Landlord Sends Over the Most Red Flag Renters Lease Ever, TikToker Calls Them Out

Always read the fine print… Seriously. 

People Share The Most Unprofessional Thing A Doctor Has Told Them

It's cool to have a funny mechanic. Like, who cares if someone says your tires are smoother than peanut butter. That's totally fine and expected. But having a doctor try to get a laugh while looking at your junk doesn't exactly inspire any confidence in their ability to practice medicine.

And even worse than the ones who are try out their new hour while your pants are down are the ones who literally don't know what they're talking about. Having a doctor tell you that your very real pain is "just in your head" or that the first line of treatment for a blood clot should be prayer is just a goddamn horror show.

Most of us have the benefit of seeing professional doctors, but every so often you get one who just doesn't seem to really understand that as a medical professional, they're supposed to be, you know, medically professional.

Supermarket Karen Assaults Kid Helping Their Disabled Parent, Arrested, Cries in Court

This bewildering "Supermarket Karen" decided that she needed help from one of the store's personal shoppers. Except the store didn't have personal shoppers because that hasn't been a thing in grocery stores since like 1930 or something. She approached the "personal shopper" who was helping a woman seated in a wheelchair and began waving her list in their face and demanding her own service. To her abject horror, the personal shopper refused to divert her attention away from the other customer and continued helping them first. To make matters worse, the insolent employee began spouting something about helping her mother and not working there at all! Karen decided that this would not stand and moved to physically seize the "employee." This would lead to her downfall and to her bringing out the only trick she had left up her sleeve… The "victim" card. This poor defenseless Karen didn't mean to; it was just a misunderstanding.

Good one, Karen; You totally fooled them all. 

Scroll on for the whole story and reactions below. 

 

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Teaching Memes That Are At Least Better Than Homework

It's always weird, the moment you get old enough and realize that the teacher is just another person. And then you get a little older than that and realize that the teacher is a person who's at work, and like all jobs, it can suck. It doesn't make us reflect on our academic careers more fondly, but it does put things in a different perspective. Most notably, a perspective that makes it a little more obvious why you always watched a movie on the days after major drinking holidays.

Being a teacher is a rough gig. If you do your job terribly, you could be creating a future criminal. And if you do your job terrifically, you could still be creating a future criminal. Life just kind of works out that way. Anyway, here are teacher memes, which have the same hopeless vibe as work memes. It's as enlightening as it is understandable and disappointing.

Boss Badmouths Receptionist, Eats Her Words When She Gets Abuser Arrested

Being someone's boss might give you more clout at a company, but it doesn't make you more of a person than them. In every industry, people seem to have a really hard time understanding that concept.

This tale is another one of those times that someone with bigger shoes thinks that the can be an ass to someone lower in the work hierarchy. Except instead of the higher-up getting fired or inconvenienced, some actual good came of it. If not for this receptionist's quick thinking, this whole story could have played out a lot differently. Maybe this is a reminder that the point of having a workplace is so that everyone should work as a team to help each other do a better job. Maybe.

Work should be a place where people do their jobs, not where your boss gets to shit-talk you so they can feel powerful. Here's the time a power-tripping boss who reminded an employee she could quit, so she did.

Wholesome Memes and Moments to Lighten the Load

For every one of us, life is a series of ups and downs. And honestly, we have very few complaints about the ups. The ups are on the whole, pretty fantastic. Ten out of ten score for life's ups. 

But in the down parts, it's really easy to completely forget about the ups. People are very skilled at tricking themselves into thinking that everyone is in it for themselves and true compassion is a myth. But the reality is that almost everyone is trying to do their best at any given time, and we just need a reminder that this whole life thing is a pretty good deal.

It's probably healthy to take a moment and force yourself to accept that people are decent, especially when it doesn't feel that way. And even if you're totally unconvinced that people are generally alright, at least there's dogs. Dogs don't mess around, man. Those things freakin' love you.

Company Refuses to Give Employee New Contract, So They Abide the Terms of Their Old One

This retail worker was finally promoted to a management position after jumping through "1000 hoops" to get there. When they were finally promoted, they were given their raise but were not given a new contract, despite repeatedly asking. When they got an offer from another company offering a serious pay bump, they realized that since they were still on their old contract… They were still on their old notice period.

This story was posted to Reddit's r/MaliciousCompliance subreddit by the employee, Redditor u/Garfish-woosh, who shared the story of their compliance with the terms of their old contract. 

Commenters applauded the poster's actions and noted that the employer had reaped what they had sowed by refusing to give them a new contract.

Others shared their own stories and similar experiences.

"Haha, my brother did this exact thing." commented Hattix, "They trained him up, gave him the extra £, but never re-did his contract, so he never got the other benefits (mostly mileage and medical). His notice period didn't change from 2 weeks to 8 weeks."

"So when he handed in his notice a year and half later (unrelated reasons), they said it was 8 weeks. He asked them to show him that in his contract, and they went all quiet."

Country Folk are Showing Off Their Small Town General Stores to the City Slickers on TikTok

Some of these stores are 100+ years old and walking in them is like going back in time. 

TikTokers are Sharing the Most Unprofessional Thing a Doctor has Ever Said to Them

One doctor told a young overweight child with a sprained ankle to hop out of the hospital because he needed the exercise… 

Spoiled Daughter Wants $30k Europe Trip as Reward, Dad Wants His Partner to Pay

This dad is determined to give his darling princess a thirty thousand dollar Europe trip as a reward for getting into college. I don't know about you… But if a $30k Europe trip is a suitable reward just for getting into college then these people are living in a completely different world than the rest of us. 

Not only is the premise of the trip itself absolutely insane, but the Dad also wants his partner to front the change. This is completely against the precedent that has been set in their relationship where they don't share finances. They're both well enough off that they have never needed to. Except, now this spoiled princess has broken her Daddy's bank and he's looking for alternative ways to meet her increasing demands. 

This thread was posted to r/antiwork by the Dad's partner who has posted the topic to see whether or not she was in the wrong for rejecting her partner's proposal for the loan. 

Commenters have overwhelmingly been supportive of her but have not hesitated to pass comments on how insane the entire premise of the trip is. 

Girl Sees Her Stolen Bike for Sale Online, Devises a Plan to Steal It Back, Shares TikTok of the Epic Heist

It worked and she road off into the wind with her bike as the theft just stood there looking confused. 

The Biggest Scams We All Keep Falling For

They say the greatest deception the devil achieved was convincing the world that he did not exist. In a similar vein, the worst scams are the ones that we've been manipulating into believing aren't scams in the first place. Take the wedding industry, for example. A bag of white plastic forks is only gonna run you a couple bucks. But slap "wedding forks" on that bad boy and all of a sudden they're multiple times the price. But you say you'd rather get the regular plastic forks? How dare you make a mockery of this special day by not spending the money to do the right thing? Oh, you're saying they're going to end up in a garbage bin so what's the difference? Well may we interest you in this special garbage wedding bin. No, it's not any different than a regular garbage bin. But it is for wedding forks, and this is a wedding, your special day, so it has to match.

For some more explicitly scammy scammers, here are incompetent scammers who were their own worst enemies.

Manager Doesn't Schedule in New Hire's Promised Vacation, Wonders if They're Wrong

This new hire quit their job when their manager did not uphold a promise to let them take leave they had discussed during the hiring process. The manager then took to the internet to see whether or not they were in the wrong because they couldn't fathom that they possibly could be. The internet endorsed the employee's actions and condemned the manager who posted the topic. The thread was then screen-shotted and shared on other subreddits, where it went viral.

The thread was originally posted to Reddit's r/AITA (Am I the A-hole) subreddit before being cross-posted to r/antiwork. 

Commenters on the original thread were quick to tell the manager, who posted the topic, that they were undoubtedly the "A-Hole" and were entirely in the wrong in a "Damn near-unanimous" vote. Commenters on r/antiwork were harsher still, and their tirade against the manager resulted in both threads being locked.

Read on for the original post and comments below.

 

Insane Job Ad Promises Modern 'Mad Men' Workplace, Requires Woman Who Wants to Be Harassed

This job advertisement went viral after screenshots of the ad were posted online. The ad describes a vacant position with some unusual requirements for applicants. The situation necessitates an applicant who "have watched the TV show madmen and think the way the women are treated in the office is perfect (sic) acceptable." and mentions that the owner can be "erratic and contradictory."

The screenshots were posted to Reddit's r/antiwork subreddit, a community where Redditors gather to share stories and experiences of mistreatment in the workplace. Threads like this are pretty at home on the subreddit and are often transferred to increase visibility and spark discussion surrounding poor or disadvantageous working conditions.

Commenters have been overwhelmingly appalled at the advertisement, and the reactions caused the company that posted it to withdraw the listing. Some commenters remarked that this posting reads like an act of revenge done by an assistant who has grown tired of this owner's behavior. 

"If it's real, it was made by the last assistant on her way out," remarked LazyZealot9428. "Do you like being harassed? Would you do it for $20/hour? Then this job is for you!" commented another user. 

Read on for the full posting and reactions below. 

 

Manager Demands Employee Turn Phone Off, Shocked When They Can't Call to Notify of Catastrophic Failure

This place of work had a strict "no mobile phones" policy that demanded that phones were turned off during work hours, "no ifs or buts." But the rule, in all of its absoluteness, had no consideration for what should happen in the case of an emergency. In fact, it was pretty clear that "no phones, well, it meant no phones.

This story was posted to Reddit's r/MaliciousCompliance subreddit by u/Super-Monkfish, who shared a tried and true workplace "malicious compliance" tale of overcommitting to a rule.

When an emergency did occur at u/Super-Monkfish's place of work they were quick to listen to their boss's commands and sat and made sure that they kept their phone off and did not use it. Predictably, that meant that the problem was not resolved because no one was made aware of it and the result was a large cost to business for the day of trading. 

TikToker Goes Viral for Sharing His Day-to-Day Life Running a Motel in NJ & Creating a "Free Room" Program

Motels might look like scary places in the movies, but this TikToker is showing you IRL it can be a welcoming place.

Misguided Tech Bro Tells Coworker She's Too "Attractive" and "Exotic," Surprised She's Upset

This misguided tech bro attempted to lend a helping hand to a junior female developer and tried to educate her on the reasons why her coworkers were having issues engaging with her. However, he failed to help when his contribution mostly entailed pointing out how "attractive" and "exotic" she was.

He then took to the internet, posting on Reddit's r/AITA (Am I the A**hole) subreddit to see whether or not he had been in the wrong for his comments. The internet was squarely against him and went as far as to say that he had "fetishized her." They tore him a new one to the point that he felt it necessary to delete his original post to bury the evidence.

One thing is for sure… If you're going to go out of your way to pointedly comment on a female junior's attractiveness and make casually racist comments about her ethnicity then HR is not going to be your biggest fan… 

What's your take? Is this guy as big of a tool cabinet as Reddit thinks he is?

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"You Had One Job" Moments of Occupational Nincompoopery

Work is a thankless task. Unless you count a steady paycheck as thanks. In that sense, getting to sleep in a home and buy things is pretty cool. But other than that, totally thankless. And when your job lacks just the right amount of oversight, it's pretty easy to make mistakes. Even if it's literally your one job to dot the "i"s and cross the "t"s, you're bound to confuse them every once in a while, and no one wants to look at great big bouncing itiites. Don't even ask what happened to the guy who minded the "p"s and "q"s. 

So let's take an opportunity to celebrate the ones who totally screwed up. They deserve their thanks at least for making the world a more interesting, if also slightly more incomprehensible place.

People screw up on the job a lot. Here are some "not my job" moments of unprofessional absurdity.

Dude Wants Partner To Foot The $30K Bill For His Spoiled Daughter's Trip, Gets Denied

Entitled rich people's kids are cancer. Or they're at least as expensive.

Anyway, this woman decided to send her own son on a vacation, and her boyfriend's daughter decided that that wasn't fair, so she demanded an even more expensive one. Her enabling dad, who is apparently afraid of upsetting the siphon he raised, is asking his long term partner to help him scrape together enough cash to send her on this expedition, which ironically costs about as much as a Ford Expedition.

What resulted was a conversation about who owes what to whom in a blended family. The thing is, it's not like she needs emergency medical treatment, needs money for school, or is starting a business or whatever. She just wants to go to Europe "to make things fair" on an amount of money that would make most people literally poop their pants, buy new pants, then poop them again.

What a world. Here are some more wild cases of wealthy people being out of touch.

Employee Gets Suspended For Taking Time Off To Put His Dog Down, Never Goes Back

It's not uncommon that we have to make choices between being at work and living our actual lives. But often times, managers don't seem to understand that anyone's social or emotional life outside of work means anything at all. The long answer is that certain jobs press every employee into a high pressure system that rewards middle management for using any means necessary to keep employees working, no matter what's going on in their personal lives. But the short answer is that this manager is a dick.

OP made the decision to be with their dog on her final day, much to the chagrin of their boss, who felt like that kind of decision doesn't show loyalty to the employer. But seriously, what kind of loyalty can one expect to have to a place that pays them minimum wage in exchange for the opportunity to get punished for caring about their dog.

For another manager who didn't get that people have meaningful lives, here's a firefighter who called into a mandatory off-hours meeting during an active fire to make a point.

Top Tinder Moments of the Week (May 2, 2022)

This week's top Tinder moments are brought to you by the wild world of online dating. 

This week we have a slew of overly-forward individuals who might benefit from reigning it in a little bit. But they're going to be the least of your problems when you're trying to decide who to swipe right or left… At least they're telling you what they actually want. Some of these other people might require an exorcism. Seriously, what the heck is going on with the fish Gollum-Girl profile? We need to have a little bit more context on that one. Like, did she actually put a fresh fish in her mouth just for a bit? If so, that's a level of dedication we can't imagine having.

Speaking of dedication, that chick who can only respond with one-word answers could stand to have a little more of it. It's so infuriating when someone has willfully engaged with you (swiping right) and then refuses to actually do the "engaging" part. Just don't swipe right, ya know?

Scroll on down for this week's selection and check out last week's entry when you're all good and wrapped up.  

Big Brassy Comebacks That Filled People's Pants With Wit

To slam or to be slammed? That is the question. The internet might be a place of cruelty, misinformation, bad takes and high profile court hearings, but it's also a realm of terrifically snappy comebacks. Comebacks so slick that they could silence the hinges of a squealing graveyard gate hinge. Clapbacks so percussive that Slipknot would only need one of them on drums. And burns so hot and spicy that they are only offered off-menu at Thai places. They're good comebacks.

It's a good reminder that to win an argument, you don't even really need to make a good point. You can get surprisingly far in life simply by thinking of novel ways to say that someone's mom makes her living on the docks, getting to know sailors the way a seagull eats an éclair.

For more great examples of the fringes of human creativity, here are some rare insults that left people uniquely destroyed.

Mechanic Underestimates Tiny Blonde Woman, Receives Public Humiliation When He Tries to Scam Her

Don't judge a book by its cover. Or, how about, don't judge anyone or stereotype at all. We're all unique individuals with unique experiences to bring to the table, someone's appearance doesn't tell you much about what those experiences are. 

In this story this scammer mechanic completely underestimated his customer because he deemed her to be an easy target, expecting a small blonde woman not to know all that much about cars. The thing is, both her brother and father are mechanics and she knows a "thing or two" herself, to the extent where she had checked the basics before taking it into the shop -just to be sure.

When the mechanic came back with his "inspection results" he told her that her car was going to be "completely broken down and not safe to drive if [she] didn't get several repairs ASAP." 

She was immediately suspicious and decided to stall it out and play the game while she plotted her next move…

 

Employee Gets Better Job, Incompetent Nepotism Colleague Can't Pick Up The Slack

People like to think that they are undervalued at work and that if they left their job, the whole operation would fall apart. People who know they are good at their job know that the whole operation would fall apart as soon as they left, and that's exactly what happened to Redditor u/boo-how in this tale posted to r/MaliciousCompliance. This Redditor worked with the owner of her company's mean-spirited daughter for years, and it seems obvious that the daughter in question had no business being in her position: she used her status as the daughter of the owner to take a light workload and then leave. OP even wrote that they would spend their time after the colleague left for the day fixing their earlier mistakes. So, when OP finally got a new and better-paying gig, their colleague didn't respond well at all.

Rather than step up to the plate during OP's last two weeks, the colleague started insulting OP behind their back and staying longer to bookkeep, suddenly insisting that OP was the reason their department was not as strong as it could be. According to the story, by the time this Redditor finally left the company, they had fully given up on helping out a rude colleague, allowing nepotism to spread its nasty wings and likely lose the business money and clients along the way. For another tale of malicious compliance, check out this incompetent boss who was shocked when their top employee quit.

Karen Demands Fellow Customer Be "Fired", Suited Legend Steps In, Makes Karen Laughing Stock

The thing about the indignant rage of Karens is that it doesn't necessarily stop at employees. Something about their eyesight often makes them target fellow customers that they simply wish were employees. Maybe it's because they're wishful thinkers. Maybe all they really want is to have a punching bag to yell at. Or, a yelling bag, if you will.

On OP's first visit to a Wal of Marts, they were treated to just such an occasion, wherein a mistaken Karen had set herself upon a fellow customer. But just then, like a knight in shining armor, another customer took advantage of the whole situation. Having seen this absurd display take place, they went and upped the ante by making the whole situation even more ridiculous. Karen didn't even know what to do with herself.

For more tales of the Karen, here's an infuriated dock Karen who got covered in a stranger's burrito.

Positive Examples Of "Boys Will Be Boys" That Articulate The Dude Experience

These days, the phrase "boys will be boys" has developed a few nefarious connotations, usually in defense of some kind of sexist, destructive behavior. Many people find that colloquialism derides the point of things men mostly do, which is get into World War 2 history, talk about woodworking concepts we barely understand, and climbing trees that we don't have to.

There are a great many things that dudes just inherently do, like finding a stick or throwing rocks into lakes when we're bored. Seriously, we could spend literally hours throwing rocks into lakes and call the day complete. Stuff like this, combined with meaningless yet elaborate projects, doing things "to see what will happen," and having hours-long hypothetical arguments over how to properly engineer a fart-powered flying machine are all things that somehow fit the bill of "things dudes would probably do."

For a tumblr tale on the impressive problem-solving power of wholesome boys-will-be-boys moments, here are the wholesome frat boys who found some lost keys.

Manager Late For Web Meeting on Employee's Day Off, Witnesses Literal Inferno Via Zoom

This volunteer firefighter was threatened to be fired while attending a fire on their day off. Their boss called them while they were out attending a fire in the bush (Aus/NZ slang for a thick undergrowth forest with smaller trees and lots of plants at ground level) and demanded that they attend a virtual meeting in 10 minutes' time or they were fired. The manager was late for their own meeting and when they finally arrived they demanded that the firefighter turn their camera and mic on. 

They were greeted with the blazing inferno of the fire that the firefighter was attending, with the firefighter fully suited up in all of their glory. 

This story was posted by the firefighter, u/taipan821, to Reddit's r/MaliciousCompliance subreddit who shared this story in honor of their "malicious compliance" to their boss's direction to turn on their video and mic, knowing the drama that would unfold. 

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Crab Memes To Make The Most Out Of Carcinisation

Nature has a thing for crabs. It just can't get rid of them. Fossil records have shown us that stuff just won't stop evolving into the shelled, clawed bastards. Is it because the design itself is effective, or just because nature has decided that something should always be a crab? Whatever the reason, they look really weird, and taste pretty good. Especially for being a big wet sea bug.

What we wouldn't give to one day have a large, powerful claw to attract mates. It's dumb that we have to rely on having decent jobs and practice hygiene when we could be out here pinching stuff and taking names. Those names? Crab.

So hopefully one day we will all get to return to the sea by walking sideways. No thanks to you, fish who walked up on land in the first place. We're gonna have a good time being crabs.

Night Club Employee Gets Harassed By Customer, Has Security Kick Patron Out

Keeping your hands to yourself is a pretty general rule we all learn early in life, but some people — like the night club patron in this story from Reddit's r/pettyrevenge — apparently need to be reminded of that message as adults. Redditor u/NIMTYPE0 described a shift at their job at a nightclub in which a customer at the club decided to tug on his hair while he was working, collecting empty cups and generally keeping the club clean for customers. When the OP told the customer not to touch him, the customer just laughed — that is, until the employee got club security involved and told them to kick the rude guy out.

While security pulled the guy outside, our OP sounds like he was pretty shaken up from having someone actually touch them while at work, which we can all agree is a big no-no. When the OP passed the customer again later in the shift, the guy actually apologized, though with a weird claim that he was actually trying to shake OP's hand when he grabbed his hair. The head bouncer at the club eventually kicked this annoying customer and his friend out, sending a message that you absolutely cannot touch an employee while they are at work. For more tales of revenge that take place in bars, check out this bar owner who got revenge on a lazy bartender.

Woman Gets Cancer Diagnosis, Friends Shave Heads In Solidarity, Turns Out She Doesn't Need Chemo

With all the media around cancer treatment and chemotherapy, it's pretty easy to get an oversimplified impression of what a cancer diagnosis can mean. Fortunately for this woman, she had an operable form of stage 0 breast cancer, so the prognosis is looking pretty good. When she told her friends about it, she left out some important information, and left them to their own devices on the matter. Thinking their friend was going to go through the arduous process of chemotherapy, they all decided to shave their heads for their friend. 

Who can really blame them for wanting to make their friend feel better? It's definitely in the right vein of what we'd appreciate our friends doing for us, though it is hilariously misguided. There hearts were in the right place, even if their hair isn't. Those are some supportive people, and we should all be so lucky to have friends like them.