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?

Read on for the full story below. 

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?

 

Business Owner Refuses to Remove Guy's Phone Number From Receipts, Guy Pretends to Be Business Owner

When a lazy and cheap business owner got rid of their old number it was reassigned to this guy's private residence. The phone calls began pouring in from confused customers.

This delicious story of revenge was posted to r/IDontWorkHereLady by u/Billiam201. 

u/Billiam201explains that he tried to contact the business and resolve the issue but was met with a rude reaction from the person who turned out to be the business's owner, "Fred". After some conversations with the business's staff about how cheap the owner was, he realized he was dealing with an extremely unreasonable individual who was not going to do the right thing. So this guy was all like, "Look at me, I am the Captain Business Owner now."

Taking matters into his own hands would prove to be an effective strategy and, after several nuclear reactions from deceived customers who thought their orders were being handled by the fake "Fred", he got his wish.

Dejected Son Destroys Cheating Father's Life, Takes Everything In All-Out Family Warfare, Leaves Him With Nothing

This son had a tempestuous relationship with his old man. The two briefly reconciled when his dad got cancer, only for his dad's adultery to be revealed. He supported his mother through separation from his father, which put him squarely in the crosshairs of his dad's "traditional" family. After an encounter with the family, a plot began to take shape.

This story was posted to Reddit's r/prorevenge subreddit but strayed well into "Nuclear Revenge" territory. In this story, u/thunderkerg tells how he took down his terrible father. It's worth noting that this story takes place in a country outside of the US, so different laws and cultural norms apply. 

Buckle in because this story is one of the longest we have seen this year, but it is well and truly worth reading. Make yourself a nice hot cup of coffee and settle in.

Stupid Design Fails That Made Things More Complicated Than They Needed To Be

How hard is it to build a stadium that doesn't have a section of seats facing a 20 foot high brick wall? Apparently it's excruciatingly difficult. 

How tough is it to make a bike lane that doesn't run straight into oncoming traffic? For some reason it's like rocket science.

The world is full of poorly designed things. Maybe the designers themselves ran out of time or materials? Maybe they just didn't care? Maybe they got halfway done, noticed a small snag with their plan and said "yeah that's not my job."

We can only be so lucky that people make these kinds of stupid mistakes, or else the world would be boring, perfectly functioning place full of informative signs. And that sounds terrible. What we need is more logos that are supposed to look like a chef cooking a burger but end up looking like someone sniffing a butt. God bless poor design skills.

Tumblr Thread: Lord of the Flies Isn't An Accurate Reflection Of All Humanity

Most of us read Lord of the Flies at some point in high school. Or at least we pretended to. It was often presented as a sort of dive into the worst parts of human nature, showing what would happen in a world of children in a tribal setting and no authorities. But as it turns out, the circumstances of the writing of the book are more complicated than that. Add to the fact a real world example of kids becoming stranded on a desert island who didn't go to war with each other, and you've got some claims that go against the outline presented by the admittedly fictional story that is Lord of the Flies.

Sometimes teachers want to prove a point about the inherent decay of law and order when kids are left to their own devices, and time and time again things don't actually go as they'd planned. For instance, there's this tumblr thread about a teacher who underestimated her students in a social experiment in class. This is the type of circumstance that leads directly into this informative Tumblr Thread.

Management Won't Pay 10 bucks For Ground Crew, Loses Airline Thousands

A real jerk of a boss will use your very human sense of responsibility to try and force you into undervaluing yourself. At times it seems ridiculous. But once you "take one for the team" and give your employer something for free, all they learn from that is that they can remain understaffed and now take advantage of you in perpetuity. If you ever find yourself doing your boss's job, remind yourself that it's not a favor. It's you covering up for their sheer incompetence. In the eyes of a giant faceless company, your graciousness, loyalty and skill will only ever be seen as a new free resource to be exploited.

With that in mind, here's an employee whose boss thought they could get away with not paying their employee the commensurate amount to act as a lead. The employee, seeing that this isn't the proper way to go about things, requested that a "qualified individual" complete the task, and things stalled. Sounds like the airline should have kept enough staff around to actually run their company.

Terrifically Stupid Things People Have Heard Someone Say

It's often misleading, the fact that we all exist in the same physical reality. It's easy to forget that not everyone is aware of the same rules and features of the shared plane of existence we find ourselves in. And it doesn't even have to do with any particular creed or set of beliefs. There are people out there who simply weren't paying attention at school the day we all learned that air exists. It's fundamental misgivings like this that hide in people's brains for years, only to present itself later, like syphilis, during an argument or even just a friendly discussion.

"Why is it that when I stop breathing, my brain stops feeling good?" your friend, a seemingly functioning adult, asks you.

"Because your brain needs oxygen" you say, a little taken aback.

"Oxy clean?" he responds. And it dawns on you that you need to start a lot further back than you originally thought.

For some more people who need to go back to the 4th grade, here are some of the dumbest things people heard out of another person's mouth.

Rude Store Clerk Mansplains Knife Pricing to Woman, She Gives Up, Gets a Steal of a Deal

A hasty and rude retail worker quickly corrected this woman when she pointed out a pricing error on a chef's knife she was interested in. She relented in revealing the mistake to the worker and ended up with a deal on a great knife.

This story was shared to the r/MaliciousCompliance subreddit by u/TIL_eulenspiegel, the woman in the story, where it earned 19k upvotes as of the writing of this post.

The u/TIL_eulenspiegel, the Original Poster of the topic (referred to as the "OP" in Reddit's culture), opened with some context to the situation that occurred. 

"My most-frequently-used knife was an 8-inch chef's knife, but the one I had was of such crappy quality that I dreamed of the day when I would have enough money to buy myself a Real Knife." the OP explains, "So when I eventually got my first professional job, I got my finances all straightened out and decided that it was time to make my big knife purchase."

When she went to the department store she was greeted by an "older man" who was extremely helpful. But by the time she had made her selection he had gone on break and been replaced by a "young rover from another department."

When she approached the counter with her selection the knife rang up as $40, which she was certain was incorrect. When she attempted to correct the error the youngster interrupted her. Upon inspection of the label, it was clear to the OP that the knife had been labeled incorrectly. The label described a six-inch sandwich knife when it was clearly an eight-inch chef's knife.

This marginalization is something that is extremely frustrating to experience. It often occurs when someone makes the assumption that you won't know much about a topic because of certain attributes. Usually, they are overtly patronizing or condescending. The reality in these situations is that you're more experienced in the topic than they are but they oftentimes won't pause for long enough to realize this. 

Sometimes it's an honest mistake, you launch into an explanation about something because it's a special interest of yours. Maybe you're a retail worker or it's otherwise your job to explain something to people and just default into your spiel before fully analyzing the situation and who you're talking to. 

There are various reasons why you could accidentally do this to someone with reasonable explanations. But, unfortunately, the trend is also very commonly targeted towards women with undertones of bigotry and misogyny. We refer to this as 'mansplaining'. The term is misused now and broadly misattributed but it has important lessons to teach us.

In this case, that marginalization worked in u/TIL_eulenspiegel's favor. She gave up on correcting the young man and ended up with a hell of a deal on a knife. Sounds like a win to us.

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Raging Karen Demands Service From Burned Down Restaurant

When the local drive-thru restaurant burned down, this Karen was uncertain how she would get her daily fix. Set and rigid in her Karen ways, she decided to give it a crack and force the firefighters and investigators to serve her. After all, she always gets whatever she wants.

This exciting thread was posted this week to the r/DontWorkHereLady subreddit by user u/alannahmyles. A subreddit where people post stories where they, or others, are mistaken for a store's workers. The stories usually feature some insane individual (usually a Karen) who refuses to accept that the storyteller is not an employee.

We've seen some pretty bizarre situations in this subreddit where people have demanded service from random strangers. You can see how some of these mistakes might be made when people are wearing similar colored clothing to the workers of the store, but demanding service from a freshly burned-out building is downright insane. 

Hope she likes her fries extra crispy.

School Locker Thief Gets the Book Thrown at Him in Savage Revenge Story

This trending Reddit post details a story of brutal revenge on a high school locker thief in the early 2000s. It has sparked discussions surrounding locker theft, and commenters have shared their own various stories. 

Reddit user u/Dunnachius shared this story to the r/ProRevenge subreddit. A place where users go to share stories, such as this one, where someone got even in a big way. Tales from the subreddit are easily identified by the purple 'smiling face with horns' emoji that the sub uses as its icon.

u/Dunnachius describes the situation as it occurred at the time. When they became the target of a recurring locker thief during a crimewave at the school, their uncle Buddy, who was a detective, stepped in to get to the bottom of the case.

As a personal anecdote… In high school, I had my Nintendo DS stolen out of my PE locker by someone who I considered to be a friend. He was into drugs or something and was desperate for some cash. The weird thing was that he was from an extremely wealthy family and had no business stealing. I caught him red-handed when I responded to a suspicious Craigslist, and he responded with his email address. Dad took me over to his house and showed his father the emails, and the DS was promptly returned. I often wonder who else he was stealing from and know that we probably should have reported the incident to the school or police. But he was someone I had considered a friend, and, despite his actions, that seemed like an extreme measure. 

 

Plant Mom's Sister-In-Law and Niece Say They'll Watch Plants, Cut Up And Sell The Pieces

It's the worst nightmare of any plant person. Seemingly trusted individuals weedled their way into the house under the auspices of taking care of plants, just to turn the place into a one stop crop chop shop. 

Not only can plants be extremely expensive, they also take a lot of time and effort to propagate. It's one thing to just steal someone's stuff, but to destroy their hard work while simultaneously stealing from them is some serious assery.

And since plants are plants, it's pretty difficult to communicate that frustration to anyone else, to the point that you seem insane. Since most people are under the impression that plants "will just grow back," being furious about this makes you seem like the crazy one. When you really think about it, a stunt like this is more akin to someone saying they're going to housesit for you, but coming home to find out they've spent the whole week selling your furniture.

Here are some more absurdly rude houseguests who made themselves far too comfortable.

Dudes Share Unspoken Universal Rules Of Mandom

There are certain things that every guy notices about being a dude. Activities and practices that we are inextricably pulled toward. Maybe it was once taught to us by a father, brother or uncle. Maybe we saw it in a movie and it just made sense. Or maybe it's just stuff we started doing on our own because it felt nice. Some are arbitrary. Some are absolutely necessary. Some are a little in between. But they are still things we are compelled to do. For example, observing the sacredness of the buffer urinal and the essential "test-clicking" of barbeque tongs. These are activities that simply must be done.

But also, don't get too serious about it. Don't go around just doing what other people tell you to do just cause. When random guys start making up stupid rules about what is and isn't manly, things can tip into the ridiculous. That's how you end up with absurd reasons men had their masculinity questioned.

Restaurant Executive Plots to Pay Workers Less By Exploiting the Rising Price of Gas in This Leaked Viral Email

A leaked email has shocked the internet today after going viral. It was posted to the Reddit r/antiwork subreddit earlier this morning, where it has earned 68k upvotes in 12 hours. An absolutely insane number of votes even for the standards of more popular subreddits. 

Guy Who Was Fired Reports Company For Breaches, Company Shook in this Viral Thread

This unappreciated worker was managing the company's entire marketing and graphic design department on their own without a hint of guidance. Despite that, they were let go in favor of a foreign marketing agency. 

This thread went viral today when posted to Reddit's r/antiwork subreddit. The poster, u/TheNBAonTNT, describes the situation as it unfolded.

I had been handling the marketing and graphic design at a company for over a year with basically no budget, no help, and no structure." Reported u/TheNBAonTNT, "Even through all that I stayed; I got results, I maintained said results, I gave them everything."

After their termination, they decided that their best approach was to file grievances for the employer's breaches of employment rights. "I'm now taking them to court in my country's labor board/court," said u/TheNBAonTNT. "I'm not negotiating; I'll make damn sure that the court knows how it is that they avoid taxes by not covering the employee's lawful benefits and how they run the day-by-day operations."

If you insist on being a terrible employer, it's probably wisest not to do this to your employees, who are most likely to be privy to your illegal activities. It's that adage about not breaking two laws simultaneously because you exponentially increase your chance of getting caught. Fortunately, criminals and terrible employers alike are usually too stupid to rationalize this. 

u/TheNBAonTNT has promised to post updates as the story unfolds, and we will endeavor to keep this post updated. 

 

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Spelling Failures That Shouldn't Even Have Been Written Down

Spelling is hard, and it takes years to learn how to do. When you consider the phrase "spelling at a 5th grade level" you're still talking about a level of skill that requires literal years of experience reading and writing. Keep in mind, it's still not good to be an adult who reads at a 5th grade level, but it's just something to think about. Maybe at like a 10th grade level.

The other issue we run into is that most of our correspondences in life are spoken, not written. So we find ourselves captured by these strange pitfalls of what certain words and phrases "sound like" rather than what they are. And that's how you find yourself reading a sign that says "sorry for the incontinence." It's unlikely that the elevator isn't working because someone can't stop pooping, but we don't exactly want to risk it by checking.

Here are some spelling fails that beat the meaning out of words.

Cheating Ex-Husband Tries To Get Out Of Child Support, Suggests Ex-Wife Get A Lawyer, She Does

A willingness and ability to stick to agreements is probably the most telling thing about one's character. Being able to say you're going to do something and then following through with it is what a functional society is built on. And when people break those agreements, they may find themselves in the brutal world of the court system inhabited by money-hungry lawyers chomping at the bit to make you honor those agreements, no matter what.

Even morals aside, it's not a good idea to ignore a court mandated payment. In this case, this dude's flip flopping and heel-ish turn made it all too easy for him to be forced to pay what he agreed to pay. It's looking like this ex-husband tried to pull the long con and not pay for mounting child support, going so far as to tell his ex-wife to lawyer up. This is not a smart thing to do when you actually potentially have a lot to lose in court. This ex-wife wisely took this "advice" and the rest followed.

For another intriguing one, here's the cheating ex husband who ghosted and got found when he racked up a bill in his ex wife's name.

Busted Signs That Gave Themselves Hilarious New Meaning

Sure, it's great when signs are intentionally funny, but when you experience the confluence of a broken sign that has evolved into something funny? That's what makes life worth living. 

If only more places let their neon signs strategically break, we could be living in a veritable wonderland of Ass Pro Shops and Pubic Houses. We could just walk down the street looking at foot tall, glowing swears and the world would only be better for it.

But alas, businesses aren't super keen on offering 1 hr P o os so for the most art we have to live in a dull world of non-filth. It's a serious bummer that this doesn't happen everywhere all the time, so we need to learn to treasure the moments when they arrive.

But for more signs, here are somefunny pizza place signs, and for what that pizza inevitably becomes, some wonderful musings of sewer tank trucks.

Worker Gets Aggressive Call From Employer Asking to Verify Emergency Callout Contact Details, Hasn't Worked There For 8 Years

There's nothing better than receiving an unwarranted phone call from an employer, better still when you haven't worked for that employer for eight years. 

Redditor u/AcrolloPeed had this exact experience and shared the story this week to Reddit's r/IDontWorkHereLady subreddit. Perhaps this one is a little less obvious than subreddit names usually are but, essentially, the premise of the subreddit is that people post stories about cases of mistaken identity when people think that someone works somewhere when they don't. 

It's still pretty easy to decipher when comparing to something like r/worldpolitics. I'll give you a guess; what do you think you'd find in that subreddit if you typed it into Reddit? Don't actually do this because it's incredibly NSFW. For in r/worldpolitics, you can find a little bit of everything except the subject matter of World Politics. When you click through to the subreddit, you're immediately greeted with a large set of anime assets in the subreddit's banner, complete with the "Os" in World and Politics being replaced with a suiting piece of those assets' anatomy. There's a complex history behind this bizarre subreddit; maybe we'll cover that in a later article. 

Digressing back to the point, this sub's name is a little less obvious than the ones we usually cover but still more apparent than some.

u/AcrolloPeed handled this situation with ease and grace, tactfully deflecting the caller's inquiry for their information. Commenters were quick to support how they reacted.
 

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People Who Later Ran Into The Person Who Rejected Them

It's generally accepted that when someone rejects you, cruelly or not, that the best thing to do is forget about them. Build your own life and live it honey, you don't need to brood over lost love and unreciprocated feelings. Your reality doesn't need to focus on the person who didn't want you in their life in the first place.

That said, the problem with physical reality is that the people who rejected you still exist, and they're out there. So it's not impossible to tell someone you like them, get told you look like a sock puppet but with less attractive eyes, and then run into them a year later when you're both at the store buying egg nog and jumper cables.

And what happens after that is really up to you and them. Will you try to avoid eye contact and pretend that they don't exist? Will you "accidentally" drop your wallet and reveal your pilot's license? Those options are available. Life is long and weird.

Here are some weird things people did on dates.

Daughter Stands Up to Neighborhood Karen Who Left a Dead Rat and Rude Note on Her Mom's Doorstep

"How would you feel if someone purposely went out of their way to pick up a dead animal and left it on your doorstep?"

Retail Worker "Runs Away" From Job, Never Goes Back, People Share Their Similar Stories

If you've ever worked retail, I'm willing to wager a good chunk of change that you have considered doing this very thing at least once or twice. There are those moments where the daily tasks are so repetitive and mundane. After all, one can only merchandize and review lines of stock variation so many times before they pray for the sweet release of death. 

Many moments of this monotony tick by before the tides turn and the rush comes. One moment you're folding a shirt for the 10,000th time. The next, you're wiping flecks of spit off your face as they fly from the furious mouth of a deranged customer. Screaming, eyes bulging, that vein in their neck pulsating. One too many things might have gone wrong in their personal life this week, but you, the lowly retail worker, had the audacity not to meet their inane, impossible demand. They're an animal, caged in their miserable existence, but they're taking their wild fury out on you.

Redditor u/komputerrkrewwz claims to have lived this dream of fleeing from retail hell and has posted this topic to the r/antiwork subreddit titled "Just Ran Away from Work." They clarified in the comment section that they work retail and have a "boomer" boss who they can't stand. 

In the initial posting, 'komputerkrewwz' clarifies that "I told my boss I'm going for lunch, but I'm not coming back." suggesting that they would leave their manager eternally wondering what the heck happened to them. 

Commenters resoundingly applauded the poster's actions. This is r/antiwork, after all. Commenters suggested various plots to elaborate the ruse further. These included fake kidnappings and telling the boss that they had "Just gone to lunch."

"This is the part where you hire two actors from Craigslist or somewhere to dress up like scary g men and show up at your old workplace asking for you. Make that boss question what happened to their dying day," suggested GabrielofNottingham.

A surprisingly high number of responses shared stories of workers doing similar things when they couldn't handle the bullshit anymore. 

"I once quit my job at McDonald's by jumping out the drive-through window. True story." fallingfrog commented. 

"Before I got hired in at my current job, one of the guys also left for lunch and never came back. The guys who were there when it happened still sometimes joke that "He's still on lunch." shared ReaGeous.

There were other genius responses, and these are included, along with the full story, below. 

 

 

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Childish Brother-In-Law Demands To Be Treated Like Lord, Gets Dinner On Toy Dishes

In today's day and age, when relationships are seen more as being cooperative partnerships rather than an employer/employee dynamic, there are fewer and fewer times when it seems reasonable for one person to do absolutely everything for someone else. This guy didn't seem to get that his inability to do anything around the house was burning out his wife. When a new guest in the form of OP arrived to see this dynamic in action, he took it upon himself to communicate that to his brother-in-law. It's not like this guy even had to cook his own dinner. He decided to throw a tantrum over not having it brought to him. What's this guy's deal? Maybe it'd be reasonable if he was exhausted from working 16 hour days in a steel mill, but that's pretty unlikely.

The internet weighed in on the stunt, and had some mixed opinions. Some felt that it's a pretty risky thing to do when you're staying at the dude's house, but most agreed that the act was warranted. Given the support of the sister, at least the gesture was appreciated.

For some more wild in-law behavior, here's the mother-in-law who installed cameras in a woman's house.

Tumblr Thread Explains Why Measuring In Feet Can Actually Make Sense

With the exception of the US, Liberia, and Myanmar, pretty much everyone uses the metric system. It's a pretty constant sticking point, and a really convenient way to call Americans lazy and stupid, as if the world needed any more examples. But while we're grasping at straws for reasons to keep using cups and feet other than "cause it feels nice," this Tumblr user provided an alright reason for why the Imperial system/customary system made sense at all in the first place. The thinking here is that counting things in 12 is more highly divisible than 10, and if you're an illiterate medieval peasant who needs to do quick mental math, measuring things with a system that makes fractions easy is a better tool than a more precise, but also more rigid system like metric.

Maybe that's precisely why it's so difficult for us to get away from customary units? We just keep wanting to divide things into thirds and it freaks us out. This still doesn't cover the fact that none of us are medieval peasants trying to do masonry or bake pies in a world without widely available and precise scales. But it's at least a perspective that customary units may have at one point made some sense.

Dumb, Absurd and Just Wild Reasons People Got Fired From Their Job

There are a great many reasons one might find themselves no longer working for a particular organization. Some of those reasons, like threatening a customer, making a pass at the boss's wife, or simply not doing your job are pretty inarguable grounds for termination. It's important to understand when you might share some of the responsibility for your own misfortune, and acknowledging that "yeah, maybe taking my daily nap on my desk wasn't exactly terrific for optics" is part of healthy personal growth.

But people also get fired for terrifically stupid reasons, like when an incompetent manager is just trying to scare everyone else, or if the company is just trying to save money by liquidating their most trusted, committed and productive employees. So in a world where people can be fired for incompetence that is not their own, it gives employment as a whole a terrific level of uncertainty that can make you want to shake your head and go get another cup of coffee.

On the other end of the spectrum, here are some satisfying times people quit an unreasonable boss.

Husband's Sister and Niece Evicted After They Hide Cancer Patient Wife's Wig in Cruel "Prank"

A humiliated wife locked herself crying in the bathroom following a cruel "prank" that was played on her by her niece and sister-in-law. When her husband arrived home, he was swift in his retribution and sent his sister and her daughter packing.

This story was posted to Reddit's r/AmItheAsshole subreddit by the husband, Redditor, u/throwaway350965, after reacting to his sister's actions; seeking the opinions of the subreddit's readers to determine if he was in the wrong for his actions.

An account name such as this is an indicator of a "Throwaway" account, which will sometimes be less obvious and use a string of numbers or words. In each case, a 'Throwaway" is a, usually brand new, account used to make or interact with a particular topic. The idea is to preserve the anonymity of your "Main Account" and keep people who were privy to the event in real life from recognizing the event and linking your identity to your main account. After all, sometimes, your online identity can compromise your day job. Specific stories about people being compromised and connected to their "Solitary Enthusiast" accounts come to mind.  

It's hard to fault the husband's actions here. His sister's "prank" crossed too many lines to count. She violated her brother and his wife's trust and made a mockery of their hospitality. She showed her true nature with these actions and the couple will be better off without her, and anyone who enables her, in their lives.

Safety Failures That Are Big Oopsies Waiting To Happen

Every once in a while, we have a close call. Maybe you're using a reciprocating saw without eye protection. The tip hits a nail and breaks off, flying into a tree about a foot from your head. This is what's called "a growth opportunity." It makes you realize, if you're not dumb, that putting yourself in harm's way for no other reason than convenience isn't exactly a good idea. And then you remember that your safety goggles are in a box underneath a bunch of boxes of tools and crap, so maybe this time you'll let things slide, but definitely next time you'll remember to wear those glasses before using power tools. It's a thought.

Here are some times people tempted fate through ill-advised and unsafe maneuvers. On one hand it's impressive to see how many ladders people are willing to lash together to get to the top of a steeple. On the other hand, we'd all rather just see it and not do it ourselves. Good luck to these cowboys of gravity and tempters of fate.

Here are some more misguided safety failures that OSHA would disapprove of.