A shocking new chapter has emerged in one of Ireland’s darkest historical scandals. Excavations at the former Tuam mother-and-baby home have revealed a second infant graveyard, decades after the remains of nearly 800 children were found in a septic tank at the same site.
The facility was operated by Catholic nuns from 1925 to 1961, and it housed women who became pregnant outside marriage. Many of the women who were housed in the site were separated from their children after birth.
An excavation into the second burial site has uncovered 11 coffins, but there could be more
The Office of the Director of Authorised Intervention in Tuam (ODAIT) began a planned two-year excavation in July. So far, teams have uncovered 11 sets of infant remains in a previously unnoticed location about 15 meters from the existing memorial ground.
All were buried in coffins, dated between 1925 and 1961, and were buried less than a meter below a gravel-covered surface, according to news.com.au.
Daniel MacSweeney, who is leading the excavation, said, “We have indications of further potential graves of infant and child size, and over the coming weeks and months, we will excavate them and see what we find there.”
“There is also a historic map that shows a larger burial ground in this part of the site. We will also excavate there and see if there are further burials.”
MacSweeney also stated that ultimately, it was fortunate that the bodies in the second burial site were in coffins, as this made identifying the infants’ remains a lot easier.
The original burial site was a lot worse since there were no coffins or records
The original discovery of 796 infant remains in a septic tank dates back to 1975, when two boys came across a broken concrete slab while playing near the home. When they pulled up the slab, they found a hole filled with human bones.
Although the authorities were informed, the site was covered, and locals assumed the remains were from the Irish Famine in the 1840s. The location, before it became a mother-and-baby home, was a famine-era workhouse where numerous people had passed away.
Historian Catherine Corless later identified the site as a “sewage tank” on old maps and requested records. She eventually uncovered the names of 796 children who had lost their lives at Tuam.
Her research sparked a six-year Irish Commission of Investigation, revealing that over 76 years, 56,000 unmarried women and 57,000 children passed through 18 similar homes, with 9,000 children passing away across the church and state-run institutions.
The excavation of the burial sites were enabled by legislation and financial support
Work on the site only began after legislation was passed in 2022, which allowed the exhumation, identification, and respectful reburial of the bodies in the site.
The Bon Secours order, an international Catholic health ministry, contributed financially to the project.
Journalist Alison O’Reilly described the revelation as “the darkest secret in Irish history,” adding, “People need to know that it’s black and ugly and rotten and what they did to the children that were born in those homes was an absolute disgrace. You wouldn’t do it to a dog.”
Netizens also reflected on both the historical cruelty and the ongoing need for accountability.
One commenter wrote, “It’s distressing to see that people were just as nasty that far back. Although I expect that orders from the top tier were given. Ignore it and it will go away at your own peril.”
Another added, “Whoever did this is evil. It doesn’t reflect the whole church. However, exposing evil wherever it is found is good. Accountability of perpetrators is necessary. Evil people use trusted institutions as cover to this day. It’s sick.”
Other users highlighted the importance of remembering the victims. “We must never forget the children who suffered here,” one comment read. “Their names and stories deserve recognition, and justice must continue even decades later.”
Netizens shared their thoughts on the second burial site at the Tuam mother-and-baby home on social media
A 1-year-old boy was left with deep leg wounds and a “hole” in his flesh after a pit bull sank its teeth into him and refused to release its grip on a crowded Manhattan sidewalk, a video showed.
The attack allegedly unfolded around 11:10 am Sunday outside the Santander Bank branch at East 13th Street and Broadway in Union Square, according to footage.
In the video a woman, who appears to be the child’s mother, can be heard pleading with bystanders as she struggles to free the boy from the dog’s jaws.
“Call the police. Someone pull him off! Someone please,” the woman cries, her voice trembling over the sounds of the struggle.
A video of an alleged pit bull attack went viral, with information claiming the 1-year-old victim was left with a “hole” in his leg
In the video, several bystanders respond, attempting to wrestle the black and white pit bull off the boy’s left leg.
One bystander is seen kicking the dog repeatedly, while another traps it in a headlock in an effort to force it to release. At one point a man behind the dog even grabs the animal’s hindquarters, an action that ultimately caused the pit bull to let go of the child.
A man viewers believe is the dog’s owner, rather than assisting, yanks on the dog’s leash during the incident and then calmly walks off with the animal, waiting at a nearby bus stop as onlookers call the New York Police Department.
The Post goes on to affirm the police talked to the boy’s father, who told them he was picking up his son when the toddler’s leg swung in front of the pit bull’s mouth, scaring the animal and triggering the bite.
Information surrounding the case has not been confirmed by legal authorities and remains confined to social media reporting
While information pertaining to the case has been reported by several outlets, some of the biggest such as the Daily Mail, People Magazine, BBC, and others, decided to ignore the story altogether.
This cannot be attributed to time, as the incident allegedly took place last Sunday.
At the same time, information pertaining to the incident, such as the dog’s identity, his alleged owner, the names of the victims, and information attributed to law enforcement so far remain confined to X.
There are no official documents, legal or otherwise, confirming the incident.
Moreover, no supporting footage of the incident has been provided despite the incident taking place in a very busy street and several bystanders allegedly witnessing the attack.
On X, claims of the dog owner being identified by police also spread, adding that he’s not facing criminal charges. Officials allegedly cited the lack of prior incidents involving the dog as a reason for their decision.
This too, hasn’t been confirmed.
Netizens debated how to respond when a dog attacks a person, and questioned the safety of pit bulls
A pit bull attacked a toddler in New York and punctured the child’s leg. The screaming is unbearable… The owner knew exactly what could happen. pic.twitter.com/JAO2bejNlh
According to the information being spread online, the boy’s uncle said the child “had to get stitches, a lot of stitches,” and indicated the family intends to pursue other avenues to have the dog euthanized.
Beyond the authenticity of the clip and the attack it depicts. The virality of the alleged footage ignited a debate over dog ownership and, more specifically, how to react when an animal attacks.
One user wrote that the man who intervened by targeting the dog’s air supply “knew what to do and should probably get a medal for saving that kid’s leg,” describing the method as effective because “you have to cut off their airway and they’ll let go to gasp for air or pass out.”
Experts on dog behavior and dog bite response generally advise caution and predictability when dealing with dog attacks and bites.
For instance, the American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA), recommends restraining the dog, removing it from the scene, and isolating it to prevent further injury.
Certain actions, such as separating a dog by putting the hand between them or grabbing by the collar are strictly prohibited due to the likelihood of the biting dog switching targets.
Instead, experts recommend grabbing the dog’s back legs and lifting them above the level of its head, forcing it to rebalance on front legs. Other actions include pressing sensitive areas like the nose bridge or the trachea, but should be done with extreme caution.
“Hard to watch.” The footage led many to question the safety of pit bulls
A website selling different dates with Korean men in Brazil, including intimate encounters in motels, has sparked serious concern among authorities.
The man behind the website has been identified as Rikito Morikawa, a Japanese national who allegedly recruited young Korean men for the illegal business.
The site, Kdramadate, targets fans of South Korean television series popularly known as K-dramas, many of which focus on romantic relationships.
These shows have garnered a robust global fanbase over the past decades, with Netflix both streaming numerous Korean dramas and funding the production of new ones.
Brazilian authorities are investigating a website that sold paid dates with Korean men, including motel encounters
Kdramadate is now under investigation for s*xual exploitation. According to G1, the website invited potential clients to “live their K-drama fantasy” by paying them to spend time with a Korean man in São Paulo.
The website offered four packages: a coffee shop date in the city, dinner at a traditional Korean steakhouse, a stroll through the park, or an intimate experience in a motel or private residence.
It also promised clients that they would have lines from popular TV series whispered to them or that they would pose for a K-drama-style photoshoot with their “date.”
The commercialization of these encounters has reportedly drawn the attention of the Consulate General of the Republic of South Korea in São Paulo and the Brazilian Association of Koreans, who are investigating the matter.
A screenshot submitted as a complaint to the consulate showed Rikito explaining that the price for one hour of an intimate encounter was R$ 70 ($13), while three hours would cost R$ 170 ($30).
The website also featured “testimonials” from alleged clients who claimed to have purchased the packages and spent time with the “oppa.”
The platform, called Kdramadate, was allegedly operated by Rikito Morikawa, a 23-year-old Japanese national
“Relive the magic of K-dramas with your oppa. Tours of iconic scenes and unforgettable experiences in a romantic setting in São Paulo,” read the Kdramadate site.
The literal definition of “oppa” in Korean is “older brother.” However, beyond the literal meaning, the term is often used among romantic couples in Korea, and women use it to refer to men older than they are, Dr. Min Joo Lee, Professor of Asian Studies at Occidental College, told Bored Panda.
According to Dr. Lee, K-dramas construct a specific type of masculinity that influences how non-Koreans view Korean men.
“I don’t think K-dramas intentionally aim to construct such idealized images for foreign audiences. After all, romantic K-dramas have been, for the most part, entertainment primarily written by and for Korean women,” she explained.
“However, for some foreign viewers who do not have access to the different varieties of Korean masculinity, it may be easier to assume that the dramatized masculinity is the only type of Korean masculinity, and that it accurately reflects real-life masculinity.”
The site offered packages ranging from casual coffee dates to intimate encounters in motels or houses
Associating only that type of masculinity to all Korean men results in racial and s*xual fetishization, the professor explained.
“After all, the definition of fetishism is to boil the nuances and complexities of a culture or an ethnicity down to an easily consumable simplification.”
Grace Jung, the author of K-Drama School, explained that these series target a hetero cis-female audience, and that its male characters are projections of the female screenwriters’ “idealized fantasies.”
“Such men typically tend to be gentle, loving, attentive, and available to women’s needs and emotions. In general, they also tend to be financially wealthy, politically influential, handsome, and/or physically fit,” Jung added.
The Consulate General of the Republic of South Korea issued its first alert about Kdramdate on October 23, asking potential victims to get in touch.
Days later, the agency stated that, upon analyzing testimonies and further evidence, it had determined that the website involved the crime of s*xual exploitation.
Authorities discovered the company falsely listed a cultural center as its address
In Brazil, pr*stitution is defined as the act of offering s*xual services and it’s legal as long as it’s practiced by adults. It also allows for contributions to the INSS (Brazilian Social Security Institute).
In contrast, s*xual exploitation is illegal and involves the commercialization of s*xual services provided by someone else, whether that person is an adult or a minor.
Bruno Kim, the president of the Brazilian Association of Koreans, told G1 that he and Rafael Kang, a criminal lawyer from the consulate, went to the address published by Kdramadate and discovered it was not the company’s headquarters, but another building, the Hiroshima Cultural Center.
The cultural center then sent an extrajudicial notification to Rikito, who removed the address from the website and replaced it with another one.
According to the lawyer, at least ten young people of Korean descent were invited by Rikito to work with him via Instagram, WhatsApp, and phone calls.
Rikito, a 23-year-old from Hiroshima, described himself on the website as an “international model with roots that blend Korean and Japanese charm, fluent in 4 languages, and passionate about Brazilian culture,” as per G1. He also said he “brings the magic of K-dramas to real life.”
Clients were promised scripted romantic gestures, including their date whispering lines from famous series
Kim credited K-pop and K-dramas with significantly increasing the visibility of Korean culture in Brazil, but lamented that this interest was, in some cases, followed by initiatives that “exploit this fascination in a questionable way.”
“I have a deep concern for the reputation of the community in Brazil. It is essential to preserve the cultural integrity and trust built over decades since we arrived in Brazil in 1963, ensuring that situations like this do not happen again,” he stated.
Rikito reportedly left Brazil after his residency was revoked
Amid the investigation, Rikito has reportedly returned to Japan after the General Coordination of Labor Immigration canceled his residence permit. He also shut down the website earlier this month.
His lawyer stated the young man, just like the people he intended to recruit, worked as a “rental boyfriend,” taking people to parks and motels.
Kang, the criminal lawyer at the South Korean Consulate, celebrated that the case was made public in time to scare Rikito away and to ensure there were “no real victims.”
“I am still in contact with a police officer and we will continue to monitor the situation,” he stated.
People described the website as “bizarre” and “dangerous”
The Australian police officer believed to have stopped the Bondi Beach attackers with what experts are calling a “once-in-a-lifetime s*ot,” has now been identified.
Detective Senior Constable Cesar Barraza, a 16-year police veteran, was filmed hiding behind a tree before opening fire with a handgun at two rifle-armed suspects from roughly 130 feet away. He was wearing standard detective attire and no body armor.
The revelation has added a human face to one of the most pivotal moments in Sunday’s antisemitic attack, which took the lives of 15 people.
His shots are believed to have downed 50-year-old Sajid Akram and seriously injured Akram’s 24-year-old son, Naveed Akram, just moments later.
The cop responsible for stopping the gunmen behind the Bondi Beach Attack has been identified
Footage of the confrontation shows Barraza using a tree for cover as gunfire erupts around him, before he raises his handgun and fires toward the suspects.
Law enforcement sources told the Daily Telegraph that the precision required for such a maneuver, under that level of stress, is almost unheard of.
“The second s*ot has astounded firearms experts,” one source said. “They actually can’t believe it.”
Police are still conducting ballistic analysis to formally confirm whether Barraza’s bullets were the ones that neutralized the attackers. Even so, his actions have already been widely credited with stopping further loss of life.
The two suspects were armed with rifles and had already taken the lives of 15 people in what police described as a targeted antisemitic attack. Investigators later discovered the culprits’ vehicle contained improvised explosive devices and homemade ISIS flags.
As Australians learned more about the detective behind the shots, attention turned to Barraza’s background
He previously appeared on the Australian reality TV series The Recruits, which follows young officers at the start of their careers.
When asked on the show why he wanted to join the police force, Barraza answered without hesitation: “Because I hate crime.”
Sources told The Telegraph that even elite shooters would struggle to land accurate handgun shots at that distance, particularly against moving targets while under active fire.
“Hitting a steel plate at 130 feet with a pistol is a tough s*ot. Hitting a target that’s firing at people and moving is even more impressive,” a netizen wrote.
Another commenter added that doing so without body armor and with only minimal cover “takes dedication to others above all.”
Naveed Akram, the only one of the pair of shooters who survived, was charged with 15 counts of homicide
Naveed Akram, who survived the shooting, was rushed to hospital under police guard and later charged with 59 offenses, including 15 counts of homicide and one count of committing a terr*rist act.
Public praise has poured in not only for Barraza, but also for Ahmed Al-Ahmed, the unarmed civilian who earlier confronted one of the gunmen and wrestled away his firearm, as well as for other bystanders who attempted to intervene.
“He’s having multiple surgeries, he’s got five g*nsh*t wounds. It’s a serious injury, far more serious than has been reported,” Issa told The Australian.
“At this stage, he says he has no feeling in his arm. I’m no medical doctor, but he said to me that it seems like one of the bullets may have hit a nerve.”
“This guy is very good!” Netizens were impressed by the detective’s accuracy
If you leave a person in a bubble of constant privilege for too long, the normal boundaries the rest of us live by start to disappear, and entitlement can quickly take their place.
There is always that one customer who demands royal treatment, a neighbor who ignores rules or even some family members who act like everyone else exists to serve their needs.
And we are all familiar with stories of certain celebrities going above and beyond, showing that entitlement can reach truly ridiculous levels.
While karma does catch up with a few of them, most people go through life completely scot-free, floating along in their own little bubble.
When the Reddit community was asked, “What’s the worst level of entitlement you’ve ever seen?”, it unmasked some people at their most narcissistic and oblivious.
Parents traveling with young kids often assume other passengers should move so they can sit together. I’m not handing over the premium seat I paid for to sit in a cramped economy spot instead.
Buying a cup of tea at the library a few years for 90p (those were the days), the girl serving took my £1 coin, shut the till and said my tea would be ready shortly.
When I asked for my change, she moodily opened the till again to get it, and as she handed it over said “Oh yes, 10p?”
Obvs it’s about the principle not the amount, although I was unemployed and pretty broke at the time. No way I was letting her decide to just keep my money like that.
While consumerism and capitalism play a major role in how we see ourselves, entitlement is also shaped by social media, mainstream cultural messages, and technology. All of this makes it easier than ever to assume the world will bend to our desires and needs.
Studies in psychology note that these trends are shifting our priorities: people are more focused on their own rights and comfort than on responsibility towards others.
“If people feel they are entitled to consume, they see consuming as an expected reward for behaving in a certain way,” writes Sue LT McGregor of Canada’s Mount Saint Vincent University in her 2022 study.
#4
I was placing asphalt at this medical school and I see this petty young lady is wearing these fancy flip-flops, “Excuse me miss you don’t want to walk on that asphalt its 325 degrees.” And with utter contempt she said “Excuse you, Im going to ba a DOCTOR!” She charges past me, almost get run over by the roller, realizes it ITS HOT owowowowow and then walked right on to the fresh tack (gooey sticky tar that binds the layers together) looses a flip flop, trips and glares at me with scapels for eyes. I had to walk away cause it was too funny.
Apparently she complained cause some big wig came down an hour later, superintendent told him off, we are not responsible for idiots who ignore warnings not to be stupid.
A coworker of mine threw a fit because I won a large glass jar of gummy candies and she demanded to our director that it needed to either be in the break room for communal snacking or given to her because “I don’t have a family and don’t understand what struggling was”.
My dad got a new coworker who was also new in town, so my parents invited him and his wife over for dinner one night. Dinner included fresh vegetables from my mom’s vegetable garden. My mom also gave them some extra tomatoes and zucchini to take home.
A few days later, my mom was washing dishes and looked out the window to see the wife crouching in her vegetable garden, stealing as many veggies as she could fit into her bags, including things my mom had plans for and was not planning to give away. She had scaled the fence to get inside.
I once had a lady try to walk onto the main stage at Coachella 2019 during a set. I politely told her she was not allowed and she told me she was a VIP and that I didn’t know who she was.
I told her only people with higher access were able to go on stage, and she asked, “oh yeah, like who?”
Entitlement shows up in a lot of places — in viral videos of shoppers yelling at retail workers, travelers demanding airline perks they haven’t paid for, like a window seat, or people cutting lines just because they feel they can.
Scholars agree that entitlement is traditionally a “maladaptive trait” that leads to narcissism, conflicts with others, and affects overall mental health.
This can happen because entitled people might tend to lash out or get frustrated when things do not go their way. It can ultimately put a strain on relationships and their overall environment.
#8
Worked with a woman who was flying with a bunch of our coworkers. She was worried that a connecting flight would get diverted due to weather. She, just her, decided to go to the desk and demand that they change her flight.
The original flight landed in time, everyone else boarded and she demanded to get her old seat back on the original flight. “It’s only been 30 minutes, why can’t I have it back”
She’s retelling me this and acting like she’s the victim. She just couldn’t comprehend that the flight was full. Her seat was given away to someone on standby. And the flight she changed to would be there in 30 minutes.
I worked at a high end car dealership. A woman (50’s) purchased a car, then called 4-5 days later and said “the car just stopped” on the freeway. We sent a tow truck and discovered she’d run out of gas. She wanted the dealership to waive the tow bill because her salesman failed to tell her she’d have to put fuel in the car.
The Edward Jones financial advisor that parked in handicapped parking every day for 3 years until she finally got a $500 ticket! She tried to force the property owners to pay for it since they knew she was using that space and never said anything to her about moving.
When I was a kid, my parents were friends with another couple. They had met through church and eventually hired the husband (his company) to build our house. They were friends ever since.
Once the housing market wasn’t doing too well, the husband ended up making a prayer request in church. Tearfully, he told everyone they were on the verge of losing their house because he couldn’t find enough work to pay the bills. My parents ended up inviting them over for dinner and then afterwards, presented them with a check. I have no idea how much it was, but it was enough to save their house. I remember them both sobbing in our kitchen.
That was to be the end of it, but the next week we went to church, things took a turn. People were whispering and staring at us. Eventually, someone took my parents to the side and explained what was going on. This couple had been going up to our mutal friends, asking for their “advice”.
They told everyone that my parents had given them money to save their home but upon reflection, realized that this amount of money could fund their dream vacation to Las Vegas. They were asking people if they should use the money as intended, or if they should go on their once-in-a-lifetime dream trip and gamble it, accepting, of course, that this would likely end the friendship.
I’m not sure if they thought people would be on their side or what, but everyone was pretty appalled. It ended the friendship instantly and they never spoke again. Even as a kid it was absurd to me that they would make the choices they did.
Contrary to what the entitled might want to achieve, they are often far from the happiest.
Experts believe that life rarely hands out everything we feel we deserve, and those with a strong sense of entitlement can be left feeling disappointed.
“When people think that they should have everything they want — often for nothing — it comes at the cost of relationships with others and, ultimately, their own happiness,” Julie Exline, co-author of a study on entitlement, was quoted as saying in a press release.
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In my personal life, my ex mother in law raging that her ex husband (divorced for over 20 years) didn’t take her on vacation with him and his current fiance because “they were married once so she deserves to go just as much as her”.
I was a chauffeur and I was driving the nanny and three children to a destination where the parents will end up. They all had iPads with AirPods. While loading, one of children got upset and tossed his iPad on the ground. The nanny didn’t say anything just picked up the broken iPad and went inside. She came out with a brand new one and handed it to the child. Nothing was said.
I was on the bus. A guy sneaks in the back door of the bus and the drivers sees him. He starts yelling at the guy to pay the fare or get off the bus. The guy is yelling back at the driver, “You will talk to me with respect! Don’t you try to disrespect me!” This thief that got caught trying to steal a bus ride actually thought he deserved respect for stealing and delaying all the fare paying passengers. Apparently, he never learned that respect is earned. I wish I could say I was surprised.
Entitlement is not always personal; it can also be socially reinforced.
Studies show that wealth and privilege lead to higher feelings of entitlement and even narcissism. This may be because their position makes special treatment seem normal or even expected.
It is no wonder we see so many stories of celebrities acting like they own the world — from James Corden being banned from a New York restaurant for yelling at the staff over an omelet, to Kendall Jenner and Hailey Bieber being accused of illegally using disabled parking spaces.
Because when privilege goes unchecked, it is easy to see how entitlement can reach absurd levels.
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Oh that would be my ex.
She didn’t like her college room so she somehow got her family to get her a music scholar’s room which was about 1000sqft and had a grand piano in it.
She didn’t play the piano. Some talented musician got looked over for this exclusive room.
Worked with a guy who came to work 10 to 15 minutes late every single day and pretended like it was no big deal. We work in a hospital. You cannot leave your shift until you give report to the next shift so essentially he was forcing his coworkers to stay late every single day until he showed up.
He was called out on it by his coworkers and he would just scarf and say “it’s 10 minutes you guys are overreacting!”. It took reporting him to the management a dozen times before they finally said something to him. He got written up, and was good for a couple of weeks, but then started doing it again. He was written up again. Eventually, I guess he figured it wasn’t worth the hassle and he left to go work in a nursing home.
My neighbour thinks because she owns her home she, and her family, and extended family, can do whatever they want. First day they took possession of the house, her brother did a burnout down our freshly paved street. Instead of apologizing when people were like w*f, her dad tried to fight the annoyed neighbours instead. It did not improve after that.
They cut our internet line when they were planting a cedar hedge, when I went outside to be like did you just cut my line he just shrugged and didn’t even apologize.
Also, her husband’s truck is so loud it rumbles my house when he starts it. So are all his friends.
One time when I asked them to turn their music down, not off, just down, because it kept waking my baby up, they told us to close our window and proceeded to be louder. And honk their horns in the driveway. (Should also be noted they also had a baby, which apparently wasn’t home that night. They don’t do that when their baby is home, I wonder why. Guess only her baby gets to sleep.)
But according to her I’m just miserable and don’t want her to enjoy her home.
I’m a teacher. Last year, we had a mom request that we completely change our big end of year field trip because her child had already been to the location and she wanted him to experience something new. This request was made 3 days before the trip.
American Lady in Ireland insisting the Subway queue begins from where she stands (collection side). Literally insisting. Everyone ignored her. She caught up eventually.
I don’t know if these are the absolute worst, but they’re the first two things I thought of.
One time I was in the TSA line, and there were a few guys in business suits waiting behind me. I think a machine went down or something, because we were standing there for quite some time. One of the guys behind me started getting aggravated and yelled at one of the TSA agents asking what the problem was. “We’re first class!!” I heard him say. He really thought his first class ticket made him more important or something.
The second situation was with my mom. She and I were talking about her ex boyfriend who’d just passed away. They were together for a couple years at most, and they split probably three years before he passed. We then got on the subject of life insurance, and she felt like she was entitled to some of his life insurance. They had been split for years, never married, and never even lived together. Why would he put her on his life insurance? That one still boggles my mind.
There was a real estate agent in town who took a couple to view a house for sale.
While doing the showing, the potential buyers noticed a fruit tree. They asked if they could have some, of the real estate agent, who agreed. They picked the tree clean and left.
Just straight up stole all the fruit from someone’s tree.
I caught my ex trying to steal from me by impersonating me. Instead of offering a defense or even an excuse, she just doubled down and asked me to give her what she wanted.
Sharon Osbourne was on WILTY telling the story of how during her house fire she yanked the oxygen mask from one of her employees being seen to by an EMT and screeched”You work for me, now get back in there and save more paintings.”.
I was a TA, a student showed up 48 hours after an essay was due and handed it to me, asked me to get it to the prof. I was like “uhhh…this is Thursday TA office hours, this was due Tuesday in class or emailed”. She went on a weird ramble about how when she showed up to the prof’s office to submit it he wasn’t there, which makes sense because he was in class, teaching. She was genuinely upset when I told her a two-day late submission has to go through the prof, not me.
My dad’s got some serious narcissistic tendencies. About 6 years ago, his house caught on fire. After everyone and the pets were safely outside, he spent so much time trying to tell the firemen had to do their job that one of them snapped at him. He told my dad that they could just leave and let the house burn.
Imagine how much of an irrational control freak someone has to be, to make someone as heroic as a fireman snap like that. I know that some people just aren’t good in a crisis, but he really is just like that
It really is interesting to see how narcissism can run in families, from both nurture and nature. I’ve got several stories like that, from several different family members and who they’re attracted to.
Was on a very, very, small, tourist island and during breakfast I noticed the entire balcony area was roped off (would sit there for morning whale watching) and there was two tables, one with three adults and one with a nannies (plural) and kids. The kids were ferals, throwing things on the floor, smearing stuff all over the table, and the nanny cleaned up as best they could but did not discipline the children. Later we were told that all the boats were on private charter and no one could go out on a boat, but we’re divers who prepaid/chartered our dives so told them we would take a boat of our choice if they didnt do better and get us a boat. They found a boat but we went to a different side of the island and that days snorkling group was cancelled but again, we’re divers with our own gear which means our non diving family had their own fins and masks etc so our people went snorkling anyway
Found out later that this was a Saudi prince level family who was upset that we were on their island for their 2 day stay. They didnt even want us in the ocean on the day they were doing their tour and glass bottom trips. I guess they couldnt have us peasants in the ocean the same time they were.
Had a friend in college whose mother lived 4 hours away from our student housing. Friend refused to do any housework or laundry or take plates/garbage out of her room. Instead she made her mom drive 4 hours and come clean her room when enough of us complained. Her mom didn’t bother to teach her daughter how to do anything herself. Her mom gladly did it unfortunately.
One time she did ask me to show her how to do laundry because her mom was really sick and couldn’t drive over one month. But next month was right back to summoning her servant-mother.
Someone jumped the queue at the airport today right in front of my mate at an E-Gate. Funny though because he got stuck in the gate and my mate cleared before him after using one next to it.
The patient who came in today, December 9th in the year of our Lord 2025, and wanted all his dental work done before the end of the year as if he is the only patient our clinic has.
A former friend, “L,” was attending nursing school in the early ’90s. Her classmate B came across a used anatomy textbook at the bookstore—something unusual, since nursing students typically held on to theirs. L became upset and insisted that B shouldn’t have bought the book, arguing that she deserved it more because she was paying for school entirely on her own without any help from her parents.
The memory that just popped into my head was of the time I saw a well-dressed young woman on the sidewalk next to a restaurant that had some outdoor seating. She was chatting with a couple of other young women. The cafe was pretty fancy and the tables were already set for dining. This young woman wasn’t even a customer. She idly reached over, took the linen napkin from one of the silverware settings, and blew her nose in it.
My mother. My Stepdad had been suffering from prostate cancer for 14 years, he went downhill quickly & passed away. My mother had sold her house & bought into his. So they owned half each. When he passed, his half was left to his two kids. She was furious he didn’t leave his half to her, citing that he’d already given his children plenty of money. They’d already lost their mother to cancer too. Plenty more stories like that about her! None of us speak to her.
Most recent is a guy who came and set up to paint in my driveway. Brought his easel and paints and canvas and took up residence there very close to the house.
I worked at this retirement home and there’s this employee who was always having multiple complaints about her performance, being lazy, not wanting to do this, crying about not getting her way, NOTHING! Despite all of this, she’s never been fired, written or anything. In fact, she’s received employee of the month and received recognition.
A friend i had couldn’t comprehend what i meant when I said I couldn’t afford something. They looked so baffled and asked why I didnt just go get money for it. Oh trust fund babies.
I’m sure there’s been worse, but it happened directly to me and I remember it vividly. In university I had a part time job in the cafeteria cooking and serving students from the residences. Lot of rich kids at this school. I had a girl tell me to go to that fridge (she pointed) and get me some fresh tomatoes from a new container (of sliced tomatoes). We already had tomatoes on display with other available condiments, but those ones weren’t good enough evidently. I remember I kind of cackled when she said it because I was so shocked by it I thought she was joking. She wasn’t and complained to the manager about my attitude. Fortunately, I was a decent employee and had a good relationship with the other staff and manager so nothing came of it. I still remember that from time to time and it’s been nearly 20 years.
General managers bringing their own people like boyfriend and friends. Sometimes they don’t know what their doing and feel they can do anything because they know/related to the general manager.
I manage a “contact us” email address for a multi-billion market cap company, and we get people emailing all the time saying they have ideas to share with our CEO and asking to set some time. Or complaining about something and demanding we reverse our decision because they said so. Yes, we’ll get your appointment set with the CEO immediately, random stranger.
So basically me and my partner also working at the same company did a technician course for some work equipment. The company paid the course (around 100$ only) without discussing it with us and we took it as a nice gesture. Well the nice gesture made our boss think he can now text us 24/7 asking us to come in UNPAID!!! After our 6-12h workday. He then consequently would get upset if we wouldn’t then proceed to come to the office at 11pm. We kind of tolerated it due to a in general incredibly toxic work environment and him destroying our confidence through mean speeches. After about a year I had enough especially seeing how my partner but also other staff was treated. I had a supervisor role at the time and was a little bit less in the canon fire than the rest of the team. We approached him after a team meeting about being paid for the extra work and he completely lost it. Asked me for passwords the next day and fired me 3 weeks later for being “negative”.
Worked with a Paramedic until I transitioned to a corporate role with the Ambulance Service. Not long after the Paramedic I worked with wanted to do a transfer with someone else – I didn’t have consent from the other person, however, this particular Paramedic responded with “I don’t care about consent, force the other Paramedic to do the transfer with me before I force him to do it, I don’t need his consent”.
Worked at a hotel and this couple was complaining that our bartender wasnt making the drinks strong enough (he was following state issued rules). They said ‘hes nice, but we just wanted a little more!” well my boss requested that he get to handle it
So they told their story and ended it with “we can stay anywhere in town! but we stay here because of the location and the staff!”
Boss kinda nods along and says “well thats not true, i know for a fact that we banned from the Umstead, and are also banned at the Downtown Marriott, and the full service marriott 2 exits down”
They look surprised and say “oh yea!!!! we remember you!! yknow, they called us last month and said you were fired and requested we come back! Clearly we should take them up on the offer”
Boss nods and says “well thats not true, but by all means!” They then change the story and say ‘we are unpacked, and we paid in cash so we cant just leave suddenly”
Boss asks them to wait a moment, goes to the safe and gets their cash and then comes back to the desk and hands them a wad of cash and signals the bellman and says “well, here is your money and here is brian to help you with your things” Then they threw a fit about THAT.
My cousin. After my mother found out that he had spent $100 (OF HER MONEY) at the dispensary when he’d been going in for a 5 for $20 deal, when she confronted him about it he actually said “it sounds like you want me to say sorry, but I’m not. I’m not to blame because you didn’t ask.”.
My younger sister wanted my nose and begged for it, when she was 17, suddenly it didn’t “fit her face” and she had a second rhinoplasty. I emancipated myself at 16, the year she had her first. My family was poor, btw.
My son. Who’s literally in the middle of his punishment for poor behaviour and he had the audacity to ask me what we’re getting him for Christmas this year.
A DoorDash driver has been arrested after allegedly spraying a customer’s food with “an irritant substance” before delivering the order.
The incident, involving worker Kourtney Stevenson, was captured on December 7 by a doorbell camera.
In the footage, Stevenson can be seen dropping off an Arby’s order at an Indiana residence and seemingly taking a confirmation photo. She then sprays the bag with a substance, believed to be pepper spray, before leaving.
The DoorDash driver accused of tampering with a customer’s order offered a bizarre explanation after being arrested
Mark Cardin, who had placed the order with his wife, immediately realized something was wrong when he saw his wife in pain.
“I noticed my wife had started eating, and she started choking and gasping,” Cardin told local media WFIE.
“After she had a couple bites of her food, she actually threw up. I had a look at the bag and saw that there was some kind of spray or something. The bag had been tampered with.”
She was reportedly arrested in Kentucky and will be extradited to Indiana.
The driver was visiting her father in Evansville on the night of the order that she’s suspected of tainting.
“It’s horrific,” Cardin described. “We assume it’s pepper spray. That’s more than likely what it is, but now, in this day and age, it could’ve been anything. It could’ve been rat p*ison. It could’ve been fentanyl. I mean, my wife could’ve been d*ad.”
The woman claimed she used pepper spray to scare off a spider
Following her arrest, Stevenson allegedly told investigators she was trying to protect herself from a spider and attempted to scare it off with the aerosol substance.
She claimed she didn’t mean to pepper-spray the food and had instead aimed at a spider because she’s “terrified” of them.
However, authorities did not believe her, noting it was too cold at the time of the delivery—35°F (1.7°C)—for the creature to be out.
“At that temperature, outdoor spiders in Indiana are not active and would not be capable of crawling on exposed surfaces,” the Vanderburgh County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement.
According to the statement, Cardin and his wife reported experiencing burning sensations in their stomachs, throats, mouths, and noses after consuming the food.
Kourtney Stevenson could be seen in Cardin’s doorbell camera using an aerosol substance
Food delivery service DoorDash refunded Cardin’s order and told Fox News Digital that it terminated Stevenson following the incident.
“We have zero tolerance for this type of appalling behavior,” a DoorDash spokesperson said.
“The Dasher in question has been permanently removed from the platform, and our team is standing by to support law enforcement with any investigation.”
Cardin said he doesn’t think he’ll order food through an app ever again
Vanderburgh county’s sheriff, Noah Robinson, said his agency investigated Stevenson urgently because “residents should be able to trust that the food they order for their families is safe.”
“When someone violates that trust and endangers others, we will respond … and we will pursue charges,” Robinson added.
People did not buy Stevenson’s explanation for why she sprayed the food
It’s safe to assume that everyone is hoping for a raise at any given moment. According to a 2022 survey, less than one third of workers actually believe that they’re being paid fairly. And low pay is cited as one of the most common reasons for employees to leave their jobs. While most of us are willing to put up with minor frustrations during the workday, we all have our breaking points, especially when we’re suffering for a small paycheck.
Redditors have recently been sharing stories of the moments when they realized they definitely weren’t getting paid enough to put up with their current work arrangements. From being yelled at by their manager to being expected to fix sewage problems, these situations immediately sent workers over the edge. We hope that these stories won’t be relatable to you, pandas. But if they are, it might be time to say sayonara to your current employer!
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#1
Boss said lesbians are a waste of a life because they’re not doing their duty to men in bearing children. I’m not even gay but it was more than enough to get me to leave.
I got red in the face yelled at for chatting with my coworker, WHILE we were both fully working and the two of us were among the best performers on the site. Two weeks notice got put in within the week.
Passed over for promotion then tasked with training up the external hire who got the job, as I was one of the most competent people on the team. Notice was handed in and I walked less than 2 months later.
To find out how this conversation started in the first place, we got in touch with the Reddit user who invited others to share their work horror stories, MidnightPandaX.
“I’d say the reason I made this story was mostly out of curiousity, rather than anything specific,” the author shared. “Ask Reddit hasn’t had a good question in a good while, so I thought I might ask something that people would genuinely enjoy.”
#4
I was a young professional at the time and one of the older partners had me drive his wife to her hair dresser and wait for her to be done, i then had to take her grocery shopping, carry the groceries in and put them away for her and when she told me to vacuum her carpet before i left, i said no. By the time i got back to the office my partner was red in the face and said that if his wife tells me to do something, it is like he was telling me to do something. I told him to write me up, which he did and had HR present it to me that i was insubordinate for not vacuuming his wifes carpet.
I ended up leaving a few weeks later after a lateral move to a more progressive firm. I have that write up framed in my office as it is so ridiculous.
I worked at a preschool where my supervisor, who happened to be a good friend of two of the aides, had them spy on me. I decided to turn in my resignation. Before I did, she called me into a meeting with the HR director. While I held the letter behind my back, they said I was being laid off. After the meeting, I ran the letter through the paper shredder, and I was able to collect unemployment insurance! I felt I had gotten even! I did go back to teaching, but I found a job that I loved in a public school. I went from the worst job I ever had to my favorite!
We also asked MidnightPandaX if they had any similar stories of their own to share. “I think the only scenario that made me quit like that was when I was taken off the schedule in retaliation for calling in sick at Dominos,” they told Bored Panda. “I had to threaten to get the state involved before they gave me my job back, and by that time, I already had a job lined up for me.”
#7
That I’ve never received a review or raise in the 5+ years I’ve been at my current job. When brought up I received blank stares and they questioned my loyalty?
There was a girl who I had the biggest crush on ever since we met in kindergarten. She moved away for college, and we got to talking, and I found out she had a crush on me, too. She came back home for a spring break from college and we hung out the entire time. I was scheduled to work (as a cashier at Meijer, for like $7.25/hr) on her last day home. I called and quit so I could spend one more day with her. Worth it.
I had a job that didn’t pay us during the holidays. Working a full time job that claimed they “didn’t have the money right now to pay all of their employees”. It was a small “mom and pop” type employer so I get that times were hard but d**n that sucked. We went 3 weeks without a pay check. Caused me to fall behind on rent, car payment and paying back my student loans. I left that place as quick as I could land something else.
Finally, we asked the author what they thought of the replies to their post. “I think my favorite story from the thread is the servers which were drowned in sewage,” they shared. “I work in IT now, and luckily, I haven’t had a scenario like that (and never wish to), but I can just imagine the damage and smell from something like that. Ugh.”
#10
Listening to my maga boss rant about politics while we have 3 undocumented employees that he RELIES on to run his business.
When I was in college I worked a retail job, I always got stuck on the closing shift. The store had a policy that you needed 2 departments worth of people there with the manager when they locked up the store. My department had the most individual items (lots of small components) so repriced and restocks always took forever, so we were basically always stuck there until the very end (generally about 3 hours after our scheduled clock off because there’s always 1 other department that for one reason or another had a very long closing each day).
One day we decided we would work our a***s off getting everything ready so we can leave on time for once, we get to 15 minutes before the normal clock out time and our supervisor goes and gets the manager to do a walk through and ok us to leave. He says there’s something wrong, when we ask him what it is he refuses to tell us. We proceed to spend the next hour trying to find anything out of place, and find nothing. Finally once we are the last department not finished he tells us, turns out literally 1 item on one of the end caps wasn’t straight (it was slightly crocked). I literally screamed in his face chucked my badge at him and walked out the emergency exit.
I worked for a video distance learning program in the 80s-90s. I had a cool job doing some computer graphics and video production, but I also had to recycle hundreds (thousands?) of VHS tapes that had to be de-labeled, and the stickers did NOT come off easily. One day in frustration I just blurted out “can’t we hire somebody to do this?!” My boss smiled at me and said “we did.”.
There was a piece of equipment in a crawlspace that needed replaced. I opened the door to the crawlspace and saw the device about 50 feet away, through a forest of spider webs.
That piece of equipment is still there, still broken, and won’t be replaced.
Retail jobs, multiple of them. One that really put me over the edge. Guy paid for something on layaway. Once you pay it off you get the item but it’s not on site and is shipped in. Out of my control as an associate, out of store managers control too. We did not have the item yet, impossible to get it that minute he wanted it. This guy berated me for 30+ minutes like it was my fault. Store manager was almost zero help. He just let me get yelled at me over and over. I finally got the situation sorted and the dude left without his item. Afterwards I nearly cried in the parking lot sitting in my full motorcycle gear beside my bike. A friend I hadnt seen in years happened to see me and say Hi. Normally I would have talked to him forever. But I was absolutely destroyed by that customer, I basically just said “hey” and that was pretty much the extent of it. That was basically the moment I decided to go back to school, got an internship and worked myself into technology. Retail is FINE 95% of the time but it’s the 5% that eats your soul alive. I hope that guy chokes on a rock. .
Witnessing my boss having an affair *in the office* with someone. He’s married with kids, and the woman is like. Sort of the worst person you can imagine in a workplace (unreliable, irresponsible, unorganized, immature, unprofessional, unkind, the whole shebang). The woman came up to me afterwards and begged me to keep their secret, and my boss couldn’t look me in the eye for WEEKS but never brought it up and never apologized to me. Afterwards, the woman tried to get me fired.
I was told the oily stains on my work shirt were highly toxic dioxins.
In my 20s, went to work replacing the “mung” lines of a plastics plant. We were given yellow rain suits, rubber boots, and face shields and told to power wash the 3 ft diameter pipes, taking the tar-like substances and putting them in special metal barrels for disposal.
When we need to get a new barrel, I had to go to the safety office to sign it out. The dude there freaked out when he saw the tiny black specs on my shirt.
Needless to say, after his explanation of how very very bad this was, I took the barrel over to my supervisor, took off my shirt and put it in the barrel, AS PER SAFETY GUY INSTRUCTIONS. Walked over to my car. Kicked off my boots and jeans and drove away in my underwear.
When a girl p****d herself while in an interview with me, soaking her chair, the floor and there was so much that we could see her path when she left. Turns out she had also p****d on all our waiting room couches. I was told that because I was health & safety rep, I had to clean it up. As H&S rep I had the place closed to be decontaminated. Honestly, eff them.
There were multiple moments that made me realize I definitely wasn’t getting paid enough getting yelled at, insulted, and even reprimanded for asking why I had to make up hours as an exempt employee just because I went to a medical appointment.
But the breaking point was when my boss, who was also an attorney, advised a client to hide money from the local tax department to avoid a lien. That’s the kind of thing that can get us disbarred, and yet it was treated like nothing.
The next day, I left a three-page resignation letter on his desk and my coworkers’ desks and walked out before he even got to the office. By the end of the summer, the rest of my coworkers followed and left the firm too.
Worked at a fast casual restaurant as the kitchen manager. Open-line restaurant, and during busy times I would jump on the line with my staff to push food and service.
Company was trying to squeeze profits and the GM started cutting my prep cook staff early, leaving me with more work (I was salaried). Was happening every day for months. Longer hours, no extra pay.
One day I’m on the line during a rush helping push service. Owner of company is sitting with his son in a table right in front of. Son is 18, just graduated high school. The owner handed his son the keys to a Jimmy John’s franchise as a graduation gift. Kid had never worked a day in his life.
And it hit me, that all these extra hours, and penny pinching, and labor cost for the last year, just went into the hands of this pimple faced dude who has probably never bagged his own lunch. This was 5 years ago.
I quit the next day. Told myself I would never work a job where my wage was not directly tied to my effort and performance. Got into sales.
Made $150k last year in a LCOL area. Coming up on 1 year in the house I bought with my fiance. Getting married in June.
About 26 years ago I was working at a video store and a customer threw change at my head when I had to validate her birthday. My boss had to stop me from punching her in the face.
My appendix blew up two days later and I lost the job anyway. Boss didn’t care that I was having a medical emergency so I walked through the door via an ER. About a year later, his store was taken over by Blockbuster. Karma.
I worked for a construction company where they paid me every week. Then switched to every other week. Then the pay checks started bouncing. I started cashing my pay checks immediately after I received them. One day the owner called me in and questioned why I was cashing my paychecks and questioned me if I this was just a job or a career blah blah blah. I told him what I do with my paycheck is none of his business. Two days later I was laid off. Kept me from having to quit and I got unemployment.
I submitted a critical bug for a piece of content made by a designer for an expansion to our MMO. That designer came over from across the building to yell at me, saying my bug was invalid. I didn’t argue. I didn’t do anything when they closed the bug as invalid. I didn’t complain to my boss. Some co-workers came to see if I was ok.
A few weeks later they were having a public reveal on a test server where people could try out the content for free for like 3 days. This designer’s content was the first level of the expansion content and because it was broken, players couldn’t access anything.
I swung by her desk and saw her with her head in her hands as the lead producer and senior producer were standing over her.
About 2 months later she was laid off.
Our team had this weird tradition where if someone was fired or laid off people who didn’t like them would collect their name tags. It was sort of a trophy to say “I outlasted this person.” Some people would also grab the name tags to “protect them” from someone else keeping it as a trophy. It started with our boss at his previous game studio, and he brought it to our company. It was a very weird and macabre tradition that largely existed because layoffs were frequent. I tried to avoid it as much as I could because I felt it was a little infantile.
But I made sure that I collected her name tag when she was laid off.
Highly unprofessional co-worker had the balls to complain to me because I’d been at home recovering from a life-threatening crash, which apparently was inconvenient for him. Management did nothing about it.
I don’t work there any more. I did not in fact get paid enough, as my next job included a significant raise. I made it clear why I was leaving when I did.
After being denied a raise after being told I was one of the best employees they had I was asked to help load the owners 17 year old daughters car that he was borrowing because his was in the shop. That car was a brand new Porsche Cayenne.
Was working maintenance at a hotel once upon a time. Had to pull out a steam cleaner to remove p**p smears from a mattress. Did I do it? Yes, because no one else would. Did I clock out, go home and shower, and never come back? Also yes.
#29
Private school… They let another teacher steal my professional learning materials and pass them off to the staff as his own… When I called admin on the issue, they were silent…
I wrote a 20+ page policy document for admin on how we could transition the staff to online teaching at the beginning of COVID (timelines, resources, training needed, rationale for everything)… They ignored my email, said nothing to me, but two weeks later started (poorly) putting my plans into play…
When I raised concerns about how they were handling staff mental health supports and student success during COVID, they threatened to fire me three times in two weeks…
I started looking for a job immediately, and got out about a year later. Post-COVID the school is on the verge of financial collapse because they’ve prioritized profits over education and the quality of the people they’re hiring AND the student’s they’ve accepted has slipped year over year. I’m making 50% more working in the public system.
#30
I was working at Target at guest service, I had been at Target for almost 5 years and was about done with that job anyway. This was back when pre-paid phones were popular. Girl who looked barely old enough to drive brings an ATT phone and prepaid card to guest service to buy. We sold both cards to load minutes on cell phones and we also sold cards for pay phones. Once they were activated they couldnt be returned and they were not interchangeable. I used to work electronics and knew this. I called back to electronics to verify if she had the right card and he said yes so I sold her the phone and the card.
I opened the next morning and around 10 or so I took my break. I come back to the girl pointing at me screaming “thats him! thats the guy!” Im looking around like w*f is going on?! Apparently she did buy the wrong card and when she came to return it and they told her she couldnt she got her parents. Her dad was completely hammered at 10:30 in the morning and acting like a belligerent. He starts telling me that I stole $50 dollars from his daughter and I was paying her back. As if I somehow was doing this for kicks just to mess with her or making money off of a scam. The mother accused me of being a pothead. Now if they would have been nice about the whole thing the store manage would have ate the $50 and gave them a store credit to buy the right card but since they were acting like the way they were he had security e****t them out.
I was not about to get yelled over a $50 phone card and had my fill of dealing with the public and put my notice in the next day. I think I worked 2 more days and never went back. I still have nightmares when I walk in that place hearing walkie talkies and calling for backup to the registers.
#31
When I was told I had to go to an employers house on weekends and do personal pc work…that wasnt in my job description as an IT person. I worked at a law firm in IT department.
District manager visited the Blockbuster I worked at and asked us how many super expensive 20 dollar a month rent unlimited video games subscriptions we’d sold. I was happy to ring people up and give them feedback and advice on movies to watch, but I’m not conning them into a bad deal. He breathed down my neck and basically was forcing me to ask every customer if they wanted to be on it, so I just quit then and there. This same guy also took all our clocks off the wall when he arrived so they wouldn’t “distract” us. No way I’m gonna sit there and take that kind of condescension.
This is an old story from the 2000s of course, when I was young.
#33
My company is no longer giving raises to employees who make more than a certain amount above the base pay, but don’t worry, they appreciate our experience and expertise. Additionally, 6 people left and they didn’t hire a single person to replace them🙄.
#34
Worked as a contractor for the federal government issuing COVID-19 payments, pandemic isolation, helping on myGov, Centrelink, Medicare payments during lockdown (also getting vax stats on the QR code app).
A guy asked for help with updating QR code to reflect vax status. I clearly explained what to click on the different pages. He asks if I can just do it for him, if he gives me his username and password. I explain no because it has 2 factor authentication and I wouldn’t receive the number. He says “well I’ll just read it to you over the phone”. I say “no, if I were to log into your account as you, it would be considered identity theft, the federal tech people in Canberra would recognise my IP logging into a myGov account, not mine and my manager would be notified. I’d lose my job in approximately 20 minutes after doing what you wanted.” He replies “So.. Can’t you just help me?”.
#35
My boss wouldn’t let us leave to eat lunch. Instead he would bring bologna and bread and have us eat that. I got tired of it and bounced.
I took a job as a receptionist. Pay wasn’t great and there were no benefits, but the interviewer stressed work-life balance as they have three receptionists, so it should be ok for one to leave early as needed. Well it turned out that by “leave early,” she meant “leave right at 5:00 rather than waiting for any stragglers to leave.” I missed many of my daughter’s cross country meets, but was determined to make it to her league championship meet. We came back from lunch at 2:00, so I asked if I could just be off the rest of the day instead, to have time to change and travel to where the meet was. The office manager made me pull up Google maps and calculate to the minute what time I’d need to leave the office to go directly to the meet, and made me work up to that minute. So much for work-life balance.
They also demanded a h**l of a lot of work considering the pay. I thought I’d just be answering phones and scheduling appointments, but any time there was a lull we were supposed to be running reports, poring over records for mistakes, etc. And there were rarely lulls– usually the phone was ringing, I was trying to reach another staff who wasn’t answering her phone, and I had two people in front of me with questions– so when things actually got quiet for a sec I wanted to actually catch my breath. Nope, gotta go through these 400 postcards and make sure they’re correct before we mail them! It was way too much for the pay, but the Google maps incident was my breaking point. .
Getting yelled at by my boss for telling him not to use a tool (that didn’t belong to him) in a way that would break it. I walked away after that.
#38
Mechanical engineer. Global company:
I had to digitally sign a document one day. It took 6 software programs and 1.5 hours to digitally sign, print, email.
I left that day. Never went back. Never looked back. Ghosted them. Started my own business. Best decision of my life.
#39
Got a new sales and engineering manager that had been with the company for decades that did not understand when a customer buys a larger amount of a product, the unit price goes down.
#40
It’s not an insane story but I applied for an estate agent job with the company purple bricks (who at the time went into liquidation but were bought by another company for £1 to clear debts and stay afloat). I had a total of 3 days training, roughly 4 hours a day for the first two days and then 30 minutes on the third. Purely PowerPoint presentations.
The day after this the guy (my boss) pretty much said okay good luck! Handed me about 100 property keys and gave me a phone, to which my first responsibility was to apologise to all their clients for being kept in the dark due to high staff turnover.
Needless to say I told my boss I wasn’t prepared enough for what I threw myself into and quit the next day.
#41
I kept getting tasked with that’s that are soooo not my job and I made less money than a new hire even though I’ve been there for 10 years. Some examples being I am a trainer, can do every job there, handle scheduling and payroll, can drive CDL and do yard jockey and route driving etc but I was by far the lowest paid person there. Like the new hire who only does one thing in the warehouse made $5 more per hour. I’d also be the person who would get sent to other plants to help fix their problems or introduce and teach the new systems.
#42
20 years old, needed money so bit the bullet and became a custodian to more than double my pay and have health insurance, vacation and sick time. Even with all the junk I had to deal with as a custodian it was worth it than working minimum in retail. The part that made me quit was dealing with the bitter old lead who wanted nothing more that to be miserable and make others miserable.
#43
I’m a very small and short female and my boss asked me to move about 1000 pounds of candles by myself. I ended up collapsing on the ground because of how much pain I was in after trying to move the candles.
The experienced climber who allegedly abandoned his girlfriend to freeze at the top of Austria’s highest peak posted—and later deleted—a tribute to her just days after her body was recovered.
Thomas Plamberger was charged last week with grossly negligent manslaughter following a months-long investigation into the tragedy that claimed the life of his 33-year-old girlfriend, Kerstin Gurtner.
Plamberger, an experienced mountaineer, is accused of leaving Kerstin behind approximately 160 feet (50 m) from the summit of Grossglockner mountain when she struggled to continue on January 19.
The experienced climber accused of abandoning his girlfriend on the Grossglockner posted a tribute after her body was recovered
He reportedly called Alpine police officers at 1:35 a.m. and left about 30 minutes later in search of help.
At 2:30 a.m., he was captured on a mountain trail camera descending from the peak alone, while his girlfriend remained stranded with -17°F (-27 °C) temperatures and winds of up to 45 mph.
The following day, rescuers found Gurtner’s frozen body.
The couple became stranded before 9 p.m, but Plamberger did not make an emergency call or give off any distress signals when they spotted a police helicopter flying nearby two hours later, as per local outlet Heute. Instead, he waited hours before calling Alpine police officers and eventually left on his own.
“At approximately 2:00 a.m., the defendant left his girlfriend unprotected, exhausted, hypothermic, and disoriented about 50 meters below the summit cross of the Grossglockner. The woman froze to d*ath,” read a statement from the Innsbruck public prosecutor’s office.
“Since the defendant, unlike his girlfriend, was already very experienced with alpine high-altitude tours and had planned the tour, he was to be considered the responsible guide of the tour.”
The public prosecutor’s office accused Plamberger of a total of nine errors, including starting the tour too late, failing to carry sufficient emergency equipment, and not making an emergency call in time before nightfall.
Plamberger has been charged with grossly negligent manslaughter
An experienced mountaineer has been charged with grossly neglect manslaughter after leaving his girlfriend 160 foot from a mountain summit, exposed to the elements, and she froze to death while he went to get help. It was all documented on Webcam, he didn’t try to do anything to… pic.twitter.com/leUsCo16mP
He is also accused of putting his phone on silent after his call to Alpine Police, making it impossible for rescuers to reach the couple. The content of their only conversation remains unclear, and Plamberger did not contact the rescue services again, as per Heute.
“Despite the woman’s inexperience, as she had never undertaken an Alpine high-altitude tour of this length, difficulty, and altitude, and despite the challenging winter conditions, the defendant undertook the Alpine high-altitude tour to the Grossglockner with her in winter,” the statement continues.
Prosecutors accuse him of nine critical errors, including starting the climb too late and waiting hours before making an SOS call
The experienced climber allegedly failed to use emergency blankets to protect his late girlfriend from the cold or remove her heavy backpack.
Plamberger’s lawyer maintained that the incident was a “tragic, fateful accident.”
In a statement, Plamberger reportedly insisted that the entire “situation was hopeless” and blamed rescuers, offering a different account of what happened.
Authorities say Plamberger ignored a nearby police helicopter and left his phone on silent
He argued that he first contacted emergency crews at about 12:35 a.m. to try to arrange a helicopter rescue when his girlfriend “suddenly showed increasing signs of exhaustion.”
“A return was absolutely out of the question at that point,” he stated.
Plamberger claimed that the officer he reached by phone told him a helicopter rescue was not possible, so the couple decided to keep moving to stay warm.
“However, the situation was hopeless: The woman was so physically exhausted that she could no longer continue the ascent,” the statement read.
He claimed that he and Gurtner jointly decided he should seek help on his own. He said that, at 3:30 a.m, he informed the officer that he had to leave his girlfriend behind and again requested a helicopter.
Additionally, he alleged that the couple began experiencing difficulties during the trek later than prosecutors stated. At 10:30 p.m, the time when prosecutors said a helicopter flew overhead and shone lights on them, they had not yet encountered any problems, Plamberger said.
Plamberger is accused of leaving Gurtner alone in -17°F temperatures
As unpleasant as it can be at times, anger is a very human emotion that we’ve been talking about for a very long time. The Iliad famously opens with “Rage—Goddess, sing the rage of Peleus’ son Achilles” for good reason, but it can be interesting to see exactly what causes contemporary humans to feel it.
The laconically named “Rage” internet group is dedicated to just that, images that will make most people angry, showcasing inequality, entitled behavior or worse. So, armed with that knowledge, brace yourself as you scroll through, upvote the most relatable examples and be sure to share your thoughts in comments down below.
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#1 This Is My Daughter’s Bathroom Pass. The Students Can Use The Bathroom (During Class) 5 Times During The 9 Weeks. After The 5th Time, The Student Gets Detention
So, my daughter is 12 and is in middle school. Today she came home and told me that she started her period and bled through her pants. When I asked why she didn’t go to the bathroom, she said she already used her five time limit for the nine weeks. I asked what happens after she used up the five times, she said that she would get detention. She said she asked the teacher but the teacher told her no unless she wanted to explain why she needed to go. IMO, a 12 year old girl shouldn’t have to stand up in front of her class and tell everyone she’s on her period. She was pretty upset and apologized, I’m more upset the school would allow this. There is nothing in the school policy about this five time bathroom limit, the kids only have 3 minutes in between classes, she’s not allowed to go during lunch, and if she gets too many detentions she’s off her softball team! When did schools agree that going to the bathroom is a privilege and not a right?!
Rage bait is one of those internet terms that perfectly captures something we’ve all experienced but might not have had a name for until recently. It refers to content deliberately designed to provoke anger, outrage, or strong negative reactions from viewers. The whole point is to get people so riled up that they can’t help but engage with it, whether that means commenting, sharing, or arguing with others in the comments section.
The term has exploded in popularity over the past few years as people have become more aware of how much of their online experience is shaped by content specifically engineered to push their buttons.
#4 Made An Appointment For 11:45. It’s 1:10 And I Haven’t Been Seen
I’ve had my 10 hour ER waits so I know this isn’t that bad. But what is the point of making an appointment if you have to wait to be seen hours later anyways.
You’ve probably seen rage bait even if you didn’t realize that’s what it was. It might be a video of someone doing something obviously wrong or inefficient in the kitchen, like cutting a cake with a spoon or washing dishes in the most backwards way imaginable. It could be a political take so extreme or poorly reasoned that it feels like it must be bait. Sometimes it’s relationship advice that’s so terrible it makes your blood boil, or a hot take about movies or music that seems designed to infuriate fans. The key characteristic is that it feels deliberately provocative in a way that makes you want to respond and correct whoever posted it.
#7 Went To An AJR Concert. This Was My View
They were the only people standing in our section. The people next to me left before the concert was half over because they couldn’t see
The term really took off around 2022 and 2023 as social media users became more sophisticated at recognizing manipulation tactics. People started calling out rage bait in comments, warning others not to engage, creating a whole meta conversation about how much of our online discourse is shaped by manufactured outrage.
#10 My Neighborhood Has A Soccer Field And A Baseball Field, Which We Pay To Maintain For The Kids In The Neighborhood. Some j**k Decided It Would Be Fun To Do Donuts In The Field With His Truck, And Destroy The Entire Field For Everyone
#11 I Work In A Hospital. We Use These Simple Metal Baskets To Process Tissue Specimens. Our Hospital-Mandated Supplier Charges Us $700 A Piece For These
SEVEN. HUNDRED. DOLLARS. This is why healthcare costs are so [messed up].
The phrase itself is catchy and memorable, which helped it spread quickly across platforms like TikTok, Twitter, and Reddit. What makes rage bait so effective ties into why rage content performs so well online in general. The algorithms that control what we see on social media platforms prioritize engagement above everything else.
A post that gets hundreds of angry comments and shares will be shown to far more people than a post that just gets a few likes and polite reactions. The algorithm doesn’t care whether people are engaging because they love something or because they’re furious about it. Engagement is engagement.
#16 This Was The “Sink” In A Restaurant
Nope, this isn’t a minimalist, avant-garde design. The water just spills off the edges onto the floor, which is why the mop is right there. There isn’t even a drain pipe below this counter.
From a psychological perspective, anger is one of the most powerful emotions for driving action. When we see something that violates our sense of how things should be, we feel compelled to do something about it. Online, that action usually means commenting to express our disagreement or sharing the content with our own commentary about how wrong it is. This is exactly what the content creator wants because every share and comment boosts the post’s visibility.
Rage content also benefits from something called moral outrage. When we see something we perceive as wrong or unjust, sharing our anger about it can feel like a form of social bonding and virtue signaling. We’re showing our community that we hold the right values by publicly denouncing the wrong ones. This makes rage content incredibly shareable because people aren’t just reacting emotionally, they’re also performing their identity and values for their social network.
There’s also a negativity bias built into human psychology. We’re wired to pay more attention to threats and negative information than to positive stimuli because this helped our ancestors survive. Content that makes us angry registers as a kind of threat or problem that needs our attention, so it cuts through the noise of everything else competing for our eyeballs online. The financial incentives make the situation even worse.
Content creators who figure out how to consistently generate rage bait can build huge followings and make serious money through ad revenue, sponsorships, and platform monetization programs. Some accounts exist solely to post provocative nonsense because the engagement numbers are too good to pass up.
#28 How My Weekend Went
I was going to work on Sunday and some guy plowed into my only car I got. It total my car and now I am with out a car or a way to get to work. the person had no insurance and I didn’t have gap. I’m only getting 13k for my car and I owe 24. I might be without a job for awhile cause of this. in desperate need of help.
The growing awareness of rage bait hasn’t really slowed its effectiveness though. Even when people recognize they’re being manipulated, the emotional response is often too strong to resist. You might know that a video is rage bait and still feel compelled to comment about how ridiculous it is. The term has given us a way to name and discuss this phenomenon, but breaking free from the cycle of engagement that keeps rage content thriving remains incredibly difficult as long as the underlying incentive structures of social media remain unchanged.
#31 Guy Has 14 Years Of LEGO Work Stolen Or Destroyed After A Burglary
Ashley Troy, the grieving mother of the 14-year-old Florida girl executed in the woods by two teenagers, has revealed new details about the brutal crime.
Ashley reported her daughter, Danika, missing on December 1. The next day, police found the teen’s body in a wooded area in the Panhandle community of Pace after a passerby alerted authorities.
Danika had been fired at multiple times, and her body had been set on fire. Police identified 14-year-old Kimahri Blevins and 16-year-old Gabriel Williams as the primary suspects.
The mother of slain Florida teen Danika Troy has revealed how the suspects lured the 14-year-old into the woods
Authorities said the teens decided to attack Danika after she blocked Blevins on social media and insulted Williams by calling him “worthless and a g*ng-b*nger.”
Police believe Danika had been involved in a social media fight with the two suspects over Thanksgiving break.
They described the three teenagers as school “acquaintances.”
However, Ashley does not believe that the crime was motivated by a social media dispute, saying, “What those boys said is an excuse.”
Both Williams and Blevins have been charged with first-degree premeditated m*rder. They are being held in juvenile detention without bond. It’s not clear whether the suspects will be charged as adults or if their parents will face charges.
Blevins reportedly said the word, “Lawyer” when questioned about what had happened in the woods, while Williams told police the 14-year-old girl had made “hurtful comments.”
The youths had prior “run-ins” with the police, but the nature of their crimes has not been disclosed.
Kimahri Blevins, 14, and Gabriel Williams, 16, are accused of attacking Danika Troy in Pace, Florida
Avalon Baptist Church, the victim’s family’s place of worship, held a candlelight vigil in Danika’s honor on Monday night (December 8).
“Our community is coming together to honor the life of Danika, a beautiful soul taken from us too soon,” an announcement for the service read.
“Please join us for a candlelight vigil as we remember Danika, celebrate her life and ask God to bring peace, healing, and strength to everyone who carries her in their hearts.”
The victim’s mother, Ashley Troy, confirmed that the victim and the suspects knew each other
Though Ashley blames the “evil influence” for the crime against her daughter, instead of the teens themselves, she told The Post that she wants “nothing less than for them to be prosecuted to the full extent of the law.”
She also confirmed that the victim and the suspects knew each other. “She loved them, and they brutally m*rdered her.”
Ashley said that her daughter “was beautiful and loved Jesus,” adding, “If anything would make this sacrifice worth it, it would be leading others to Christ.’’
Regarding the suspects, she stated, “I don’t blame those boys. I blame evil influence. I don’t hate them, I hate what they did to my baby.”
The anguished mother thanked the church for “flooding” her family with love. “My family was hit very hard, I don’t know what I’d do without my church family.”
Days after the tragedy, she asked people in her Facebook community to post photos of Danika, explaining that “she never would let me take any of her” as a teen.
“I don’t hate them, I hate what they did to my baby,” said the girl’s mother
Hours after the crime, Jana Williams, the aunt and legal guardian of suspect Gabriel Williams, was arrested on dr*g charges. The 36-year-old woman had temporary custody over the 16-year-old after his mother passed away.
She was was arrested and booked into Santa Rosa County Jail on a probation violation and felony d*ug possession. She’s being held without bond.
Danika’s body was found on December 2 after a passerby alerted police
Authorities are investigating whether Gabriel stole his aunt’s weapon and used it to attack Danika.
Jana had been on probation stemming from an arrest for possession of a controlled substance and dr*g paraphernalia in April. Additionally, her criminal record includes traffic, theft, and dr*g charges from October, 2023.
“Absolutely horrendous. So sorry for the family loss,” expressed one Facebook user
