Girl Breaks Babysitter's Glasses, Dad Won't Replace Them

Can we open this one up by all agreeing that we should take responsibility for our actions? By extension, we should also take responsibility for the actions of those we are guardians of. 

Suppose my kid keys your car because you reversed into mine. Well, maybe you should have taken responsibility for hitting my car when it was parked in front of my house. Perhaps I, too, should take responsibility for my kid's actions.

Accidents happen, but you're still accountable for an action you are at fault for. That's just how society works. 

With all of this in mind… It is plain as day that u/EricThrow3976 should be paying for replacing the babysitter's glasses. It doesn't matter whether or not it was an accident on the part of your daughter. One of your children broke them when she was working for you. You're responsible. If I'm the babysitter's parent, I'm coming over and getting that money from you, be it in cash in hand or small claims court.

After you're done passing judgment here… Check out this mother who allowed her boyfriend to punish her teenage son when he wanted to go to his job instead of babysitting the boyfriend's children. 

Awful Coworker Ruins Nurse's Prospects, She Returns the Favor

A petty nursing student did everything she could to force her colleague out of her position—using everything in her toolkit to make the colleague's life a living hell. 

What do you do when you are faced with such a situation? It is often best to take the high road, and that should always be the path you first tread. Sometimes that's not an option. You're forced into the thick of it and have to get down in the dirt along with them. Should you emerge from the fray, you'll do so in mud and welts. There's no victory here. It's a race to the bottom.

This is the path that u/stacer12, an aspiring nurse anesthetist, had to take when her adversary left her no other option. After being forced to move hospitals just to escape the onslaught of drama u/stacer12 utilized her knowledge of her adversary's less-than-honest educational practices to take her down.

For more, check out this guy who got revenge on his coworker for constantly calling out his mistakes to his boss. 

 

Karen Neighbor Reports Damaged Fence, Guy Removes Fence Entirely

When a windstorm damaged a fence between two neighbors, the insurance company was forestalling the repairs, preferring to wait until the spring to undertake them. That wasn't good enough for the Karen living on one side of the fence. She reported the damaged fence to the authorities to expedite the repair.

As is often the case, Karen had a hidden agenda. She thought that the only option would be to rush the repairs, but she didn't realize that there was a second option that would ensure that she was the one who ended up replacing the fence.

 This all happened to u/NotGayRyan's friend in what became a battle between the friend and their neighbor, Karen. Without even so much as a "Screw you." Karen went straight to the city to report the damaged fence in order to force its repair. Her personal, vested, interest was that she had a pool that was required to be fenced in. That set up the opportunity for this glorious malicious compliance.

For more tumultuous troubles with terrible neighbors… Check out this HOA Karen who towed a guy's car without grounds, opening her up for a massive lawsuit.

 

Things That Look Like Other Stuff

We should not get as excited as we do when we see an eggplant that looks like a dude's face. But we do. We do so hard.

Maybe it's because people really want to believe that the things around them have thoughts and feelings. Like the ability to talk to your eggplant and ask it how its doing is something we still pine for. But until the day that science invents an eggplant that doesn't feel excruciating pain when sliced into pieces, covered in parmesan and baked at 350 degrees, we'll have to settle on our eggplants being quizzically silent.

Or maybe the reason we see faces in things is because we're constantly looking for predators, and it's evolutionarily better for us to freak out when we see a bag that looks like a tiger, just to have our bases covered.

Whatever the reason, it's nice to imagine for a second that the inanimate objects we interact with on a daily basis have something nice to say. Or maybe they'd be mean. Only one way to find out, science.

Here are some moreinanimate objects with a whole lot of personality.

Infuriated Dock Karen Upset She Can't Rent Stranger's Boat, Gets Covered In Burrito

Now that's some deep, salty Karen behavior.

Here we have a traveler minding his own business when he stumbled upon a Karen in mid tirade. It started when Karen thought she could rent a random boat on the docks. She then got upset because, to her surprise, dudes who work on docks in Mexico aren't guaranteed to speak fluent English, nor are they required to cater to the desires of some random mad lady.

This fellow American came onto the scene, where he was then mistaken as some kind of authority by our wild Karen. Things spiraled out of control after that, but let's just say there's a reason the main character in this tale is a burrito. Maybe it's because of people like this that Americans aren't exactly seen as the best visitors. Well, at least Karen got some reckoning for her godawful behavior.

For some more obnoxious tales abroad, here's the guy who brought a little bell to a restaurant and said Americans do it all the time.

Worker Stuck Inside Gate Told By Management That They'll Be There Till Morning

If you were ever wondering how much your company and your bosses care about your personal safety and wellbeing when it comes in the way of expenses and company profit, this is a great test. 

When u/Zealousideal-Ebb-481 got locked behind a gate at a fast-food joint within a box store they quickly found themselves in a dire situation. We're not pointing fingers here but, supposedly, this is a chain that likes measuring their food in 12-inch increments. As the employees of the box store looked on in entirely unhelpful bewilderment u/Zealousideal-Ebb-481 started going through their options.

They first called their manager who informed them that they were going to be stuck there "At least all night long. If not longer if they can't get the door open in the morning." 

This tread popped up on a number of different sources. We have pulled some of the best comments from all of them. 

The thread was first posted to r/legaladvice u/Zealousideal-Ebb-481 in the midst of the unfolding drama. From there, it was posted to the workers advocacy groups r/antiwork and r/workreform.

People Share The Weirdest Job Interviews They Partook In

There are a lot of opportunities out there. Most of them are pretty bad. Some of them are strange. Some of them are a good reminder that there's no true standard to any kind of workplace decorum, and some bosses are straight up psychos. Luckily for us, getting that first interview can be a chance to look for those job interview red flags like "everyone is sad here" or "for some reason my hiring manager asked me for 50 bucks ad the contact info of 10 of my friends and family."

Here are some folks who got scared, skeeved or actively reminded that this wasn't a standard interview experience. Some actually ended well, but like everything else, life is a journey. That might be the kindest way of putting it.

Getting a new job can feel like a leap of faith, and it's important to look for signs that you're leaping onto a stable career path. Or at least a place where the boss won't yell at you for leaving at the end of your shift. For some of those jerks, here are satisfying times people quit unreasonable bosses.

14-Year-Old Demands to Be Treated Like an Adult, Mom Obliges

Way back in the early years of the 2000s, a great many of us were little terrors. We would eat, we would sleep, and we would consume copious amounts of mountain dew. That was it. That was being 13-14 years old. And oh man, was it good. 

Those nights where we would stay up until 5 am at a sleepover powered by the insane amounts of caffeine provided by the aforementioned beverage. 

Those early hours were filled with virtual bliss. Capture the flag on Blood Gulch and, a few years later, Slayer on Lockout and Zanzibar. 

The brilliantly brutal Search and Destroy filled many a night when Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare was released a few years after that. 

Those times might have been good but, as early teens, we were not nearly as well functioning as we liked to think we were. I should probably be ashamed to admit to the fact that I didn't really know how to cook or do laundry until I moved out of my parent's house at 18. 

Well, u/BuckTheF**kNaked's brother severely overestimated his abilities (as a lot of us would have) when he told his mother to "Stop treating me like a kid." He would soon live to regret those words but would walk away with a valuable lesson in life.

This one is a win for Mom.

"I Didn't Personally Sign the Constitution, So it Does Not Apply to Me": Lawyer On TikTok Reads Iconic Court Transcripts and is Going Viral

"Honestly, your Honor, I'm curious to see where opposing counsel takes this—let it ride." These are actual real life things people said in a court, read in vocal fry by a real life lawyer. 

Company Tells Woman She is Replaceable, She Starts Her Own Business and Makes Them the Replaceable Ones

The classic "You are replaceable." power play. It has to be one of the oldest tricks in the book. In fact, I'm willing to bet that if we consulted that 3,200-year-old Egyptian attendance list it would probably have some glyphs somewhere on it describing that, "Ramses the stone shaper asked for a raise today, I told him he was replaceable." Even if the supervisor knew full bloody well that nobody could shape a stone like Ramses could. 

It might be a tale as old as time but, sadly, a lot of companies would rather cut their nose to spite one's face. They will go full nuclear and lose one of their best performers just to avoid having to pay one of their employees a living wage. 

Have you ever been told this by an employer?

Well, u/anon-cant-quit has and she made them eat their words for breakfast, lunch AND dinner.

Using her spouse's business savvy and her knowledge of the business's operations she was able to successfully relieve her terrible boss of his clients and prove that he was t he replaceable one.

Boyfriend Brings Little Bell To Restaurant, Says Fellow Americans Do It All The Time

So this lady's been dating an American guy for a few months, and he decides to test out his terrific, brand new way to get the attention of waitstaff at a restaurant. That idea? Bringing a little tiny bell to ring every time he wants attention. Upon scrutiny, he reassures her that no, having a little bell to ring at your server is completely normal in the U.S. and is totally fine.

If any Americans want to chime in and corroborate this absolutely stupid method, then by all means go for it so the rest of us can call you an obnoxious jackass just like this guy. No one brings little bells to try and train the waitstaff like you are Pavlov trying to get your dogs to bring you free bread. What a dork.

Of course basically everyone gets why this behavior isn't standard, but we all know some folks who truly wish it would be this way, and we regret that some of them make it out of the country or really, even out of their house. This might be even more demeaning than having a customer snap for your attention. Here are some obnoxious things done by American tourists.

Science Facts That Show The Terrifying Scope Of The Universe

It's important to, at least every once in a while, reflect on the nature of one's own existence. Not just in terms of "today I am being mindful and manifesting getting the good parking spot" but more broadly than that. Thoughts like "isn't it wild that there are elements in my own body that were forged in the heart of a star? Billions of years of particles crashing into each other has culminated in me, a being that can think and feel and most importantly, fret over parking?"

Frankly, it's weird to acknowledge the fact that, galactically speaking, you're nothing more than a figment of a cosmic blip. That everything you know and love is so catastrophically small, it would be foolish to think that you are worthy of note. That your finely crafted opinions and excellent sense of taste even matter for a second.

And we can have these thoughts in one moment and acknowledge the universe and its leviathan authority, it's dizzying scale whose sheer size eclipses even the biggest moments of our lives, but in the very next moment we can also choose to say "nah man, I'm gonna go get a burrito." It's kind of a beautiful thing.

If you want to spend some more time freaking out about it all, here are some more science facts to ponder.

Insane Company Suspends Worker For Not Participating in “Mandatory” Company TikTok

Nothing is better for worker morale than mandatory fun. There's just something about being forced to wear a smile and laugh for company dollars while your mind internally reflects the picturesque wonderment of a post-apocalyptic  wasteland. 

There's just something in the artful construction of the phrase "company social event" that just really gets my motor humming. 

You want me to do what? Maintain my carefully crafted workplace persona after hours AND socialize? I can hardly manage to maintain this facade for the 8 work hours in a day as it is. I'm crumbling mentally and really don't want to be here any longer than I have to. Please god just let me go home.

Really, what I'm saying, is that there's a little bit of Nate in all of us. Not all of us are ready or willing to put our jobs on the line to say so, but at a certain point enough is enough. 

When you're earning bottom dollar, and coping with terrible leadership, you too might find yourself one mandatory TikTok away from drawing the line in the sand like Nate.

Minecraft Player Reveals Their Most Vile, Underhanded Act

Videogames will let you do some pretty fantastically heinous things. Hell, without even thinking about it, we've destroyed entire civilizations of bug-men, beat up our closest friends, and driven busses down crowded sidewalks with reckless abandon. But that's all in-game. Very few things you can do in a video game will ever actually affect a real-life person, and that's for the best.

This person answered the question "What is the most messed up thing you have ever done in any video game?" and while one would think that the scope was limited to trapping Sims in their own burning houses or not petting the dog in Fallout, this person actually came up with something that makes us lose our faith in humanity. And that's hard to do man, we didn't realize that we had a whole lot of that left.

People spend a whole lot of time on video games, and one way to truly affect someone through a videogame is to attack their time. Which is, in a sense, what this person did. They are not the good guy in this story.

For some more not great behavior, here are the stories of how people got banned from places.

A 3,200-Year-Old Attendance Record Has Been Making Rounds of the Internet and You’d Be Fired For Missing Work For These Reasons Today

This fascinating archeological artifact has been circulating the internet recently. Popping up in a multitude of sources. 

It is a limestone etching dating back to 1250 BC that, as the reddit post below describes, is a workplace attendance record that also contains a myriad of somewhat comical excuses. 

Of course, the internet has been having a field day with this. It's amazing to think that, after so much time, we still share things like this in common with our ancestors. 

If you do call out of work for brewing beer, please let us know how that works out for you.

The artifact is currently housed at the British Museum, posted with the following description:

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Description

Ostracon with register of attendance at work. Labelled 'Year 40' of Ramses II, it provides a workmen's register for 280 days of the year. There are twenty-four lines of New Egyptian hieratic on the front and twenty-one lines on the back. A list of forty names is arranged in columns on the right edge of each side, followed to the left by dates written in black ina horizontal line. Above most dates is a word or phrase in red, indicating the reason why this individual was absent from work on that date." 

- British Museum

Dude Live Tweets His Foray Into Creepy Liminal Space

This one might strike a chord with anyone who's ever found themselves exploring an abandoned area, or at least on that's just "not in use." It can get eerie very fast.

Liminal spaces are technically described as "a space between two spaces." So think like "areas between two states of being" like hallways and airports. That said the term has been used to describe areas that don't exist for their own purpose, and more broadly just very creepy, often empty zones of foggy understanding. In this case, a dude found himself wandering the backrooms of a hotel, but it comes off way creepier than that should be.

Maybe it's the quizzically pointless stacks of chairs and strangely airy zones with no people, but this all has the vibe of a level of a video game where something has just gone wrong or is about to go wrong. @Yearoutwilliam takes us on a journey through the back, into a space that feels almost adjacent to reality. Fun.

Manufacturing Line Worker Flips the Script on Supervisor

There's something odd that occasionally happens when someone is promoted off the floor into a management position… Despite having walked the walk themselves and despite knowing exactly how everything operates from a line perspective, they lose their grip on reality and start acting exactly like the big brass above them. Making the exact same mistakes that come along with that.

We can typically chalk this odd behavior up to the new world and new pressures they find themselves in. They've never been in a management position before so they model off of the nearest example. I can tell you from experience that they are also being directly told how they should think and act. "You're in charge now. It's time to stop acting like those vermin who used to be your peers." 

As time passes the more impressionable will become indistinguishable from their bosses and the stronger willed will find themselves replaced or in the crosshairs for not "Seeing things from a business perspective."

Those who survive by morphing into their bosses will start acting like decisions, that the line knows aren't going to work, are a good ideas. When they fail spectacularly they're as quick as upper management to either pretend that it never happened or find slime 

Luckily, in this case, u/cranknation93 was able to protect themselves with process. When he asked his supervisor to sign their own name to their orders, they balked hard, knowing that they weren't going to be able to blame it on anyone else down the line. 

Cruel Mother Allows Boyfriend to Punish Her 16-Year-Old Son, Forces Him to Babysit Boyfriends Kids When He’s Supposed to Be at Work

When I was growing up my parents were certain to ensure that I learned valuable lessons about what it meant to work a job and make money with your own time and hard work. 

So, the summer after I turned 16 I had to have a job. I got a job working at the local baseball park that was home to a High-A baseball team. 

For those who don't know what that means, that means that it was three steps down from the major leagues. Players would first have to prove themselves in A, then double AA and finally AAA before they made it to the big times. 

It was a great job. Probably just as good as any 16 year old could ask for. The other lads and I ran a BBQ grill area that was usually rented out for corporate events before the games. 

That meant an endless supply of fresh tasty burgers and brats (which were often leftover in copious quantities.) for the entire summer. And, if we were quick with the pack down, we could often catch the game on from the bottom of the second inning. 

Cash was in hand. My parents probably would have preferred that it made it to my savings account but the reality is that it seldom did. After all, what were savings when there were Oakleys and video games to buy. Plus I had hefty monthly payments to consider. My World of Warcraft account wasn't going to pay for itself

Looking back, I was fortunate and privileged in the fact that my earnings didn't have to go back into supporting the family at that point of my life. For that reason and several others, I don't think that I ever quite caught the lesson that my parents were trying to teach. 

To this day shiny things often catch a paycheck before it makes it into my savings. (The shiny new glowing mechanical keyboard that I'm typing this on now is a testament to that fact.) But those building blocks my parents provided me were important to me becoming the (relatively) well adjusted and (relatively) functioning adult I am today.

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The point is… What I'm trying to say… The whole reason for that drawn out soliloquy… is that the kid has a job. He seems to, at the age of 16, have a firm grasp on how important it is that he is at that job. That is a lesson most parents wish their kids would learn.

Your shy boyfriend then punishes him for wanting to go to that job instead of watching his shy children. (Who your son has no obligation to baby sit.) What do you think that whole thing teaches your son?

Then you, his mother, come along and reinforce that lesson. 

Nicely done. Great work. Good parenting.

From that it should be easy to extrapolate an answer.

Woman Dedicates Her Entire TikTok Account to Calling Out Her Creepy Karen Neighbor Controversy

The woman says she started the account to help her keep record of everything her crazy Karen neighbor is putting her family through. Now, her TikTok viewers are heavily invested in the dramatic saga. 

Manchild Eats Wife's Photoshoot, Wonders Why She's Mad

So this guy's wife makes elaborate meals and takes pictures of them. If it's her job, then great. If it's her hobby, people have worse hobbies.

This dude had enough of waiting to eat, so he decided the best course of action would be to eat all of his wife's work while she was staging it, thus, making her work for the day null and void. She got angry, and now he's confused as to why that would be.

Honestly it sounds more like he's trying to push the blame on her by trying to "say his case" to the internet. That seems to have backfired, and pretty much every single comment is some description of how selfish, immature and childish this dude clearly is.

The sad reality is that people like this aren't exactly good at learning. If this person's story is legit, it's unlikely that he'll actually change the way he thinks based on the overwhelming feedback. And he'll probably come away from this thinking that 99.9% of people must be wrong, because obviously he feels a certain way about this and his feelings must be right because he is the one having them.

But man it's pretty funny to watch all these people call this guy a child.

For another entitled act of childishness, here's the mom who bullied kids off of a playground and wondered if she was in the wrong.

Boss Makes Employee Work During Lunch Break, Tells Them Not to Eat off Break

This boss didn't hesitate to send their worker out on errands during their lunch break. Eating on company time though? That was out of line. Since the understanding apparently didn't go both ways… u/unitedstatesoflabia knew that they needed to draw the line in the sand. 

Some expert Malicious Compliance would set her boss straight.

Breaks are one of the few times that you get to escape off into your own thoughts and dissociate away from the prison that can be the working day. They're essential to our sanity and well being, as well as being a legal requirement too.

I've definitely had some employment relationships in the past where there has been some mutual flexibility with break timing. But it was always with the understanding that, if I come to help with something on my lunch break, then I'm going to make it up afterwards. If I miss a lunch on a day because we're too busy? Alright, I'm taking a double lunch tomorrow. It was always win-win, and that is how it has to be. That's how you foster a stronger relationship. 

Satisfying Times People Quit An Unreasonable Boss

There is a type of boss who will take everything from you and then blame you for not trying hard enough. It's not because you're actually not working hard enough. It's because they can't be bothered to think of you as a person. They'll tell you you have no value, and then when you give any indication that you don't need to be around, they'll backpedal while still insisting that it's absurd you could possibly do better. You know, an abusive relationship.

The thing these kinds of bosses seem to forget is that you don't exist exclusively to serve them. You have a life outside of work, and work is just part of your larger, meaningful life. It's when bosses try to keep their employees from living the rest of their lives that they're given an opportunity to show off how desperately inhuman they are capable of being.

And boy is it nice to see an overworked employee make that kind of boss realize that they don't need to put up with all of it. You can almost hear the gears spinning in these jackass bosses heads as they try to come up with reasons that their own undervalued worker "needs" to stay.

For a real good one, here's this guy who let everything burn to the ground after his work messed with his vacation.

The Most Out-Of-Place Things People Found In Public Bathrooms

Public bathrooms are, at heart, a paradox. It's a public space designed to facilitate the most private of activities. Maybe the only more private activity than using the bathroom is painting your Warhammer mini figurines. But that privacy lasts forever.

But still, everything changes when you're in a public restroom. Every kind of human interaction takes on a new set of rules, from eye contact to unwarranted compliments. In everyday life it would be fine to ask a colleague if they needed help lifting something, but this universal gesture of goodwill is quizzically met with stony silence when uttered at a urinal.

The public bathroom is a zone of rigid expectations, which is why it's extra memorable to walk in on a whole Thanksgiving dinner in a toilet. We should clarify, a whole Thanksgiving dinner that hasn't been eaten yet.

It's moments like these that keep us up at night. When will the next toilet lobster find us? When will we come across a whole copy of The Declaration of Independence written on a stall door? The questions are too much. Here are some horrifying and cursed toilets.

Sister Reveals Brother's Four Illegitimate Children to Fiancé, Ruins Engagement

u/miabee02 posted to r/AITA this week regarding an incident that occurred between her and her older brother. u/miabee02 lives with her brother and has personally borne witness to some of the sleazier things that he has done to women during his, almost criminally, disastrous and delusional lifetime. 

This pillar of society has fathered four illegitimate children with different women whom he has mistreated. Only one of these four children does he have anything to do with or pay child support for. 

u/miabee02 goes on to explain that she feels like it's her brother's life and so she just stays out of it. Here's where I think that u/miabee02 is an a-hole too. At a certain point, it is our duty not to just stand on the sidelines and watch our family members enact wanton destruction of other people's lives. We have a duty to address the situation and not enable it or allow it to continue to happen. The very fact that she is still living with this guy after all that he has done is actually putting other women at risk. Likely, her presence is part of the trap into women thinking "Oh, he can't be that bad. There's another woman here."

That being said. There's nothing wrong at all with her revealing her brother's other indiscretions to a woman who thought that she was going to spend the rest of her life with this man. The fact that he hadn't told her already likely means that he was never going to. 

Bank Won't Let Guy Withdraw All His Funds So He Decides to Drown Them in Perpetual Transactions

These days banks have all kinds of ridiculous fees for anything and everything you could ever imagine. Sure, I'll buy into the fact that closing or opening an account used to have a bit of administration time involved. But surely those processes are now automated at the large banks that pull this kind of crap?

How about that paper statement fee that you are automatically opted into. And are you seriously going to charge me $5 because I blinked 500 times while I was waiting in line for service?

When it comes to stuff like this there's only one thing you can do; Play the game. Which is exactly what user Creepy-Analyst has done. 

What better way to avoid fees for closing an account than this?

 

 

48 Funny Pun Business Names That Chose Cleverness

Sure, any of us could get fried eggs at "Paul's Diner" but why not take a chance on those eggs at a place called "Mother I'd Like To Cluck." Some of the more boring folks out there would prefer to get their sleeping implements for "The Mattress Warehouse." But put that drab place across the street from "Nothing Really Mattress" and see which one raises more eyebrows. What can we say, we like things that are stupid. The reason? We are stupid. It's relatable. It feels like what we would do. Like start a Star Trek themed plumbing company called "Captain's Clog." It's dumb. We're dumb. And proud of it.

It's unclear if having a pun business name is any better for business but at least it's something to look at. There's just something so awesome about an entire sign someone made just for a dumb joke. Maybe it's the sheer commitment to the bit? For the connoisseurs of sign jokes, here's a funny restaurant sign that dispensed jokes and wisdom.

Jerk Step-Brother Hijacks Engagement Party With His Baby's Gender Reveal

An entitled older stepbrother, with whom the bride-to-be has a competitive history, usurped an engagement party with news of his own. The bride-to-be sends him half the bill.

Fair is fair, right?

Take notes everyone because this is probably something that you don't want to do at your sibling's engagement party. It should be common knowledge that it's never a good idea to slap your announcement on top of someone else's celebratory event. Yet, we hear stories like this all the time. 

I'd say that the poster is, in no way, in the wrong here. It's bad form to hijack someone else's event and it's not a good sign if you also have previous history of doing things like this. 

This older brother needs to take a serious look at his life and his entitlement. Chances are that this isn't the only crap like this he is pulling to the people around him. Even if it was a one off honest mistake, he needs to take ownership of his error. 

What's your take?

Painfully Obvious Things People Didn't Realize For Way Too Long

No one likes feeling stupid. It's down there with "ugly" and "being wrong on the internet." But the weird thing about thinking stupid things is that we all do it. Being stupid is more of a temporary condition than an identity. Well, for most of us. For some of us it's a chronic, incurable condition that just gets worse and worse. But these people's stupid moments are all about learning. They're about actively becoming less stupid. And there's nothing like becoming smarter to make you realize how dumb you truly are.

It doesn't matter how long you've been on this planet or how much you know, smart people still do stupid things. Even the concept of "smartness" is variable. Anyone might know everything there is to know about brain surgery but might not know that it's stupid to put metal in the microwave. Some of us were just sick the day we learned that snow is made out of water, only to have that fact make us look like complete smooth-brains a decade later. There are too many obvious things people realize way too late.

Essential Engineer Fired For His New Supervisor's Malicious Mistake, Hired Back On Steep Contract Rate When Company Faces Millions in Losses

This worker, who was the sole person at the company who was capable of doing his job, ended up on the wrong side of a malicious manager. When the manager made an extremely obvious error and let an entire (now unstaffed) department fall over he was sure to hang it on u/PeaceNGrease. 

The thing is... since u/PeaceNGrease was the only person capable and qualified of doing his job, they quickly realized that they were going to lose millions of dollars. Which left u/PeaceNGrease in the ideal position to negotiate a high contracted rate to train the new hires.

The big takeaway from this story seems to be that he should have asked for more. But $20,000 is a pretty penny and will pay for a nice vacation that he wouldn't have gotten otherwise! 

For more stories about appalling management check out this guy's story about being fired for asking for a raise.

Client Tries To Screw Employee Over By Locking Them Out Of System, Totally Backfires

They say "man makes plans and god laughs." They also say "fail to prepare, prepare to fail." So who's right? Should we expect reasonable outcomes to happen or shouldn't we? Maybe figures-of-speech don't actually mean anything until they can be applied after the fact. Isn't language stupid?

Anyway, this client had his own plan to save some money by not paying for this guy's services, and it just so happens that this employee prepared for that possibility. Maybe the lesson here is "if you're going to work for a bastard, prepare to be the bigger bastard." And bastard away this IT guy certainly did, to the tune of some satisfying justice.

There's just something so sinfully sweet about a proper jerk getting their righteous comeuppance when it's all said and done. This client tried real hard to screw over a completely well-meaning employee by locking them out of the system. Well, that definitely backfired in glorious fashion. For another tale of pro revenge check out the time that a scummy collection agency attempted to mess with a guy's credit score.