‘EVERY EMAIL AND TIMELINE WE SENT FOR THE LAST 3 WEEKS SAID WE WERE CLOSED ON 1/2’: Boss makes employees work on January 2nd despite telling everyone the office was closed from December 25th-January 2nd

Ask any character of the hit TV show Frasier, and they will tell you…miscommunications are extremely frustrating! Miscommunication can have you running around your apartment in a frenzy, whispering to your loved ones in a kitchen, and ultimately humiliating Kelsey Grammer more than anybody else. Unlike in television situation comedies from the 90s, not all …
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The Cringiest Parenting Texts of the Week (August 22, 2023)

Happy Tuesday, people with parents! This week, we’ve collected the absolute peak of unhinged parental texts for you. It’s not quite fun or funny, but for anyone with awful parents, this collection is a little too relatable. Not to dump on any individual reading this article, but I’m not in contact with either of my …
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Man Tells Co-Worker to Ignore Her Husband’s Insecurities During Business Trip

I’m not a relationship expert. Far from it. But even I can identify blatant issues. The following post made in the /r/amitheasshole subreddit is a case example of a not-so-ideal relationship situation.  The story goes that Redditor /u/One_Comfort_62 had developed a contemptuous relationship with his co-worker, Justin. While the reasons for their problematic status were …
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The Cringiest Parenting Texts of the Week (August 15, 2023)

You know what they say about insane parents, can’t live with them, can’t live without them despite your best effort to rid them from your life. There’s no perfect parent-and-child relationship. Even the best families still have hiccups now and then. There are a lot of lucky people out there with some of the best, …
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Workers Discuss Email Etiquette After Company Rejects Half of Employee’s Vacation Time Request

It is hard to believe how many people can’t craft a proper email. I didn’t wholly learn the art and science of professional emailing until I was a junior in college, and who knows where I would be if I didn’t take particular classes that taught me that. I’ll give you some general tips if …
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Boss Posts Bizarre Note Explaining Funeral Leave Policy

Calling off work to go to a fake funeral is so common it’s almost considered cliche. People online talk about pretending their grandma dies at every new job, which is something I have not been desperate enough to do yet. Even though it’s relatively uncommon in the working world (college professors see this excuse more …
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Kids Encounter Landline Phone for First Time, Make Everyone Else Feel Old

Time is a cruel mistress. Trends change and the world moves forwards, until one day, you realize that everything you ever knew has suddenly become irrelevant. It happens to all of us eventually, but few expect it until it actually happens to them. It could be triggered by something as small as still wearing skinny …
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Enlightening Thread Explains What Language To Use With Difficult Co-workers

Having co-workers is a relationship like no other. You might be lumped together under the same boss in the same company, but there’s no telling what petty disputes and personality clashes might occur when no-one else is looking. Diplomacy is an underrated skill in many parts of life, and it’s never more important than in …
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People Debate If We Should Be Getting Stressed Over Phone Calls

After being shut inside for the best part of two years, it’s fair to say that many of us have become a lot more anti-social. The fact that most were nursing some serious device addictions long before that only made the whole thing worse. For the most privileged among us, anything we could ever need …
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Twitter Users Discuss The Pros And Cons Of Unequal Texting Ratios

When was the last time you sent a message? If you’re anything like most people with access to a phone and/or an internet connection, the likelihood is that it wasn’t too long ago. Only a generation previously, it was unthinkable that the main way most of us would get in contact with each other would …
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