‘I think I’m gonna get raptured’: 92 year old grandma expertly pranks scam callers

There’s a reason that many younger people refuse to answer the phone to an unknown number, and it’s not just because of social anxiety. Scam calls are a nuisance that we all have to deal with from time to time, but unfortunately, they usually have the highest success rates with the old and vulnerable. At …
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‘I just wasted as much of their time as I could’: Pesky debtors face petty revenge for blowing up dude’s work phone

I don’t think I know a single person under the age of 40 who will answer every call they get without question. The main reason for this is that these days, there is a significant chance whoever is on the other end of the line is an annoying stranger who we don’t want to hear …
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Foster Parents Demand 33 Year Old Son Move Back in So They Can Benefit From His Income

There is a reason foster care has gained such a questionable reputation. A lot of people play the system to make some extra money off these kids. One 33-year-old man recounted his troubled upbringing in foster care, where he was asked to leave at 18 due to the end of a paid fostering scheme by …
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20+ Introvert Memes for Lone Rangers Walking the Road Less Traveled

Much thanks to the invention of texting, we introverts can comfortably hide behind our phones and admire (or hate) people from a distance. It is no longer deemed normal to just show up at a person’s house, knocking on their door. We’re not complaining… now we can observe our phones light up and ignore it. …
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18 Relatable Call Center Memes For All the Brave Soldiers Putting People on Hold

I’ve worked most genres of minimum wage job in my life, and one of the ones I liked the least was answering phones. Of all the ways to speak to customers, phone call is one of the most degrading ones. There’s something about not seeing the face of a customer service representative or salesperson that …
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People Are Tickled By Divorce Attorney’s Hold Music

While the ending of a romantic relationship is almost always complicated, the emotions behind are blindingly simple. Jealousy, apathy, anger, and lust are all feelings that are hard to shake once they take a hold of you, and few understand this better than those who make a buck out of breakups. Divorce lawyers often have …
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People Are Tickled By Hold Music For Divorce Attorney

While the ending of a romantic relationship is almost always complicated, the emotions behind are blindingly simple. Jealousy, apathy, anger, and lust are all feelings that are hard to shake once they take a hold of you, and few understand this better than those who make a buck out of breakups. Divorce lawyers often have …
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Manager Causes Outrage By Demanding Employee Come To Work Sick

Every single day, our immune systems are out there quite literally fighting for our lives. There are God knows how many germs in the world, and somehow only a tiny proportion of them seem to end up making us ill (so long as we’re otherwise in good health, of course). This means that getting sick …
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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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Redditor Shuts Down Former Workplace Trying To Keep Them As Emergency Contact

No matter how crappy and soul destroying we may find a job, we can always sustain ourselves on the fantasy that we’ll be able to leave one day. Nothing motivates like the idea of greener grass on the horizon, even if the reality is that we’re just moving to a slightly different job title that …
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