'She wouldn't stop spraying us!': Karen neighbor wages water war with family BBQ

Living next to neighbors offers a great sense of community along with lessons in mutual respect and reciprocation, but—depending on whom you're residing next to—it can also be a living nightmare. Getting stuck next to the wrong individual can be all it takes to turn a peaceful life upside down and send it on a one-way fast pass to Suffertown.

It doesn't matter how peaceable of an individual you are: days, weeks, months, even years of living next to inconsiderate neighbors is enough to send anyone careening into feuding behaviors.

The final straw might come in the form of the most innocuous event, like a relatively casual outdoor barbeque in which loud drunken voices carry for hours as bleating children savage each other unnoticed as if reenacting a new-aged reboot of "Lord of the Flies."

You might find you—yourself—that once reasonable person, wandering out in the backyard, muttering maniacally as you grab the garden hose and set the nozzle to "jet." Now, you wouldn't normally water your plants with jet, but today you're going to, and you're going to specifically focus on that ivy that stretches along the length of the fence—the ivy that wouldn't normally even need watering, doing a fine enough job on its own of spreading and taking over everything in its path.

With a half-twisted smile, you begin to spray, ensuring to spray at the top or just over the top of the fence pickets to best simulate the effects of rain on the thriving plant… definitely with no ulterior motive.

Screams answer, along with a surprised bellow as your neighbor, Big Tom, tips backward, collapsing his folding camp chair, as the first blast catches him square in the back of his enormous, shining bald globe-like head. His wife, Trish, is the next to fall, catching a spray of water square in the chest; a yell of shock and arms flailing as the cold water sends her sprawling. Their guests begin to panic, seeking refuge outside of the lengths of your watery blast, grabbing their children as they flee, who have frozen in the midst of their feral game, mouths gaping. Big Tom is on his feet now, preparing to charge. He gathers speed, propelled by sheer mass and will, reaching the fence with another roar, clumsily grasping the top of the pickets as if to climb them. 

Another blast of water catches him square in the face.

. . .

By no means am I suggesting you solve your neighborly issues with a spray from a hose; that would likely create only more issues and bad blood. What I'm saying is it's never cut and dry over who the "bad guy" is in these situations. While it's possible the hose-wielding neighbor is completely in the wrong, it's more likely that a thousand small cuts from these loud neighbors finally sent her over the edge. 

It stands to reason that any time we see recordings painting one party to be the villain, this doesn't automatically mean that the recording party is heroic.

'I was done': Woman gets even with cheating ex, moves out and takes everything except one roll of toilet paper

This is what happens when you take advantage of your relationship. In an ideal partnership, each partner gives their fair share. Of course, not everything under the sun can be 50/50; that's unrealistic given the state of the job market. However, a good partnership requires compromise and a fair breakdown of each individual's contributions. We know that most partnerships do not function like this and that when these ground rules are never set up, oftentimes the whole partnership ends up on uneven, unequal ground. 

 

In this relationship, which was described by the Redditor in the r/pettyrevenge subreddit, OP's girlfriend made more money but was irresponsible. She contributed next to nothing to their apartment, and it turns out, she was duplicitous in other ways. OP caught her girlfriend in a lie and discovered proof that she was cheating on her. So what did OP do? She moved out and took absolutely everything with her except a roll of toilet paper and plastic cutlery. 

 

Why is it that the people who cheat are also the people who contribute the least emotionally (and in this case also financially) to the relationship? Our take is that they were subconsciously selfish and uninvested the whole time or they were never wired to know how to give enough to be in a successful relationship in the first place.

 

Keep scrolling below for the full story and the best reactions in the comments section. For more, check out this compilation of petty revenge stories.

‘I got rid of it’: Flight service manager removes passenger's suitcase from aircraft

There are plenty of pros and cons to being a flight attendant. Let's begin with the pros, shall we? No management on the job, routes are pretty chill, and you have the freedom to explore new places on someone else's dime. Your schedule is pretty flexible. The travel benefits are pretty great, plus you get to meet a lot of new people. Now for the cons… you also meet a lot of demanding travelers who think they deserve to be worshipped. You work with new people, often. Days are long, layovers are sometimes short. Pay isn't the best, and you're tired ALL of the time. Did I mention pay? Yes, but I'll mention it again because it sucks.

So, as previously stated, not all travelers are the kindest bunch. In this case, OP was working as a flight service manager, when he stumbled upon a male Karen if you will. Let's call this Karen, Ken. This particular Ken was well-dressed, but bad-mouthed. He was extremely rude to the flight attendants after an incident regarding the aircraft happened that was out of their control.

OP, as manager, saw fit to get back at this awful passenger, in whatever way he could, while still maintaining a semi-professional attitude. You can read exactly what this revenge entailed below. Next, the funniest and most ridiculous stories on Reddit by employees who were fired on the spot.

'Is there any way I can tell him no?': Micromanaging boss wants remote access to worker's personal computer

Your personal devices are exactly that: personal… and shouldn't be confused with tools that were provided to you by your workplace for—well, work... 
That's not to say you shouldn't ever use your personal devices for any work-related reason—but this should only be done on a case-by-case basis and shouldn't ever extend to allowing your boss remote control over your personal computer.

At any rate, you'd probably expect your management role that requires the use of a laptop and a cellphone would provide you with—well, a laptop and a cellphone… When you ask about these devices upon their mention during training and are met with a surprised laugh from your new manager, who then responds that you will be using your own phone (on your own plan) and your own laptop—that's a huge red flag that shouldn't be ignored. You should definitely not spend a further two years of your life working for that company and be repeatedly surprised and disappointed when they refuse to provide meaningful support and continually cut costs at your expense.

This worker was faced with a challenging situation when their boss requested the ability to remote access their laptop in order to go over the project they were working on. The manager was insistent on this method, refusing to access the project themselves through a shared drive. 

Reading through other contexts provided by the original poster in the comments leads us to an even more puzzling situation. As the original poster explains, they have been provided with a work laptop; however, it isn't up to the tasks required to complete their job. Unusually, a worker in this situation would just be stuck with a less productive machine until it died and needed to be begrudgingly replaced by IT, but this company instead allows workers to use their own personal machines. This would be an insane risk for some organizations to take, opening themselves up to security breaches through unsecured personal machines accessing the company's network.

So, the worker has elected to use a personal machine but has done so because an adequate one has not been provided, which leads us to a less cut-and-dry scenario when it comes to the boss's request for access. Although, I still feel that the worker should not have to provide remote access to their boss. 

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'I do all of their work': Boss takes credit for employee's work, CEO tells employee she is making no impact on the company

Imagine learning that your boss has been taking credit for all of your work and that the CEO of your company has absolutely no idea what you do on a day-to-day basis. We all know that when situations like these arise, the truth is often the exact opposite of what the CEO has seemingly gathered. The truth is probably that the employee's day-to-day is filled with fulfilling not only their personal job responsibilities but also with picking up the slack as a result of the subpar work of everyone else on the team, including their boss's work! The truth is that the employee is probably a team player and doesn't spend so much energy making sure everyone knows how good they are at their job; they just get the work done. The truth is that the employee's boss has been misrepresenting the employee's contributions in order to cover their own behind.

 

This Redditor experienced this phenomenon that, unfortunately, so many employees experience at work. Her CEO sat her down and told her bluntly that she does not feel that she has made any imprint on the organization as a whole. Ouch! We have a couple of suggestions for what the employee should do next. As some folks in the comments suggested, receipts speak louder than words. She should send the CEO proof of all the reports she made that her boss took credit for to set the record straight. Then, she should confront her boss about the fact that she wants to be CC'd whenever her work is being sent around to the CEO so that she can step in and make it clear that the work is hers and so that this never happens again.

 

Keep scrolling below for the full story from OP's perspective. We'll keep you posted if there's an update to share about what the employee did next. For more stories like this, check out this post about an employee who shut down a manager after they already quit.

'My vacation time for my sister's wedding was denied': Man questions whether or not he should quit over rejected PTO

Being in attendance at a family member's wedding is beyond important. Weddings are significant and should be treated as such. A Redditor named 
u/OfficerJayWalker shared a cringe-worthy story online about the way his job is handling his PTO request. He's the type of worker who goes above and beyond for his company. 

He's been loyal to his security job for seven years! As a single parent, he's always taken his work responsibilities seriously. He claims, "I show up on time, I wear my uniform, I do my job with professionalism, I do overtime when I can, and I am more knowledgeable about this place than a majority of our guards." 

Despite what a good worker he's consistently been, his PTO request to attend his sister's wedding was still denied. Now he's trying to figure out what his next move should be. Should he quit the job ahead of time because they're being unreasonable? Should he wait until the day of his sister's wedding to drop the bomb that he's done? He put in the request for time off two and a half weeks early, which should have been more than enough time for his management team to find coverage. Instead of working with him, he's now tempted to get out of there altogether.