Daughter Stands Up to Neighborhood Karen Who Left a Dead Rat and Rude Note on Her Mom's Doorstep

"How would you feel if someone purposely went out of their way to pick up a dead animal and left it on your doorstep?"

Retail Worker "Runs Away" From Job, Never Goes Back, People Share Their Similar Stories

If you've ever worked retail, I'm willing to wager a good chunk of change that you have considered doing this very thing at least once or twice. There are those moments where the daily tasks are so repetitive and mundane. After all, one can only merchandize and review lines of stock variation so many times before they pray for the sweet release of death. 

Many moments of this monotony tick by before the tides turn and the rush comes. One moment you're folding a shirt for the 10,000th time. The next, you're wiping flecks of spit off your face as they fly from the furious mouth of a deranged customer. Screaming, eyes bulging, that vein in their neck pulsating. One too many things might have gone wrong in their personal life this week, but you, the lowly retail worker, had the audacity not to meet their inane, impossible demand. They're an animal, caged in their miserable existence, but they're taking their wild fury out on you.

Redditor u/komputerrkrewwz claims to have lived this dream of fleeing from retail hell and has posted this topic to the r/antiwork subreddit titled "Just Ran Away from Work." They clarified in the comment section that they work retail and have a "boomer" boss who they can't stand. 

In the initial posting, 'komputerkrewwz' clarifies that "I told my boss I'm going for lunch, but I'm not coming back." suggesting that they would leave their manager eternally wondering what the heck happened to them. 

Commenters resoundingly applauded the poster's actions. This is r/antiwork, after all. Commenters suggested various plots to elaborate the ruse further. These included fake kidnappings and telling the boss that they had "Just gone to lunch."

"This is the part where you hire two actors from Craigslist or somewhere to dress up like scary g men and show up at your old workplace asking for you. Make that boss question what happened to their dying day," suggested GabrielofNottingham.

A surprisingly high number of responses shared stories of workers doing similar things when they couldn't handle the bullshit anymore. 

"I once quit my job at McDonald's by jumping out the drive-through window. True story." fallingfrog commented. 

"Before I got hired in at my current job, one of the guys also left for lunch and never came back. The guys who were there when it happened still sometimes joke that "He's still on lunch." shared ReaGeous.

There were other genius responses, and these are included, along with the full story, below. 

 

 

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Childish Brother-In-Law Demands To Be Treated Like Lord, Gets Dinner On Toy Dishes

In today's day and age, when relationships are seen more as being cooperative partnerships rather than an employer/employee dynamic, there are fewer and fewer times when it seems reasonable for one person to do absolutely everything for someone else. This guy didn't seem to get that his inability to do anything around the house was burning out his wife. When a new guest in the form of OP arrived to see this dynamic in action, he took it upon himself to communicate that to his brother-in-law. It's not like this guy even had to cook his own dinner. He decided to throw a tantrum over not having it brought to him. What's this guy's deal? Maybe it'd be reasonable if he was exhausted from working 16 hour days in a steel mill, but that's pretty unlikely.

The internet weighed in on the stunt, and had some mixed opinions. Some felt that it's a pretty risky thing to do when you're staying at the dude's house, but most agreed that the act was warranted. Given the support of the sister, at least the gesture was appreciated.

For some more wild in-law behavior, here's the mother-in-law who installed cameras in a woman's house.

Tumblr Thread Explains Why Measuring In Feet Can Actually Make Sense

With the exception of the US, Liberia, and Myanmar, pretty much everyone uses the metric system. It's a pretty constant sticking point, and a really convenient way to call Americans lazy and stupid, as if the world needed any more examples. But while we're grasping at straws for reasons to keep using cups and feet other than "cause it feels nice," this Tumblr user provided an alright reason for why the Imperial system/customary system made sense at all in the first place. The thinking here is that counting things in 12 is more highly divisible than 10, and if you're an illiterate medieval peasant who needs to do quick mental math, measuring things with a system that makes fractions easy is a better tool than a more precise, but also more rigid system like metric.

Maybe that's precisely why it's so difficult for us to get away from customary units? We just keep wanting to divide things into thirds and it freaks us out. This still doesn't cover the fact that none of us are medieval peasants trying to do masonry or bake pies in a world without widely available and precise scales. But it's at least a perspective that customary units may have at one point made some sense.

Dumb, Absurd and Just Wild Reasons People Got Fired From Their Job

There are a great many reasons one might find themselves no longer working for a particular organization. Some of those reasons, like threatening a customer, making a pass at the boss's wife, or simply not doing your job are pretty inarguable grounds for termination. It's important to understand when you might share some of the responsibility for your own misfortune, and acknowledging that "yeah, maybe taking my daily nap on my desk wasn't exactly terrific for optics" is part of healthy personal growth.

But people also get fired for terrifically stupid reasons, like when an incompetent manager is just trying to scare everyone else, or if the company is just trying to save money by liquidating their most trusted, committed and productive employees. So in a world where people can be fired for incompetence that is not their own, it gives employment as a whole a terrific level of uncertainty that can make you want to shake your head and go get another cup of coffee.

On the other end of the spectrum, here are some satisfying times people quit an unreasonable boss.

Husband's Sister and Niece Evicted After They Hide Cancer Patient Wife's Wig in Cruel "Prank"

A humiliated wife locked herself crying in the bathroom following a cruel "prank" that was played on her by her niece and sister-in-law. When her husband arrived home, he was swift in his retribution and sent his sister and her daughter packing.

This story was posted to Reddit's r/AmItheAsshole subreddit by the husband, Redditor, u/throwaway350965, after reacting to his sister's actions; seeking the opinions of the subreddit's readers to determine if he was in the wrong for his actions.

An account name such as this is an indicator of a "Throwaway" account, which will sometimes be less obvious and use a string of numbers or words. In each case, a 'Throwaway" is a, usually brand new, account used to make or interact with a particular topic. The idea is to preserve the anonymity of your "Main Account" and keep people who were privy to the event in real life from recognizing the event and linking your identity to your main account. After all, sometimes, your online identity can compromise your day job. Specific stories about people being compromised and connected to their "Solitary Enthusiast" accounts come to mind.  

It's hard to fault the husband's actions here. His sister's "prank" crossed too many lines to count. She violated her brother and his wife's trust and made a mockery of their hospitality. She showed her true nature with these actions and the couple will be better off without her, and anyone who enables her, in their lives.

Safety Failures That Are Big Oopsies Waiting To Happen

Every once in a while, we have a close call. Maybe you're using a reciprocating saw without eye protection. The tip hits a nail and breaks off, flying into a tree about a foot from your head. This is what's called "a growth opportunity." It makes you realize, if you're not dumb, that putting yourself in harm's way for no other reason than convenience isn't exactly a good idea. And then you remember that your safety goggles are in a box underneath a bunch of boxes of tools and crap, so maybe this time you'll let things slide, but definitely next time you'll remember to wear those glasses before using power tools. It's a thought.

Here are some times people tempted fate through ill-advised and unsafe maneuvers. On one hand it's impressive to see how many ladders people are willing to lash together to get to the top of a steeple. On the other hand, we'd all rather just see it and not do it ourselves. Good luck to these cowboys of gravity and tempters of fate.

Here are some more misguided safety failures that OSHA would disapprove of.