20 Small animals (and their owners) who had a bad day

Being a small animal isn't all fresh kibble and naps in the sunlight — sometimes owners will interfere with their own dastardly plans. Some animals definitely have a sixth sense. The day you want to bathe the dog or take the cat to the vet, they'll suddenly know to disappear to the back of a closet, making you search for them for hours. However, none of these critters below have any advanced sixth sense. These annoyed animals just couldn't avoid their fates!

Up next, these people shared the things that were better before they became popularized… like living in a van, vlogging, or Airbnb.

'Why women have babies with men like you is beyond me': Dude wants to use paternity leave to take a vacation away from his wife and kid

Does this guy even hear himself? As one person in the comments section mentioned, the bar of fatherhood is already quite low. The concept of using two weeks of your paternity leave to abandon your newborn in order to take a vacation and visit other family is just about as selfish as it gets. And all just so you don't have to use vacation days for your vacation? This guy might as well get the words "absent father" tattooed on his forehead now.

 

He shared his own side of the story via this thread on Reddit's r/AmITheA**hole subreddit, which is even more baffling because you know he's probably trying to portray himself in a good light. What he's actually done is probably ten times worse than how he explained it. It seems like his poor wife might be better off being a single mother than having to deal with his immature outlook. Keep scrolling below to watch this guy get torn apart in the comments section. When you're done, take a look at these dad jokes.

'My son is clearly resenting us': Parents give one child $4k for Christmas and give the other $800, wonder if they're wrong

The sibling relationship may be one of the most complex: two individuals who have interacted and competed throughout the entire duration of their challenging developmental years. These years of ever-shifting emotional conflict can foster incredibly strong, near-unbreakable bonds; or can form two individuals who can't stand to be in the same room as one another. 

Jealousy is one of the main contributors to the latter result; oftentimes, one sibling may begin to feel resentment toward their family due to what they perceive to be unfair or unequal treatment and opportunity. The thing is, everyone is different, so it can be challenging for a parent to parent to these differences while still treating their children overall equally. 

The sheer fact that your children will be different ages and hit different milestones in different years can be a huge challenge. What is a parent to do when their 16-year-old daughter Becky gets a cellphone, and their 14-year-old son Arnold starts demanding one too? Is it unfair to Becky to give Arnold a phone two years younger? Or is it unfair to Arnold that he doesn't have a cell phone, and Becky does? Due to challenges such as this, and despite parents' best efforts, one sibling might let feelings of resentment and envy creep in. 

That's essentially what came to pass during this family's Christmas. The parents gifted their daughter $4k to help with the purchasing of her new home, while her brother was left with $800 worth of gifts. 

Redditors ultimately voted that the parents were in the wrong, although the result was hotly discussed and contested. The leading consensus seems to be that the parents should not have made this "gift" part of a Christmas present and should have given it to her as a separate arrangement.

Keep reading to see the screenshots of this thread; for more, check out this unhinged dad who refused to let his adult son leave the house. 

'We're all a family here': 25+ People share the most toxic red flags they've experienced at job interviews

Job interviews share more in common with a scene from Shakespeare's Macbeth than they do with a legitimate means of vetting a candidate for employment. Two players put on a performance for each other: one playing the part of an employable person and the other of an employer that a candidate would want to work for. Sure, there might be no regicide or kinslaying in a job interview — but the process can be just as ruthless.

On top of the complexity of the social performance of the interview, there's a lot that can go wrong with a job interview right from the get-go. Timeliness is of huge importance; if either of the parties is late to the interview, that can be a huge red flag as to the respective party's reliability. During the interview, an employee might be so nervous that they find themselves incapable of portraying an accurate portrait of their skills and experience. Despite being a better fit for the role, they may find themselves losing out to a more confident but less-qualified candidate. 

Despite an interviewer's best efforts to conceal the flaws of their management team or organization, there are cracks that can appear in the armor that can give insight into how things really operate. These 25+ people gathered on a popular r/askreddit thread to share their experiences and advice.

Keep reading to view the reader's answers. For more, check out this job seeker who sent a scathing email to a recruiter who was late for their interview.

Have you ever experienced any of these red flags? Maybe you have some of your own? Let us know!

'It's not a doctor's note, it's a Mommy note. Everyone in the office just stares at it': Manager shares story of an uppity employee and his over-involved Mommy

One grocery store manager had an exasperating experience with "Ray," a young employee with a lot of entitlement at his very first job. The original OP (OOP) shared a series of cringey encounters that took place at her job, chronicled from over a decade ago. As a supervisor of a grocery store, she had to deal with a variety of personalities, and a lot of young people, since in her town, this place functioned as a lot of teenager's very first job. Enter "Ray," a new cashier who suddenly had many complaints about his new workspace. 

This manager shared the events as they happened from October to November, including an escalation with one of Ray's craziest family members. The post was even deemed a rare case of ESH, or "everyone sucks here," meaning everyone in the situation shared some blame for what went down. 

After you find out what's up with Mama's boy Ray, add your own opinion to the internet's collective Anti Bucket List of things we're never, ever, ever doing.

‘What Are You, a Snowflake?’ : 20 Blunt Signs That Don’t Beat Around the Bush

Whoever created these signs get an A+ for creativity. Some of them are dumb, some of them are clever, and some are plain offensive. Still, they leave little to the imagination. I wonder whose job it is to double-check these things or come up with the mottos. Who approved these for the masses? Maybe the job is so boring that it leaves no choice to the employee but to make their own life more interesting.

 

A couple of these signs are oddly specific as if there is a very peculiar backstory… makes me wonder. If your boss doesn't have a sense of humor, you might not still have a job. Either way, feel free to scroll down and judge for yourself. From advertising jobs for losers to selling merchandise that promises to make your partner 'less ugly', there's something here for everyone. If you're in the mood for some memes that'll help you procrastinate more at work, click here.

'We have made a change to PTO': Horrendous HR tries to get workers to use their PTO if they need to work from home

Since when were PTO and WFH the same thing? Apparently, at this company, these completely separate concepts have been conflated as a means to manipulate employees. That's what this Redditor shared via this thread on Reddit's r/antiwork subreddit, and let's just say that people in the comments section were quick to call out this ridiculous toxicity. 

 

Time off is time off, not time out of the office. We should culturally be used to the concept of remote work for long enough now to know that it's still very much work. We suspect that this policy would be rescinded immediately with the quick and brief involvement of the Labor Board because the concept behind this fakery is clearly illegal. This isn't anyone's agenda to work less but rather to make appropriate use of the time off that employees signed up for when taking on the job. Keep scrolling below to see the email from HR for yourselves! When you're done, here's your 2023 guide to 'quiet quitting.'