Step-parents and their step-kids don't always get along at first: it might take some time for them to warm up to each other. When parents divorce, there are plenty of new feelings that families have to deal with, both negative and positive. It can feel destabilizing, or like the family is breaking up, and this hits kids and teens hard. Instead of having your parents in the same house, they might live with one parent most of the time and spend their weekends at the other parent's new home. 

When one or both parents start dating again, this can cause even more chaos and strife in the family. The kids might be confused or even resentful of the parent. At the young age of 16, this girl is not getting along with her new stepmother, and her dad is basically just making everything worse. 

Next, read about the people who were so lazy that they got creative, like one person who uses "saran wrap on my plates and utensils so I don't have to wash dishes." 

When you work in person and share spaces with your colleagues, you won't always have the privacy you desire all of the time. That's the great thing about working amongst other individuals: You learn how to coexist in a small space with others and develop good manners and etiquette. Those who struggle with sharing spaces better get used to the fact that a microwave in the break room will be used and emit food smell from time to time, and if they have an issue with it, well, deal with it. 

In this next story, an employee explains a situation happening between themselves and their coworker who refuses to leave them alone about reheating food in the middle of the day. The woman who complains does not complain about anyone else—just this employee. She's gone so far as to slam doors and write the employee intimidating letters about their supposedly impolite behavior, but the employee refuses to be a target of her intimidation. Scroll to read.

As someone who has worked in the service industry for many years, not tipping someone is the biggest no-no you can do. It's not like an "oh that's annoying." No. It's more like a, "WOW. That person is the actual scum of the earth." Everyone is entitled to have their opinions on tipping, but when you don't tip a server, that's taking away money for food and rent. You're not making any sort of point to tipping culture when you take away some 20-something-year-old's chance on making rent. Talk to the politicians if you wanna make that change. 

Anyways, I digress. That being said, there are moments when leaving a $0 tip is kind of warranted. For example, if your server is being blatantly discriminatory, then, yeah, they don't deserve your money, right?

When working in an office, everyone has their specific roles to keep everything flowing smoothly. One person is in charge or making sure all of the snacks and toilet paper is well stocked, another is in charge of making sure the WiFi and any tech issues are taken care of, and others sit and create content, etc. Depending on the company, the list goes on. They don't tend to heavily overlap, and if they do, then I hope your company is paying you for that extra work… 

In the case of this "office mom," her role quickly become something she'd never imagine. She claims she is not tech-savvy in the slightest, however, one day the WiFi was out and everyone was panicking. The IT guy was on vacation, so nobody knew what to do! The office mom came to the rescue! 

Everyone has their own tolerance for hot food: some can handle the mildest sauces only, while other don't break even a sweat when confronted with ghost peppers. For most of us, it's somewhere in between there. Maybe you eat regular hot sauces, but can't handle the one that create 5-alarm fires in your mouth. Or maybe you avoid that stuff all together because it makes you cry, sweat, or get a runny nose.

I enjoy some hot sauces, but I dislike eating a sauce that takes over the entire dish. Burning hot is one thing, but if all I can taste is pain, why am I even bothering to eat that food? I want to actually taste a chicken sandwich and the lettuce, tomato, and onion on it… not just the overwhelming taste of hot sauce that'll make me sniffle and cry. But to each their own! 

This person left a glowingly positive and also very funny review for a food truck. The owner shared it, and people in the comments had tons of questions about how many people have tried this legendary chicken sandwich and what happens at this restaurant on a day-to-day basis. 

Next up, read about the mom of a 2-year-old and an infant who rallied her whole neighborhood to the insider scoop on an incompetent HOA: "She spent… a full summer taking down the HOA." 

Everyone wishes they could get back at that first employer who did them wrong! This 19-year-old had enough confidence and conviction to follow through and sabotage the pizza place where she had her first job. 

At the time, she was the only female employee in the workplace and would frequently be unfairly tasked with doing way more while the men around her took constant breaks. Her manager was not only aware of these circumstances, but he also participated and encouraged that lack of proper balance. It was not long before the 19-year-old had had enough of this nonsense and quit on the spot. However, that did not mean she was necessarily done.

This woman hatched a plan using the video game RuneScape to get back at the pizza place, and believe it or not, it worked far more successfully than she ever could have anticipated. Keep scrolling below for the full story and for the fallout!

It's pretty normal to receive some flak or negative feedback from a job that you failed to show up for. But you'll probably never expect to get that from a job that you don't actually have. There are a whole lot of things that can go sideways in the hiring process and red flags you might ignore in your blind pursuit of a new job, but it's important to stop and pause so that you don't get caught out by situations like this.

The worst hiring scenario I've ever personally dealt with was when I applied to a local branch of the supplier of the company I was working for. Before the third and final round of interviews the hiring manager asked me to tell the CEO/owner of the company I worked for that I was applying for the role, which didn't actually make sense given the fact that I didn't have the job yet since it was still myself and another candidate in the running.

I foolishly obliged and told the CEO of the company, jeopardizing my current job, and then once the final round of interviews had finished, I didn't get the job anyway, and they didn't even bother to notify me that I hadn't gotten it. The penny didn't drop till long after that; this had been a ruse to get me to withdraw my application so that he could hire his preferred candidate. A lesson learned the hard way. 

Anyways, the point is that this is a massive red flag that I ignored that told me I probably didn't want to work for this chap anyway, just like it was in this situation where this hiring manager was surely trying to force the candidate into a disadvantageous position so that they could take advantage of them.

Sometimes the best way to deal with a boss's unreasonable demands is by showing them just how unreasonable these demands are. Since telling them that usually doesn't do any good, because they refuse to listen to anyone but themselves, most employees must find other and more creative ways to get the point across.

While some employees really do find creative ways to prove to their managers that their requests are crazy, others don't have to go that far. All they have to do is follow said request for a while, and simply by doing so to perfection, the manager will see for themselves that what they asked for really doesn't make any sense. This way, nobody had to confront the manager, nobody risks losing their job, and the mere concept of following orders is what gets the orders to go away. It is the best solution for absolutely everyone involved. 

One of the great fantasies peddled with every perfectly manicured suburb is the myth of the "good neighbor." The dream is clear: quiet streets, courteous nods, a shared understanding that property lines are sacred. But the reality is clearer: sometimes you win the neighbor lottery, and sometimes you share a fence line with the human embodiment of a Do Not Disturb sign that's been set on fire. In suburbia, friendly welcomes and boundary invasions are separated by the thinnest of hedges. The first handshake might come with a borrowed tool, but by year two, you're googling motion-sensor floodlights and the laws about homemade moats.

It takes a special kind of human to take on the role of a neighbor who makes your backyard feel like a public park, your home a point of curiosity, and your personal space an open invitation for spontaneous visits. And with this prime specimen, conversations about boundaries quickly devolve into negotiations for the suburban couple's sanity, as the lines on their deed become more like gentle suggestions to be ignored, mowed over, or repurposed to suit someone else's need for extra yardage. What starts as mildly odd behavior—helpful mowing, passing glances—mutates into the bizarre, along with declarations of suburban dominance.