‘Landlord tries to keep [my] security deposit… um, no’: Landlord tells tenants to ‘park anywhere you want,’ then fines them $1500

At one cheap apartment, this couple found themselves faced with massive fines.  When you’re young, sometimes the only housing you can afford is a cheap and tiny little room. Lots of landlords charge outrageous amounts of money for these little tiny shoeboxes of apartments. They seem to know that if you don’t have a lot…

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‘I have over 320 hours of annual leave banked’: Boss wants employee to schedule surgery over Christmas so she doesn’t have to take her PTO, employee claps back

This certainly won’t be the last time a selfish boss makes an outlandish suggestion. This employee has been working at the company for nearly four years and has saved more than 320 hours of PTO, yet when they were scheduling their upcoming surgery for January 2024, their boss suddenly took major issue with this decision.…

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‘[My chargeback] valued at more than the parking ticket’: Woman wrongly ticketed by local parking enforcement is resolved to make them pay, submits chargeback for her original parking fee

Few government agencies carry out their tasks with as much zeal and reckless abandon as local parking enforcement. Park your vehicle in the wrong place, and you can guarantee that they’ll be there—watching, waiting, with foam frothing around their mouth—you’ll have a ticket on your windscreen faster than a prairie fire with a tailwind.  But…

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