23-year-old employee refuses to cover her 26-year-old coworker’s shifts until she repays the $800 she lent her 15 months ago: ‘I’ve covered at least 14 of her shifts this past year, and she has never covered for me.’

She’s only paid her back $100 of the $800 she «borrowed» over a year ago. When you lend money to somebody, your relationship totally changes. If you gift your children or grandchildren a down payment for a house that you never expect to get back, that’s totally different. But if you lend them that money …
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‘My coworker stated that minimum wage was not meant to cover all our bills and if we needed more money we needed to get a different job’: Coworker calls coffee shop job ‘supplemental income,’ believes coworkers should all have other jobs

Everyone comes to a certain job for a different reason. Maybe you see it as a stepping stone in your career, where you will gain experience and make connections. Maybe you just need something to tide you over for a couple of months while you look for something more permanent. Maybe you know somebody who …
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16-year-old refuses to get coffee with her 17-year-old friend after she paid for her friend’s $7 coffee 5 times and refused to pay her back: ‘I told her that my monthly allowance had run out’

Asking someone to pay you back is a tricky dance. I really don’t have a problem with Venmo requesting exactly how much someone owes me, but a lot of people aren’t that financially confrontational. It’s very common to have a «You get me this time, I’ll get you next time» dynamic, and that’s all well …
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A Fresh Pot of 20 Coffee Memes to Start Your Monday Morning With a Caffeine Boost

The earthy aroma of coffee swirls around your tired head, awakening your senses and getting you ready for the day. On a slow Monday morning, coffee is the one beverage that reminds us we’re alive, invigorating our mood, lifting our eyelids, and sending us out the door with a swift kick in the rear. Whether …
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25+ Starbucks Memes Topped With Sweet Cream Cold Foam

When I was a tween, Starbucks was like my Shangri-La. There was one in my neighborhood, within walking distance from my house, and it was one of the only places I was allowed to go to by myself or with my other tween friends. So we would go all the time, and hang out there …
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22 Caffeinated Memes for the Folks Doubling Hot Coffee as Hand Warmers This Winter

Coffee lovers are a breed of their own, perpetually obsessed with their cup of joe like it’s a personality trait. But as any true hot coffee lover knows, winter is when coffee is the true star of the show. And with the cold weather finally it full swing, t’s officially hot coffee season. There’s nothing …
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25+ Overly Caffeinated Memes Vibrating From That Third Coffee

Sometimes that first coffee hits so good that you have a second one, and the second one feels so right that you have a third, and then as soon as you know it you’ve sent 37 emails in 20 minutes and feel like you could run a marathon if you had to. Caffeine is a …
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Customer refuses to ‘pay forward’ the $42 coffee order from the car behind him after a kind stranger pays for his $4 coffee: ‘The cashier looked at me with total contempt’

I’m so glad I never worked in a drive-thru window because if I did, I would’ve floundered the second somebody wanted to pay for the person behind them. I don’t know how to pull up the credit card information of a customer who just left! What are you, nuts? Against all odds, drive-thru employees find …
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Self-centered remote working journalist complains about coffee shops having loud music: ‘I can’t hear myself think, let alone do Zoom calls here’

I’ll be the first to admit it: as somebody whose job requires little more than a laptop, a phone, and the world-weary cynicism of somebody who has spent too much time on the internet, I have frequently worked in places that many would not consider workplaces. From trains to cafes, to particularly quiet bars, I …
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Coffee shop gets roasted for refusing to serve customers unless they smile at the door: ‘They will go bankrupt and that’s when I’ll smile’

I don’t know about you, but for me, few things can make a bad mood worse than being told to smile. No matter what is troubling you, it’s rarely something a forced change in facial expression is going to fix.  Nonetheless, there is a certain brand of annoying person who still thinks this is helpful …
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