Girl Breaks Babysitter's Glasses, Dad Won't Replace Them

Can we open this one up by all agreeing that we should take responsibility for our actions? By extension, we should also take responsibility for the actions of those we are guardians of. 

Suppose my kid keys your car because you reversed into mine. Well, maybe you should have taken responsibility for hitting my car when it was parked in front of my house. Perhaps I, too, should take responsibility for my kid's actions.

Accidents happen, but you're still accountable for an action you are at fault for. That's just how society works. 

With all of this in mind… It is plain as day that u/EricThrow3976 should be paying for replacing the babysitter's glasses. It doesn't matter whether or not it was an accident on the part of your daughter. One of your children broke them when she was working for you. You're responsible. If I'm the babysitter's parent, I'm coming over and getting that money from you, be it in cash in hand or small claims court.

After you're done passing judgment here… Check out this mother who allowed her boyfriend to punish her teenage son when he wanted to go to his job instead of babysitting the boyfriend's children. 

Awful Coworker Ruins Nurse's Prospects, She Returns the Favor

A petty nursing student did everything she could to force her colleague out of her position—using everything in her toolkit to make the colleague's life a living hell. 

What do you do when you are faced with such a situation? It is often best to take the high road, and that should always be the path you first tread. Sometimes that's not an option. You're forced into the thick of it and have to get down in the dirt along with them. Should you emerge from the fray, you'll do so in mud and welts. There's no victory here. It's a race to the bottom.

This is the path that u/stacer12, an aspiring nurse anesthetist, had to take when her adversary left her no other option. After being forced to move hospitals just to escape the onslaught of drama u/stacer12 utilized her knowledge of her adversary's less-than-honest educational practices to take her down.

For more, check out this guy who got revenge on his coworker for constantly calling out his mistakes to his boss. 

 

Karen Neighbor Reports Damaged Fence, Guy Removes Fence Entirely

When a windstorm damaged a fence between two neighbors, the insurance company was forestalling the repairs, preferring to wait until the spring to undertake them. That wasn't good enough for the Karen living on one side of the fence. She reported the damaged fence to the authorities to expedite the repair.

As is often the case, Karen had a hidden agenda. She thought that the only option would be to rush the repairs, but she didn't realize that there was a second option that would ensure that she was the one who ended up replacing the fence.

 This all happened to u/NotGayRyan's friend in what became a battle between the friend and their neighbor, Karen. Without even so much as a "Screw you." Karen went straight to the city to report the damaged fence in order to force its repair. Her personal, vested, interest was that she had a pool that was required to be fenced in. That set up the opportunity for this glorious malicious compliance.

For more tumultuous troubles with terrible neighbors… Check out this HOA Karen who towed a guy's car without grounds, opening her up for a massive lawsuit.

 

Things That Look Like Other Stuff

We should not get as excited as we do when we see an eggplant that looks like a dude's face. But we do. We do so hard.

Maybe it's because people really want to believe that the things around them have thoughts and feelings. Like the ability to talk to your eggplant and ask it how its doing is something we still pine for. But until the day that science invents an eggplant that doesn't feel excruciating pain when sliced into pieces, covered in parmesan and baked at 350 degrees, we'll have to settle on our eggplants being quizzically silent.

Or maybe the reason we see faces in things is because we're constantly looking for predators, and it's evolutionarily better for us to freak out when we see a bag that looks like a tiger, just to have our bases covered.

Whatever the reason, it's nice to imagine for a second that the inanimate objects we interact with on a daily basis have something nice to say. Or maybe they'd be mean. Only one way to find out, science.

Here are some moreinanimate objects with a whole lot of personality.

Infuriated Dock Karen Upset She Can't Rent Stranger's Boat, Gets Covered In Burrito

Now that's some deep, salty Karen behavior.

Here we have a traveler minding his own business when he stumbled upon a Karen in mid tirade. It started when Karen thought she could rent a random boat on the docks. She then got upset because, to her surprise, dudes who work on docks in Mexico aren't guaranteed to speak fluent English, nor are they required to cater to the desires of some random mad lady.

This fellow American came onto the scene, where he was then mistaken as some kind of authority by our wild Karen. Things spiraled out of control after that, but let's just say there's a reason the main character in this tale is a burrito. Maybe it's because of people like this that Americans aren't exactly seen as the best visitors. Well, at least Karen got some reckoning for her godawful behavior.

For some more obnoxious tales abroad, here's the guy who brought a little bell to a restaurant and said Americans do it all the time.

Worker Stuck Inside Gate Told By Management That They'll Be There Till Morning

If you were ever wondering how much your company and your bosses care about your personal safety and wellbeing when it comes in the way of expenses and company profit, this is a great test. 

When u/Zealousideal-Ebb-481 got locked behind a gate at a fast-food joint within a box store they quickly found themselves in a dire situation. We're not pointing fingers here but, supposedly, this is a chain that likes measuring their food in 12-inch increments. As the employees of the box store looked on in entirely unhelpful bewilderment u/Zealousideal-Ebb-481 started going through their options.

They first called their manager who informed them that they were going to be stuck there "At least all night long. If not longer if they can't get the door open in the morning." 

This tread popped up on a number of different sources. We have pulled some of the best comments from all of them. 

The thread was first posted to r/legaladvice u/Zealousideal-Ebb-481 in the midst of the unfolding drama. From there, it was posted to the workers advocacy groups r/antiwork and r/workreform.

People Share The Weirdest Job Interviews They Partook In

There are a lot of opportunities out there. Most of them are pretty bad. Some of them are strange. Some of them are a good reminder that there's no true standard to any kind of workplace decorum, and some bosses are straight up psychos. Luckily for us, getting that first interview can be a chance to look for those job interview red flags like "everyone is sad here" or "for some reason my hiring manager asked me for 50 bucks ad the contact info of 10 of my friends and family."

Here are some folks who got scared, skeeved or actively reminded that this wasn't a standard interview experience. Some actually ended well, but like everything else, life is a journey. That might be the kindest way of putting it.

Getting a new job can feel like a leap of faith, and it's important to look for signs that you're leaping onto a stable career path. Or at least a place where the boss won't yell at you for leaving at the end of your shift. For some of those jerks, here are satisfying times people quit unreasonable bosses.

14-Year-Old Demands to Be Treated Like an Adult, Mom Obliges

Way back in the early years of the 2000s, a great many of us were little terrors. We would eat, we would sleep, and we would consume copious amounts of mountain dew. That was it. That was being 13-14 years old. And oh man, was it good. 

Those nights where we would stay up until 5 am at a sleepover powered by the insane amounts of caffeine provided by the aforementioned beverage. 

Those early hours were filled with virtual bliss. Capture the flag on Blood Gulch and, a few years later, Slayer on Lockout and Zanzibar. 

The brilliantly brutal Search and Destroy filled many a night when Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare was released a few years after that. 

Those times might have been good but, as early teens, we were not nearly as well functioning as we liked to think we were. I should probably be ashamed to admit to the fact that I didn't really know how to cook or do laundry until I moved out of my parent's house at 18. 

Well, u/BuckTheF**kNaked's brother severely overestimated his abilities (as a lot of us would have) when he told his mother to "Stop treating me like a kid." He would soon live to regret those words but would walk away with a valuable lesson in life.

This one is a win for Mom.