Massachusetts Ice Cream Parlor Owner Scolds Entitled Customers for Screaming at his Teenage Employees: ‘They are children. Grow up and act your age.’

Good for him for sticking up for his teenage employees! Recently, a Facebook post from the owner of Coldstuff Ice Cream in Blackstone, Massachusetts, went viral. He wanted to tell the public, once and for all, to stop being needlessly cruel to his teenage employees. As a former teenage restaurant employee, I really appreciate what …
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Husband works in wife’s office break room, gets annoyed when told to stop: ‘The break room is two people maximum’

Any shared workspace needs to be respected. While having somebody annoying in your office isn’t quite the same as having a bad roommate, the same principles apply. When you work around other people, it is important to respect their personal space and their right to use the shared space as intended. That, and also to …
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Business owner discovers he’s paying his employees 113% more than the average business owner in his area: ‘Similar firms are paying 35% less than last year.’

They’re deflating wages either because they’re greedy or because they fear the worst. Is 2008 going to happen again? It feels like it’s going to happen, but it just hasn’t happened yet. For the past year, everyone’s been talking about how bad the job market is, even though the stock market keeps rising. Everyone knows …
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Business owner ghosts job candidate after discovering she’s a close friend’s girlfriend, only to be confronted by friend when he finds out: ‘That’s uprofessional’

In an attempt to be professional and unbiased, this guy ended up being the complete opposite. Being a small business owner can’t be easy; there are so many responsibilities that fall on your lap, without you even knowing these are tasks that must be done in a business. Hiring people, however, is not the surprising …
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Struggling restaurant owners borrow $8000 from nephew to keep the business, then take vacation to Ibiza without paying him back, he demands the money: ‘You should be ashamed’

Nothing beats a Jet2 holiday you did not pay a dime for. Loving and caring for your family does not mean you should give in to every single demand they make. More often than not, in the long run, saying ‘no’ to these demands would prove just how much you care about them, since you …
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‘It’s my legacy as well’: 10 years after inheriting his late father-in-law’s auto shop, a mechanic refuses to relinquish business ownership to his cheating ex-wife

While there’s never a divorce proceeding without at least a little friction, this scorned man was sideswiped when his future ex-wife demanded her late father’s business. In return for wronging him in their marriage, she decided that she was entitled to the auto shop garage that her father left to him, but he wasn’t going …
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