Dedicated employee ponders leaving job after getting skipped for promotion in favor of external candidate: ‘I have been at my job for 2 years, going above and beyond every single day’

The contemporary working world is one that is full of contradictions. One of the biggest of these is that working hard at your job and fulfilling all the requirements of the role doesn’t necessarily mean that you will get rewarded for it. You would think that businesses would have every incentive to pay attention to …
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Confused Gen Z works office job, complains that they get 5 days of work done in 2: ‘Is this what life is going to be like for the next 50 years?’

The transition into the white-collar working world can sometimes be a difficult one. A fresh employee might try to focus on the positives, like a salary hike and not having to endure face-to-face customer service, but then they get rudely confronted with the joys of BCC emails and office politics. In some roles, another thing …
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Entitled new homeowners complain about being gifted useful household supplies, face petty revenge from vendor: ‘I offered to come help clear up some of their complaints’

Few common life experiences are quite as stressful as moving house, especially if you’re buying. Packing up everything you own is overwhelming enough, but dealing with all the paperwork, shuttling it across town, and unpacking it all in a different place? It’s enough to make a grown man cry. If you are the person who …
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Dog owner gets scolded by fellow passenger and mom for taking her dog on the train, she retaliates by exposing the misbehavior of her kids: ‘When your dog is 10 times better behaved, yet still gets complaints’

Simply existing in a public space can become a tetchy affair when you’re accompanied by either kids or dogs. Both offer no guarantees that they are going to behave, and both face a significant minority of people who don’t enjoy being in the same place as them. This can lead to some awkward interactions, as …
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‘Why are teens so dang loud’: Gen Z shares their most Boomer sounding complaints about the modern world

What’s that saying… you either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become your parents? Something like that. It’s a cliche, but it’s almost inevitable. When you’re a kid, you can swear every which way that you’re going to do things differently than your folks. It’s an honest gesture, and you might …
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‘Get rid of the trees’: Guest Demands Hotel Remove Trees and Replant Them After The Leaves Fall Off

Anyone with half a brain would know that you can’t just pick trees out of the ground like a flower when you feel like it. They have roots, they’re big, and they are heavy. Plus, they change with the seasons, and sure, they’re prettiest when they bloom, but life isn’t always pretty. Get used to …
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‘Restaurants are just too loud’: Diners complain about music noise when eating out

By and large, most people want similar things when they go to eat out at a restaurant. They want nice food, a welcoming ambiance, and the ability to converse with whoever they are dining with.  Unfortunately, there is one common complaint that can put at least two of these desires in jeopardy. It comes down …
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‘This is a travesty’: British Karen rails against iconic candy changing its wrappers, entertains the internet

Change is rarely an easy thing to go through. People come and go, lessons get learned, and brands radically change their branding without even consulting us first. As we get older, it’s just one assault after another when it comes to living through more and more of these scary and confusing times and confectionary companies …
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30+ Karen Sympathizers Reveal Their Most Boomer-Friendly Complaints

Old age comes to us all, if we’re lucky. For some this is a process that happens quicker than with others, and you see the signs in your attitude towards life as much as you do in your body. Staying in suddenly becomes the pinnacle of the Friday night experience. You finally start caring about …
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Judgmental Dad Receives Clapbacks For Complaining Childfree People Don’t Realize How Much Free Time They Have

There are a lot of things about the idea of parenthood that scare me, and one of those is how the concept of time changes. I’ve heard enough accounts from parents to realize that having babies and little kids takes up 99% of your day, sometimes to the extent you can barely fit in a …
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