'Please let me know': Interviewer awkwardly asks candidate for a job

There are plenty of great opportunities to reach out to your network and enquire about open positions—with friends, family, and former colleagues all being solid possible leads. You can volunteer, attend industry events, utilize contacts through shared interests—even turn to social media. Heck, just about the only person you shouldn't reach out to for a job is a candidate you're supposed to be interviewing.

It's bold, for sure, but bound to land poorly. The interviewee already has so much going on in their mind and is so on edge trying to give the best impression that they're not going to believe what they're hearing when you make your proposal. The only thing it's going to do is signal an immediate red flag about working at the organization—who would want to work somewhere where the hiring managers are begging for jobs elsewhere?

Still, this job-seeker reported having exactly this happen. Redditor u/clrlmiller shared their story on Reddit's r/antiwork subreddit, telling the story of the biggest red flag they had ever seen. Keep reading to see some screen grabs of the Reddit thread below. For more, check out these four stories where candidates walked out of job interviews or declined jobs because of the interviewer's behavior.

 

'I was asked to take a 30%+ cut in pay': Boss asks employee to be a 'team player,' employee quits, company goes under

One has to wonder if the boss was willing to take the same pay cut! It's one of those classic rules of leadership: don't ask your employees to do something that you yourself would never do. In this instance, this Redditor was already extremely underpaid for all the work he did for his company. He regularly worked overtime and was reliant on that pay to support himself and his family. It's also worth mentioning that he never actually saw his family that much due to the demands of his job.

 

So once the boss man hired a consulting firm for advice, they told him that labor costs needed to be cut. Of course, this was easy for a consulting firm to suggest, while they collected a sizable payment. When the boss requested that the Redditor take a large pay cut, the Redditor finally had it and refused to take any of this BS. Keep scrolling below for the full story. For more, check out this post about a guy who walked out on a date his mother set up.

Relatable Work Memes for Burnt Out Employees With a Permanent Case of the Mondays (April 10, 2023)

When are we going to get the 4 day work week situation dialed in? What will it take to wipe Mondays off the work-week map? It seems like ever since you graduated, you can help but count down the minutes until Friday at 5pm only to waste away 1/3 of your weekend on Sunday afternoons when you're stressing out about starting to work again. It's a vicious cycle. Maybe if you had 3 days to do your weekend chores (party, drink, socialize, vacuum, groceries) you'd be more rejuvenated every week. But nooooo, some rich guy in the 1800's decided that a 40 hour work week, Monday through Friday, was the solution to productivity. Could he have been more wrong? We hope that guy is absolutely rolling in his grave right now as we sit in the break room for another 8 minutes, enjoying memes that make us feel alive. 

'[I] don't need them anymore': Entitled Karen asks for a refund for her wedding photos when she gets divorced years later

It never ceases to amaze me the ends that entitled people will go to and the mental hoops they will jump through in order to justify their behavior…

"Hi! It's your old pal from Kindergarten here. I don't know if you still remember me, but I'd like my Pokemon cards back that I traded you for your cookie since I'm not using the cookie anymore, and the fat cells it gave me have long since gone away!"

With that logic, anyone could ask for a refund for anything—at any time. It would be utter anarchy and spell the end of our society as we know it.

These messages were shared on Reddit's r/mildlyinfuriating subreddit, where readers reacted to and roasted the Karen for her bizarre request.

Keep reading to see the messages and reactions below. For more entitled people., check out these entitled cyclists who freaked out after drinking dog water at a cafe. 

'Have you no decency': top 20 mildly infuriating moments of the week (April 12, 2023)

When it's happening to you, it's mildly (perhaps majorly) infuriating. But when you're watching it happen from a third-party lens, you can't help but laugh. Keep scrolling below for the top mildly infuriating moments of the week. For more compilations like this, here are some top job interview fails!

Update: 'AITA for calling my GF out?': Boyfriend snitches on his GF's eating habits in front of her strictly vegan friend

It's surprising the lengths people will go to impress someone in their social circle. When you want to fit in with a social group, it's easy to begin dressing like them or talking like them as a result of spending so much time together. This woman, Michaela, did something similar when she met her coworker Sheila, who's a strict vegan. Michaela then also began to have a "vegan lifestyle," and started posting about it on social media. However, her boyfriend, who wrote the post, noticed that Michaela is still eating animal products like cheese and milk — so she's a vegetarian, but not really keeping to veganism. However, that's really bugging the OP to see his GF act like a hypocrite. He chose a really inopportune time to call her out! 

Up next, this husband lied to his wife for 13 years about a candy she loved — and now that she found out his secret, she's really annoyed. 

‘AITA for getting my bully kicked out of his dream school?’: Student compiles evidence of his bully’s remarks, sends it to the college of his choice

This bully is going to regret some of his decisions. Sure, what the Redditor did was harsh, but you know what's worse? Being relentlessly bullied for years. In our book, this dude got what he deserved. The hero who got his much-deserved revenge shared his story via this thread on Reddit's r/pettyrevenge subreddit after it was originally posted on the AITA subreddit.

 

Our only real concern here is that the bully might discover that the Redditor had something to do with this. OP should not have wished his bully good luck with his chances of getting into school; otherwise, he might have been able to get away with this completely. If you keep scrolling below, you'll see that plenty of folks in the comments section have the same concern. Let's hope he stays safe, gets out of that town, and is able to thrive in college.

 

For more stories like this, here are some top petty revenge tales!

'His daughter can do it at a cheaper rate': Boss wants to replace successful social media manager with his daughter to save on budget

When you're doing great at your job, taking on extra duties, and performing admirably, the last thing you expect is to be replaced as a cost-saving measure—especially by your boss's (presumably unqualified) daughter. But, this can happen when your profession is a necessity that your bosses don't understand… and there are certainly some old hats hanging around in various institutions who still don't quite "get" the point of social media marketing.

It's akin to the common adage about the catch-22 challenges of perception IT face… If there are no visible technical issues and no downtime, management will begin to wonder what they're financing an in-house IT team for; on the flip side, when there are visible issues and downtime, management begins wondering what they're paying an in-house IT team for if they can't "keep things running."

Marketing is one of those things that is looked at as an excess expenditure in economic downturns and slashing spending in these areas. While often one of the first options considered, this can also spell certain doom for your business in the long term.

This worker was shocked to overhear their boss proposing that their teenage daughter take over their social media duties as a means of avoiding giving them a raise. They had taken on additional duties, resulting in massive growth for the company's socials, but when they asked for a raise as compensation, the trouble started.

If you're picturing J. Jonah Jameson from Spiderman screaming at Peter Parker, "A raise?.. You want a raise? Your job is so easy; my teenage daughter could do it!" Then you're probably somewhere on the right track.

This won't be the first time an employer has made excuses for not giving workers further compensation for their contributions, performance, and willingness to take on additional work—nor will it be the last. Keep reading to see screen grabs of the Reddit thread that inspired this post, spawned by a Reddit post made by u/OVOnug, who shared their experience to Reddit's popular r/antiwork subreddit. For more, check out this worker who was reprimanded for lack of communication amongst the management team.

10+ Top Tinder Moments of the Week From the Wild World of Dating (April 11, 2023)

Welcome to this week's edition of the hottest trending takes from online dating… It's a wild world out there, and entering the arena of online dating can be especially treacherous. This week, there is a whole slew of desperate individuals looking to find a match amidst the sheer chaos of unsuitable candidates.

A personal favorite of mine this week is our "incredibly average" Joe in item #3. There's no point in trying for a long-term relationship if you can't be honest with your partner and yourself, so you might as well get it all laid out there—which he certainly did with his tell-all bio.

Scroll through this week's selection, and for more, check out this previous iteration. Good luck out there!

'My software had been rolled out to all staff against my wishes': Boss steals worker's program and takes credit for it, reprimands worker for undesired features

Finance is probably one of the least "metal" things out there… picturing stuffy workers wearing formal outfits in a sterile stark-white office, balancing spreadsheets and hedging investments doesn't evoke an image of the rebellious ideals and counter-culture movements that rock n' roll was built on.

That being said, this story delivered what its title promised: Heavy Metal Finance. Redditor u/Psygnal shared this riveting tale of an entrepreneurial program they created which led to theft, betrayal, and revenge at their place of work in the late nineties. 

They tell how they worked as a financial compliance officer and created a tool to make their work easier for themself, allowing them to maintain a more consistent application of policy and process. This worked well until their boss decided that they would take the tool and distribute it to the entire company, taking credit for its development in the process. Further, when it came to the boss's knowledge that there were certain aspects of the program (which the whole company was now using) that they didn't like, they decided to reprimand the worker for it.

Keep reading for some screen grabs of the Reddit thread where the story was originally shared. For more, check out this worker who was sent home for wearing shorts and proved that their boss was wrong and it wasn't actually in the policy.

'LOL, He Blocked Me' : Top Dating App Flops of the Week (April 11, 2023)

Dating app convos tend to go one of two ways; either people put in little to no effort, begging the question 'Why did you swipe in the first place?', OR people put in a little too much effort… AKA, take everything personally, overcommit, and emotionally involve themselves before they've even met you. The first type of conversation stated is a one-sided conversation, the classic one-word response. But the second is the exact opposite. These conversations will look more like, 'It's been five minutes, why haven't you replied? I'm blocking you. But I'm waiting for you to reply. But then I'll block you. For sure, yeah, I'm blocking you'.

Dating in the modern world is tough. Between getting ghosted, blocked (and perhaps unblocked?), left on read which is kinda ghosted but really, not getting matches at all, getting stood up or canceled on last minute… it's a graveyard out here for us single folk. Quite literally. But Tinder knows how to make money, how to reel you back in, just when you've 'given up all hope'. Plus, at least you've got a lot of good stories to share with your friends, and it does motivate people to work on their relationships to avoid getting back on dating apps.

These cringe-worthy chats below are enough to make anyone delete their profile faster than you can say 'swipe left'. Scroll down and check 'em out. For more dating app fails, here you can take a look at last week's.

'TIFU by lying to my wife for 13 years': Husband's little white lie to his wife about candy totally backfires

This is one of those times that a little lie snowballed into a much bigger lie! 

To keep the peace in a romantic relationship, sometimes you need to fudge the truth. Not all the time, only for certain things, and it's best if you can avoid lying about anything big. However, once you're married for 13 years (!) like this guy was, even a small fib can quickly spiral out of control. 

After reading the OP's story below, check out a few comments, where people shared their own funny stories of lies that were uncovered. 

While we're on the subject of small things that could cause damage to a marriage, check out this story. This woman wanted to get a tattoo so badly, but after her husband's strong negative reaction toward her upon seeing the new ink, she's unsure what to do. 

'The charge was... malicious compliance': Tyrannical boss demands employee 'print out the internet', employee jams boss's office with 6 feet stack of paper

This may be one of the best malicious compliance stories we've read to date, and the reason for that is the novelty, hilarity, and downright relatability of the details. A tyrannical boss had taken her reign over a government department where she was less than kind to her employees, OP included. At the time, OP was a technical writer and had been slowly transferring an old employee handbook into a modern and actually useful doc (ex: one page with policies and links to useful websites, like Office of Personal Management, forms for workman's comp, etc). OP's boss wanted the whole thing printed out ASAP, or rather, the next morning.

For those wondering 'what the heck', it might be worth mentioning that this was well over a decade ago. OP's boss wasn't happy with the 200 or so pages that OP printed, and proceeded to scream her lungs out, saying something like 'Do you think people can just go to a website when it is on paper? NO! Print everything out', and OP replied calmly (bless them) that the sites were pretty dense and deep, so it would be about 10,000 pages. Obviously, this boss did not calculate the meaning of those words, let alone think about the consequences, so all she said was 'I don't care'.

Alrighty then! OP began printing… and printing… and then printing some more. In fact, they printed so much that the piles of paper began exceeding 6 feet. What happened next is absolutely hilarious, scroll down and read all about it for yourself. For more stories like this, here is an employee who saved their company 20 million dollars in profits, but was offered a 2% promotion. The kicker is this was a Fortune 500 company, who were doing ridiculously well financially at the time.

‘She wasn’t missed’: Nepo baby takes credit for everyone else’s work, ends up getting fired

You know you must be particularly bad at your job when your Daddy is best buds with the CEO and you still can't help but get fired. That's what happened to this Redditor's coworker, who was hired with next to no experience yet found a way to boss literally everyone around her and take credit for their work.

 

One day, OP wrote up a report and handed it to her, only to watch her immediately head directly into the CEO's office and give it to him, all while acting like it was her report. Well, you can guess what happened next. The Redditor decided to come up with a brilliant professional excuse to join her in the CEO's office and reveal that he was the author. Keep scrolling below for the full story and be sure to read the comment from OP about the fallout.

 

For more stories like this, here's one about a difficult customer in a toy store.

'I'm sorry you doubted me': Employee's job offer gets revoked after they boldly lie to company during onboarding

It's never been harder to lie to your employer, thanks to the power of modern tech. But this employee found that out way too late, because they clearly didn't think through the consequences of lying about a car accident. 

As some folks in the comments reflected, if you needed to be late to work or lie to your boss in the past, it wasn't that difficult. This person, though, didn't count on being fact-checked by a website that tells you where a photo can be found online. When the employee's photo of their "car crash" was put into the site, it produced tons of times the image had been used. This lack of originality led to the lie being found out — after months of preparing for the gig. 

After that, check out these people who tried some DIY activities that didn't go quite as planned. 

'We're looking for someone age 22-26 with 30 years of experience': 20+ Memeable Interview Fails

Is there anything more humbling and potentially humiliating than a job interview? It doesn't matter if you're interviewing for an internship or if you've been working for 20 years. Interviews are always nerve-wracking, anxiety-inducing, and just all-around scary. 

 

Keep scrolling below for these interview memes, tweets, and fails. For more content like this, here's a story about someone who got "fired" 2 years after they resigned. 

'AITA for going to work while my wife was having her appendix out?' Wife accuses husband of abandoning her, internet reacts

People are really split on this one, folks. Some people are defending the husband for insisting that his wife go seek medical attention and are claiming that in doing so, he saved her life and thus deserves more credit. Other defenders believe that full abandonment is definitely an extreme accusation since his parents and his mother-in-law were all at the hospital taking care of her.

 

That being said, while we acknowledge that this was a tough situation and that the toxic workplace is to blame for instilling a sense of guilt for taking necessary time off, we will ultimately go with YTA on this one. Clearly, the Redditor's wife has anxiety about her condition and about going to the hospital. If she wanted his support, that was well within her right. Furthermore, no surgery is routine. Minimizing that fact is convenient for the sake of OP's argument. Keep scrolling below to see what others had to say. For more, check out this post about a Karen who demanded to use someone's wheelchair. 

'I was right': Worker gets back at boss that sent them home for wearing shorts according to a company policy that didn't exist

There's nothing worse than being uncomfortable at work; that's why you'll never catch me in a suit and tie. That and the fact that copywriting isn't really the field for dressing to the nines. So I'll rephrase: That's one of the reasons why you'll never catch me in a suit and tie.

Being told that you can't do something because of some inane policy or SOP is incredibly frustrating, especially when you come to find that it's not actually a written rule at all. The hilarious thing is how quickly the rule can be written and changed if they want it to be so, and yet they act like other ridiculous policies couldn't be changed in a hundred years. 

This worker, u/Sarasil, posted to Reddit's r/MaliciousCompliance subreddit to share one such story, telling of a time they were sent home by their boss for wearing shorts despite the fact that it wasn't even against the rules. Keep reading for some screenshots of the ensuing thread and follow the attribution links for the original Reddit thread.

For more, check out this worker who quit after their boss confiscated their lunch break as punishment.

‘Decided to come back and beg for your job back?’: Arrogant boss lashes out at coworker, entire department quits and gets him fired

If you're in need of a workplace story with a happy ending, it doesn't get much better than an entire department uniting with the goal of ousting their boss. The fact that it was a success is one thing, but the fact that the Redditor managed to get herself a promotion (her former boss's position, no less) is another.

 

This thread was posted to Reddit's r/ProRevenge subreddit, and if you're currently stuck in a job with an awful manager who lashes out and threatens you and/or your coworkers, feel free to take a few moments to live vicariously through OP's journey. Now, like many folks in the comments section, there are moments in which one has to assess the validity of this story (it's almost too good to be true), but if it is, in fact, real, then shame on us for living in a culture where that kind of horrible behavior from a manager is so widely accepted that his comeuppance has become hard to believe. 

 

Keep scrolling below for the full story. For more, here are some of the top petty revenge tales of the week!

‘I had a very misogynistic boss’: 'Good 'Ol Boy' manager finally gets busted for taking credit of female employee's work thanks to the IT department

The work culture might be changing these days in a more positive direction, at least in work edict. However, it still has a very long way to go and even when you just think back to the early '00s, we were still dealing with some pretty serious injustices in the workplace. For example, how women employees were treated. Harassment aside, they also just weren't taken seriously. It was extremely unfair and usually ended up with many females quitting or just never getting the justice they deserved. 

One woman on Reddit recently shared her story of defeating misogyny in the workplace and it is simply *chef's kiss*! She worked in a company in the early oughts that was mostly employed by men. And not just any old dudes, but extremely misogynistic men who believed women didn't belong in the workplace because they were too "emotional." (Even though testosterone is the hormone that makes anybody emotional and men are packed chalk full of that, but that's for another discussion…) She wasn't the revolutionary type and just kept her head down while she worked. Unfortunately, her misogynistic boss made sure he got credit for all the hard work she did and she didn't get any say in the matter. 

However, one day the president had a question about some numbers that she wrote, but he didn't know she wrote them. So he called in her toxic manager and he made a clown out of himself, unable to answer one question. The president called in IT and they were able to find the source of the work, and it was the female employee. The president called her in and she was able to answer all his questions and then some. 

That toxic manager got his butt chewed up and spit out back to him and then demoted. She had a pretty pleasant work environment for the rest of the time she was there. Excel really was fighting misogyny in the workplace since the early 2000s. 

Top 20 Provocative Shower Thoughts of the Week That'll Make You Smarter

Whether it's the calming sound of water falling from the shower head or the warm steam rising up from below, some of our best ideas are born in the shower. Maybe it's because we're alone with our thoughts and nobody to judge us besides our shampoo, bar soap, and our trusty loofah. Our biggest supporters may be inanimate cleaning products, but nonetheless, the shower is a sacred medatative portal that opens the brain and allows inhabitants to cleans more than just their bodies– they cleanse their minds as well. 

That's why we're here to celebrate this weeks tip top shower thoughts, ranging from conspiracy theories about Batman to existential societal crisis. So strip down and blast the hot water– It's big brain time!

'Imma get fired LOL [worth it]' : Shady management tries to pull a fast one, law student employee hits them with legal knowledge that epically shuts it down

Many people during their college years take a job to cover their expenses while they study for their eventual full-time career. For example, you don't need a 4 year degree to wait tables or deliver pizza, so you pick up this kind of service industry job while you continue your education in something that does require multiple years of education like a doctor or lawyer. 

Yes, that's right, even future lawyers work in service industry while they're in school (except for like rich nepo-babies..). And for any toxic manager out there, we hope you hire a law student and get your tush served back to you when you try to pull some illegal crap on your hardworking employees. This is exactly what happened with Reddit poster u/Old-Invite3028. The Redditor is in law school and working a side gig as they take their classes. The manager tried to pull some a shady fast one and said if employees continued to not clock in or out properly, there would be financial punishment. 

This law student epically messaged back with out any care in the world saying, "I swear I'm not trying to be obtuse but I'm in law school so whatever, the withholding of wages for the reason of disciplinary action is illegal." BOOM. They didn't share their management's response, but the Redditor knew it wasn't going to be pretty and didn't even care. 

'[I] hit send...everyone in the room and on the call started laughing': Husband tries to write apology to his wife the lazy way, humiliates himself in front of coworkers

People used to give their spouses flowers after a big argument, but this husband chose to "write" an apology letter instead. 

As of this writing, ChatGPT and other artificial intelligence models are still pretty new to most people. They're finding more and more usage everyday, from editing photos to writing unique copy. Lots of people have also been using it for random everyday things, like writing summaries or even churning out work reports for them. Its usefulness seems endless! 

This man flew too close to the sun, though. He tried to get ChatGPT to write out the kind of note that you should really and truly write out yourself, not get someone else to write for you. 

While we're on the subject of things you should and shouldn't say to your significant other…These people felt comfortable sharing some relationship secrets with Reddit, but they'd never dare tell their spouse in person! 

'My home, my rules': Grown millennial daughter uses malicious compliance to get her boomer mom, a 40+ year smoker, to quit smoking

Sometimes you have to get a little feisty to help someone you love. When the end justifies the means, ya know? This is exactly what one grown millennial daughter did for her boomer mothers. 

The adult millennial, Reddit user @Ambitious-Writer-825, posted something to the subreddit r/MaliciousCompliance, but a different type of story than the usual one you see on that thread. Usually you see someone using malicious compliance for exactly what it defines to, complying but only with malicious intent. However, this millennial may have felt malicious in her actions and conveyed that it felt more like petty revenge, but her "malicious compliance" actually had benevolent outcomes. 

The millennial daughter grew up in a household with the classic boomer parenting rule, "my home, my rules." It's probably safe to say that most millennials heard at least once in their life, "as long as you're under MY roof! bla bla bla." So, when this millennial daughter grew up, found her own home, and started her own family, she decided that this rule would not just apply to her kids, but to her own parents. She had just had a baby and the mother wanted to spend time with her grand-baby. However, this boomer mother, now grandmother, was a very heavy smoker. So the new mom laid down the rule that her own mother set when she was a child of having to abide by the rules of the homeowner. So she told her she could not smoke around the baby, ever, and she couldn't get wear clothes that she had smoked in previously if she wanted to be near the baby. 

The boomer mother was flabbergasted that her own rule came back to haunt her as a grandma, but she couldn't turn back on her words now. So this "malicious" compliance (or should we say benevolent compliance?) helped a boomer grandmother who had been an avid smoker for 40+ years quit cold turkey. 

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'I suspect workers are sabotaging equipment just to meet the quota': Bizzare safety procedures at work cause cobra effect, corporate bit by malicious compliance

Malicious compliance is often used when the employees feel like they have no other choice than to obey the ridiculous rules management creates on the different whims they have. And boy does management have whims… they don't always necessarily make a lot of sense. In this case, industrial workers began to literally break safety equipment, and fix it, just to write a safety violation report. A new employee who was not informed of this was absolutely flabbergasted.

The same mantra had apparently been going around his office: keep your eyes open, and the violations will appear. In his own words, 'I was the last one to use this ladder the day before, and it was perfectly fine, which lead me to my conclusion that this man was purposely SABOTAGING company equipment just so he can fix it and then write a safety violation report. I feel like I'm in an episode of The Office'.

Scroll down to read the full detailed account of… well, hilarious events. For more stories like this, here is another employee who activated malicious compliance mode, costing the company $6,000.

'Management Uno reversed them': Entire team quits toxic workplace simultaneously, management "rejects" resignations and fires them anyways

In the U.S., each state has their own employment laws to protect both employers and employees. Unfortunately, employers are the ones with all the money, so things tend to fall in their favor over the hardworking employees. Recently, a woman shared her quitting saga on her TikTok. She worked for a non-profit that used business practices that she said "did not align" with her ethically. The work environment became more and more toxic and her and her entire team had had enough. You can see this happening in real time on this woman's TikTok profile, because she posted videos from her getting ready to give her 2-weeks, her and her entire team giving their 2-weeks, and then getting the letter saying they "rejected" their resignations and are terminated. The company really pulled an Uno reverse on them. 

She says the termination letter is not only a slap to the face with disrespect, it was also riddled with grammatical errors. The company really scrambled to put that letter together. However, she was ready to go no matter what and seems happier than ever. Viewers comment on her video encouraging her to take legal actions calling it "retaliation" which is illegal. Others are saying she should be happy that the "Uno reversed" her because now she should be able to collect unemployment. 

She continues to post videos about her adventure down this new path after leaving her job, but one this is for sure, even though it didn't go down as she was hoping, she was still happier than ever to leave that place. So really, Uno reverse on the company because joke's on them, she's into not working for them! 

20 Wickedly weird memes from the deep depths of the internet

The internet has no shortage of absolute weirdness, and just in case we ever run out, people are constantly creating even weirder things. 

Let's talk about some of them, starting with the Doritos pop tarts. Would you eat these photoshopped frights? I would have to try a bite, but I would wash it down with the cursed Nutella burger, which seems intense but still edible. Would not eat: the spaghetti backpack. It would be cold by the time you carried it to your destination. Just add a second backpack full of warm garlic bread, and your problem is solved! 

Everyone's so creative on the internet. Below are 20 images that are so strange that it transports you to another universe where it could actually exist. 

Next up, this woman told her sister in law to stop copying every single thing she does from TikTok…but she ended up getting roasted in the comments instead of being validated in her belief. 

'It was evident who was a contributor and who was a leech': Teacher doesn't let slackers get off scot-free in college group project fail

Whether we like it or not, group projects are one of the earliest signifiers in life of who's trustworthy and who isn't. Whether you're in second grade, junior year of college, or well into your professional career, collaboration can be especially annoying when your team members, to put it bluntly, suck. In this instance, these group project members seemed to really suck.

 

This Redditor was among the few productive team members for this college marketing project, and everyone had literally all semester to prepare their fair share of the work before the final presentation. However, just 24 hours before the project was due, it became quite clear that they didn't have enough material to submit, mostly due to the work (or lack thereof) of a couple of slackers. At this point, the Redditor had no choice but to ask for an extension from the professor and explain why. Keep scrolling below to see how this all turned out for the slackers on the team (I'll give you a clue: it didn't turn out well!).

 

For more stories like this, check out this post about an employee's squeaky chair and his boss's temper.

'Our cat didn't break the towel rack. I did': 20+ Secrets so outrageous people could never tell their significant other about it

Everyone keeps secrets from their significant other, but not everyone would fess up to secretly letting the dog snooze on the bed, or devouring "nine cans of ravioli" when their S.O.'s not around. Thankfully, these folks did for our amusement!

"What's a secret you'll never tell your partner but are willing to tell strangers on Reddit?" one person asked the r/AskReddit sub, and answers of all types poured in. Commenters shared everything from the mundane everyday life secrets to things that would totally end a relationship immediately. 

After you check out these wild confessions, click here to read about one amazing boss who stood up for his employee when she was being shouted at by a customer. 

'She hired him': Legendary manager sticks up for scapegoated black sheep employee, helps them leave for major promotion

Have you ever entered a workplace, friend group, or any social group and been warned to watch out for one particular member? It's an unfortunate aspect of our social nature; we always need a group or individual to be "othered" to feel like we're "in."

While it's important to keep an eye out for red flags and not make yourself too vulnerable to possible exploitative behavior from these people (if what people say is true), it's just as important to form your own opinions. You might find that this person you've been told to be wary of is the black sheep for other reasons. Maybe they're kinder, have stronger ethics, or are simply better than their peers who have groupthink-condemned them. Sure, maybe they're a little weird… but isn't everyone?

I've seen these "Mean Girl" groups in action and seen them do this to a "friend," only keeping them around so that they have something to gossip about behind their back. Once the ousted friend gets tired and leaves the group, it's only a matter of time before the remaining members turn on each other, a singular target for their toxicity being the only thing that was keeping them together. 

This is a story about an individual who was othered by their workplace; when their new manager joined, they were warned about workers but were surprised to find that nothing said was actually true. As it turns out, this worker was the glue holding the place together. So, as any good manager would, they got to righting wrongs.

Keep reading for some screen grabs of this brilliant story, which u/baka-tari told in a thread posted to Reddit's r/pettyrevenge subreddit. For more workplace stories like this, check out this small business that stopped servicing a longtime client at the client's suggestion.