Guy Sexually Harasses Female Coworker With Inappropriate Texts, She Responds Via Work Email With the Messages Attached

When a coworker targeted this woman with unsolicited texts and harassment, she devised a clever plan to bring him into the light. 

The thread was posted to the r/AmItheAsshole subreddit this week by the aptly named u/businessbittch with the title "AITA for replying to a coworker's inappropriate texts by work email, and attaching them?"

It's hard to imagine a situation where you could be "the asshole" for deftly handling a coworker's inappropriate behavior. Still, her posting of the topic was fortunate as she received some sound advice. 

Commenters were quick to offer their admiration for how she handled the situation. "May I say, you have brass ovaries, and I admire them," said Jetztinberlin

Others urged her to take the issue to the Human Resources department and "get ahead of" the problem. "Go to HR immediately. NTA." replied user MurielFinster. To which u/businessbittch responded, "I was thinking I'd wait to see if he would chill... But honestly, with him coming by to bother me in person, that's not a bad idea."

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Woman Brings Dishes From Home to Trick Others Into Washing Them at Work, Coworker Introduces Dishes to the Bin

Sometimes an inappropriate action deserves the appropriate response; it's the simple laws of cause and effect acting out their parts. This is how it was when u/elena247's coworker decided to execute the clever ploy of bringing their dirty dishes into work to have others wash them. When u/elena247 discovered what their coworker was up to, they decided the appropriate response was to introduce the dirty dishes to the trash can. Sounds like a reasonable plan to us.

This topic was posted to the r/pettyrevenge subreddit, where it got 7.8k upvotes. Commenters overwhelmingly supported u/elena247's actions who explained the situation a little more in the post. 

"I'm a server and we do have a dishwasher on certain days but oftentimes if it's slow the dishwasher won't come in and it's up to the servers to wash the dishes from service," u/elena247 explains. " As you can imagine, this can lead to us being torn from two places at once hence my repeated frustration at her bringing her dishes in the morning and dumping them for a server to do instead of her quickly putting them through the dishwasher herself."

The coworker sounds like a lazy good-for-nothing. Besides, as commenters have also addressed, wouldn't it take MORE effort to bring the dishes to work and back then to wash them yourself at home?

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Dealership Tells Guy He'll Have to Sue in Order to Resolve Issues With His Vehicle, He Does, Management Sees Writing on the Wall and Caves

When this customer bought a used 2014 Mazda 5 from a dealership, the last thing he was expecting was for the car to stop running less than a month later. The dealership refused to accept responsibility despite their mechanical guarantee when the vehicle refused to start on Christmas Day. The manager told the customer that he'd have to sue to get anything out of them, so he took their advice. 

Redditor u/functi0nalPsych0path posted this thread to the r/MaliciousCompliance subreddit, where it hit trending and garnered a whopping twenty-nine thousand upvotes.

When the poster began having troubles with his vehicle, he organized for the repair to be covered by the dealership, but he could not get a hold of anyone when the bill came through. 

After finally getting a hold of and explaining his frustration to the Supervisor of the dealership, the Supervisor interjected with some choice words. Words that he would live to regret. "He cuts me off and says, 'What, are you going to take us to court over $296.47? I don't think so, but go ahead and sue. We will win, and if that small amount is worth suing to you, you probably don't have the resources to actually sue.'"

 

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Twitter Thread: Kids Trying And Failing At Hard Names

It's not very intuitive for a 3-year-old to grasp that another kid's name can be England. He only knows like 30 words anyway. That's how you end up with a kid coming home and saying they just met a new friend named Eggplant. And since kids can be pretty confident about this sort of thing, they'll defend their decision with tooth and nail, insisting that it's completely reasonable that a parent would name their kid Eggplant.

The parents of Twitter shared their similar experiences when their own children insisted on meeting a peer with a name like "Dumpster" or "Harmonica." And honestly, with all the Kelvyns and MacKeighleighs running around, it's getting harder and harder to know if your kid is mistaken, or if some parent out there really did name their child "Chaos."

For another thrilling episode of millennial fandom baby names, here's the joker of a coworker who named their kid after their fandom and then criticized a woman for doing the same.

Viral 93-Year-Old Retired Farmer Gets Free Hats from Tractor Supply Co. and Has the Most Wholesome Reaction

Everyone who has ever had a papaw knows and loves the heartfelt "how 'bout that" reaction. 

Woman Ignites Voracious Online Debate By Claiming that Women Should Receive PTO For Menstruation

Another r/antiwork post has been rocking the foundations of the internet over the last 24 hours. This post titled "Women should be given PTO for heavy periods. Do you agree?"

The topic was posted to r/antiwork by u/CallMeWolfYouTuber, which sparked the online debate. At the time of this writing, the post has earned 23k upvotes.

In the post, u/CallMeWolfYouTuber explains her stance, "I feel like women people with a uterus should be given PTO for heavy and/or especially painful periods. It's so painful sometimes, and it feels like all of the energy has been sapped from your body."

The argument for menstrual leave has been hotly debated on the internet for several years with the topic being featured on Fortune and Time within the last few months. The support for the movement has been gaining momentum over the previous few years, which is enormous strides considering Maternal Leave was being contested in the United States less than 30 years ago.₁

But what defines a "heavy period"? Is that something that we want to leave a private company to decide? This is one of the things pointed out by commenters of the thread. 

"I think you want a generic PTO policy - last thing you need is some idiot in HR verifying your claim." replied user reddogrjw.

It stands to reason that a more comprehensive, overarching PTO policy regulation would be the right answer. Providing an employer with too much medical history can only be disadvantageous and explicit policies for specific conditions only erodes your right and ability to maintain Medical Privacy from your employer.

Workplace Fairness describes this right as follows. 

"As an employee, there are just some things that an employer does not need to know. For example, that one time you broke your arm bike riding in college, or that time you had your blood drawn to test for pregnancy. While this information may seem irrelevant and, at times, highly sensitive, your employer may have access to such information. Some employers can even require you to take medical tests or inquire about your medical history"

Other commenters seemed to be in the same frame of mind. "Everyone should have PTO for whatever personal reasons they want to use it." commented user leonardsansbees.

Less supportive commenters adopted a "suck it up" mentality. "This is the most stupidest shit I've read. Why should women get special privileges for being a woman lol. You should just get pto when needed." remarked PersimmonRecent4732.

"If women get time off for "heavy periods", men should get time off for dealing with those women, Awomen!" declared Then_Arachnid6445.

"I don't even give my woman a day off sex when she has heavy flow." commented another user, receiving a flood of downvotes on their comment. 

All in all, being r/antiwork, responses were largely supportive. What's your take on the issue?