Women Who Regret Giving A Creepy Guy A Chance

If hanging out with someone makes your skin crawl, and they try to use guilt to get you to go out with them in the first place, you can rest assured that it's probably not gonna get better from there.

There's a massive difference between being creepy and just being weird. Tons of people are weird, but typically weird people know that fact, and they are able to let their weirdness manifest itself as dorkiness, quirkiness, or at the very least, eccentricity. But there's a vast difference between being super into medieval history and being the type of person who makes people want to take a shower after meeting you.

And don't go thinking there's a deeper integrity to someone's terrible creepiness. It's a lot safer to assume that people wear their intentions on their sleeves, so when someone who you just met seems to know a lot more about you than what you've actually told them, don't go trick yourself into thinking that it will get better.

Here are some folks who went against better judgement and dated creeps. And here's a delusional nice guy who went bananas on an engaged coworker.

Real Life Cowgirl Goes on a Run, Ends Up Helping a Random Cow Give Birth

You think cowboys are cool? Wait until you meet a real life cowgirl. 

Nurse Makes Trashy Judgement About Patient, Mad She's Been Called Out

A nurse made an assumption and then proceeded with an inappropriate judgment and course of action. Her patient had had enough and reacted to her treatment. Now the patient is wondering if she went too far. 

This thread was posted to r/AITA (Am I the Asshole) by the patient, u/teenmistakethrowaway (OP), who was facing judgment from the nurse. She is posting this thread to share her story and see whether or not she is in the wrong for her reactions to the nurse's attitude towards her.

She notes that the nurse was very standoffish towards her until the end of the appointment when OP mentioned her "husband." This led to the nurse realizing that OP was not as young as she had thought. The nurse had assumed that u/teenmistakethrowaway was very young based on her appearance, which u/teenmistakethrowaway notes is something that happens to her quite frequently. 

Scroll on for the full story below. 

Funny Signs Found In This Big Dumb World

Sometimes we're just too clever for our own good, and we need to communicate that cleverness to other people in a more passive way. We'd love to tell our favorite witticisms over and over again, but we can't be everywhere at once. That's why we've got all these friendly signs to be only in one place, but all the time.

 Be they a helpful reminder or a cry for help themselves, we can't help but feel warmly toward all the signs in our big dumb world. At least the ones that don't say they're going to outright kill us. That's the job for creepy signs that make their message clear. But for all other times, we've got signs that can't be trusted.

So check out there scrawlings of your fellow man. Most of them are pretty accurate, some make no sense, but they all mean something to someone. Sort of. Probably.

Boyfriend Tries Controlling Girlfriend's Shower Temperature, Thinks He Is The Victim

It's pretty normal for showers to steam. This guy either takes lukewarm showers, or is under the impression that a steaming shower means that the water is literally boiling your skin to pieces. And if that's the case, he just needs a science lesson. Also, he's very interestingly concerned by his bathroom's ability to handle steam, which is kind of a standard thing that bathrooms should be able to do, right? Is his shower curtain made of crepe paper? But the real weirdness here is this guy's insistence on policing the showering habits of his soon-to-be ex-girlfriend.

Not only does this guy go so far as to insist she shower differently, he also decided that it's reasonable to remove the lock so he can more easily invade her privacy to check and make sure she's showering in the manner that he personally deems acceptable.

For some more curious unreasonable-ness, here's the wife who insisted her family be able to stay while a nurse changes her husband's catheter.

Random Funny Tumblr Gems To Vibe To Or Not

The thing about the internet is that you can never really know who you're talking to. Any number of the squawking typers of the web could be your mailman, your hairstylist, or even your mom. And every one of us is absolutely packed with thoughts. Most of them are pointless and stupid. Some of them are terrifically wise, even mind-blowing. But the one thing in common is that they all show up in the same place. And we, the people, are left to discern whether or not a thought is worthwhile based only on its content rather than the life on the other side of the hidden mouth that's saying it.

And when it comes to Tumblr, a whole lot of it is just gonna be about movies from the mid to late 2000s. Some of it will be profound and some of it will be mockable. So, y'know, take it all with a grain of salt.

Here are some more funny tumblr gems uncovered from the deep.

Milkshake Mistake Leads to Absolute Piss-Take

When this customer approached the food service worker at the local ice cream joint to complain about the fact that their milkshake wasn't milky enough they couldn't possibly have imagined just how milky their milkshake could get.

This story was posted by u/chsser who shared it to the popular r/MaliciousCompliance subreddit. They wrote this story to tell about a regular who used to come in every day for a shake. Chsser states that this regular was generally a pretty chill guy about most things but was extremely particular about how "milky" his milkshake was. 

"This dude would summon the might of satan if his milkshake wasn't made with enough milk in it. Worse, he would sit there and wait until you remade it to his liking." explains chsser.

Chsser had had enough of this and did what every customer service person wishes they could do… They maliciously complied with the customer's every demand and made them the milkiest milkshake possible. 

Read on for Chsser's story and the reactions below. 

 

Professional Consultant on TikTok Sparks Conversation About Red Flags in Managers

Micromanaging obviously made the list, but why is having been only at the company your entire career on there?

Freaky Facts That Are Difficult To Believe

The known universe is a pretty big place. Maybe "big" doesn't even cover the massiveness. "Leviathan" might apply to like half of it, and maybe "insurmountably gigantic" would cover a lot of the rest. But within the most miniscule parts of habitable reality in which we find ourselves sleeping, going to work, and eating tacos, there are still what science would refer to as "oodles" of new things to learn every day.

And no, knowing more about scorpions and swords won't make you "smarter" per say, but it will provide a grander context to the physical world we're hanging our in. And waking up with a better idea of the world you walk on makes it at least a little bit easier to comprehend, even though learning more things often inspires twenty new questions. But hey, that's life on Earth.

Here are more of people's most fun, interesting and peculiar facts.

Bad-Tempered Girlfriend Starts Schism in Family, Protected By Passive Parents

Pet Store Karen Quizzes Random Teen on Animal Anatomy, Can't Fathom They Don't Work There

"Does it have testicles?"… the penultimate question that echos out into the space of recorded time. Who can be certain? Who here truly knows or has the answer? 

This Pet Store Karen (a distant relative of the Pet Shop Boys) certainly doesn't have the answer. We're pretty sure that she doesn't have the answer to much of anything in life, not that many of us do. But, whereas the rest of us are befuddling our way around our lives and trying to be the best to others that we can be, this Pet Store Karen has instead let her confusion fester into entitlement, hatred, and anger. Now she walks the earth in a fury, sustained by hatred alone like Darth Sion (any KOTOR fans out there?) 

This story was posted to Reddit's r/Idontworkherelady subreddit by u/Azurehue22, who the Karen in question accosted. They share this tale of their bewildering experience. Commenters responded with their questions and responses, others still shared similar experiences of their own.

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Cursed Images To Not Feel So Good About

Have you ever felt like things just aren't going your way? Like things feel a little off-kilter? Slightly awry? As if there's just not the right balance in your life? Well it could definitely be a lot worse. We could be living in a world of phantasmal off-kiltertude. A world where the Furbies are longer than they ever ought to be. A world where things just never quite fit together or match up.

Sometimes we don't realize how balanced our lives really are. And we need a reminder that things could be a lot more unsettling, usually in the form of blood-filled ticks and improperly positioned hotdogs.

So here are some more cursed, creepy and weird images from the abyss. Just in case you wanted to look at more milk-doused coins, beans in the wrong places, shoes covered in teeth and thumbtacks all up everywhere else. It's an aesthetic, but it's not really all that aesthetic.

Semi-Driver Blocks Shoulder-Driving Karen, Watches Her Crash Into Police Cruiser

In general, it's not a good idea to get in the way of a reckless driver. Using your own vehicle to block a road-raging Karen is a great way to get yourself mangled, and it's always best to let insane drivers use their own insanity to get as far away from you as possible. And in the event of an actual emergency, you can't actually know what's going on in someone's car that's making them drive like a lunatic.

But this time around, Karen was just being a Karen. She insisted that the shoulder was her own personal passing lane, and this semi-truck driver took it upon themselves to make sure she quite literally stayed in her lane. In her attempt to escape traffic, she ended up zooping right into a cop car. So technically, she did end up not having to sit in a traffic jam anymore, thus achieving her goal. It's nice when things work out for everyone.

For another slice of the Karen life, here's a person who watched a Karen ruin her own car.

Digital Marketing Specialist Fixes Critical Issues, Told to Unfix it By Micromanaging New Boss

There's nothing more satisfying than going above and beyond in your job and receiving no recognition for it. Even better is going above and beyond to fix a serious issue and then being reprimanded. That's exactly what happened to this digital marketing specialist when they resolved a critical issue (that the company didn't even realize existed.) Their unqualified new boss took it as insubordination and a challenge to their position and questioned the changes they had made. This was despite the changes showing obvious results. 

This story was posted to r/MaliciousCompliance by the digital marketing specialist, u/ernestomarord.

They shared the story and explained that the new boss's "micromanagement style" and criticism of their "critical thinking skills" eventually led them to a breaking point and caused them to leave the company. They are certain that the boss, who has no idea what they are doing, will fail without them there.

Oh, and before they left, they changed back the key changes that were being called into question. 

Read on for the full story and reactions below. 

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.