simply looking for little sprinkles of happiness throughout our lives. It could be spending a little time with friends. It could be going on a walk and enjoying nature. Or it could be staying in bed for another five minutes to scroll through some funny cat memes. That is all that we need sometimes. 

Seriously, forget social media. Don't even try logging in. It's not worth it. Sometimes, all that we're looking for when we get on social media are silly cat memes. So, if you are doing the same thing, we can tell you that you don't need to. You have all the cat memes that you could ever need right here, without all the drama and insanity that usually surrounds them on the web. Here, you can rest assured that you will get cats and nothing but cats. And really, cats are all that you need for an instant smile. 

"I have a very important meeting in the conference room, my lunch is waiting."

Every office has a different set of rules when it comes to lunch. Some require each employee to take their lunch separately, to keep operations efficient, while other offices see the social importance of letting coworkers enjoy their lunches together.  Then there are workplaces that truly don't care when, where, or how their employees take their lunches.

This workplace, apparently, has a policy that forbids employees from eating at their workstations. Not lunch, not tea, not even a granola bar. For years, this policy was disregarded, but a new manager recently decided to bring it back. Now, every time an employee is caught with any type of food or drinks near their desks, they get written up. For an employee who prefers to eat their lunch alone as they continue to work, and has been doing it since day one, this policy can get really frustrating.

Luckily for this employee, they found a way around the policy. The office's conference room is always empty during lunch, and there are no rules against anyone eating there. So, every day from 12 to 1, the employee books the 20-person conference room all to themselves, grabs their laptop and lunch, and enjoys some quiet work time while they eat their lunch.

Obviously, the manager found out about this soon, but technically, there was not much for her to do. The employee followed every single one of her rules, and there was nothing in the policy that indicated they were doing something wrong. Still, the manager refused to let it go and reported the employee's lunch behavior to the big boss. Keep scrolling to see how that turned out.

This employee managed to successfully negotiate an entire company policy change after being hired, only to be let go shortly thereafter for demanding a raise. Unfortunately, it sounds like a case of Icarus flying too close to the sun.

Negotiating the terms of an employment contract is, of course, a delicate process to navigate. For a while there, it seemed like this guy was getting everything he put on the table. Then, he unknowingly crossed the line in the eyes of his new employer.

After a manufacturing team helped a client resolve an urgent supply problem, the client lodged a formal complaint against the manufacturer for the solution, which led to the delivery of their parts at the last possible moment thereafter.

The golden rule: treat others as you'd want to be treated. And, unsurprisingly, if you don't treat others well, others might not have much time for you at all and will give you the same in return. 

A big project is allegedly shared between two people, but somehow only one spine was holding the whole thing up. On paper, the responsibilities are split. In practice, coworker Sue hoards information and vanishes from email chains and quietly leaves landmines that only explode when she is off, and someone else has to clean up the messManagers taking credit for work they didn't do is nothing new, managers trying to put a spin on bad decisions is also as old as corporate America, but you gotta admit that a manager who just boasts her own incompetence as purposeful is a unique take on how to manage people.

Welcome to the magical world of whimsical cat memes! Here you will be filled with happiness and LOLs while your feline fairy godMEOWther guides you through laughter. 

What a week for the cat distribution system! Here we have a mama cat from the streets just walking on into a woman's home like she owns the place. Luckily, she chose the right home. 

After being rejected by HR, an employee escalates the issue… only to have the CEO personally respond to their follow-up email.

Nothing wakes a cat up faster than the crinkle of a treat bag.

Cats can sleep through vacuum cleaners, doorbells, and full conversations happening right next to them. But the second a bag of cat treats crinkles open in another room, they hear it like an emergency broadcast meant only for them.

One moment the cat is nowhere to be seen. The next moment it appears in the doorway, staring directly at the treat bag like it teleported there. No running sounds, no warning, just a cat suddenly present and ready to purrticipate. They often try to play it cool too, casually walking closer like they just happened to wander by at the exact right moment.

Once the bag has been spotted, the negotiation begins. The cat sits down and locks eyes with the treats like this is a very serious business meeting. Sometimes a paw reaches toward the bag. Other times they simply stare with full focus, making it very clear they plan to stay there until the situation improves. Opening the bag once is rarely enough. The cat knows there are more treats inside, and the cat believes those treats belong to them.

For creatures that spend most of the day sleeping, cats have somehow developed the most advanced treat detection system in the house. One tiny crinkle of a treat bag and they arrive instantly, right on time for snack duty.

A year ago, a small black-and-white cat showed up and accidentally became part of the family, thanks to a joke that got a little too real.

It all started after a movie night watching The Room. Like many people who experience the film for the first time, the house quickly filled with dramatic impressions of the line "Oh hi, Mark." At one point, while feeding the small colony of outdoor cats they care for, the girlfriend joked that the next cat to show up should be named Mark just so the line could finally be used properly.

A day or two later, a new cat appeared. A little black-and-white guy who looked a bit like a tiny Batman. The moment he showed up, the name was obvious. Mark had arrived.

After checking around for an owner and finding none, it became clear that he wasn't going anywhere. The cat distribution system had spoken again. Once he was brought in and checked out, Mark quickly proved he was more than just a funny name.

Now about two years old, Mark has grown into a clever, playful cat who keeps the whole house busy. He loves to play, especially with his brothers Larry and PatPat, while Bernie, the older cat, prefers to sit those games out. Mark has also earned the role of the household greeter. He's often nearby, watching everything and showing up right when someone walks through the door.

A long-term employee has become living proof that PTO can exist in a system without ever being allowed to behave like time off. 25 plus years of loyalty and the reward is a gigantic balance on paper and a microscopic amount of actual rest. The numbers say generous benefit. The calendar says absolutely not