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Dec. 18th, 2025 06:45 pm![]()
Customer: "Holy s***!"
Me: "Is everything okay, sir?"
Customer: "From back there, I thought you were sitting down, but you're standing. You're so short!"
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Customer: "Holy s***!"
Me: "Is everything okay, sir?"
Customer: "From back there, I thought you were sitting down, but you're standing. You're so short!"
Airplane seating turns dramatic when a middle-aged man tries to bark a teenage girl out of her assigned aisle seat and ends up getting fact-checked by a boarding pass.
He marches up, looks at a half-sleepy kid in baggy clothes, and decides volume is a strategy. Orders her to move, throws in insults, and even threatens to drag her out, all before doing the radical thing of checking his actual ticket. She holds her ground, makes it very clear that touching her would be a terrible idea, and refuses to play show me your papers for some random stranger in coach. Enter the flight attendant, who needs about ten seconds and two pieces of cardboard to unravel his entire performance. Her seat is correct. His seat is behind hers.
In one breath, he goes from loud and confident to red-faced and suddenly fascinated with the floor. He shuffles into the row behind, too embarrassed to make eye contact, while she laughs and settles back in to nap. Eleven hours beside his own ego sounds like punishment enough, especially with the bonus mercy of her not reclining into his space.
Some people board a plane and think the assigned seat comes with staff, not neighbors.
Read All It Takes Is One Scammer To Ruin It For All The Other Scammers…
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A customer is asking for a refund on a Lego set.
Me: "I'll just check this for you, sir."
Customer: "What, why?!"
Me: "Well, we had someone return a Lego set once, and instead of Lego inside, it was all pebbles. Because of that, we need to check."
Read All It Takes Is One Scammer To Ruin It For All The Other Scammers…
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Me: "What are you doing?"
Coworker: "Keeping an eye on those two sharing the table. They're both convinced they can make the other one leave."

The fabric of this country is forever being torn apart by hate and exclusion; it is forever being stitched into, as the site says, new patterns, new connections, new relationships. Solidarity is always about connection across difference, about the way you stand with someone you have something crucial in common with but who may be different in other ways. It is a quilter's art of bringing the fragments together into a whole. It is e pluribus unum.
You may think that your workplace runs like clockwork because you're the only person who gives 110% every day, but to your boss, that might not matter in the least.
When you spend 40+ hours each week at your job, it's hard not to care a lot about it. Some workers start to care too much, though. It's not their fault — I think it's good to care about things, generally — but if management couldn't give a hoot about it, you shouldn't either. That's why we say to "act your wage." If your boss, who makes 6 or 7 figures a year, doesn't care if the store if messy or if clients are furious, you really shouldn't take on that emotional burden for yourself while making 5 figures. No matter how much you, as an employee, care about that space, if the bosses don't care, things will simply not change. And in that case, you can quit your job if you so choose, finding a better environment to spend your one precious life in.
These folks have a lot in common: although they're from many different industries, almost everyone who shared their story expressed happiness that they fled their job. You'd be hard-pressed to find someone who quits a job then pines for it after the fact! It's a good reminder that you never have to just sit at a desk and be miserable for 40 hours a week if you don't want to. Change is out there, go find it!
Read It’s Not Healthy To Discuss This At Work
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Customer: "Sounds like you're ashamed of who you're voting for to me!"
Me: "Not at all, I'm just trying to get through my line of customers."
Customer: "So then why not just tell me?"
Read My Sister, The Level Five Vegan

Little Sister: "Ugh! There's no vegan option!"
Girlfriend: "They have a bunch of salads."
Little Sister: "They're all not vegan enough! I'm not gonna be like those fake vegans! This salad has figs, and did you know a wasp has to die to make a fig?!"

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We could build this NOW. The future of damaging children is HERE.
A $25M company wouldn't give its new employees even a lowly Christmas pizza party to celebrate the end of the year. Instead, they made workers wait until they had five years of seniority to rummage through the company's merchandise bucket. Thaaaanks…
Company loyalty is a rare thing these days. Because of that, when business do have loyal workers, they should be rewarding those tried-and-true hard workers with a little something to sweeten their employment deal, right? In an age where pensions, extended PTO benefits, and even a gold star from your boss is a rarity, the Christmas bonus is a fabled tradition of yore. So when this prospective employee first started working for a big company and noticed they still did bonuses, they were psyched! 18 months in, and after they were snubbed of their gift the first year, they didn't realize until now that the bonuses were only for employees working with the company for over 5 years.
Apparently, 5 years of loyalty was all that earned you a Merry Christmas in this office, so the worker initiated a tongue-in-cheek protest, refusing to wish management a happy holiday until after at least 5 years of work.
Read Dionne Warwick’s Origin Story
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This is a story from a friend. She had moved from New York to Los Angeles, and although she had driven her car there, she had not been out of the LA Basin since. Consider her a California newbie.
Well, this is certainly a unique (and slightly dangerous) take on malicious compliance, but here goes: This father lives in a small village that focuses on growing organic food. They have everything from juicy fruits to jaw-dropping veggies…However, there does seem to be one special product they just can't locate: 100% natural honey. But this awesome dad, being the man he is, managed to find one generous beekeeping friend who has offered to provide him with enough jars for him and his daughter living abroad.
I don't know about you guys, but my dad sometimes moans about passing me the remote, so when this dad puts so much effort into boxing and shipping her honey, she is beyond excited by the sweet gesture…That being said, the second her father passed the parcel on to the post office, things took a sour turn! After weeks of receiving thin air, this father went down to the post office to see what was going on…mortified to discover not only had the parcel been lost, but when they finally found it, the box and all its contents were completely destroyed!
Read Melting Down Over Pop Ups
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Me: "Sir, for the last time, it's not our fault your phone keeps slowing down. It's your fifty tabs open to [Adult Website] that's doing it."
Customer: "Then you better close 'em!"