Taco Bell Employee Exposes Insane Stories from Working at the Fast Food Restaurant on TikTok

Anything can happen in a Taco Bell. 

People Share Their Weirdest Yet Strangely Effective Advice

If there's one thing that helps us get through life, it's each other. That is, when we're not actively hindering each other's progress. But still, learning from other people's mistakes is a terrific way to bypass making a lot of your own mistakes, because honestly, who has the time to make every single mistake for yourself when you could literally just ask someone.

Maybe the issue with advice is that we always feel like it has to "sound like advice." And that's a disservice to advice. A lot of terrific advice sounds over simplistic, stupid and weird.

Good advice doesn't necessarily have to sound profound. The mark of good advice isn't its profundity, but simply it's rate of success. And if telling yourself "no one cares about me it all" is what gets you to work every morning, that is some inarguably good advice. 

But for some inarguably bad advice, here is some of the worst advice people have ever received.

Online Debate Erupts Over Absurd Package Delivery Failure

Internet users are seeking to answer the question as to whether or not this delivery is an attempted delivery or a completed delivery. Did the delivery driver successfully deliver this package? Or is this attempt a miserable failure? 

There seems to be a solid divide in perspectives here. Some argue that the delivery person did their job to perfection, while others have made quips about how poor a job the deliverer has done; others still bridge the gap with comments like "Task failed successfully."

The thread was posted to r/therewasanattempt as clearly there was an attempt made here. Usually, the subreddit is used to post gifs, videos, and images of attempts at things that didn't quite go the way they were intended. Part of the argument would decide whether or not this image should have even been posted there in the first place.

What's your take? Failed attempt or genius solution?

 

Terrifically Trashtacular Moments That Escaped From The Dump

A great many things can drive people to become their trashiest selves. Sometimes it's a moment of weakness. Perhaps a combination of inebriation and a flash of unbridled selfishness. At times, neglect. And at other times, necessity. How else are you going to acquire your neighbor's doormat? It's just sitting outside their house and it's not like it's nailed down. And the result is some wild trashiness that's impossible to not look at. It's almost beautiful. Almost.

We try to live our lives ignoring or out-witting our most basic instincts. But sometimes they're simply unavoidable. Sometimes you take a big long look at your 1993 Toyota Tercel and you think "man, what this baby really needs is a wrap of slobbering, cross-eyed anime girls" and it's just impossible to resist.

Here are some entitled people who made everyone's day worse, as well as some of the most terrifically trashy weddings people have been to.

Karen Boss Insists Nanny Is Selfish For Taking Time Off To Attend Sister's Wedding

It's always interesting to learn how your employer values your time. All of a sudden they need you, and they go on a spiel about how you're a bad person for taking time off to do something that they knew about months ago. They'll try to make it your fault that they didn't prepare for your extremely planned absence. In this case, the boss lady went as far as to say this nanny would be "abandoning her children" if she took time off to go to her own sister's wedding.

But honestly, these just sound like the mad ravings of a person who is clawing for any shred of "not-my-fault" after completely failing to plan accordingly. They're Karen's kids. If she doesn't want to watch them on a given weekend, then she is the one abandoning them. And trying to put that evil on the person who just watches her kids for money is not only wrong and mean, it's also just stupid.

For another fun one, here's the power-tripping boss who reminded an employee that she could quit at any time, so she did.

Bad Grandma Banned For Weight-Shaming Ten-Year-Old

This Grandmother was banned from seeing her grandkids after the child's father discovered she had been shaming their ten-year-old about her weight.

The thread was posted to Reddit's r/AITA (Am I the A-Hole) subreddit by the father, u/Superduppppy.

We were recently discussing the "benevolent grandparent" and how it's easy, for those who were fortunate to have them, to assume that that's just how all grandparents are. It's always saddening to see stories such as this, where a grandchild is being traumatized by their grandparent, who is not acting at all like a benevolent figure. 

My American grandparents were the quintessential American grandparents. It was almost like they had been dropped out of an 80s kid's film. Summers at the lake, fireworks on the 4th, Grandpa dressing up as (a very authentic) Santa Claus for Christmas. All memories that I get to carry with me for the rest of my life. I am fortunate that I have such memories and didn't experience anything like this story from any of my grandparents. 

 

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Husband Cries When Wife Plans Pregnancy Surprise

When this wife discovered she was pregnant, she devised a plot to surprise her husband (who was yet unaware) with the news. Little did she know… Her husband had discovered the hidden pregnancy test by accident and assumed the worst, aided by some deep-seated trauma.

It takes a lot to bring a man to tears in a public restroom… It's something we tend to try to avoid, so hats off to this wife for achieving something quite extraordinary anyways.

It seems that, more often than not, these types of surprises always go awry… If stories on the internet are anything to go off, that is. It's incredibly likely that there is a significant selection bias happening here as we're seldom going to see stories of something doing well trend online. We enjoy feeding off of the mundane suffering of others far too much to watch them succeed. 

 

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Utility Company Takes on Wrong Avocado Farmer After Causing Fire, Loses Out Big

An avocado farmer scored big time when a utility company's downed line set fire to his crop. He was completely fine with moving on with the matter and contacted the company to see if they could help replace the fence that was destroyed… to the tune of $10K. They denied all responsibility for the issue and told him to sue. So sue he did. If only they had just paid what he was initially asking, these idiots would have saved themselves a lot of grief… and a lot of coin too. 

This thread was posted Reddit's r/MaliciousCompliance subreddit by a family member of the farmer, Redditor u/SomeoneYouDontKnow70. In this thread, they recount the tale of their brother-in-law's experience growing avocados in California. They report that, while they don't know exactly how much their brother-in-law made out with, it was well worth his sister and brother-in-law's time.

When will these big corporations learn to own up for their mistakes? It would only save them money in the long run.

 

 

Uncomfortable, Weird And Dumb Moments Of DIY Construction

Building a house seems simple until you realize how easy it is for something to go wrong. "It's just four walls, a few pipes and a couple toilets, how hard can it be" is the first step to living in a death trap of your own making. The corners people are willing to cut can result in some extremely unaesthetic living conditions. For example, why do people invariably decide that the best place for an electrical outlet should be in a bathtub?

For every right way to do things, there are at least a hundred ways to do it wrong. And as much as we'd like to try sitting on a toilet that's conveniently raised six feet in the air, it's probably sort of uncomfortable. Though it likely does make one feel like a lord to be able to survey their land while dropping a grumpy.

Here are some perilously uncomfortable rooms with all bad vibes.

Service Industry Memes To Get The Most Out Of Working For Ungrateful People

Customers are an interesting breed. They seem to simultaneously not know what they want and have almost no means of asking for it, but at the same time, are willing to get abusive when they are given exactly what they asked for. A lot of the time, people like this just need an outlet to blame for their own miserable lives, but most of us would have at least a double shot of regret having just screamed at a barista for getting our order right.

 But lo and behold, if you're wearing a monochrome shirt with a logo on it, you have officially been designated a non-person in the eyes of the customer, and not only are you deserving of abuse, but you somehow crave it. They think being screamed at is the only way you'll ever learn that a latte is just what they personally like to call a macchiato, so when they order a latte, that's what they mean. You idiot.

Here are some more retail memes.

Manager Told to Cut Hours to Impossible Amount, "Cuts" Their Own Hours When They Walk Out

This manager found their workload increased dramatically when their co-manager was fired for a ridiculous reason. They then found themselves having to operate the entire store, which was rife with unique issues. The boss continued to be pettier and pettier. When they finally hired a replacement co-manager they expected the manager to "cut their hours" immediately. Which led to the titular confrontation.

This thread was posted to r/MaliciousCompliance by the manager in the story, Redditor u/A-Stackhouse. When they found themselves in this tricky situation they knew exactly what they had to do… Comply maliciously. 

Nobody likes a boss who justifies their own position by finding needlessly petty things to harass you about. Often they are doing so because they are being harassed by their superior as well and the only solution they can find is to pass the buck down the line. After all, as the old saying goes, sh*t flows downhill…

Guy Hooks Up With Dead Brother's Fiancée, Family Loses It, He Demands Apology

This is one of those rare moments that I can't entirely agree with the hive mind of Reddit. 

Reddit seems to predominately think that the OP's relationship with his dead brother's fiancée is all sunshine and rainbows… But I can see where the family would find the entire situation to be deeply problematic and I can, thus, see where the family is coming from. Have they reacted to the situation maturely and reasonably? Absolutely not. 

So, while there's a reasonable foundation for them taking issue… there's no excusing their behavior either. I can't help with agree with the minority of Redditors that "Everyone Sucks Here" ESH. 

I've learned one thing from this post, and that's just how real of a thing "Trauma Bonding" is. I had just assumed that it was something that was used for soapy romance plots but I suppose cliches are cliches for a reason. 

What's your take on this complicated issue?

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Top Tinder Moments of the Week (April 26 2022)

Welcome to online dating! It's a wild world where you can say and do as you please, and not a lot of it means (or leads to) much of anything. This facade is just an elaborate, membrane-thin distraction from just how vulnerable and alone the delicate dance of courtship makes us feel. While the establishment of the internet may have opened the doors to an entire ocean of fish… You're still just a drop in the bucket and that's a daunting realization. Three photos and a witty tagline will determine whether or not the spouse (or hookup?) of your dreams lets you into their dm's or swipes you left into oblivion.   

This week's contestants include a range of angry individuals who are incredibly particular about the way that they are greeted. We've also got the Special Forces deployed and they're running operations to vet "worthy" individuals for their friend (That's a bold move.). You've got the usual jokers, hecklers, thrill-seekers, and those men and women that are maybe just a little too thirsty to be trusted. 

Desperation, I suppose, can be a sizeable fan for the flames of love. 

Blue Collar Workers are Sharing Hilarious and Accurate POV's on TikTok

It's hard work, but you gotta be able to laugh at it sometimes, just to stay sane. 

People Share Times They Attended A Ruined Wedding

Everyone has their own definition of a "ruined wedding" but it generally falls into two camps. The first being "not perfect." Like maybe the DJ was five minutes late or the chairs were sort of uncomfortable. But then there's another kind, which should probably be referred to as "actually ruined." That's when an aunt falls through the floor trying to do the chicken dance, the bride gets showered in sewage, and the groom runs off because he's wanted for bank robbery.

With any luck, we can only hope to attend mostly "not perfect" weddings in our lives, because the alternative is something that you never forget. And not in like a cool fun way. No one wants to go through the arduous mental challenge of figuring out how to politely word "can I get my gift back? It seems like they don't need an instant pot anymore."

For more wedding stories, here are the most terrifically trashy weddings people have attended.

Irate Mother Stands Up For Daughter When Teacher Turns Her Harrassment Into "Lesson"

I'm willing to believe that this teacher didn't understand the full context of the situation. When you're constantly handling and overseeing the disagreements of 30+ students it's easy for the antagonists and antagonized to all blur together into a milkshake of "He said, She said" statements. With that context and understanding in mind, it becomes fitting to apply the generalized "lessons" to the entire involved group. From the teacher's perspective, how do you even know that one particular student is telling the truth? How does this mother know that her daughter hasn't stretched the truth? Besides, even if you are aware that there is a behavioral issue… in most schools, you aren't allowed to do anything about it anyways. Schools in many western countries have done away with any and every sort of punishment entirely (including detention) so all that's left is generalized lessons.

Despite strong stances on bullying, these toothless approaches don't do much to protect students who actually find themselves receiving unwanted attention. So, if this daughter is telling the truth then the mother is totally right for taking action… If not… She comes across as a bit of an a-hole towards the teacher here.

Food Service Worker Fired For Refusing to Come in to Work While Sick, Had Doctor's Note

This fast-food worker sent their sick note to their boss to let them know that they would not be at work that day. To their surprise their boss texted them back, telling them that they needed to find someone to cover their shift or still work it themselves. 

The text exchange was posted to Reddit by the employee, Redditor u/spr_t, to the r/antiwork and r/OSHA subreddits, which both handle topics where workers are having issues with their employers. The employee posted the topic with the title, "I lost my job of 3 years because of this."

They gave some context and updates in the various comment sections. They explain that they worked for a franchise owner of a restaurant located in Texas where they had worked for three years. After this text exchange, they were fired and the employer said that they were "Counting it as quitting since [they] didn't show up." Commenters responded to these statements that, since they are located in Texas, their rights and avenues for restitution are extremely limited. 

Commenters, of course, have condemned the deplorable actions of the employer. Especially when you work in food service and are handling other people's food… The last thing you should be doing is coming to work sick and spreading it to others. Haven't the last two years taught us anything?
 

History And Mythology Memes That Still Aren't A Great Substitute For Reading

In order to know what's going on, it's important to have a greater contextual understanding of the world before we were living in it. Every social precedent we set for ourselves is built on something that came before, and learning about history can broaden your horizons and set you on a more complete path to self-actualization. But that's if you really sit down and read about history. What this is is a whole lot of references to Henry VIII, the weirdness of the Romans, and a whole ton of junk pertaining to Greek mythology to boot.

So if you weren't paying attention in 7th grade history, you might be at a loss here. And if you love history and read it all the time, you're probably going to "well actually" yourself into a hole. But for most of us who can read but don't like to, these kinds of history memes for the ages are a nice mix of stupid junk, and references that make us feel smart to get.

History, it's a good time.

New Principal Tells Teacher To Quit Second Job, Quits Teaching Job

We've all had moments where we've been told some version of "why aren't you my first priority" by people who don't think the same of us in the first place. It's not like continuing to stick your neck out for someone who wants to take advantage of you scores you any morality points anyway. So the right thing to do is often to kindly tell them to go drop a bag of bowling balls on their mom.

Logic would dictate that if you're not getting paid enough at your main job, and your new boss tells you that you need to quit your second job, it might behoove you to just look for a new main job entirely. This algebra teacher did the math and figured it would be a better idea to just look for a new one entirely

For another tale of school justice, here's a targeted teacher who got their manipulative principal fired.

Not My Job Moments Of Unprofessional Absurdity

We are creatures of great focus. Meaning, we can only be asked to do one thing at a time. If they say "paint lines on the road" by god we'll paint those lines. But nobody said anything about painting those lines well. Or straight. But at the end of the day, you can bet your bottom dollar that those lines will be painted. They might look like varicose veins, and it's quite possible that they'll even be running over some roadkill, but the lines will be there. Anything else is presumably someone else's job.

So partake with us in this journey to do the bare minimum. Just enough to keep yourself employed, but not enough to be considered respectable or even really all that competent. Life is about balance. The balance between "total garbage" and "barely acceptable."

It's a race to the bottom, and that's the only thing we've ever excelled at.

Incompetent Boss Reprimands Top Employee For Working Too Hard, Employee Quits, Boss Doesn't Know What to Do

Imagine having such a delicate ego that you need to exercise your power needlessly over your subordinates in order to maintain some semblance of authority. If you have that picture in your head then you know exactly what this employee was dealing with when they were reprimanded by their boss for working too hard and told to take "time management classes."

This thread was posted to r/MaliciousCompliance by the employee, Redditor u/asianclooney. They posted their story to the popular subreddit because the story concludes with their "malicious compliance" of "thinking about it" and deciding to quit on the spot. Maybe not the greatest example of malicious compliance but the story itself was solid so we felt it worth sharing.

Sometimes, someone just has it out for you for some reason… and there isn't much you can do about it. Realizing that not everyone you meet is going to like you is a tough but important pill to swallow. The sooner you learn to accept that the less energy, stress, and time you'll spend trying to win that person over and you will be able to move on with your life. It's a little harder to do this when that person is your boss… But the same principle applies, pack up, find a new job, and make your life easier for yourself. Exactly as this employee has done. 

Read on for the full story below.

Survival Myths That Could Be More Deadly To Follow Than Not

After a few decades of just packing our noggins with reality TV and hearsay, it's easy to find ourselves subscribing to nature survival myths that simply aren't true, and could get us killed. Watching Bear Grylls squeeze elephant dung into his mouth for water probably did a lot more harm than good for our collective understanding of survival situations, but hey, at least we got to watch a millionaire drink freshly squeezed poop juice.

And it's a little bit our own fault for believing the wrong stuff. We probably hold on to unconfirmed survival facts for too long. It's extremely possible that you believe something because your friend's older brother told some total BS in 3rd grade and you just internalized it without googling it. So every once in a while it's good to do a bit of an audit and see how much you don't know about basic survival.

But honestly, if it wasn't obvious before; don't drink the dung.

Parents Disown Child, Contact Now-Adult Child Years Later Asking For Money

This daughter was disowned by her parents when she was in her late teens for choosing to attend a non-religious university, then subsequently taking up a job as a stripper to support herself when her parents initially withdrew financial support. Now, years later, she is a fully functional and self-sufficient adult and her aging parents have come to her with their health and financial issues asking her for her support. What do you do in a situation like this? What is the best thing and what is the right thing to do?

This thread was posted by the daughter to Reddit's AITA subreddit (Am I the A--Hole) with the title "AITA for refusing to help my parents even if they end up homeless with serious medical conditions?" She posted the topic after initially rebuffing her parent's requests for support and is eager to see whether or not her decision was the right and ethical one. 

Commenters have supported her decision, pointing out that she was not the one who chose to abruptly end the relationship in the first place. At least one commenter has quoted the biblical lesson of "You reap what you sow." in response to her parents now having to deal with the consequences of their actions. 

Should she choose to support her parents she should do so with caution and would be offering them far more than they ever deserved. 

 

Company Asks Employee For Help a Month After Laying Them Off

This situation plays out exactly like having your partner break up with you and then hit you up for a booty call a few weeks later. The emotions involved are incredibly similar. There's that same sense of drifting hopelessness that comes after being broken up, which then collides with the emotionally befuddling rage and turmoil of being asked to come back and provide an essential… service. True, one is arguably more enjoyable than the other in more than one way… but both still end in disappointment. 

The best thing to do with an ex, both lover and employer, is to cut off all contact and move on with your life, giving them not an inch more.

That's exactly what this employee, Redditor u/thefarmerdan decided to do when they were contacted by their ex-employer's HR department a month after being laid off. They were initially enraged at being contacted and let it ruin their day before becoming resolved to block the number that had reached out to them.

They posted this topic to Reddit's r/antiwork subreddit after receiving contact from their ex-employer. Commenters were quick to condemn the employer for their actions. 

Entitled People Who Made Everyone's Day Worse

We all know someone like this. A coworker, a neighbor, a family member. Someone who will text you in the middle of the night demanding that they be taken to the airport. A person who will steal fries off of your plate and then get angry at you for not having ordered enough fries. Someone who will arrive at a crafts store 10 minutes after closing time and bang on the windows to be let in. And then when they are invariably left outside, they'll write a strongly worded yelp review full of lies about how they were treated like dirt by the store.

There's not much we can do when we encounter people like this. It seems like the best option is just to let them yell and scream and run around in circles. At least it's sort of fun to watch.

Here are some more entitled people and their fantastically bold moves.

Parenting Tweets For The Ones Out There Doing Their Best

The wild thing about parenting is that they just give you a baby to take home and you have to wing it from there. Every first attempt at parenting is still happening to a real live human being. A human being that you have to mold from the depths of being worse than an animal all the way up to becoming an upstanding and decent person. And it's a long road. Kids are pretty stupid, but they also have an incredible skill for learning your worst habits. So be prepared to have a mirror pushed up to your face as you inadvertently teach your kids everything you got wrong about life.

Every day as a parent could be the day that you create a serial killer or politician. The stakes are pretty high. And remember, if you parent wrong enough, your kid could end up working in internet culture media. So make sure they're good at math or something.

For some more funny tweets about parenting, here are some parenting memes for those whose lives are over.

Terrible Maid of Honor Drops Out of Friend's Wedding When Brother Reveals His Secret Love

This Maid of Honor decided to drop out of her best friend's wedding at the last minute after the Maid of Honor's brother revealed that he had been secretly in love with her friend for years. Her friend and her brother had had a fling six years prior, just before her friend had met her now-fiancé. The brother never got over being dumped by the friend and his revelation has caused his sister to betray her friend of twelve years.

This thread was posted to r/AITA (Am I the A--Hole) by the Maid of Honor who has dropped out of the wedding. She has posted the thread to gauge from readers whether or not she was in the wrong for dropping out of her friend's wedding on her brother's wishes. 

Commenters have overwhelmingly voiced their distaste for her actions, calling her out for betraying her friend after allowing herself to be manipulated by her jealous brother.

Art History Memes To Pontificate Upon And Guffaw At Heartily

If there's one thing we know about art, it's that it took like, a thousand years for artists to figure out how to draw horses properly. Seriously, check out the crap medieval artists were throwing together. They look like they were drawn by dysentery-ridden, near-sighted mooks. And they probably were, but that's no excuse to draw horses that look like busses covered in legs.

Anyway, one of the fun things about classical art is that it did a pretty good job of conveying people's emotions at pivotal moments, and it just so happens that that kind of affectation makes pretty excellent memes. Throw in a few kronen-burg-esque depictions of hell, some extremely stupid haircuts that we're certain couldn't have been popular at the time, and you've got yourself a recipe for some extremely accurate, if also terrifically weird memes.

For more of it, here are art history memes for the highly cultured among us.

Graphic Designer Receives Scathing Email From Ex-Boss When She Quits on First Day After Being Told to Steal Art

Sometimes you miss glaringly obvious red flags during the interview process. Sometimes the interviewer is entirely dishonest about what you can expect to find in your new role. Then, once you start working, you are suddenly faced with the horrifying reality of what you just signed on for. The best thing to do at this point is to walk away and not fall into the losing game that is the "sunk cost fallacy." If you're getting that feeling in your stomach that early on then you will be doing everyone a favor by deciding to do so.

That's exactly what the graphic designer decided to do when she was lied to during the interview process. When she arrived on her first day she realized that the company actually had none of the high-profile clients they had bragged about and was informed that she would also be working for the business owner's "side-hustle" stealing small artist's work to place on t-shirts. 

That's when the graphic artist, Redditor u/OminousAvocado, realized that she needed to walk away. Despite being lied to, she sent a very respectful email to her new boss telling him that she was resigning and his response "reaffirmed" all of her doubts and her decision to leave. 

The internet has been overwhelmingly on her side and panning the boss for his unprofessional response. 

u/OminousAvocado gave further clarification to the situation in a comment which we have included in item #2 the responses to that comments are items #3 and #4 and then the emails and the rest of the comments follow. 

 

 

Woman Goes Viral for Her Hilarious Revenge Messing with a Scammer Through Text Messages

She even tells him she stole him the most perfect t-shirt that says he loves "fisting."