Arduinna

Not every pair of coworkers is meant to get along, but that doesn't mean you have to go out of your way to undermine one another.

This corporate employee recounted the story of how a difficult coworker, "Katy," tried to sabotage her before a large upcoming project was due. In this small workplace environment made up of 15 employees and a few interns, the employee managed to get two interns assigned to her after Katy only expressed interest in having one intern shadowing her. 

Over the years, the two coworkers constantly butted heads on various disagreements regarding office politics, power dynamics, and workplace responsibilities. I suppose it was only a matter of time before the interns were roped into this conflict as well.

Katy's intern left the company, and suddenly, she didn't have someone she could boss around, nor did she have someone whose work she could take credit for in team meetings. Now, Katy was setting her sights on a new intern, and instead of convincing human resources to list a job posting online, she wanted to take one of the author's interns instead.

Good deed goes sideways when a kind neighbor answers a Nextdoor plea for food assistance, spends $136 on groceries for a mother and child, then gets scolded for missing mandarin oranges and bacon that were out of stock. Soon after, another suspicious post appears from someone with a matching last name, supposedly a single dad in the same town, asking for identical help. Gratitude clearly didn't make it into the delivery.  

Online kindness was supposed to be the heartwarming antidote to digital cynicism. Instead, it's become a sport where generosity meets amateur con artistry. This mother's complaint reads like a Yelp review of compassion gone wrong. Imagine being fed, for free, and still arguing about fruit cups. Some people see a helping hand and mistake it for customer service. The bizarre twin post from the alleged single dad only adds a layer of Craigslist noir to the whole situation. It's not charity anymore, it's improv theater performed by opportunists with Wi-Fi. 

Dating in the modern age presents lots of unexpected challenges, as this person was stunned to discover on their first date. 

Most people have some form of social media, and a lot of people have TikTok accounts where they record themselves doing hobbies, hanging with friends, or sharing videos of their pets. You know — the usual stuff. But there's a particular type of social media personality who seems insufferable to hang out with, because they're the type of person who records everything. They're always "on," always seeming to act for the camera, styling their food to photograph it before eating it, and insisting on taking dozens of photos or videos before doing anything. Nothing can ever be casual or un-aesthetic. Their attitude is that if they didn't record it, it didn't happen. Any and everything is fair game, including dating, as this unfortunate person discovered in real time. 

I've just never understood how someone could happily date someone who talks about them online all the time though, with or without permission. Some folks love to go on TikTok and make long videos airing out their grievances. Oftentimes, commenters will just tell them to leave that person, and of course they'll make follow-up videos about that. While they have every right to do so, I can't help but think about how hurtful it would be to argue with your significant other and find out that instead of communicating with you, they're complaining about you online to millions of strangers. 

This person didn't even make it into a relationship — or even a second date! — with the woman who recorded them during date #1. Some folks will claim they do this for safety… I suppose if things are getting weird, then you could start recording (or just give someone your location, name of your date, etc. in order to keep an eye on you from afar). But this woman clearly wanted to use the date as content. Forget about getting to know this person — she wanted a video from the date, whether it went good or bad. Plus, imagine if the date had gone well! She still would've made a video about her thoughts on the date and this person against their wishes. At least this person found out about her secretive recordings before getting too involved with her and all of her followers. 

Well, that's bound to hit a guilty nerve…After all, it's technically the manager's fault for denying her nursing employee light-duty work after she announced her Achilles injury…When you hurt yourself, doctors will normally tell you to get some rest, not run marathons around the hospital you work at, so you can reach all your patients…Because that will most likely lead to worsening your injury! But this manager seemed to take her chances regarding her employee's limits. Limits that now leave her limping around, searching for her very own nurse. 

It's not as if the manager wasn't warned either, she received not one, not two, but multiple doctors' notes regarding the state of her employee's foot. Will choosing to ignore this information put her job on the line…? Because not only was this one nurse affected, but many of her coworkers are feeling uneasy about their manager's 'unethical' choices. Because last time we checked, a hospital is a place that's meant to heal the injured, not contribute to breaking them further…