'Lou was let go': Coworker gets fired, comes back to beg for free food and steal tips, gets banned

Going back to an old job is always awkward, especially when you were fired from that job… especially when you're coming back as a customer to beg for free things—and especially when you go back to beg for free things and steal from your ex-coworkers' tip jar. Like, this guy actually managed to get himself demoted from line cook to customer and then somehow managed to get himself demoted even further from the position of being a customer too.

In the end, it's incredibly fitting… since you can't spell "lousy coworker" without "Lou." So it really shouldn't be all that surprising to us that this guy was a proverbial, metaphorical, and literal waste of space.

Lou's former coworker shared an account of their infuriating and bewildering experience dealing with him on Reddit's fittingly named r/EntitledPeople, where members share their stories of the entitled people they encounter in their daily lives in order to vent, decompress, and share in amazement at people's sheer audacity. Read on for their account of events; when you're done here, check out this worker who refused to indulge their mooching coworker.

'Her hair breaks off in my hand': 15+ Stylists and customers whose haircuts went wrong

Everyone makes mistakes, barbers and hair stylists included. There are lots of jobs where mistakes are fine or even encouraged. Barbering is not one of those jobs. Hair stylists have the important role of helping you find the look that will suit you best and leave you happy and confident in your looks. 

It's easy to tell the difference when your hair has been butchered. People give you weird looks, compared to getting lots of compliments when you've had a good haircut. Sure, hair grows back if you aren't a fan of your new 'do, but it can take months or even years. 

Raise your hand if you've ever gone to get bangs and then immediately regretted it. My hand is raised. As a young adult, I remembered how cute I had looked with full bangs as a child, and thought, yeah that will probably still look good on me. Let me tell you, it did not. It was my fault, not the stylists. But I, just like many other clients, just didn't know what I was getting myself into. 

After that, check out this story of a wing shop worker whose coworkers can't believe how many orders he's messed up. 

'"Have fun!" I said, as I clocked out': Hotel housekeeper 'sorts' linens exactly how boss directs them to

Don't tell this housekeeper how to do their job. Their boss tried, and it didn't end well. 

When you do something for long enough, you start to develop shortcuts to make your life easier. Maybe you have a template you use to save time while writing emails if you're at an office job. Or for those in retail, maybe you're super fast at making drinks because you're used to measuring things by sight. You get into a rhythm and try to do your job as quickly and accurately as possible. 

Enter this employee, who is a housekeeper at a hotel. That's known for being a physically demanding job — how would you feel if you had to strip dozens of beds, vacuum, clean surfaces, remake the beds, change linens like towels and washcloths, and more tasks, all in a few minutes. And after all that, not every hotel room will even leave a tip for their housekeeping staff. 

This person is used to the daily grind of laundering linens, but their boss doesn't seem to have much faith in their sorting abilities. At least this housekeeper was able to maliciously comply. Their pettiness meant that their boss was stuck doing more sorting. 

Next up, this wing shop chef doesn't understand what he's doing wrong — all while breaking one health code after another. 

'It was a disaster': Retail workers quit and take down an entire store

It's often said that no one will appreciate the job you do until you're gone, and we've yet to see evidence otherwise. It's like being in the driver's seat of a race car; as long as you're driving that car, people will attribute the car's best performance to be owing to the car itself. It's not until you leave the team and another inferior driver takes your seat that people will realize how truly terrible the car is… and that your efforts were making the car appear better than it actually was. 

For those reading who aren't fans of motorsport, I'll summarize with this: Your workplace is like a big tank of water that's leaking water out of a massive hole, and you're like a big ol' piece of Flex Tape holding the whole dang place together.

Still, in any case, you'll be long gone before anyone is able to recognize the effect you had, just exactly what happened when these underappreciated retail workers made the decision to split. One of the workers shared their experience with Reddit's r/antiwork workplace discussion community, where community members share their thoughts, stories, and experiences with workplace issues and other employment concerns. In their recounting of events, they shared how their departure marked the end of the organized, well-oiled machine they had been operating and how the decline in the operations of their warehousing management marked the effective end of the store's thriving business.

See their original post and the reactions below. Next, see this worker who discovered the new hire was making more money than them and quit on the spot.