Marketing employee says coworker Jenna keeps taking credit for her work, potentially costing her a promotion: ‘These wins are what get you noticed’

How would you react if a coworker steals all of your ideas and gets praised by managers? A marketing employee reached out to the community on the subreddit r/needadvice because she found herself in a tight workplace situation. Redditor dustyanchorx66 explains that her coworker, Jenna, has been taking her ideas and presenting them as her …
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Teacher Records Student’s Disrespectful Behavior After School Administration Refuses to Believe That They’re Misbehaving

Was she wrong for doing what the school administration implied she should do? Working with kids means you have to watch what you say far more than most other professionals. If you tell your coworker something off-color about your personal life, there’s a good chance that they will think, «Wow, that was kind of weird,» …
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A Carbo-Load of 28 Metabolism-Boosting Running Memes to Motivate Your Week

Is it cardio day already? Just kidding, you’re a runner; every day is cardio day.  Avoiding the weight room like the plague, runners are a different breed of fitness freak. Unlike their bloated, powerful, tire-wielding comrades over in the CrossFit arenas, runners are out in the fields, running for hours in total, in perfect solitude. …
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Employee accidentally receives coworker’s $6k bonus, wonders whether they should report it or not: ‘It stings but this money was never yours’

Have you ever accidentally received something you were supposed to? Sometimes you end up in a situation that you wish you hadn’t, and there is nothing you can do about it. You’ve found yourself in a pickle, and there’s not a lot you can do to get out of it. The person in this story, …
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Micromanaging boss cancels his 2-week vacation, devastates employee who was excited to get a break from him: ‘He seems relieved he isn’t going on vacation.’

Why couldn’t he let his employees have a couple of weeks of peace? Nobody likes a micromanager. I don’t know if it’s worse to have a micromanager or a manager who doesn’t manage at all, but at least you can do whatever you want when your managers don’t care about what you’re doing. Micromanagers won’t …
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Mom Demands That Ex Pay Half of Daughter’s Irish Dance Trip That She Will Attend, He Refuses Because He Doesn’t Want to Pay For Her Vacation

What is a co-parent obliged to pay for compared to their ex? Breakups are already complicated when they only involve two adults, but put kids into the mix, and things are taken to a whole other level. When you have a dependent to think about, the responsibility and the expense are far higher. You can’t …
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‘Be honest should I quit’: 25 Memes for hardworking people trying to quit their jobs

Signs come in all shapes and forms. Billboard ads, license plates, angel numbers, and sometimes, memes.  For all the hard workers out there trying to find the courage to leave their job and pursue their true passion (even if that starts with UN and ends with EMPLOYMENT). Whatever that may look like, sometimes you don’t …
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Dad refuses to leave Daughter’s studio apartment during her therapy session, claims he’s allowed to stay since he pays for her studies: ‘Just deal with it’

«Dear Dad, paying for some of your daughter’s life does not mean you’re entitled to every little piece of it.» Oh, what we would have done to be allowed to say that to the father in the story below.  This 23-year-old daughter is currently studying abroad, so her father and stepmother came to visit her. …
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Mom signs up her ex’s new wife for a comedy club act after reading her ridiculous demands on their custody request: ‘Megan is still getting contacted by comedy-related organizations’

«My attorney laughed so hard she had to mute herself during a phone call.» When your joint-custody demands are so ridiculous that the biomom literally LOLs her way to the comedy club as revenge, you know you’ve gone too far. This stepmom had had a taste of parenthood for only three years after marrying a …
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Mom demands her son repay his car repo loan after his girlfriend shows up with a brand-new brand-name purse and casually announces plans to stop working full-time

A twenty year old gets his car repossessed, asks his parents for help, pays back most of it responsibly, and would have gotten the whole thing quietly forgiven by his dad if his girlfriend had not spent that same two week window carrying a brand new brand name purse to her rides and mentioning she …
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