A Cesaer Salad of Girly Girl Memes for the Besties Group Chat

Are you all caught up in the group chat? You put your phone on «Do Not Disturb» for one hour and BOOM, you come back to 100+ missed texts. One friend just found out the guy she has been hooking up with is actually engaged, another just perfected her recipe for sourdough bread, another just …
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‘Bestie, this is so us’: 21 Memes to That Will Make You the Funniest in the Friend Group Chat

You know how each friend of the group has their own dynamic? Well, there’s a meme for that! We all love our friends. They help us get through life, support us in our darkest hours, and make us laugh until we can’t breathe. Without them, everything would be so boring.  We make hundreds of inside …
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Single mom demands her male friend pay her bills, shames him in their friends group chat when he can’t afford to help her anymore: ‘She felt like people were dismissing how financially stressed she was.’

Why is it his job to pay her bills?  Borrowing money from your girlfriend, parent, or best friend will likely hurt your relationship with them. It doesn’t matter whether you pay the money back on time. The relationship shifts from buddy-buddy to lender-borrower, which is a totally different dynamic. Every time you hang out and …
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Grocery store boss piles work on 19-year-old employee, drags them in the group chat when they can’t finish everything

Have you ever been reprimanded for something that wasn’t your fault? This can be one of the more frustrating aspects of existence. You have no way to defend yourself, and the damage has already been done. I even hate this when it’s a plot line in a movie or a TV show. When a case …
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HR fires everyone involved in coworker group chat after new hire leaks it, even sends threats to non-employees

What happens in the group chat stays in the group chat, right? Group chats can be dangerous things. If you’re under a certain age, you know this to be true. Group chats are the way that cliques do their bidding. It’s a finite group of people, so by necessity, it’s exclusionary. And they can get …
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Employee snaps at coworker for texting jokes in the company group chat: ‘Josh, shut up and let me do my job.’

Should he have done that? We’ve all had an annoying coworker. I think I’ve been the annoying coworker, but sometimes I just can’t help it! Being a coworker is an awkward social situation. You can’t be as open and honest with your coworkers as you are with your friends, and yet you spend more time …
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21 Memes to Send to Your Friend Who’s Always Late But Worth the Wait

A big shout-out to all chronically late friends who say «I’m on my way» but are still just getting into the shower. We may never understand their temporal awareness, and we’ll probably never figure out how they manage their agenda, but honestly, we’ve stopped trying. Here’s to those friends with questionable timeliness and a permanently …
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Mom invites a mom who just moved to town to her neighborhood group chat, then kicks her out for being too green immediately after the 1st playdate: ‘I’m not interested in a friendship with people who lack basic manners.’

Are the suburbs unique for such insular mean-girl moms?  It’s very easy to rag on the suburbs. They lack the cultural institutions of cities and the natural beauty of rural areas, but they have good qualities! They give families a cheap place (relative to the city) to raise their family, and if you have no …
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Mom tells 23-year-old daughter that she’s the only one of her 7 kids who is a responsible adult, 25-year-old daughter overhears and freaks out: ‘I don’t rub my success in my siblings’ faces.’

The most responsible daughter didn’t explicitly agree with her mom, but she didn’t disagree with her either.  It can take many years for young adults to become responsible and independent. It all depends on how they were raised, their socioeconomic background, and how eager they were to leave the nest. A small minority of young …
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Family adds wrong number to their group chat, lets him participate in discussions for months without noticing, wrong number becomes emotionally invested: ‘I know so much about these strangers’

Family group chats are either completely silent except for birthday wishes every few days, or the place where all the family drama happens; there is no in between. It really all depends on the family, how close they are, and how comfortable they are to air all their dirty laundry on a shared group chat …
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