‘They had to find a replacement ASAP’: Security guard fired but still expected to work remaining scheduled shifts

Workplaces that rely on scheduled shift work often have an unhealthy obsession with said schedule, holding it in as paramount even when it extends out of the bounds of sanity or reason. Things like scheduled leave, availability—or, as it turns out, even being fired—have little importance when it comes to a scheduled shift… If it’s…

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‘Parents are unbelievably delusional’: Teachers share out-of-pocket requests from the parents of their students

Teaching is a very under-appreciated career path. Oftentimes, teachers are dealing with overcrowded classrooms, so while they’re trying to teach one student to spell ‘supercalifragilisticexpialidocious’, they’re juggling a gaggle of banshees starting a coup in the opposite corner. The last thing most teachers need heaped on their plate is the asinine demands of feral parents. …

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‘[I had] them cut off service to her phone… in the middle of an argument’: 20+ People who created ingenious methods of petty pay back

The pettiest thing this person ever admitted to was the time they “put a slice of bologna in [a] walkman CD player.” This person wasn’t the only one with a hilarious tale of pettiness to tell!  U/bakedzitipie wrote to r/AskReddit, asking for tales of the “most ultimate petty revenge you’ve seen or been a part…

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‘Parents are unbelievably delusional’: Teachers share out-of-pocket requests from the parents of their students

Teaching is a very under-appreciated career path. Oftentimes, teachers are dealing with overcrowded classrooms, so while they’re trying to teach one student to spell ‘supercalifragilisticexpialidocious’, they’re juggling a gaggle of banshees starting a coup in the opposite corner. The last thing most teachers need heaped on their plate is the asinine demands of feral parents. …

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