Sunshine, Lollipops And Smut

This is as classic as it gets, we have all been to way too many meetings that could have been an email, a text message, or sometimes even a thumbs up, but to spend this amount of money on a meeting that does almost nothing is next‑level corporate. It is the extra mile that companies will happily sprint down, just to avoid actually accomplishing anything

This mother-in-law won't take no for an answer!

Becoming a grandparent is a dream for many people, and they indulge that grandchild as much as they can. They'll feed them junk food, get them all riled up before bed time, let them do whatever they want, and then send them home to let Mom and Dad deal with the fallout. Grandparents don't usually mean to cause trouble, but the ways they treat the grandkiddies can really stress out the parents. 

This MIL has a vision for her 3-year-old grandson's birthday, but it's clashing with her son and daughter-in-law's actual wishes. 

Why can't this neighbor understand that the public road space is for everyone? 

If you're a mom, you're impossibly busy all the time. And if you're a homeowner with nothing else to do in the world, you might spend your time bugging your neighbors about petty things, like who parks where. And thus, these two people meet, and no one leaves happy! 

This person has had an ongoing situation with a neighbor for months now. This neighbor has ardently decided that this woman shouldn't park across the street from her house. Why? There doesn't seem to be a real reason. The neighbor just doesn't like it, and has made it her mission to bug this poor Mom who's just trying to find somewhere to park the car. 

Tech bros are not the problem (here), the problem is tech bros plus unlimited access to a keyboard and a complete blindness to the concept of incremental progress. This story is basically a stand‑up bit about a startup where the only thing moving fast was the rate at which the thing they're trying to start up is performance art

If there is one thing this employee knows how to do, it is to take stock of everything that happens in the warehouse.

A lot can happen in a workplace without anyone noticing or paying attention. Work gets done, and employees come and go every day. It's not feasible for everyone to track every action taken by others, and that's okay. But in a workplace like a warehouse, a tracking system must be in place; it would be extremely difficult to run the business otherwise. As soon as there's stock involved in the workplace, attention to detail is a must, and every small mistake can go as far as costing someone their job.

When HR promises you an hour-long lunch break, they should not pretend to be shocked when you take it.

This electrician had the unfortunate experience of working at a company where he was expected to work 10 hours a day without stopping, not even for a decent lunch hour. The strange part was that these so-called norms actually went against what the electrician had been promised prior to signing a contract with HR. That agreement expressly stated that the author was entitled to a lunch break.

People, it's not like this guy was asking for special perks! Besides, choosing to let someone go for demanding what he was promised is a recipe for backlash.

Covering yourself from vulnerability is one of the most important lessons you will learn in the workplace… but it's not taught during onboarding or printed in the employee manual.

It might seem as if documenting every little part of your day would be disadvantageous for you, owing to the amount of oversight that you're offering your megalomaniac of a boss, but if you're documenting every little thing that you're doing with your time, it is going to take so much of their time that they're not going to be able to manage all of that information anyways. And when you're working in a toxic environment under leadership that likes to rewrite history and point the finger, there is never going to be a time when you regret fastidious record keeping.

Plus, as with any time a requirement for additional administrative oversight is added, there is going to be a cost to productivity. As every little bit of paperwork is completed, the only way to highlight the ridiculousness of it is to follow it to the letter.

And there will always be things that are overlooked. 

As a historic blizzard left the East Coast blanketed in snow, some bosses realized they didn't plan ahead. 

For the first time in roughly a decade, a major winter storm has dropped several feet of snow across the entire East Coast. It's kind of a big deal! A lot of us are working from home, while in New York at least, all of the kids got a real, bona fide snow day. 

Here's the thing: we got quite a bit of warning that we were about to get a wall of snow and ice. We knew for like, a full week beforehand! Many of us went out shopping for groceries, did our laundry, and got any last-minute items we might need before we sealed ourselves in our cozy cocoons to ride out the storm. 

There are some workers who are out there right now, working through literally any weather condition, like fire fighters and EMTs. But those folks plan ahead, too. They aren't scrambling around at the last minute trying to determine their course of action in the way that this boss was. 

What's the drama going on in your workplace? 

Every workplace has some drama going on! No matter where you work — from the back of house at a restaurant, to the boujie conference rooms of C-suite offices — there will be some kind of tea to spill. 

When you work with the same group of people for 40+ hours each week, you get to know each other way too well! Friendships form, and just as quickly, so do cliques and little feuds. 

These people were eager to share the little rifts going on in their workspaces, and the stories are wild! 

Some people started pilfering from their job before selling off their ill-gotten goods, like this first person here.