'You Should Be Banned; Unmatch Now': Top Dating App Flops This Week (May 30, 2023)

It is a common belief that the dating pool gets smaller as time goes on, but does it really? Yes, the older you get, the more married people you're gonna find on dating apps, but the unfortunate truth is most people break up, so it's not that there aren't enough people in the dating pool, it's just that they're all very emotionally… unaware. When you date over 30 you'll quickly realize that most of the people you meet are either emotionally unavailable because they are going through a breakup, or they were always emotionally unavailable and haven't been in a relationship since the age of 16. Furthermore, you're gonna find that the algorithms are designed to make you fail at this already tough game, so even if there are some eligible people you could seek out, they make it nearly impossible for you.

To make matters worse, your parents (or friends) are always on about, 'When will you bring someone for Christmas dinner?', or 'Who will be your plus one to my wedding?'. Being single is constantly thrown in your face, and you wish you could force everyone to use Tinder for at least one week so they'd know what you go through on a daily basis.

Below you'll find people who are in a similar predicament… people who are navigating these tough times with high-ish spirits. Today we bring you the best dating app flops of the week. For more, you can check out last week's collection here.

'It was a white lacy knee length dress': Internet backs bride for photoshopping white-dress-wearing niece in her wedding photos

This niece fell victim to one of the classic blunders… The most famous is: Never get involved in a land war in Asia. But only slightly less well-known is this: Never wear white to a wedding! (…or go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line.)

It's always surprising to see stories about people wearing white to a wedding; you would think that people would know (and obey) such a universal rule. Your job at a wedding is to blend into the crowd. There's nothing else that you need to do other than eat the food and drink the drinks that the bride and groom have paid for. At no point should you attempt to make yourself the center of attention; the day isn't about you—the one exception here is if you're the best man and giving an embarrassing speech.

Still, people continue to wear white to weddings, flagrantly wearing white and lacy dresses that could easily be mistaken for a wedding dress—or otherwise will keep the bride's dress from standing out in pictures.

This bride chose not to confront the issue on the day, instead ensuring her niece's "wedding" dress didn't stand out in photos by photoshopping her and earning her the rage of her sister-in-law, the niece's mother. She then turned to Reddit's r/AmItheA**hole community to see if she was in the wrong for doing so.

Read on for excerpts of the thread that the bride's post spawned. Next, check out this bride who demanded her sister remove the Disney memorabilia from the sister's own home for her wedding. 

'[She] showed me the texts': Dude gets petty revenge 5 years in the making on a fake friend

High school can be the best times of your life if you have the right friend group. But as we all know, teenagers can be fickle with their friendships. Sometimes a group of friends who have been close for years can all turn on one member of the group to kick them out, which is quite painful for the person stuck on the outside. 

However, this r/pettyrevenge poster is still stuck in his high school days, even five years later. He's thinking of their high school friend, who ended up having a lot of nasty things to say behind his back. The OP, u/rav_dog, shared the tale of his former best friend Gary turning on him after he left school for a while, then returned to find his friend group rejected him from their hangouts. OP believes that as the group's "ringleader," Gary was instructing the others to avoid him, and as the OP ended up seeing for himself, Gary even lied to avoid seeing him. 

Next up, check out these entitled people who think the whole world revolves around them. 

'It would be better for everyone if I quit': Boss threatens to fire employee all year, employee finally quits, boss tries to get him back

Every so often, we come across a satisfying story about a boss getting what he deserved! Sometimes, you have to be willing to walk away in order to truly make your point known. This thread was posted to Reddit's r/MaliciousCompliance subreddit by an employee who shared that after messing up over a year ago on the job, his boss was still threatening to fire him constantly. 

 

It got so bad that the Redditor went ahead and applied to a much better company. When he got the position, he first felt guilty about leaving during a busy time for the company (thanks for that feeling, capitalism!). However, those feelings went away when his boss decided to threaten him yet again. This was when the Redditor came clean about the new upcoming position and when his boss immediately tried to backpedal. Too late! You can only threaten your employee for so long before it comes back and bites you on the butt. Keep scrolling below for the full story!

 

For more work drama, check out this post about an employee who found a loophole in his company's sick day policy. 

'[He] created a mass corporate email with various screenshots': IT guy quits and schedules scathing tell-all email about his Karen boss

When someone has done you wrong, the best thing to do is to walk the other way with your head still held high… but it's certainly more satisfying to scorch the earth behind you as you go.

When faced with the bullying behavior of their Karen boss, this IT guy realized he had enough and quit, seeking greener pastures—but, he also decided to (metaphorically) set fire to the building on the way out the door, scheduling a mass company-wide email to be sent from his boss's email address that exposed her secrets. This email was scheduled to go out on Memorial Day, after his last day.

Read on for this post that was shared on Reddit's r/pettyrevenge subreddit and stay tuned because, hopefully, we'll have an update from the Original Poster on this one soon.

Next, check out this dude who automated his boss's job and boss's boss's job and got both of them fired. 

'Our cleaner quit': Boss tries to convince employees to assume cleaning lady's duties, frames it as an 'exciting opportunity'

This must be a particularly messy office. The fact that the cleaning lady didn't last more than three months says it all. This is likely a disgusting group of individuals who refuse to clean up after themselves and who make a mess everywhere they go. So you can imagine how people responded when their toxic boss tried to convince his employees to take on their former cleaning lady's duties in the workplace while framing it as an "exciting opportunity."

 

The short answer is they did not respond well to this so-called proposal. As one person in the comments suggested, one has to wonder what they did to this poor woman to make her leave. Furthermore, the offered "bonus" for taking on these extra responsibilities sounded absolutely insulting. Clearly, this is a poorly run office that doesn't even deserve a site manager at this point.

 

For more stories like this, check out this post about a manager reaching their breaking point at work.